To all complaining about the Labour policy on Brexit:
Step 1: Get into power.
Step 2: Rebuild good working relations with the EU.
Step 3: Take it from there.
That's how it will work but it will take time. Be patient.
If ordinary people continue to put billionaire oligarchs in charge of our political institutions, the gap between rich and poor will only get exponentially bigger.
The idea that these men — and they are ALL men — are somehow champions of the working class, is utterly revolting.
He was released at the halfway point of his sentence - a policy introduced by @RobertJenrick's Conservative Party - because they'd comprehensively broken the justice system.
Wes Streeting is considering PFI 2.0: it could end the NHS as we know it.
Previously, the NHS received £13bn private investment, repayment is over £80bn.
PFI is a scam. Govt guarantees corporate profits. Govt can borrow and invest at much lower cost.
https://t.co/GgEWtGFoHv
Ed Davey is spot on here.
Now, more than ever, we need to break ties with America and focus on rebuilding our relationship with Europe.
You can’t have a “special relationship” with a treacherous fascist.
The ten richest people in the US added $64billion to their wealth on the back of Trump win and Mogg continues to pretend people like him are on the side of the people against the elite. Same trick with Brexit after which of course he shipped his cash to 🇮🇪
As a Brit, I've been watching the American election results with sorrow for my American friends. Some are comparing it to the Brexit vote here, imagining if we'd voted for Brexit twice. But here's the thing... in a sense, we did. And here are some lessons from it. 🧵
@wat_thee_deuce_ My Dad loved him and watching together on TV was the only time we both seemed to laugh at the same things. Dad was a devout Catholic & I was the rogue atheist of the family but we both loved the fairly savage but hilarious mockery of the church.
George Monbiot: “I’m not going to take lessons in climate from someone from Policy Exchange which is funded by the oil industry”
David Goodhart (Policy Exchange): “It isn’t”
GM: “I can demonstrate that it is”
DG: “Anyway, that’s not what we’re here to discuss”
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