tavish💙

Even older, but no wiser, still can't find the door. @mctav.bsky.social

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@BarbaraSutton15 Need anything more be said…

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@Gypsypup13 He’s considerably worse than that

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Wealthy want UK govt to ditch pension triple lock, cut welfare spending

Silence on corporate welfare
Profiteering
HMRC not collecting £59bn last yr
Poorest 20% paying higher proportion in income in taxes than the richest 20%.

They hit the poor, old, sick
https://t.co/YPcbjL5JXe

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

The Marxists are right about this. The tendency of the rate of profit to fall. The 'investors' - the creditor class - can no longer make enough money on normal stuff like agriculture and manufacturing. They have to cancel democratic politics, disempower the state and privatise everything that was once public. One sweeping, final asset-strip for the rentiers. They also task their tech nerds with the creation of a decadent fantasy world we can rent from them every day. To sustain 'investor confidence', nothing must be public, nothing free, nothing sacred and nothing real.

But it rests on the big lie that we need their money. In fact we have our own money, created by the state every day. They're desperate to restrict that, so the IMF tells each nation to keep its spending/investment down to 3% of GDP. Enough for the minimal welfare and everyday maintenance required to quell civil unrest. Defy the creditor class and they'll sell off your bonds and currency on global markets and tank your economy. The other big lie - they can do that only if we let them.

This is why the creditor class is terrified of the economic truths uncovered by heterodox economics positions such as post-Keynesianism and #MMT. Understanding this simple fact - we do not need them or their money - is revolutionary.

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@maloroek @SangitaMyska How is the weather in Moscow comrade?

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

The Health Secretary has taken £372,000 from private health-linked donors since entering parliament. That's at a rate of £10,000 a month since taking office. His biggest donor owns companies that recruit NHS managers AND private health executives.

This week he also gave himself the power to override the independent body that stops the NHS being overcharged for drugs.

Full story at the link below 👇

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Think-tank funded by the super rich wants to freeze the UK state pension, end the triple-lock.

Full state pension is below 50% of the minimum wage.

2m pensioners live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in poverty.

Democide disguised as financial policy.
https://t.co/f0zE3vQnCp

[Irena Buzarewicz @IrenaBuzarewicz]

February 28

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@ralph_now @implausibleblog @bbcquestiontime

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@60sPsychJukebox Always amazed at how underrated he was.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Brian Eno: anyone who'd leave the UK because they have to pay a bit more tax arent the least community minded

Lord Bethell: "but they are the wealth creators"

"They're not the wealth creators. The wealth creators are the people who make things.. who keep society running"👏👏

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

Dear British politicians :

You’re literal job is to be Friends of Britain

Not Israel. Not Ukraine. Not America

BRITAIN

If you want to be Friends of Israel fuck off to Israel

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@aan8103 @Number10cat She didn’t run anyone down, everyone has seen the video of her murder.

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

The fucking President of the United States everyone, I have no words.

[. @jdpoc]

#LateNightThoughts ..

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@CunninghamJohnB @IsabelOakeshott That would be Priti Patel, and Boris Johnson

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This picture was taken of Dr. Abu Safiya a year ago, after Israeli forces besieged and shut down Kamal Adwan hospital. He’s still being held by Israel.

These are the hostages Western media and officials ignore.

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@SkyBluesExtra All strikers go through barren patches, especially as he has been injured recently, he will come good again.

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@reformexposed @Nigel_Farage He could be describing himself

[tavish💙 @MctavishTony]

@60sPsychJukebox I saw Joe, with The Grease Band, at the LocarnoBallroom in Coventry in the late sixties, he was excellent, as was usual then, playing his imaginary guitar. The Nice, and Dave Edmunds Love Sculpture were also on the bill. A fine night was had by all.