Well done Joe for cementing the "one rule for them, another for the rest of us" sentiments which the populists are leveraging. Great job, you fucking idiot.
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Lindsay Bruce
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Lindsay Bruce
@RogueCoder250
Angry keyboard enthusiast. Political & economic sarcasm with Scottish swearing. Pro-independence and EU.
Edinburgh, Scotland انضم Nisan 2014
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Like almost every public civil engineering project in the UK, a vast waste of money and complete failure.
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"@AndyBurnhamGM is going to be disappointed". Transport Secretary @LouHaigh says HS2 will not run to Crewe, adding that "phase one will be delivered, which is Birmingham to Euston". #TrevorPhillips trib.al/wkmumC6 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Rachel Reeves is handing public service pensions to the private sector. Not surprising. Labour have handed everything to the asset managers who will continue to squeeze "shareholder value" out of every person on these islands.
We're being farmed.
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.@NiallChristie1 is absolutely correct. Labour will continue its rightward drift and continue losing support to Reform and the Tories. Without a strong Left movement that can mount a real challenge, the UK will elect a far-right government come the next election.
Niall Christie@NiallChristie1
Yet again, capitulating to the right will do nothing but empower them. Labour's short, disastrous stint in office has shown that, with polling only going in one direction. We saw it in the US with Trump, France with Le Pen, etc. Offer voters hope, or they will desert you.
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@EstefanoWorth @sylviehj Working people's share of GDP has fallen since 1975, and this trend accelerated after the 2008 financial crisis.
Read a book to find out why.
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@RogueCoder250 @sylviehj When tax rates were cut from 33% to 20%, did working people get poorer? I don't think so.
People were incentivised to work more to earn more, knowing that they would keep most of their extra earnings.
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The King wants to "celebrate" his birthday by opening two foodbanks. Poverty tourism.
Instead of opening foodbanks - which shouldn't fucking exist in the 21st century - he could use his considerable influence and wealth to ensure that foodbanks don't *need* to exist.
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@EstefanoWorth @sylviehj Except that is exactly what has happened since the 1980's, and working people have got poorer, not richer.
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@sylviehj @RogueCoder250 Ever thought that that could be done by electing a government which focuses on economic growth, providing private sector jobs to allow people to make their own wealth?
But, royals, eh?
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@HModinraven @haviland_lee Completely ignorant bilge.
TRY READING THE REPORT.
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@RogueCoder250 Yes. Desperately poor people famously came into existence in 2006 🙄
The foodbanks started from zero and have continued to increase as human resource and funding has allowed them to do so. In reality their numbers were needed to be as high back in the 00s as they are now.
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@HModinraven @haviland_lee If it were the parents then this chart would not exist.
Foodbanks are a direct consequence of austerity. Read the HoC report - and stop victim blaming.
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@HModinraven @haviland_lee Our children got shorter because of austerity.
OUR CHILDREN ACTUALLY GOT SHORTER BECAUSE OF MALNUTRITION. IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
What the fuck is wrong with you??
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@DiariesEmpire "no government has ever been any good at helping them".
A lie. Foodbanks grew explosively in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. They exist because wages have fallen, living standards have fallen, and inequality has grown.
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The people I see at the Foodbank are lonely people in the main. People without a familial support network to rely on when things go south. These people have always existed and no government has ever been any good at helping them.
Food banks have evolved past just dishing out food. CAB, housing and mental health people often attend to give out advice. I think they are brilliant and am pleased the Royals take a prominent role supporting them. Despite all the cheap shots
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Israeli arms firm Smartshooter says its high-tech gun sights are “one of the most useful new items being demonstrated on the battlefield” in Gaza. The British army is now using these sights.
👉 British troops using Israeli arms technology tested in Gaza declassifieduk.org/british-troops…
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Not only are you a liar, you're a terrible one. If it was Net Zero driving the cost, all of Europe would have much the same prices. Instead it's UK over-reliance on gas for generation, huge bungs to the nuclear sector, and profiteering by fossil fuel companies you refused to tax.
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GET A GRIP@docrussjackson
🧵 @BBC Chairman Samir Shah has been kept hidden for good reason: he writes for the Spectator, is friends with Trevor "Muslims are not like us" Phillips, co-authored the whitewashed Racism Report, & is vice-chair of #TuftonSt's Policy Exchange’s anti-woke History Matters project.
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@Fagusvulpes @JamesCEdin Not interested in engaging with racists. Blocked.
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@RogueCoder250 @JamesCEdin A deluded nationalist doing deluded things.
The GE was the only poll that mattered.
Nationalists got a resounding message from the majority of Scotland. Stick your defacto and your Indy where the sun doesn't shine.
Seek help! It's 'FREE'
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I keep wondering how stupid half of America has to be to believe Trump's bullshit.
Then I remember that half of the UK voted for Brexit.
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@RogueCoder250 I suggest you listen to Biden's speech.
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Listening to Biden. Could anyone be more deluded?
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There were six months between Brexit vote & Trump’s election in 2016. I watched to see if US economic nationalist would change UK public opinion. It didn’t. Why ? Because Brexit & Trumpismo are similar: manipulation of aggrieved voters by rich men for their own benefit
Robin Murray@robinthemint
@michaelwhite The US election has exposed the foolishness of Brexit isolation for the UK and our inability to make the moral case at a political level for rejoining has to be challenged urgently .
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