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Launch meeting - Your Party Sheffield
Wednesday 13th August
7pm. (Doors open 6.30pm)
Venue - The Workstation
A meeting for people signed up to ‘Your Party’.
“What kind of Party do we want it to be”?
I think it’s fair to say that this election campaign by the Tories can be summed up by the slogan “Fake hack control”. Fake stories, hacked accounts and control of the media. #VoteLabourOnThursday
'I was hacked,' says woman whose account claimed hospital boy photo was staged - this will go down as the election where the truth came last in every seat! Democracy is on life support. #GetJohnsonOut https://t.co/pej8hv3kDk
Why did the Sun publish a far-right conspiracy theory? And it claims to be a national NEWSpaper! Just a comic for right wing fantasists! Democracy needs an impartial news media - not a bunch of Murdoch funded conspiracy theorists. #ToriesOut https://t.co/rhWKkjqFtP
Tories forced into climbdown over claim aide was hit by Labour protester - belatedly even the media are beginning to get fed up with the Tory lie machine. Perhaps they are lying about everything else? #ToriesOut https://t.co/1P5tY2gkeR
Mail on Sunday made false claims about Labour's tax plans - just the tip of the iceberg of the lies and propaganda peddled by right wing newspapers! Democracy is devalued by such blatantly unethical “journalism” #kickthetoriesout https://t.co/xcGIYN3fwe
@_JoelGray Indeed - it wouldn’t be far fetched to suggest that the polls are now just another weapon being used by the right wing establishment to propagandise. If you say the tories are winning enough, they believe it will come true. Democracy is the biggest loser in this election
@_JoelGray And we all get treated to the yougov poll that says Bullshit Johnson won - yougov owned by a Tory MP and an ex Tory candidate! Bias has taken on a whole new meaning in thid Election.
So NHS for sale docs may have come from Russian source says Atlantic Council - member of Atlantic Council Board ? One Rupert Murdoch! That’s an impartial view then!!!#NHSNotforSale
UK charities call for end to 'gagging law' in run-up to elections - what a warped “democracy” we live in where NHS workers and charities are denied free speech! Dystopian, Orwellian - call it what you want but it isn’t democracy #democracyisdying https://t.co/VC7Eev9XDG
“no one gives a toss about the social media cut and thrust” - but Mr Raab people don’t like being taken as idiots. But hey, you’ve been impersonating a politician for a while now...#ToriesLie
Tories pretend to be factchecking service during leaders' debate - what do you scrape next once you have scraped the bottom of the barrel? #ToriesOut https://t.co/3xnkeE7VJL
10. So voters may be attracted by headlines of tax cuts to help businesses but what they are actually voting for is having to pay for public services previously provided by the state.
Thread on Tory tax policy
1. The Tories are committed to eliminating the money from central government that goes to local authorities. This is a longstanding policy going back to the Coalition under Cameron and Osborne.
9. You can only conclude that they know exactly what they are doing. Shrinking the state in health, social care, education etc. as part of an ideological purge of public services.