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The main reason the USA is the most powerful nation on earth is because it was the first country to harness & exploit the economic growth miracle of consumerism: namely, convincing people they need stuff they don't really need. This soon led to the Wall St Crash..
Excellent piece by "right-wing capitalist" Rory Sutherland in Spectator: it's not just public services which are failing, he says, but private services too - firms which treat their customers like dirt. The answer is legislation, he concludes.
Excellent piece by "right-wing capitalist" Rory Sutherland in Spectator: it's not just public services which are failing, he says, but private services too - firms which treat their customers like dirt. The answer is legislation, he concludes.
@drjonty Unanswerable but Barry’s all the way - OHMSS, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever. And on that here’s a gift to this thread, ICYMI originally https://t.co/pqYm5YHCSE
@JamesCleverly@ukhomeoffice Continued buzzphrase based distraction from the real threat to the majority of people in this country: the Tory government.
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
@michaelgove@RishiSunak Yep that’s it, keep pointing over there, whilst not taking any responsibility for the legacy of underinvestment and wilful lack of care for the majority of this country, or any interest in progressive, people focused ideas for more than the last decade.
Britain’s public services aren’t the only thing broken by 13 yrs of Tory misrule, our spirits are too. Those I speak to in politics are shattered.
It’s not just about remembering who did this at the general election, it’s about doing the thing that will guarantee their removal. Tactical voting.
To say that pointing out a simple political reality doesn’t make me popular in some factions, is an understatement, but we don’t have the power to change First Past the Post prior to the next Election.
I came to terms with the limited choices presented to us a while ago, others are still kicking and screaming and resisting. It doesn’t change the reality, I’m cold and pragmatic about this, that it’s a two horse race and you have to pick one. I have one focus, removing the most dangerous, corrupt and criminal National Front Conservative government that Britain has ever known. Everything else is secondary.
I don’t care how we do it but we have to do it. Splitting the vote won’t do it, nor will bitching at those pointing out the limitations of political systems instead of focusing on a Tory government removing vital suicide prevention services, starving kids and failing to jail rapists? Slow clap.
I don’t like it the fact that not all votes are equal, that we have a voting system which is outdated and benefits shithouses, any more than the next person. However to see intelligent people with "fuck the Tories" in their bio, abuse and sneer then state that they’ll do the very thing that will help the conservatives, despite knowing the limitations of FPTP? Enraging.
People don’t have to like my opinions or my output, it’s fine if you don’t, but to claim I’m being paid and engage in ludicrous conspiracies, or obsessively target the opposition rather than focus your attention on those in power? It’s an idiotic waste of time. It’s simply masking a refusal to accept the political reality. Your vote should count, it doesn’t, and those fault is that? The messenger, or the ruling classes with all the fucking power?
In case you hadn’t noticed, the last three years have proven that there’s only an appetite for "revolution" in those conned by crackpot conspiracy or sold a dream by disaster capitalist shills, and even then, only temporarily.
We cannot modify the shitty systems that we are burdened with prior to the next general election, we can only use them to our advantage by disadvantaging those that rely upon them.
Tactical voting is how we do that.
https://t.co/TxcKqVzbAI will tell you how to get a Tory the fuck out of parliament.
BREAKING
Public Accounts Comm report today on MICHELE MONE & PPE Medpro.
- National Crime Agency & House Of Lords investigations ongoing
- DHSC suing Medpro for £120m+ for unusable PPE through VIP Lane
-High Court ruled VIP lane was unlawful
-Gov PPE contracts £9 billion written off, inc £4 billion that can't be used.
NOTE: all of this is added to Tory claims they're spending more on NHS
Don't forget c£37bn in addition on Test & Trace 😡😡😡