A crucial but less discussed element of the immigration story is exactly when and precisely why legal visas exploded in number. The below table (from the OBR) tells all. It was just after Brexit, and because Boris Johnson’s government brought in a new points based system
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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
Jeff Bezos has once again caved to Donald Trump and will not list the increased prices caused by Trump’s tariffs on Amazon.
RETWEET if you think @JeffBezos is a coward!
Donald Trump's first 100 days have been characterized by the most flagrant corruption imaginable.
Today, I want to talk about 10 of the absolute worst examples.
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This is what a rigged economy looks like:
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
Did he honestly say this? What an ignorant, evil ****. The fact that he is in a position of power is yet another sad indictment of the current administration.
AZT was the first effective antiviral to treat HIV.
It went on to form part of combination therapy which saved millions of lives.
Whilst now overtaken by newer, better drugs, it was a huge breakthrough against what was at the time a deadly infection.
RFK Jr is talking nonsense
There is no Cost of Living Crisis.
Supermarkets have permanently quadrupled their profits.
Energy Companies have permanently x10ed their profits.
It is a Cost of Greed Crisis and it needs to be reversed.
This is - according to @metpoliceuk - an entirely false claim. Worth asking who benefits from inventing and spreading news designed to instil fear, and destabilise and divide British communities….and why @x does not act to take this down