pauldstevens.bsky.social
Anti-growth coalition; tofu-eating wokerati; over-privileged middle-class Trot; left-wing economic establishment. Ex-journalist. Ex-radio presenter. Ex-Labour. Academic. Bristolian. New Forest, UK. #MMT
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Mind you, when you consider who their draft-dodging so-called commander in chief is, I’m not surprised they look miserable. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un must be laughing their asses off.
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Imagine my surprise.
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They look as bored and unhappy to be there as Trump looked 🥱
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The list of people who’ve declined honours is much more impressive.
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The list of people who’ve declined honours is much more impressive.
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Loaded. “… but only on paper” 😏
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Regardless of the iniquities of our so-called progressive tax system, if a couple isn’t having a good time on a household income of £215,000 a year, their expectations are a tad high. It’s around five times what I earn, and I’m okay thanks.
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Imagine my surprise that at long last people are realising millionaire ex-public schoolboys don’t have ordinary people’s interests at heart.
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A “liberal Tory” is still a Tory, even in the Lib Dems. Still, the weaker the actual Tories get, the better: they serve no purpose and deserve to wither on the vine.
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“Liberate the city from the socialists”? 🤣🤣🤣
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“Cruel, shameful, completely irresponsible,” … and utterly pointless.
There is no upside, economically or politically, to this nonsense.
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At last, some spending. Not enough, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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A rogue’s gallery of Tories.
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The BBC (esp News and Current Affairs) is a bad faith actor in the UK’s information environment. While folk simply pretend things are slightly off balance rather than fundamentally broken, things will get worse… until hands are wrung at the “unforeseeable” impact having been realised
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Unbelievable.
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Journalism IS increasingly out of touch with public opinion. They have little in common with the public.
They’re “overwhelmingly White (90%); privately
and university educated (91%); from a privileged background (71%) … [and] left-leaning.”
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Nah, there’s no money in it. Neoliberal Britain will never go for that.
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And yet such intransigence from Starmer over renationalising water.
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Starmer’s Labour certainly allowed Farage to park his tanks on their lawn.
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Those tanks aren’t arriving for a “parade”.
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Companies won’t invest in a country where public services are dysfunctional because they’re being deliberately and needlessly underfunded, or are failing as private monopolies having been sold off for ideological reasons. Get spending: there’s nothing stopping you.
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There is no economic basis for this whatsoever: this is political and ideological.
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The view from the Overton Window has shifted massively in the US if Musk is seen as a centrist.
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Out of more than 48 million registered voters. A few people making a disproportionate amount of noise, and being given a disproportionate amount of coverage by the MSM.