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Classic Norm: reward the patience, kill the punchline, leave Conan and the audience wrecked.
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This guy utterly dismantles the populist politics of Reform and Restore in 90 seconds. It’s actually quite beautiful.
Take decades of deep-rooted problems in Britain and convince people that a relatively tiny proportion of the population is responsible for all of them. Housing, the NHS, crime. Blame illegal migrants for everything.
Suddenly, you don’t need credible solutions to the housing crisis, NHS waiting lists or crime. You just need increasingly extreme policies on immigration.
And by the time people realise you never had meaningful answers to the vast majority of Britain’s problems, you’re already in power, handing out tax cuts to your donors.
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In 2015 David Cameron privatised the National Fostering Agency, it's now being paid £160m a year straight to a New Jersey tax haven to manage the fostering of just 2,616 children
A tax free profit of £61,000 per child, and they don't even provide any care, that's the fosters job
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What a loser and that’s being kind
Matthew Ingalls advertised Jane Doe to the men in the group chat even before she arrived. Then, once she was too intoxicated to consent, he took a picture of her lying in bed, sent it to a group chat with 50+ men, and wrote: “Boys come whip it out.”
Now he says he’s the one who was too intoxicated to consent and that she was the one who abused him.
this piece of shit’s life needs to be ruined!!!
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The balance sheet Kemi Badenoch doesn’t want to talk about 👇
In 1989, the water authorities were sold debt-free. The government wrote off £4.9 billion of debt and added a £1.5 billion “green dowry”. The companies paid £7.6 billion for the assets.
Since privatisation, around £78 billion has been extracted in dividends while industry debt has risen from virtually nothing to more than £60 billion.
Meanwhile, customers paid through their bills for the infrastructure investment that Badenoch cites as evidence of privatisation’s success.
Thames Water illustrates the model perfectly: debt-free at privatisation, now carrying about £18 billion of debt and repeatedly hovering near special administration.
The public cleared the debts, transferred the assets, funded the investment and now carries the risk of failure. Shareholders extracted the returns.
If Badenoch calls that a success, the obvious question is: success for whom? @labourlewis
The balance sheet often remains difficult to manipulate, which is why Kemi Badenoch chose to overlook it completely. Back in 1989, regional authorities were sold off debt-free — the government wiped out approximately £4.9 billion of debt and added a £1.5 billion “green dowry." The companies paid £7.6 billion for these assets. Fast forward to the early 2020s, and Financial Times analysis based on regulatory data revealed that dividends had soared to around £78 billion in today’s money, with net debt climbing above £60 billion from a starting point of zero. Industry figures estimate that capital spending during this period ranged between roughly £190 billion and £236 billion. Yet, shareholders didn't fund this expansion through fresh equity; instead, dividends were extracted while customer bills covered the capital investments, and debt financed the payouts. Thames is a striking example: initially debt-free at privatisation, it now carries around £16–20 billion in debt and has repeatedly teetered on the brink of special administration.
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On October 7th 2023
Less that 1200 Israelis were killed and half of them were soldiers/ police. Of the remainder a large proportion of them were killed by Israeli tanks/ helicopters under the 'Hannibal Protocol'
No mass rapes
No 40 beheaded babies.
Just spin to justify a genocide
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Here Israeli Lt. Col. Golan Vach admits his tanks killed at least 19 Israelis, including 8 children, in one strike on October 7th 2023.
Israel murdered its own citizens that day and blamed Hamas to justify inflicting a genocide on Gaza
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Helen Whately & Kemi Badenoch are both millionaires. They claim the most.
Incl £74.6k in rent paid for by us. Their bills, council tax, travel expenses, subsidised food & drink.
But the Conservatives want you to believe disabled people on an average of £15k a year are the issue
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This footage is 35 years old.
It shows how Israel was treating Palestinians decades ago.
The oppression did not begin on October 7; it has been a reality for generations.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸 They smash medical equipment inside Gaza hospitals.
They film themselves doing it.
Then they post it for amusement.
Israeli soldiers, in their own footage.
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Now it is official.
"In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes. Including extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer"
(UN Human Rights Council)
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They are afraid even of a small child’s bicycle…
The moment Israeli soldiers took a bicycle away from a young child who was playing in the street.
