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Rowan retweeted
i want everyone to know brazil just won against fascism
despite them having the media on their pockets and the elites on their side
despite millions of dollars of american interventionism
despite totally unrealistic odds
if we can do it, so can you
Rowan retweeted
The purpose of Neoliberalism is to divert public money to the private sector.
That's why we pay £14 billion annually to private landlords, instead of £14 billion to local authorities to maintain, upgrade, and expand their council housing stock.
Also, Govt surpluses are bad.
Claiming the UK is living under austerity is factually wrong.
State spending accounts for around 45% of GDP - its highest for decades and the UK’s tax burden is the highest since WW2.
We haven’t run an annual surplus this century, and have instead been spending more and more each year (even under the Tories) paid for via borrowing.
People use “austerity” as a by-word for “I’m struggling financially”, but the reason people feel squeezed is because our economy is inefficient and unproductive (in large part because of high tax and regulation) - meaning growth remains sluggish and therefore living standards aren’t rising in real terms.
The likes of the Greens trot out statistics like “one in three children live in poverty” when what they’re really referring to is relative poverty, not absolute poverty.
The latter is a genuine scourge, the former is a left-wing construct that justifies ever increasing levels of state spending which, when that doesn’t produce the desired results, then leads to calls for yet more borrowing, spending and debt.
It is an economic doom loop - and NEVER an excuse for violence like in France.
Rowan retweeted
Planting new trees doesn’t magically undo the destruction of an entire ecosystem. You cannot replace centuries of biodiversity with a few saplings. Companies that destroy our natural resources should face severe penalties, including permanent closure when warranted. We’ve reached a point where protecting the planet is treated as optional, and that needs to change.
Rowan retweeted
How is the UK housing market balance even real?
Landlord raises your rent by £100 a month.
You apply for a mortgage so you can stop throwing money away.
The bank says you can’t afford £900 a month in mortgage payments.
So you’re forced to stay in the rental property… paying £1,400 a month in rent.
Who designed this system?
Rowan retweeted
Trying to understand why a prominent Tory party member organising contract killings isn’t being given wall to wall coverage. The BBC hasn’t even mentioned it on their site.
🚨🇬🇧 Turning Point UK's CEO was filmed offering an undercover reporter a menu of beatings, stabbings and killings through a Glasgow contact who says he arms the UVF
Al Jazeera’s undercover operation started in 2021 when a reporter joined the British offshoot of the American student group.
Its CEO Jack Ross, a Conservative candidate in 2023, introduced the reporter to Allan Nesbitt, a convicted criminal and self-described UVF member, agreed on camera to pay him to stage a fake pro-Zimbabwe rally, and priced out what Nesbitt’s friends could do to a person, from cutting faces to MURDER.
The UVF is the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Protestant loyalist paramilitary from Northern Ireland’s Troubles that killed over 500 people between 1966 and 1999, including 33 in one day in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and is still banned as a terror group.
Since the peace deal it has run mostly as a drug gang that kept the name and the guns.
Nesbitt reportedly met the reporter in a London hotel, offered to have a fictional business rival “finished,” claimed he’d personally stabbed a man to death, showed a shotgun and pistol on a video call and said the fee would buy weapons smuggled from Scotland into Northern Ireland.
Ross says it was a joke. The joke came with a price list, a weapons demo and a smuggling route, and the police now have a name and a video... and wasn't particularly funny.
Somebody in Turning Point UK’s donor base should be asking when the fundraising dinners turned into this.
Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel
Rowan retweeted
My controversial but accurate Left Wing opinion.
We shouldn't pay to renationalise anything, nor should we pay their debts.
They have stolen more than enough already.
Rowan retweeted
Most people in France can't afford housing.
They didn't blame immigrants, or transgender people, or video games, or avocado toast.
They blame the government. Because that's who's responsible. That's always who's responsible.
Rowan retweeted
Found the benefits scroungers.
It's landlords.
Companies exploiting welfare system by using residents as 'cash cows,' BBC finds bbc.in/4k2ze9M
Rowan retweeted
UK water privatisation is staggering. Companies were effectively handed monopolies over an essential, inelastic good on two basic conditions - don't exploit customers, and reinvest in infrastructure. Instead we got shit in rivers and and million pound bonuses to execs.
Rowan retweeted
you’re 3 missed paychecks from being on the streets where you would need the benefits system in place. your child/children were born in an nhs hospital. if you have an accident at work you are taken to an nhs A&E in an nhs ambulance and treated without seeing a bill for any of it
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Rowan retweeted
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar! - Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
Rowan retweeted
It's incredible how well the bread and circus has captivated the minds of the dumbest people
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£10 spent on benefits isn't just £10 lost, it's £10 that will then be spent on food, or rent which keeps circulating in the economy. £10 given to big businesses in a tax cut just ends up in a profit margin, or a millionaire shareholders pocket. Its likely never spent again.
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Netflix has 16,000 employees. If they kept half of that profit and paid the rest out equally to everyone, they could give each worker a $426,000 bonus this year and still pocket $6,825,000,000. Instead they fired 1000 people.
Rowan retweeted
Passive income should be taxed at a HIGHER rate than earned income. I don't know why this would be remotely controversial.
Healey rejects calls to equalise capital gains and income tax rates ft.trib.al/9CvrGGl
