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I remember when Britain was Greater than this
A small and backward island
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A short thread. 1/n. It’s my birthday today. I am 69 years old. I am as white, working class and British as they come. For me, the Nazi Blitz is just one generation ago. My mum, who dies just last year, was bombed out of the East End when she was nine ….
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The UK economy is 11 times greater than Finland. GDP per head is higher in Finland than the UK. Their train service is publicly owned. Have you ever had the feeling you have been conned….
Public transport in Finland is next level . 📹 joshlevine485.
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My mother died this evening. She was 92 years old and died a peaceful death. I am grateful I spent last night with her playing Glenn Miler songs and Christmas carols and telling her my memories of when we were all young.
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The BBC took this down in a hurry. It would be a shame if it got lost …
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Thatcher’s three great lies. Margaret Thatcher told three great lies that shaped the future. A brief thread. 1/n.
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From the New York Times. It is a common international perspective.
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#Dispatches. Just the facts. France has twice the hospital beds we have. Germany has three times. They both have the staff to cope. They both spend more on their health service than we do. It isn’t the method of funding, it’s the amount of spend. Don’t vote Tory.
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A few details on that dissembling clown Mone's Interview tat you might not be aware of. 1/n.
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Your reminder that France has twice the number of hospital beds per head of population as the UK and Germany three times as many. The Tories have cut hospital beds by 20,000.
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The state of this. Bloodshot eyes. Flushed face. Bags the size of handbags. Twitching inanely. 👇👇👇.
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Guy Hands: ‘“What Brexit was largely about was people at the top being able to employ the rest of the country for a lot less and pay a lot less tax,”👇👇👇
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3) The government budget is like a household budget, it must balance expenditure with income. The government is nothing like a household. A government is the funder of last resort, it is the employer of last resort, and can create all the money it needs to fulfil these roles 4/n.
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Saying goodbye. So Guinness left today. She was fifteen and a half glorious fun filled years old. The gentlest and funniest dog I have had the privilege to care for. It was a peaceful end for her. God bless Guinness
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@Shaughna_P When first introduced they were sold in as interest free loans. Then low interest. Then all of the loans were sold to credit companies despite the promise this would never happen. At no time has this drift from government interest free loans to privatised loans challenged.
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George Monbiot is right. The IEA has no right to propose policies without revealing their source of income and the bias that introduces. The BBC consistently fail to follow their own guidelines.
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2) There is no government money, only taxpayers money. The reverse is true. For a sovereign fiat currency all the money in existence was created by the government either directly or indirectly via private banks granted licences to create money. 3/n.
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1/ TINA “There is no alternative” . There is always an alternative solution. Human creativity and intelligence will always provide alternatives. 2/n.
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These three great lies changed the political climate for the next forty years. The first denied all alternative voices. The second denied government action, the third reduced economic solutions to a zero sum game 5/n.
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For anyone wondering why the GLP is being attacked by @michaelgove and ‘friends’ this weekend this is why 👇.
£76m gross profit to Tory VIP who contacted @michaelgove on his private gmail address about the deal.
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So in summary, while everything they said about the trust and receipt of monies may be factual, it is far from the real picture. And yes, 30% margin on a medical product that had its prices inflated at a time of national crisis should be a hanging offence. It was in WW2.
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4/n They have gaslit millions into believing they are threatened by the weak, scared and homeless looking to us for help. They have wrecked decades of diligent careful progress building a fair and just society, setting us on ourselves to save their party and satisfy….
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3/n I am as white working class British as you can get and I abhor what the Torys have done to my country and people. They have lied to us for fourteen years straight. Not one promise they have made has been delivered because they were made in cynical bad faith….
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Is anyone else deeply offended by the continual lying?. Stupid, arrogant and manipulative.
Left: Rishi Sunak, "We have reduced absolute poverty, pensioner poverty, child poverty". Right: BBC News, "Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years". FT, "Nearly one in five pensioners live in poverty". FT, "Fastest rise in UK child poverty for 30 years"
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7/n And at a time when we face threats as great as my mother and father’s generation experienced and their parents fought against they have leafy us weak and defenceless, our influence gone, our abilities diminished, our hope gone. They are the real traitors.
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The three great lies were very simple. They sounded logical and practical, everyone could understand them and see examples all around them that seemed to support the logic. But they were falsehoods none the less 6/n.
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The deluge of complaints on Twitter from Raab sympathisers is illuminating. What’s the collective noun for bullies?.
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5/n the deals they have struck with our enemies both east and west. They have sold our rights to the highest bidder to line their own pockets and diminished and corrupted the pillars of our society so that they may never be rebuilt. Even now in their final days….
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They were always going to eat themselves in the end.
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6/n they are selling our country price by price to corporations and and perverting our laws to allow more corruption and greater debt for you and I….
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Which is to limit our options to those which service the beneficiaries of the three great lies. The rich and powerful and their servants, the media heads and populist politicians and the academics that give the three great lies their power 11/n.
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And we see these falsehoods playing out today in our politics. They still have a hold on our country and it’s people. They still work, stunting progress and causing misery 7/n.
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I just want to add I am encouraged by the positive responses to my post, thank you all, you give me hope. And another apology, I am at my follow back limit for the day but I will follow back as soon as I can.
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Why are they still believed today? Because they still sound true to a large group of people who relate the running of a country to the running of a household. They were powerful lies which are difficult to defeat because they still sound true 9/n.
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Was Thatcher aware they were lies? Perhaps not, but certainly people around her knew they were false. Could she have known they were lies. Almost certainly. The information that could disprove them was freely available then as now. 8/n.
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And the truth is more complex than these lies. The truth takes more effort to understand and raises more questions. And the lies still serve their purpose 10/n.
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David Cameron.Boris Johnson.Liz Truss .And Rishi Sunak. Well each be getting £125,000 for life for being PM. £500,000 a year for trashing our country. Index linked. For life.
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Excellent news!.Labour will scrap zero-hour contracts pledges Angela Rayner at STUC | Glasgow Times
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“the jury is in, the Fat Lady has sung, there isn’t a debate any more”.Economist pins UK economic woes squarely on Brexit
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Don’t say you were never told. Say goodbye to full time employment, overtime, weekends, sick pay, holiday pay, national insurance payments, lunch breaks, eight hour days. It will take time, but all of these rights will go.
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@Sarf_London I am 66 in a few days time and I was taught the metric system in infant school. If you can’t learn what 500 grams means in 60 years your problem isn’t the metric system.
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Nadhim Zahawi used a scheme to avoid tax. Then he denied there was a scheme.Then he attempted a legal embargo on the release of information on the scheme.Then he tried to sue the people pursuing the investigation . Why is this man still in government?
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A few points about private healthcare that no one will tell you …. 1/n.
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2/n Her family name, Cornwell, comes from a hamlet attached to a great house in Gloucestershire. My dad’s family name, Kelsey, comes from two villages in Lincolnshire, North Kelsey and South Kelsey. One of my ancestors was in the Rump Parliament’ Kelsey was a button maker ….
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@LeroySkeete Clowns to the left of me, nazis to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
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If they believed what they said at the time they were at best uninformed, misled or just stupid. If they did not believe what they said then they are traitors.
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@NadineDorries Why did you suspend the triple lock? Why have you not solved the care crisis? Why didn’t you protect the care homes from Covid? .The BBC isn’t harming the elderly, you are.
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“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. Joseph Goebbels. Braverman is channelling Nazi propaganda techniques .
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@EssexPR Not as much,not as suddenly,and your pensions wouldn’t be at risk,our international reputation would be intact,borrowing would be lower,wages would be higher, inequality would be lower, we would have a well funded NHS, more police on the streets, and fewer poor and hungry kids.
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@sean_baillie @metpoliceuk Muslim troops died in the war. He is paying his respects. Read more. Post less.
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Thank you all. I have had a great birthday made all the greater by learning that m, far from being alone, there is an army of like minded people in the UK. You have made my day!.
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I can’t express how vile this is. Scrapping the targets designed to save desperately unwell people in order to save face. The Tories are evil, and I use that description with care and deliberation 👇👇👇
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Andrew Neil says the government should stop UK papers being owned by foreigners….But only because the Spectator has been bought by a Democrat. Panic on the right wing dance floor .
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This is what the ECHR protects in the UK. This is what the @Conservatives want to take away from you. 👇👇👇👇👇
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@allisonpearson To react the way you are demanding means we change how we live. That is what they want. That way they win.
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‘Bungs’ to Billionaires: Cummings Exposes Johnson’s Cash for Content Scandal – Byline Times
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Palantir and the data they provide will be used to justify a fully privatised model of the NHS. Don’t be fooled, the decision was taken years ago, Palantir are just assembling the ‘evidence’ to support the decision.
An animated Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, wants in on the NHS. So much so, he is offering his product initially for ‘free’. If a large tech company offers you its services for free, you and your data are the product. Even your personal health data. #BBCLauraK
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Good. A crime has been committed so the police need to investigate and charges brought forward. No excuses. BREAKING: High Court finds Government PPE ‘VIP’ lane for politically connected suppliers ‘unlawful’
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“The British government has voted against EU laws 2% of the time since 1999” .👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇.EU facts behind the claims: UK influence - Full Fact
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Trusts can invest the money in assets like property and, for example, yachts. So when she says that she does not own a yacht, again she is telling the truth, her trust owns the yacht, not her. And there is more…5/n.
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This is most likely a test case if it is not challenged and defeated expect a mass handover of public assets to companies this year before the election.
Michael Gove has transferred Middlesbrough assets from the elected Labour Middlesbrough Council. To an unelected Middlesbrough Development Council chosen by him. They will choose how Middlesbrough assets are plundered, and which Conservatives they sell them to.
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Dear Conservative voter. Please consider that everything that is wrong with Britain today is by design. The party you voted for in the past no longer exists. The one with the same name has changed beyond recognition. It’s new objectives have created this mess . Thank you.
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@William09733378 It’s what you voted for. it really is. You are right, it wasn’t on the bus. The bus was full of lies. No point in getting angry, it’s far to late . Now you have to live with it. No it isn’t fair. But it IS what you voted for. So have a little think before you vote next time.
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For historical context the Nazi Party reserved the use of meat hooks as a means of execution for those they deemed traitors. The hooks were inserted beneath the rib cage and the victim lifted into the air on the hook to struggle and die. @Nigel_Farage #FBPE.
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@IsabelOakeshott 12 Years ago the NHS had the highest patient satisfaction rating in its history. Then the Tories happened.
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She and her family are beneficiaries of the trust. What does that mean? It means she can request and receive monies from the trust. It depends on the details of her trust but she might request it all next week or next year. And….3/n.
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“The NAO said the recently-created Public Sector Fraud Authority had estimated that in 2020-2021 there was between £33.2bn and £58.8bn of fraud and error in government spending and income unrelated to the pandemic across the whole of the public sector.”.
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On Trusts. Trusts are legal vehicles designed to isolate the beneficiary from the money in the trust so they are not legally responsible for it. Technically she is right, she did not receive any of the excess profits, her trust did. But ….2/n.
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Your reminder from the Financial Times that Thatcher lied. We don’t have to borrow money. Parliament can instruct the Bank of England to issue the money the nation needs. Government spends money into the economy and taxes it out. There is no such thing as tax payer money
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‘Killed off by our own side’: Company’s bitter experience of Brexit goes viral
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If a trust is set up in a tax haven, and most are, any profit the trust makes from any investments they make is tax free. This means a trust can compound the sum invested via things like properties that deliver a rent to the trust, and any other gain, tax free. So when …6/n.
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. the simply delightful Dougie said he declared his receipt of the profit in his tax return that is something to take a very close look at. If he declared it as an individual that would be taxed at 40% minimum but, he has other options …. 7/n.
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This should be sent to every Tory . How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe - The Atlantic
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If he received the money as a dividend payment from his company then his tax rate halves to 20%, which is nice. But Kuenssberg reported he did not appear on any of the company filing . I checked it, and there are five directors but no Dougie ….….8/n.
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The people who administer the trust are obliged by law to act in the best interest of the beneficiaries. Which is nice. But that is just the start…4/n.
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The NHS is deliberately underfunded and understaffed . Germany has 8 hospital beds and 4.53 Doctors per 1000 people .France has 5.9 beds and 3.24 Doctors per 1000 people .UK has 2.5 Beds and 2.3 Doctors per 1000 people . Population Economies and demographics are comparable.
UK healthcare has a staffing crisis. Gvt instead of investing in training and attracting home grown healthcare staff through policies to ensure good wages and terms and conditions allows their colonialist theft from the world's poorest countries to fill the gaps . 1/4.
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Your reminder that the devout Catholic Jacob Rees Mogg receives an income from sales of the morning after pill.
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A UK registered company cannot show if its shares are being held by a trust by law!. . Dashed inconvenient that. …11/n.
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@GregHands Your government allows the dumping of raw sewage in our rivers. You have done nothing to stop this practice which was banned by EU law.
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So look past the glossy brochures and the nice rooms and the lovely hospitals and focus on the reality. Private healthcare is about taking as much money from you as it can, it is highly inefficient at providing care, is highly selective and is entirely parasitic on the NHS.
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@olga_chyzh @fascinatorfun Nations that lose empires mourn for at least one generation. Britain is the same. After Brexit the older generation responsible for Brexit were talking about the return of the Empire. Sad and deluded and wrecking our future.
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. those shares might have been owned by a trust. A trust in a tax haven can receive divided payments without paying any tax. This will remain a point of speculation because, drum roll please …10/n.
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All bar one director has resigned. That director is noted as being a person with significant control with 75% or more shares. So maybe Dougie owned the other 25% or, and this is merely a speculation for which I am very happy to receive guidance and make corrections …9/n.
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@Billbrowder This is appalling. Wake up people this is part of a coordinated attack on Europe’s democracy. It’s all linked and leads back to Putin.
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This is how fascism takes power. Quietly. Legally. Removing one democratic right at a time. Government Preparing to Quietly Amend the Definition of Disruptive Protest in ‘Chilling’ Change – Byline Times
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The Bank of England confirms Brexit has caused the highest food inflation in 45 years. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg has some explaining to do, don’t you Christian.
Bank of England policy maker says Brexit drove away small EU exporters and caused highest food inflation in 45 years
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This is what a competent government does 👇. France praised for 'anticipatory planning' and evacuating 600 Afghans in May, months before the UK and US
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