UK economy is stagnating
Can't be revived without reducing concentration of wealth.
Richest 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Others have little to buy goods/services.
Need higher wages. End corporate profiteering. Tax the rich
https://t.co/RDc7LsxuAj
UK public debt:
Nov 2023, £2.671trn, 97.5% of GDP
Feb 2020: £1.791tn, 79.1% of GDP
May 2010: £1.03tn, 65% of GDP
Tories borrowed more than all Labour Govts combined.
Squandered on tax cuts for corporations/rich, contracts for cronies.
No new industries.
Public services destroyed
Zoe Gardner: "It would be extraordinary, a couple of years ago, to talk about refugees seeking protection... as illegal immigrants. It would have been extraordinary... for the British PM to attend what is the successor to a neo-fascist tradition in Italy... "
Social cleansing in our times.
Low wages, high rents, benefit cuts pushing thousands of private renters out of central areas, accelerating the ���suburbanisation” of poverty.
Tories want to force the sick/disabled to work, to hand tax cuts to the rich.
https://t.co/XMynAtjGIR
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UK public debt:
Jun 2023: £2.6tn, 100.8% of GDP
Feb 2020, £1.791tn, 79.1% of GDP
May 2010, £1.03tn, 65% of GDP
Squandered on perks and tax cuts for the rich/corporations.
No new industries started. Public services destroyed.
Taxes at 70 yr high.
14.4m Brits living in poverty.
‘Hard left’:
Free health care
Free education
Nationalise energy, rail and utilities
Renewable Energy
Build council houses
Tax the rich
‘Hard right’:
Bring back death penalty
Deport refugees
Give handouts to the rich
Ban strikes
Reduce worker rights
Climate change is a hoax
Matt Hancock gave a PPE contract to his sisters company which he owned 20% of. Then denied it when confronted and covered up the evidence which has only just come out.
In total he has been personally involved in more than £600,000,000 of PPE fraud.
Arrest him, NOW.
Drop a fag butt in the street and get fined £80. Dump millions of gallons of sewage in the river and 292 Tory MPs will vote to let you keep doing it for the next 15 years.
Does ANYONE think this is a coincidence?
We are now constantly discussing whether a free* NHS is financially sustainable, after 3 years of the Tories literally stealing billions from the NHS budget via dodgy contracts.
WEIRD, HUH! 🤯
Coronavirus loans: £157m went to private schools as state schools got nothing.
This is horrific. And yet more evidence that this government cynically used the confusion of the pandemic to feather their mates’ nests with vast sums from the public purse. https://t.co/3Azv77Tuyg
Tomorrow 100,000 nurses go on strike. Their real pay has fallen by £1,800 this year, declining by £5,000 since 2010. 14% are using foodbanks while 1 in 3 have difficulty covering the cost of food and heating their homes. But this strike is about more than just paltry pay.🧵
Conservative Councillors at Central Bedfordshire Council voted unanimously against 82p worth of #FreeSchoolMeals per child per day..
..then immediately voted FOR a payrise for themselves saying "we're all affected by cost-of-living crisis".
Never Vote Tory.
#ToriesOut88#GENow