Greg Hill O'Connor

Music and film lover, guitarist and pretend historian.

[Dino 🇵🇸 🇺🇸 @Homiedino]

I’m gonna throw up

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

Lincoln Batallion brigaders in a trench near Corbera d'Ebre during the battle of the Ebro. Summer 1938.
Americans fighting fascism.

[Jeff Crisp @JFCrisp]

Point of detail.
Under international refugee law it is NOT illegal to arrive in the UK on a small boat if the the purpose of the journey is to claim asylum.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

This is a passage from the book, Bullshit Jobs.

Here David Graeber gives a good explanation of how the political class like the tactic of divide and rule.

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

The flag of the British Batallion with the names of the places they fought in Spain: Madrid, Brunete, Quinto, Belchite, Gandesa, Pàndols... It was embroidered by women in Barcelona in 1938 with names of battles they fought. Now held by Marx Memorial Library @MarxLibrary in London

[Jan @janhopi]

getting involved in left wing electoral politics again

[Jordan @jordanbhx]

These people say this and then still shop at retail parks, oppose traffic measures to make walking safer, and lose their shit when your try to remove on street parking to make it possible.

The people who loudly say they want this are the ones who destroyed it in the first place.

[Jack FR @FrayneJack34043]

alas I am regretfully forced by circumstance to be right-wing again. this is the one thing I didn't want to happen

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

Hilariously the band The Strokes has issued a statement saying their “message has always been — and remains — against brain hemorrhages”. They are literally called The Strokes

[SirRobinBastard @SirRobinBastard]

Lesson 60: How to Dismantle a Nation in 40 Years and Make It Look Like Modernisation
(A Bastard's Blueprint in Five Acts)
#SirRobinBastard #CollapseAsAService #PublicLossPrivateGain

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Act I – 1979: The Foundations
Architect: Margaret Thatcher

•Sold off gas, water, telecoms, steel, and aerospace
•Crushed the unions
•Turned "society" into an accounting error
•Introduced Right to Buy — sold council homes, never replaced them

We called it freedom.
It was just the clearance sale.

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Act II – 1990: The Quiet Execution
Architect: Sir John Major @Conservatives

•Privatised British Rail (1993 Railways Act)
•Launched PFI – the first step in debt-leasing hospitals and schools
•Continued deregulation & asset sales
•Institutionalised fragmentation and rentier logic

Privatised the trains, leased the hospitals, smiled through the liquidation.

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Act III – 1997: The Normalisation
Architect: @TonyBlairInst

•Embraced the free market as gospel
•Expanded PFI — hospitals and schools leased like rental cars
•Introduced tuition fees
•Outsourced NHS services while saying it was still "ours"

We didn't reverse Thatcherism.
We rebranded it.

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Act IV – 2010: The Harvest
Architects: @David_Cameron & @George_Osborne

•Austerity slashed £500B from the state
•Libraries, youth centres, courts — all gone
•NHS starved, councils collapsed, wages frozen
•Used a financial crisis to justify a social restructuring

We didn't fix the economy.
We finished the transfer.

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Act V – 2016–Now: The Cover-Up
Architects: @Nigel_Farage, @BorisJohnson, @Keir_Starmer

•Brexit used as a smokescreen for permanent deregulation
•Populists inflame rage, centrists manage decline
•Rail still privatised, water still polluted, NHS still bleeding
•Starmer pledges stability — which means the extraction continues uninterrupted

The rage is real.
The cause is structural.
The solution? Already offshore.

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You think this happened by accident?
It was a 40-year heist.
Signed, sealed, and professionally managed.

The Victorians built an empire.
We dismantled it for parts.

Go ahead, pick a party - we’ll continue to point at immigrants while we pick your pockets.

#SirRobinBastard
#FromSteelToSurveillance
#NeoliberalContinuity
#EverythingMustGo
#Lesson60Complete

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

People act like Britain's malaise is mystery. But it's so bloody simple.

People have no money

It all goes to landlords or mortages, utility firms, and essentials. A few benefit; everyone else suffers.

Therefore, tax those who benefit and redistribute their wealth.

Done.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Massive Attack 👏👏👏👏👏

[The ghost of Mughals past🔻🍉🍁 @FridoKala]

Don't want to hear another thing about grooming gangs whilst their chief paedophile is entitled to swan around in public like this