Super majority trolley-dash

Heated think-tank. The clumpiest of all the dregs - Real Sediment

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Stepping down ASAP as an MP after being hailed as a man of pure selfless dedication to duty and service is at least quite funny, I think. One last great fuck you to everyone who ever carried water for him, which is a lot of people.

[Super majority trolley-dash @donsimon814]

@NoJusticeMTG Johnson, Truss, Cameron, May and Starmer are all same. They took money and political support from the wealthy and powerful and their job was to protect the privileges of their donors. Burnham will be the same because he is working for the same people.

[Super majority trolley-dash @donsimon814]

@Mbkilgh81 @NoJusticeMTG That's was just his competence and demeanour

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

“Normal” is not some natural state of affairs we can snap back to after a holiday period of exceptional authoritarianism, cruelty and lawlessness. It’s something we create every day. When we indulge authoritarians, racists and criminals, we only create a new, much nastier normal.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

90% of England’s water industry owned by foreign investors.

Customers treated as cash cows.

£88.4bn paid in dividends since privatisation.

1 trillion litres of water a year, 20% of household supply, lost to leaks.

41+ trillion lost since privatisation.
https://t.co/JypgEcmIWW

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I have written to the Cabinet Secretary to seek assurances that the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, who was lobbying for the privatised water industry until recently, has had no involvement in talks about the future of Thames Water.

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

He has an original 12" copy of Blue Monday by New Order though, so I fail to see what the issue is here?

[Super majority trolley-dash @donsimon814]

@theJeremyVine @shimla321 @CarersUK Have you heard of tax evasion? When was the last time you debated a maximum amount of private wealth mate. Never is the answer.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

We’re not sorry and we’ll do it again. Fuck you.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

A top 5 reason to implement a wealth tax is related to this point below about China eating our lunch. If our super rich class was leading the world when it came to frontier industries, that would be a strong case to let them keep cooking.

Instead, their focus the past 15-20 years has been on building monopolies and moats, propping it up with ever-more-absurd financial engineering, media consolidation with the aim of stoking culture war and blunting criticism of Israel, which for some odd reason is supposed to be a national priority for us — all while falling behind China on robotics, batteries, EVs, and so on. We’re barely winning on AI if at all. They cheered as Trump effectively repealed the IRA, the biggest investment in new energy production in decades, and are now crying that there isn’t enough energy production for their AI.

If our billionaires were winners, we might consider defending them.

But our billionaires are losers, in several senses of the word, and they embarrass us on the international stage. A wealth tax will take them down a few pegs and hopefully let some winners rise up. We no longer have a meritocracy so it’s time to strip the participation medals from these monopolists.

So no, a wealth tax is not punishing you for your success. It’s punishing you for failure. Don’t like it? Stop losing.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

In the Green Party, any member can propose a policy. It’s in our constitution, and members decide whether to debate it.

So when the media presents that as the Green Party “proposing” a policy, they’re misleading you.

Worth asking why the billionaire press constantly attacks us.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

It really is not more complex than: the DEI panic is an idiotic propaganda wheeze created by extremely racist American fascists, in pure bad faith. If you’re on board with this then you are helping them, and people should react accordingly when you talk about it.

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

I would take the Guardian's assertion that they were honour bound to investigate Jason Arday a lot more seriously if they had felt a similar obligation to report on sexual assault allegations that took place in their own office.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Andrew Neil - former BBC presenter, founding chairman of GB News, editor of the *Sunday Times* when it claimed HIV didn’t cause AIDS, denies concentration of billionaire ownership in our media.

The public are seeing even more though how the billionaire monopolised press works.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

The key incident that drove the Cancel Culture panic - a wholly elite project, purely top down - was the sight of Harvey Weinstein being dragged sobbing from court to jail, unprotected by his wealth, and the internet movement for justice that went with it. https://t.co/gaH1lYs5St

[Super majority trolley-dash @donsimon814]

@AccntParody @eyehatemyteams @hasanthehun You are wrong. No decent socialist or communist wants equal pay for everyone- that's stupid, they want control and a say in who gets paid what. Not the same thing.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

okay i'm a class traitor, now what?

[csz @cszabla]

it’s a small thing but the fact the british media involved all use DEI as opposed to EDI tells you how much of all of this is downstream of downloading or playing to the american culture war template vs having actual direct experience in how UK universities are run

[The Justin Horton Show @ejhchess]

People being obnoxious on social media is a major issue but if a man is actually hounded to his death by mainstream media they are more outraged by the complaints than by the event itself. And that's the country, isn't it? That's how it's run, that's what it is.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

There has long been a dire need for a reckoning to be visited upon the British press, but because we have a political class either in debt or in fear of them, I expect Professor Arday will be yet another body among the foundations.