NEW: Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/c540270… Thread:
when money was free and interest rates were basically zero, the UK destroyed its public services in the pursuit of balanced budgets. Now money is expensive the UK going to borrow lots of it to spend on cutting taxes for rich people 😸
In the latest PTO @ProfPRogers considers Joe Biden's confident assertion that there will be no repeat in Kabul of the scenes during the evacuation of the US embassy in Vietnam in 1975: soundcloud.com/poltheoryother…
I just voted for a motion calling for a public inquiry into dodgy government Covid contracts. But the Conservative Party – which received £8 million from donors who won Covid contracts worth £881 million – ordered its MPs to vote down the motion. What a strange coincidence!
Greensill is the privatisation of the NHS writ large: access to data and billing was the big prize and #Greensill met everyone who mattered (Hancock, Harding, Stevens etc). This is why this scandal matters
Don't ever take this fool seriously.
If @BorisJohnson has a political philosophy it is that he will not restrict our liberties unless there is an overwhelming reason to do so. That may prove to be sub-optimal in respect of our health and prosperity (public health and economics)...
THREAD: So where did the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill come from? Answer: the police... and their friends.
Soon you will not be allowed to protest about the removal of your right to protest.
Amazing to think of how many businesses have been forced to shut, often with stock going to waste, and people suddenly deprived of an income and not a peep out of Rishi Sunak. Nine months into this pandemic and still no increase in poverty levels of statutory sick pay.
I am struck by BBC reporters' continued use of household budget metaphors to describe the UK economy re. the spending review. That is a deeply political and contested framing that comes hand-in-hand with a pro-austerity argument. I don't think it is good analysis or "impartial".
Britain is corrupt theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…
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UK government fails to publish details of £4bn Covid contracts with private firms
Good Law Project and MPs call for independent inquiry over apparent breach of UK law
The public health experts told us the way to avoid a second peak and the need for Lockdown 2 was to have a test, trace, isolate system that works, manage outbreak clusters and have the public (and the govt) buy in to following rules. We are where we are for a reason and by choice
In the Spring people gave lives and livelihoods to buy the government time to set up an effective public health response. They failed them. The government must act now to dismantle the failed Deloitte/Serco/JBC test and trace, and build a regional & local system based on the NHS
Worth remembering that when PM says everyone should support NHS Track and Trace- many elements are not run by the NHS. They’re outsourced to Deloitte, Serco, Mitie, G4S, Sodexo, Boots, Randox and the like...
So not the PM’s advice to ‘go holiday abroad’, ‘Eat out to Help Out’, ‘get back to the office or lose your job’, & ‘It’s ok to break the rules based on your interpretation’?
Health secretary overarching message this morning: if there’s another national lockdown the public will only have themselves to blame #Covid19UK
Channelling the amazing @SlenderSherbet if you take a video of bat's and turn it upside down, it ends up looking like a goth nightclub, c/o reddit. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face tonight lovely twitterati
totally headspinning that the wealthy are being handed savings in the tens of thousands to acquire more property, while renters are being given an NUS-card style discount on selected restaurants for a month
so the govt's plan for young people is to pay companies to give them temporary part-time minimum wage work, while simultaneously giving those with enough capital to afford a £500k home a tax break? lol. two ways of keeping the rental market afloat, i guess
No words can describe how angry I am at this news. This cannot be allowed to happen. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
The rest of the public, whether it’s school governors, local business owners or journalists writing about the presence or absence of new outbreaks, are being fed data that is ultimately garbage, and the people publishing that data know it. fin.
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