I've no doubt the Tories are in GE mode now. They've ordered their client journos and social media trolls to kick the usual scapegoats who are down but to do it on speed - refugees and the homeless, kids sniffing a bit of N2O, trans people and drag artists. #TorySadists
The attacks on Starmer by CCHQ and the 'I'm madder than yow' ERG/UKIP/BNP Tory back benchers are whipping up the frothing rabid right-wingers who on being thrown this red meat are behaving like fox-hounds as they leap on it and tear it apart #toryfascists
The anti social behaviour nonsense and making those who the Tories classify as 'offenders' wear silly clothing in a nasty attempt humiliate them is no more than modern day equivalent of putting people in the Stocks or Pillory
Add to this the 'war on woke' nonsense and you have the Tory manifesto; perfectly designed to deflect people from 13 years of #ToryIncompetence and #ToryChaos as we struggle with failing services, sky high cost of living and watch the tory rich get richer
As an aside, the idea of making people wear distinctive and prepostorous clothing was mooted by William & Robert Cecil to easily identify Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth I. Their descendant Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury is in the HoL today, still ruling us

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Mar 26
This is the level of lunacy reached by fanatical NI unionists like @JamieBrysonCPNI. First he tweets a story claiming that Jeffrey Donaldson has been refused an invitation to the coronation as head of the DUP and that this is a conspiracy by King Charles
Then Bryson concedes the story is not true
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Mar 26
We've just had the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war that killed anywhere between 650k and 1m people depending on which sources you use. We now of course know that 1/4
The war's aims were that the US secure oil supplies and make a great deal of money for companies in the US industrial-military complex.

The Vice President Dick Cheney was the driving force behind the war and manipulated a compliant and unintelligent President 2/4
We also now know that Saddam and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, Al-Quaeda nor had the WMD capabilities that US and UK intelligence said they had.

Blair's motivation is mysterious. Personally I believe he was caught up in the grandeur and self-agrandisement of the time 3/4
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Feb 24
I'm genuinely interested in the psychology of @conservatives. What is it makes you think these things are right and proper?
1. Allowing Water companies to pump sewage into rivers and seas for the next 15 years while allowing bonuses and dividends to executives and shareholders?
2. Taking inflation-level pay rises for yourself as MPs have done for 13 years, but refusing them for key workers?
3. Whipping up hate for people seeking sanctuary in our country while trying to worm one's way out of humanitarian treaties like the ECHR and UNHCR?
4. Disenfranchising up to 2m people by insisting that the six convictions/cautions that followed the 2019 GE mean that our elections are not safe?
5. Criminalising people for simply attending a peaceful protest?
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Oct 14, 2022
Every economic woe we are suffering can be traced to the campaign lies that caused the catastrophe that is Brexit
1. Ukraine war. Would not have happened without Russian funding of Brexit, Russian, undermining of democracy in Poland, Hungary and Italy
2 Worst balance of trade since 1950 - caused by Brexit
3 Collapse of UK fishing industry, caused by Brexit
4 Collapse of British meat exports, caused by Brexit
5 Massive increase in export and import costs, caused by Brexit
6. Huge queues at ports, caused by Brexit
7. Threat to union in NI and Scotland, caused by Brexit
8. UK's place in scientific and tech research removed, caused by Brexit
9. Mobile Roaming costs restored, caused by Brexit
10. Extra travel/holiday costs, caused by Brexit
11. NHS staffing shortage, caused by Brexit
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Oct 12, 2022
Watch the bond market immediately before the Chancellor stands up on Oct 31 - If I'm any judge, prices will fall like a stone while yields will rocket. If you want a good guaranteed rate of return for 2 or maybe even 5 years and have the dosh, I would buy bonds when he sits down
PS, I hate that this is likely to be the case and this is not financial advice
OH and for people asking why are pension funds affected, I think the answer is they bought bonds hoping their market value would rise, not for the improved yields when their market value falls
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