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Mark E Thomas @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social Profile picture
@MrMarkEThomas
May 13 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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One of the most extraordinary things about Sunak’s speech … Sunak Speaking at the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange
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Is that he chose to make it at the Policy Exchange think tank.

As Braverman has done before him.
99-percent.org/who-is-behind-…
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Rather than choose a neutral venue, he deliberately picked an extreme right-wing, opaquely funded think tank to set out his ideas for the country.

What signal did he intend to send, and to whom?
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Not to the mass of British voters who largely neither know nor care what the think tanks say.

But to the nameless backers of the think tanks themselves, who are busy planning a grim future for the UK.
99-percent.org/what-the-extre…
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Sunak is sending them a message: that he is prepared to take radical steps to implement their agenda.

99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
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They don’t need to look beyond him to their other tame candidates.

He will do their bidding.
99-percent.org/an-unwelcome-c…
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He is inadvertently showing us who is really pulling the strings.

99-percent.org/who-governs-br…
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And letting us know what will happen if the Conservatives are returned to power.
9.com/MrMarkEThomas/…
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If you would rather not see that happen, take a look at the 99% Organisation and join us.
99-percent.org/contact/
PS. The official version of the speech seems to be trying to hide something!

gov.uk/government/spe…
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When it was clear that Johnson was on the way out, the Conservatives launched "Operation Save Big Dog".
This thread explores "Operation Save Little Dog" – the equivalent for Sunak.
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Sunak’s plan is better thought-through.

Although this was written as satire, it seems as though it accurately captures the breadth of operations being carried out by Sunak and his team.
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Nov 30, 2023
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This thread explores the crisis the NHS is facing, how the crisis came about, why it has not been fixed and what we should do to fix it.
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There is no question that the NHS is in crisis – the record waiting lists alone are enough to show that.

Now almost 8 million of us are waiting to see a consultant.
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Mark E Thomas @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social Profile picture
Oct 16, 2023
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This thread explores the link between Silver Blaze and last week’s Labour Party conference.

In Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes has both to solve a killing and find a missing race-horse – and of course he does both.

Colonel Ross is the owner of the Silver Blaze: ...
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Ross: “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
Ross: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”
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This seems like a metaphor for last week’s Labour Party Conference (LPC23):
The conference was disciplined and well-attended;
It has been well-received by the press, the public and by senior figures outside the party;
The curious incident was what was not said.
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Mark E Thomas @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social Profile picture
Oct 9, 2023
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Last week was the Conservative Party Conference, CPC23. Or perhaps there were two conferences:

· The official conference, to rally the party faithful
· The unofficial conference, to lay the ground for their others' bids for leadership.
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This thread covers both conferences and explores what that could mean for Britain. Image
(3/35) The Official Conference
For Sunak, the conference was always going to be tricky. …
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Mark E Thomas @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social Profile picture
Sep 18, 2023
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Thirteen years of increasingly far-right policies have left the UK visibly broken: we have a cost-of-living crisis; our NHS is on its knees and our schools are crumbling; and we have rivers flowing with sewage and an unaddressed climate emergency.
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As a result, the Conservatives are now roughly 20 points behind in the polls and seem likely to lose the next election, possibly quite badly.
politico.eu/europe-poll-of…
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But they still have up to 16 months to turn the polls around. On April 1, we posted a satirical piece setting out how Sunak could still aim to cling to power, using a variety of unethical tactics.
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Sep 2, 2023
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The 99% Organisation (@99organisation) came into being four years ago when the book 99% was published.

This thread is a personal look back at why I decided to write the book, and what has happened since publication.

Please forgive the length!
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While I was a strategy consultant, for reasons explained in the Introduction to 99%, I began to analyse the Arab Spring and came up with the model of country stability set out below.
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This model turned out to have some (enough to be useful for scenario planning) predictive capability – this analysis, for example, predated Trump’s insurrection.
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