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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · Nov 26

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 22h

#Labour tribalism and refusal to work with other parties

Well, that's a shoe-in. That's one of the dysfunctions that brought us Brexit, Labour's grisly tribal finagling.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

Corbyn couldn' t make a difference when he was actually leader of the Labour Party for five years. While he was at the wheel he steered the left into a ditch and enabled Putin and the Toff-boy's Brexit for them by neutering Labour's opposition to it.

The man's a visionless dud.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

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Child corporal punishment laws - Wikipedia

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 1d

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

A lie can get half-way round the world before the truth can get its socks on.

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Politics of lies

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

The other side of the coin of the the entirely sh!tty argument that if you tax the wealthy they'll leave is the idea that you should only tax the poor because they have nowhere else to go.

It's a ridiculous argument.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 2d

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

He looks more like Jabba the Hutt every time he crawls out from under his slimy stone.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 2d

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Innit tho.

Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 2d

Russia is the club-house and HQ for the international uber-wealthy who think they're the masters of the universe.

Hence the chumminess with people like Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage etc.

But if treason doth prosper, none dare call it treason, especially if it's the posh-boys that are the traitors.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 2d

That was when Russia was communist.

Now it's a fascist war-mongering state full of obscenely rich oligarchs. So it's OK to be pals with them now if you're someone from the UK establishment.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 3d

Turing himself was victim to the class-based British "education" malarkey. His head teacher was ultra snobbish about Turing aiming to be "merely a maths specialist" rather than getting a "proper education".

Snotty British education is all about understanding social codes.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

The Reform barrel contains only bad apples.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

If treason doth prosper, none dare call it treason.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

Get enough snowflakes together and you can start an avalanche.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 5d

As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 6d

The Labour party are such a crop of headmasters, methodists and petty authoritarians. Always looking to help the landowner classes manage the peasants.

The punchline to the classic joke about Labour is the 'labour spokesman' saying "don't be silly, comrade, the bosses will never agree to that."

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 6d

Go Greens.

The mainstream parties often boast of having to make "difficult choices" when what they mean is choices that make life harder for us all.

Wrest the land back from the 1% and share its bounty among the people of the country.

That's a real hard choice. Hard to achieve, but just.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 6d

You'd think the richest man in the world would be more smiley, huh?

Maybe money and power just aren't the route to happiness.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 6d

Treason doth never prosper.

What's the reason?

Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 7d

Yep.

The whole Tory philosophy is the pursuit of the idea of obedient workers and a solution to the servant problem.