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JuneSim63"Rather than developing a coherent policy, [the Tory government] chose to keep redefining extremism, to exclude the bigoted elements in its own base and focus instead on environmental protesters and peaceful campaigners contesting the unfolding genocide in Gaza. The police kept warning that the far right was the fastest-growing terrorism threat in the UK, but the government did nothing" Excellent from George Monbiot<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FarRightRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FarRightRiots</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Racism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#UKRiots</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fascism</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/06/riots-thuggery-14-years-tory-race-baiting" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/06/riots-thuggery-14-years-tory-race-baiting</a>

JuneSim63"Britain had its problems in 2010 – not least the impact of the 2008 financial crash – but it had strong public services and a visibly improved public realm..."Broken Britain”, it turns out, was a [Tory] campaign promise. Jonn Elledge catalogues 14 years of terrible Tory policies.Polling stations are now open. You can finally do something about it.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GTTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GTTO</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeneralElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GeneralElection</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GE2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GE2024</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#UKPolitics</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/list-terrible-policy-conservatives-britain-2010?CMP=firstedition_email" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/list-terrible-policy-conservatives-britain-2010?CMP=firstedition_email</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭A shameful symbol of the waste and incompetence of the outgoing Tory government. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryCorruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryIncompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryIncompetence</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl55lp79dzno" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl55lp79dzno</a>

JuneSim63"The average public library... is now an informal citizens advice bureau, a business development centre, a community centre, and a mental health provider. It is an unofficial Sure Start centre, a homelessness shelter, a literacy and foreign language-learning centre, a calm space where tutors can help struggling kids, an asylum support provider, and driving theory test centre..<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Libraries</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Librarians</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/25/how-britains-libraries-provide-more-than-books?CMP=firstedition_email" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/25/how-britains-libraries-provide-more-than-books?CMP=firstedition_email</a>

SubtleBlade ⚔️<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TheBrokenYears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheBrokenYears</a>: <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> 2010-24How a disastrous <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tory</a> policy blew up the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#housing</a> market <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2024/jun/21/help-to-buy-how-a-disastrous-tory-policy-blew-up-the-housing-market" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2024/jun/21/help-to-buy-how-a-disastrous-tory-policy-blew-up-the-housing-market</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryPoliciesInAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryPoliciesInAction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ThatchersLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThatchersLegacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GE2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GE2024</a>

Captain Jack Sparrow<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@mattjhodgkinson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mattjhodgkinson</a> George Monbiot works for the Guardian newspaper, who helped to destroy the true Labour Leader, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JeremyCorbyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeremyCorbyn</a> And now, like many other Guardian journos, he is complaining about the consequences of the Corbyn AS smear campaign. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UKLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKLabour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/torybritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#torybritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ukelection2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukelection2024</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Corbyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corbyn</a>

contributopiaHow Britain became a food bank nation: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jun/11/how-britain-became-a-food-bank-nation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jun/11/how-britain-became-a-food-bank-nation</a> Un articolo dell'ex primo ministro inglese Gordon Brown evidenzia la crescente <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/povert%C3%A0" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#povertà</a> in Gran Bretagna e la diffusione dei "banchi alimentari", in inglese "food banks", organizzazioni benefiche,solitamente non a scopo di lucro, che distribuiscono generi alimentari a persone bisognose <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FoodBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FoodBank</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/cibo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cibo</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Povert%C3%A0Infantille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PovertàInfantille</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GreatBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatBritain</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BancoAlimentare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BancoAlimentare</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/@informapirata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@informapirata</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭Cutting disability benefits when there are more disabled and chronically ill people than ever due to government negligence… What could possibly go wrong? 🤬 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryManifesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryManifesto</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭Scottish Conservative leader resigns after botched campaign to become an MP. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryIncompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryIncompetence</a> <a href="https://apple.news/AYKyCTZ40SNK_cFosfgOXqQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apple.news/AYKyCTZ40SNK_cFosfgOXqQ</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭“Yes, we put taxes up, but we hated doing it!” —Penny Mordaunt <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryIncompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryIncompetence</a>

JuneSim63A new report from the Institute for Government (IfG) says it is not plausible for the victorious party on 4 July to stick to current spending plans at a time when the performance of hospitals is arguably the worst in the history of the NHS, prisons are at crisis point, and councils are shutting libraries and cutting back on waste collection and social care.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeneralElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GeneralElection</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FiscalRules" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FiscalRules</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpendingCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SpendingCuts</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/07/incoming-ministers-will-face-uk-public-services-on-brink-of-collapse?CMP=GTUK_email" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/07/incoming-ministers-will-face-uk-public-services-on-brink-of-collapse?CMP=GTUK_email</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭“In his closing statement the PM made a series of other false claims about his own record, saying that voters should ‘choose lower immigration and lower taxes,’ despite the fact that he has raised both taxes and immigration by record amounts.” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryLies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/05/leaders-debate-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-vote-leave-style-tax-lie/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/05/leaders-debate-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-vote-leave-style-tax-lie/</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭Tory MP “suspended with immediate effect” (she says she quit) now endorsing rival <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RefUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RefUK</a> candidate. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneralElection2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralElection2024</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kkzv12wndo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kkzv12wndo</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭It seems clear that the Tories’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalService</a> proposal is a dead cat ‘culture war’ issue, and blatant pitch to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RefUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RefUK</a> voters, designed to distract from their appalling record on the economy, health and public services. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭This is what we normally call ‘community service’ and it’s a sentence conferred upon young offenders. The Tories literally want to criminalise youth. 😳 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalService</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneralElection2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralElection2024</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo.amp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo.amp</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭This is an old Cameron-era idea recycled for the “young people have never had it so good” demographic. The truth, of course, is exactly the reverse. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalService</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭“To see how far we have sunk, look into our rivers and coastal waters. Or rather don’t. Because they have turned brown with raw sewage. An island nation where we fear to venture into the sea, because the Tories have turned it all to shit.” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneralElection2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralElection2024</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/punishment-election-tories-voters-lies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/punishment-election-tories-voters-lies</a>

AutisticMumTo3Social acceptance of food banks is a mark of Tory failure | Food banks | The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/21/social-acceptance-of-food-banks-is-a-mark-of-tory-failure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/21/social-acceptance-of-food-banks-is-a-mark-of-tory-failure</a><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/FoodBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FoodBanks</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tories</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/ToryFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryFailure</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭Meanwhile, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brexit</a> cheerleader Steve Baker MP refuses to cancel his holiday to fight the general election, but still hopes to retain his seat. 🤨 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneralElection2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralElection2024</a> <a href="https://apple.news/AU0WUufGlTfiBzJ8zxJWQlw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apple.news/AU0WUufGlTfiBzJ8zxJWQlw</a>

Dr Keith Wilson 💭Voting hasn’t even started, and already they’re dropping like flies! 🤷‍♂️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryBritain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneralElection2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralElection2024</a> <a href="https://apple.news/AfYFry99SS-uxmULBZOCd6Q" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apple.news/AfYFry99SS-uxmULBZOCd6Q</a>

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