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When UKIP won 166 councillors (but no councils) in 2014 the BBC called this a "political earthquake".

@TheGreenParty just gained 200 councillors, taking the total to 737, took control of a council & became the biggest party in several others.

But 0 Green guests on #bbclaurak. ImageImage
That said, the BBC has many excellent journalists, locally & nationally - here's BBC News East reporting in depth on why the Green Party did so well in Suffolk. The political bias comes from much higher up within the organisation.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
And here's BBC Politics West reporting on big @TheGreenParty wins in the Forest of Dean & talking to @carla_denyer about Greens winning on Jacob Rees Mogg's doorstep in North East Somerset.

BBC reporting on the amazing #GreenWave has been much better locally than nationally.
Anyway, despite woeful media under-representation @TheGreenParty has made an historic breakthrough.

If you'd like to be part of this exciting sea-change in British politics & help us win even more elections, do consider joining us! 👇
join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dec 30, 2022
The photo of Nigel Farage embracing Andrew Tate was taken at the 2019 CPAC conference, where Tate was also pictured with an assortment of other far-right creeps incl. Paul Joseph Watson & Jack Posobiec.

Tate was already notorious for his vicious misogyny.
Later that year. Andrew Tate invited some of his far-right pals to Romania, including Mike Cernovich (famous for claiming that date rape "does not exist"). Cernovich tweeted that it was a "first class event".
And here's Andrew Tate with Donald Trump Jr at Trump Tower, & with Candace Owens of the influential far-right group Turning Point (its UK branch has been endorsed by Priti Patel & Jacob Rees-Mogg). Tate is not just a virulent misogynist under investigation for alleged rape...
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Sep 18, 2022
1/ Liz Truss's government is clearly trying to destroy the (already degraded) social contract that underwrote the NHS and the post-war welfare state.

It's doing this on the basis of an extreme version of Hayek's "free-market" ideology, the moving spirit of Britannia Unchained.
2/ Crises present good opportunities for ideologically motivated extremists to push through policies that might have seemed unthinkable before, as Naomi Klein described in The Shock Doctrine.

Pinochet imposed precisely the same sort of ideology on Chile after seizing power.
3/ Truss's extremist ideology will not produce the prosperity it promises, though it will make some already very rich people even richer.

For everyone else, it will only deepen extreme poverty & inequality, and drive social chaos & despair.
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Jun 19, 2022
Look, Carrie Johnson was eminently suited to a £100k FO job. Here she is in 2012 with the Russian Ambassador at the launch of Conservative Friends of Russia, set up by the later CEO of Vote Leave with the help of Russian agent Sergey Nalobin.
#Carriegate
westcountryvoices.co.uk/tough-times-fo…
...at least, I'm pretty sure this is Carrie Johnson (then Symonds). Also pictured here is John Whittingdale MP, a founder member of Conservative Friends of Russia, whom she accompanied to this delightful event, where raffle prizes included a biography of Putin.
#Carriegate
Carrie Johnson & the Tory MPs at the launch of Conservative Friends of Russia must have known the nature of Putin's regime. Putin had already presided over massacres in Chechnya, invaded Georgia & ordered the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London with radioactive polonium.
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Jun 14, 2022
Both Hitler & Mussolini hated lawyers and often abused them. They saw the rule of law as a barrier to their exercise of absolute power, in the name of "the will of the people".
#ToryFascists
... e.g. Hitler: : "I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer."
#ToryFascists
Mussolini made himself dictator to put himself beyond the law when his crimes came under investigation. Fascists will make laws to give a legal veneer to oppression, but an independent judiciary is completely antithetical to fascism.
#ToryFascists
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May 26, 2022
Key point that's being missed about Rishi Sunak's Energy Profits Levy (#WindfallTax) on oil & gas profits: companies will be able offset investment in new fossil fuel extraction against their taxable profit. That's exactly what they'll do.

This tax is highly damaging to climate.
That's why Rishi Sunak didn't simply raise the existing Supplementary Charge on N. Sea oil & gas. That also allows investment offsets but not as big & only after profits from investment are booked.

The fossil fuel interests that fund the Tory Party will be delighted.
... in fact, it's unlikely the #windfalltax will raise anything like as much as is being claimed. Nor will encourage investment in renewables.

With oil & gas profits soaring, fossil fuel corps will minimise their tax liability by ploughing profits back into new oil & gas...
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If you were thinking of a stay at the Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, you may like to know that its proprietor, John Mappin, is a big fan of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

There are other reasons you might want to give it a miss, as I described here:
westcountryvoices.co.uk/qanon-in-cornw… Image
John Mappin may seem like a deranged fantasist, but he has some interesting connections.

He is, for example, chair & director of this exceeding fishy outfit, fronted up by his fellow Putin fan Nigel Farage, which I wrote about for @WCountryVoices.
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John Mappin also hosted the UK launch of Turning Point, a far-right youth organisation that has been endorsed by both Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel.
hopenothate.org.uk/2019/02/05/eve…
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