MrShigemitsu

#LearnMMT

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

The people of the UK need to shake off Thatcher's lying mantra that "GovHasNoMoneyOfItsOwnOnlyWhatItTaxesOrBorrows", or we will never escape Gov-imposed austerity!
Taxes don't fund UK Gov spending; they prevent constant Gov spending from causing inflation:
https://t.co/uxuYyZ6aa8

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@malcolm_reavell @Raffiatim Whoever set out that graph has visually underplayed the 33% increase in the wealth of the top decile. Why not extend the Y axis up to at least 65%? Yes, the increased number is there, but it’s graphically very misleading as it currently appears.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq War, an illegal war that killed over a million people.

As Health Secretary, he helped drive NHS privatisation.

He joined Labour Friends of Israel, opposed BDS as “spiteful”, praised Israel as a “democracy”, and called the Balfour Declaration “British values in action”. He is a Zionist.

Stop pretending he’s a radical alternative, he’s more of the same.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Having worked out that voters don’t like it when you threaten to dismantle one of the UK’s greatest achievements - the NHS -, he resorts to bare face lying.

Be clear, there is no doubt that if he gets into power, the NHS will be over.

[Jack D 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @JackDunc1]

@DominicMcGregor Not the GDP bollocks again. Now do quality of life and public services. Mississippi is portrayed as a poverty ridden swamp because it is.

[Dr Shivam Sharma @DocShivSharma]

We’re told we can’t afford doctors.

But we can afford £1.6 BILLION in profits for private companies.

These are deliberate choices to move NHS money into private hands, not frontline care.

The government's privatisation of the NHS isn't so secret anymore.

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@Xoman08 @Glenn_Diesen I wouldn’t bother; just watch Threads, and realise that those who die in the initial blast are the lucky ones.

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@DavidMcNab17 Hmmm…. I just got Times Radio thrust into my face on my “Following” feed, even though I don’t follow them.
Algorithm must have changed 😢 - so pls disregard my previous reply.

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@DavidMcNab17 Select “Following” (and my sub-preference is also “recent”), rather than “For You”, and you’ll only see posts from those accounts you follow. As long as you haven’t followed those RW accounts, you won’t get their posts. Obvs u can’t control what’s in replies, but Block copiously!

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@tiberiusfiles The chocolate ration has increased from 30g to 20g.

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@botzarelli @David__Osland Fact remains, rich grads don’t have salary raided by SLC, ordinary and poor grads do.
Peer nations have state-funded HE, UK needs to revert to that system.

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@camdenjon @DavidMcNab17 I can see the campaign already: Look, aren’t we lucky - we have a genuine “left wing” economist standing for us in the GP! He’d make a great Chancellor… etc.
When in fact his flavour of macroeconomics would undermine much of what the GP wants to achieve (John McDonnell redux)

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@camdenjon @DavidMcNab17 Sadly, Joe/Joanne Public are very insecure in their knowledge of macroeconomics, easily defaulting to neoliberal “Gov-as-household” received opinion.
Absent a well-credentialed MMTer running against JM as PPC, a willingness to defer to his *supposed* authority would be the risk.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

A country that issues its own currency can no more run out of the currency it issues than a builder can 'run out of metres'.
UK literally cannot 'go bankrupt'.
The degree to which we're lied to about the UK economy is staggering.
Learn #MMT
https://t.co/0Pk8cvkgkr

[MrShigemitsu @MrShigemitsu]

@botzarelli @David__Osland Rich kids get fees & expenses paid upfront by their parents, so they’ll never have a penny of student loan deductions taken from their earnings
All the average & poor kids have deductions taken from pay (for 30yrs!), which barely even touch accrued interest
Not at all progressive

[UCU @ucu]

This story is not going away.

@MartinSLewis says freezing student loan thresholds turns them into a tax on young people.

“If your parents could pay upfront, you don’t pay this charge. Others do. That’s why it functions like a poverty tax.” @DrJoGrady

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

A 13 second summary of what the last 10 years was all about:

@jeremycorbyn: "I can confirm to the house, under my leadership Mandelson had no role, no influence & no part to play"

Keir Starmer: "I kicked my former leader out of my party"

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

We must make this clip live in infamy. The criminality of Israel, and the abject shame of US, Britain and the other genocide apologists at UNSC. The Palestinian representative holds a mirror to them, so that they can see their ugliness, this will ring through the ages. #NeverForget Gaza…

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything. It deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

God bless this woman.

ICE MUST GO‼️