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Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up | Yanis Varoufakis youtu.be/GB4s5b9NL3I via @YouTube
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to
- leave the ECHR
- repeal the Equality Act
- Strip back workers rights
- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts
- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions”
He is not on your side
Nigel Farage and Reform UK want to
- leave the European Convention on Human Rights which protects our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials and so much more
- repeal the Equality Act - a key piece of legislation that prevents against discrimination in Britain
- Strip back workers rights
- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts and Legalize "fire and rehire" tactics
- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions” that allow landlords to remove tenants without giving a reason and introduces new duties over health hazards
and to sell all this to the country Farage offers nothing in return but grievance and division. PLEASE DON’T FALL FOR IT.
That anyone could be supporting Farage and Reform with these policies must surely be a damning indictment of UK media in failing to explain all this to the public
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
I guess the Ukrainians decided not to honor Trump’s plea to spare Putin’s oil refineries.
Glory to Ukraine! Thrilled to see they are still striking oil refineries, this is Novokuybyshevsk. I love the smell of @Russia economy burning in the morning!
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
Glory to Ukraine! Thrilled to see they are still striking oil refineries, this is Novokuybyshevsk. I love the smell of @Russia economy burning in the morning!
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the poorest 34 *million* people.
The problem is not a pensioner or a young person looking for a job - the problem is wealth inequality.
We need a wealth tax. Now.
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
"Whats the point of cut price marmalade when a few months ago you promised to nationalise Thames Water?" 🎯
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Something important is happening.
While 🇬🇧 press are still fighting Brexit battles of 2016, Ireland 🇮🇪 is using its EU presidency to help rebuild the relationship between Britain and Europe.
British ministers are meeting their EU counterparts again. Food. Energy. Defence. Security. Migration. Trade.
And on 20 November @andyburnham meets EU leaders in Brussels for a summit covering precisely these issues.
This is how Brexit eventually gets resolved: not by endlessly rerunning 2016, but by confronting the problems Britain actually faces in 2026.
Food security requires European cooperation. Energy security requires European cooperation. Defence and policing require European cooperation. Trade and investment require European cooperation.
Geography hasn’t changed.
What has changed is that after a decade of Brexit, we have considerably more evidence about the costs of putting barriers between Britain and its closest neighbours.
Europe is moving on beyond Brexit and Britain has to decide to be part of it or face irrelevance.
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
YORKSHIRE WATER: another ENGLISH WATER COMPANY that's been run into the ground by years of under-regulation & asset stripping. As with similar water companies the main issue is removing the DEBT BURDEN (which was used to finance PROFITS and DIVIDENDS) and rethinking REGULATION
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
UK govt has given the go ahead to gas production at the Jackdaw field in North Sea.
It is expected to generate £1.5bn tax revenue over a 11-year period.
Will it be collected? Jackdaw is 50% owned by Shell, with a history of aggressive tax practices.
Watch the Minister's reply.
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
If you told me two years ago that the US President would pressure American companies to buy fuel it doesn’t need from a Russian terrorist state still waging war in Europe, I would have said, so Trump gets reelected? What a humiliation.
NEWS: Trump admin officials want US companies to accept the Russian diesel currently crossing the Atlantic.
But American firms want nothing to do with it. They’re very scared of the legal and reputational risk, industry sources tell me and @jstein_sun
washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
RIP Patrick Stewart. What an actor. I still can’t believe he agreed to do this scene. And he didn’t even mind when I ruined every take. Legend.
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
Shameful that this guy in the United States, attending this meeting.
There was a time when the international system was firmly against annexation.
We all worked together to oust Saddam from Kuwait.
Now look at us. Now look at Trump.
🤡 Lavrov spent more than 20 hours flying to the US for a G20 meeting — forced to avoid flying over "unfriendly" countries
The Kremlin official stepped off the plane wearing jeans and a sweater.
In Atlanta, Lavrov will attend a gathering of foreign ministers from the Group of Twenty (G20).
The talks will serve as preparation for the G20 summit, scheduled to take place in Miami on December 14–15.
The Russian delegation is expected to hold a series of bilateral talks in the coming hours, including with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London during his time.
It is excellent.
They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
Donald Trump to reporter:
“You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell.”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump…
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
T R U T H HAS A VOICE - True independence requires the courage to question EVERYTHING. Inhumanity is the crime of silence and forgetting.
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
Fujitsu Set for Another Extension - 30-year relationship with the Post Office looks set to drag on even longer, as the transition away from supplier behind schedule. #PostOfficeScandal computerweekly.com/news/3666…
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
Why the f**k would your closing message be: I know you’re hurting, but these companies are killing it! @jonstewart
Erskine Lewis 🇪🇺 🇧🇧 💚 retweeted
Donald Trump isn't going to back down.
But the early voting numbers are OFF THE CHARTS. A BLUE TSUNAMI is coming this November.
Get out and VOTE. Let's TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK.
