I’ve done it. Will still dip in here now and then, but I’ve moved on. Find me here @unionsteve.bsky.social . Photo © Jess Hurd
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#THREAD
'Divide and Rule'.
What if the 1% are deliberately manufacturing deeply polarised societies?
What if the differences between, for example, the "woke and anti-woke", Leavers and Remainers, migrants and non-migrants are deliberately exaggerated, or entirely manufactured?
Isn't every decent person on earth sick to fucking death of divisive politicians like Robert Jenrick, Donald Trump & Boris Johnson (to name but a few) shamelessly telling easily disprovable barefaced lies? Well done @krishgm. Why don't more journalists just simply call them out?
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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Lesson for Starmer and Reeves from Trump is if Britons feel worse off in 2029 then Labour is toast.
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Weird narrative from some that a modest increase in employers NI will mean workers should expect lower headline pay rises.
Did corporate Britain ever hand out bumper pay rises when corporation tax was cut?
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"Water companies raise bonuses to £9.1m despite record sewage discharges."
Yes you read that right. £3.3 million of that is @stwater while @thameswater has double its executive bonuses to £1.3 million. We've being had.
theguardian.com/business/202…
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It would be a real shame if this tweet by Elon Musk (in 2022) saying that Trump is too old to be president went viral.
You know what to do.
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The sheer fragmentation of the 2024 outcome is still not being discussed or thought about enough. Five parties (Lab, Con, LD, Ref, Grn) getting substantial shares of the vote in most of Eng, while in Scotland and Wales (and many bits of Eng too) it is six
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The Daily Mail is foaming at the mouth about Starmer moving a portrait - so the Today Programme just read out the headline & ran a whole feature on it.
Can we please stop letting these papers set the news agenda? Let them howl into the void if they must, but don't run after them
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Racists don't have 'legitimate concerns.'
They're just racists.
They haven't been 'left behind'. They're just racists.
They don't seek a 'mature debate about immigration'.
They're just racists.
They aren't patriots,
a silent majority
or free speech apostles.
They're just racists.
Steve Jary retweeted
It's unbelievable how many dynamic companies broke their streaks of engineer-CEOs for the first time in the 2000s, installing their first MBA/finance CEOs, who then promptly made fundamental strategic errors that nixed the company's future, that are now becoming obvious.
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The same Jim Ratcliffe who in 2020 changed his tax residence from Hampshire to Monaco in a move estimated to have starved public services of £4 billion is now complaining that Britain's cities are unsafe because of a "failure by authorities to provide basic public services"...🤔
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It’s a strange sort of ‘patriot’ that squirrels away their money in an offshore tax haven, rather than pay the fair taxes which fund our schools, hospitals, roads, Police & fire services, local councils and all the other basic building blocks of a decent society.
NEWS
“Reform MP Richard Tice piled millions of pounds into offshore tax haven property empire”
What first attracted Tice to the tax avoidance island of Jersey I wonder?
And will tax he saved go to Boston and Skegness? 🤔🙄
@NickSommerlad @JolyonMaugham
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…
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Please don’t leave Twitter, instead let’s reclaim it from the dangerous narcissist & the disinformation, racism & hatred.
Do not pay for premium. Do not advertise.
But good people, stay - and keep calling it Twitter!
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The spirit of Cable Street has been manifested across our country tonight. All over England people from different creeds and communities have come together to send a message to the racists: No Pasaran!
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Were @CouttsandCo right all along?
It isn’t for me to say, of course.
But we must ask.
It’s a legitimate question.
We have a right to know.
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I’ve seen a post on X that Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage actually attended a riot in a balaclava, and threw missiles.
I don’t know if this is true, but it raises legitimate questions that need an answer!
Police haven’t commented!
Are we being told everything?
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I can’t help but wonder whether these vile race riots were coordinated by Far Right provocateurs to coincide with the election of a Labour Government.
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Bigots who’ve built entire careers inciting precisely the evil we’re witnessing did not ‘warn’ of it. The only honest ‘warnings’ came from people who explained what would happen if we kept giving racist liars newspaper columns, TV & radio slots & season tickets for Question Time.