🚨NHS PRIVATISATION🚨
🚨THE NHS IS BEING PRIVATISED!🚨
🚨NOW!!!🚨
🚨AT THIS MOMENT!!!🚨
🚨THIS VERY SECOND!!!🚨
(Just as it always has been.)
(And always will be.)
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Head of Political Economy . Views my own. Author of the books 'Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies' and 'Universal Healthcare Without The NHS'.
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Fitting that the plates are empty.
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when my mom asks me to set up the holiday table and avoid talking about politics
THIS is what 17.4 million decent, hard-working patriots voted for.
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i'd leave that fridge empty, to make it more authentic t.co/zUVbqJToBo
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I like these kids. They are the real nonconformists, and I mean that 100% unironically. They have the courage to do something all their peers will consider terribly uncool and low-status.
What a refreshing contrast to the average Twitter user.
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Whatever your anger, there is no excuse for defacing memorials to those who defended our freedom.
Well done to these youngsters for cleaning these vital symbols 
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twitter.com/playsatlife/stToday, I went past an Italian restaurant, opened the door, and shouted: "Lol, Italian food isn't even ITALIAN! The ancient Assyrians already put stuff on flat dough, and an early form of pasta already existed in ancient Babylonia! LOL, OWNED, you bigots!"
Feeling quite proud now.
And this, boys and girls, is why commies always prefer The People, as a romanticised abstraction, to actual people.
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Replying to @HollyJoMahon
Commuters now physically dragging protestors from the roof of the train. @itvlondon
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And here's Day 100:
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Day 1 of a Labour government: twitter.com/DailyWaveBurne
The 3 stages of every socialist experiment:
1.) "See? Socialism works!"
2.) "Socialism WOULD work, if it weren't for [insert excuse du jour]."
3.) "Lol! That wasn't 'socialism'! You just don't UNDERSTAND socialism! Read a book!"
Read a book indeed. Mine:
BREAKING: People support taxes they think they don't have to pay, and oppose taxes they think they do have to pay.
Buy my new book "1001 Statues You Must Visit Before The Left Throws Them All Into The Water".
You'll never see a British doctor criticise the NHS on Twitter, because they know that they'd get pilloried.
But you will see them do this.
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Final NHS shift done 
UK license to practise surrendered
Bags packed
Australia here we come
UK license to practise surrendered
Bags packed
Australia here we come 
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Makes you wonder: Are Dems really more "pro-science" in general, or is it just that when they hear "science", they think "vaccines and climate change, i.e. stuff that Republicans don't like"?
What if "science" meant "GM crops, nuclear and fracking are safe"?
30 million die in Mao's largely successful Great Leap Forward.
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27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London bbc.in/37a7qsL
You are proposing socialism because you don't like the sight of people joining a long queue?
I don't think you've thought this one through.
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Sorry, I find it quite sad that someone's life is so meaningless and empty that you wanna spend 9 hours to be part of "something". We need socialism to combat alienation so people have can meaning in their lives that don't rely on the death of monarchs. twitter.com/Marie33Rowan/s…
I guarantee you that every single member of this mob, and every single member of the much larger Twitter mob around them, is convinced that THEY are the brave nonconformists in this.
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I love how Peter Hitchens looks like he couldn't possibly care less about the people in the background as he enjoys his evening stroll.
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Don't think I've ever seen the public sector, at any level of government, manage to get anything done this quickly in my life.
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UPDATE: The statue of slave trader Robert Milligan has now been removed from West India Quay.
It’s a sad truth that much of our wealth was derived from the slave trade - but this does not have to be celebrated in our public spaces.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Most inspiring moment in socialist history?
Show this poll
I've never written for Quillette.
But I'll do it now.
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YES. If you’re an academic and you publish in Quillette, we see you. 
We fucking see you. And we are looking right at you. t.co/XChPw5Bfkh
We fucking see you. And we are looking right at you. t.co/XChPw5BfkhSocialism has failed in:
-the USSR
-China
-North Korea
-Vietnam
-Angola
-Albania
-Mozambique
-Tanzania
-Yugoslavia
-Romania
-Cambodia
-Poland
-Cuba
-Hungary
-Somalia
-Czechoslovakia
-Nicaragua
-Venezuela
-...
The Left: "They're afraid of Corbyn because his Socialism would work!" t.co/4BHK7Nb9Rg
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"A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020."
The left, 2005: "Viva Venezuela!"
The left, 2007: "Viva Venezuela!"
The left, 2009: "Viva Venezuela!"
The left, 2011: "Viva Venezuela!"
The left, 2013: "Viva Venezuela!"
The left, 2018: "Lol, can you stop banging on about Venezuela? Such a silly straw man."
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These arguments would be SO much more convincing if free marketeers didn’t always just fall back on “BUT YOU LIKE VENEZUELA DON’T YOU!” twitter.com/kateandrs/stat
The people who are keenest on lowering the voting age to 16 are usually those with the politics of a 16-year-old.
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Replying to @AyoCaesar
16 year olds can join the army, have sex, get married, work, pay National Insurance, and pay tax.
So why not vote?
Owen Jones running around the Tory Party Conference, asking youngsters what they think of Enoch Powell, is... a strange move.
He's clearly trying to lay a trap for them. He's trying to get them to say something verboten on camera, so that he can create a Twitter Outragefest.
Toby Young is trending.
Let me guess: He said something mildly un-PC, and now everyone is pretending to be outraged, in order to improve their social status.
Hey Lefties: It's OK to take the non-bonkers position on this, just this once. You now have permission from your Kween.
When he's right - he's right.
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“Identity politics is just a way for privileged people to pretend to be oppressed. That’s why Meghan Markle can sit in a mansion in California and tell the billionaire Oprah Winfrey how much of a victim she is. It’s a grotesque spectacle.”
Brendan O’Neill on @talkRADIO:
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Couldn't the pubs just say they're hosting demonstrations on various fashionable causes, where they also, incidentally, sell some beer on the side?
The private school sector gave us Grace Blakeley, Seumas Milne, George Monbiot and Laurie Penny.
So maybe the idea has some merit.
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Abolish private schools.
The Left, 2005: 🇻🇪✊
The Left, 2006: 🇻🇪✊
The Left, 2007: 🇻🇪✊
The Left, 2008: 🇻🇪✊
The Left, 2009: 🇻🇪✊
The Left, 2010: 🇻🇪✊
The Left, 2011: 🇻🇪✊
The Left, 2012: 🇻🇪✊
The Left, 2013: 🇻🇪✊
FF to 2019:
Newsnight: "Wanna talk about Venezuela?"
The Left: "NO! Stop stereotyping us!"
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First call from #Newsnight in a while 'do you want to talk about Venezuela?'
There is a conscious effort within the media to limit left voices to stereotypically leftist areas while areas like the 'economy' and 'climate' are left to vacuous centrists with no ideas.
No thanks.
The French people are united in their desire to retire at age 39, live to the age of 102, pay no more than €3 in pension contributions, and receive a pension of 104% of their final salary.
It's beautiful and inspiring. twitter.com/ParisianGirlAm
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The Left: "Thatcher was a monster for closing the coalmines."
Also the Left:
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It's unbelievable that in 2019 the UK could approve a new open cast coal mine.
If this Government is to maintain any credibility on climate change, this project must be shut down.
theguardian.com/environment/20
Purkiss is a product of Twitter, and she's clearly talking to a Twitter audience here.
She has that unwarranted extreme self-confidence that Lefties derive from knowing that their opinions are fashionable, and that they have the whole of Twitter on their side. twitter.com/supertanskiii/
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empty tables. no food in sight.
fitting.
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-"Hello? Police? I think there's a burglar in my house..."
-"Sorry, we're a little busy right now."
-"...and the burglar just muttered something that sounded a bit like "All lives matter.""
-"We're on our way."
"Austrian painter destroys most of the world in largely peaceful attempt at border readjustment."
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27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London bbc.in/37a7qsL
A million hysterical FBPEers in my notifications, who believe that a small decrease in trade with the EU would kill us, but that a small increase in trade with Australia would also kill us.
If a squirrel can learn how trade and exchange works - why can't Lefties?
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'This little guy always brings some dried seed to trade for some nuts'
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I'm agnostic on the issue of whether extraterrestrial life exists, but if we come across any in the next couple of years, Liz Truss will probably sign a trade deal with them.
Mayonomics.
Britain will be the first country in the world that makes itself rich by depriving itself of cheap and reliable energy.
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Net Zero isn’t a cost to be minimised – it’s the growth opportunity of the century, worth £1 trillion to British business by the end of the decade.
A pleasure to be in Manchester speaking to @Conservatives members at #CPC23.
There have been no cuts to NHS funding.
It's just fashionable to say there have. twitter.com/vornietom/stat
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Rubbish.
What do you think they do with the money they don't spend on commuting and inner-city Pret meals? Do they bury it in their gardens?
No. They spend it on something else. And in that way, they "contribute to the economy" again.
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Staff who work from home after pandemic 'should pay more tax'
Really interesting idea
WFH contributes less to economy-not commuting...& if they are knowledge workers who choose to work from home should contribute to those who have no choice (manual etc) theguardian.com/business/2020/
Having lots of different burgers to choose from is Good Ackshually.
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As they waited in the queue to collect their food rations, the crowd suddenly started chanting "Oh, Jeremy Corbyn".
-The London Diary, 2023
Wow - look how quickly the police suddenly kick into action, after standing around doing nothing:
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| NEW: A builder loses it with Just Stop Oil protestors and begins throwing them out of the road before he is jumped on and ARRESTED by the police
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Strange how climate change is only affecting the left-hand side of that barrier, while on the right-hand side, people can still cycle and walk.
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Climate change is not a problem in far off parts of the world.
It’s on our doorstep.
It’s our problem too.
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I thought you didn't like flag-waving.
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Today, outside Downing Street, we showed that the Palestinian people will never be alone in their struggle for justice.
We stand in solidarity, today and always.
#SaveSheikhJarrah #FreePalestine
My secret police aren't the bullies. We just defend the working class
By J.V. Stalin
Unpopular opinion: I'm in favour of compulsory masks.
It's an externality situation. The main beneficiary of you wearing a mask isn't you, it's the other guy. And the main beneficiary of the other guy wearing a mask isn't the other guy, it's you.
➡️Incentive to free-ride
The privatisation of the bakeries will maybe not mean that poor people can't afford bread, but it will mean, and already does mean, that someone makes a profit out of your child having a rumbling stomach, or that your hunger gives someone else a dividend.
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The privatisation of the NHS will maybe not mean that people have to pay at the point of delivery but it will mean and already does mean that someone makes a profit out of your child having cancer, or that your misery gives someone else a dividend.
🚨NHS PRIVATISATION!🚨
The NHS is being privatised THIS VERY SECOND! The only way you can stop this is by buying my beer-themed masks.
They're a tenner each, or £49.85 if you buy five at once.
The bad news: Everything causes cancer. The good news: Everything also prevents cancer.
(via )
Taiwan achieved that too, and without killing millions in the process. But enjoy the cheap applause from Tankie Twitter.
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Chinese communist revolution 1949 led to greatest emancipation of women in world history, ending foot binding, concubines & forced marriage & beginning the mass education of girls & opening up all-male occupations to women - decades ahead of the West. @CCriadoPerez @lynne_segal
I know it's considered über-über-cringe to mention the V-word, but this is literally the full Venezuela programme.
Feeling very socialist right now, reading Owen Jones in front of an empty plate.
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Feeling very neoliberal right now reading Adam Smith in a McDonalds
The Pope is starting to get on my nerves. He sounds more and more like Zarah Sultana.
Should have become a Teen Vogue columnist instead.
Historically, governments used to come up with draconian rules, and people used to protest against them.
We've reached a stage where people protest because they think the government's rules and regulations are not draconian *enough*. People are literally begging for less freedom.
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POWERFUL turnout with @jamieoliver outside 10 Downing Street
Together we’re calling for the Prime Minister to put our children’s health above politics 
#EtonMess #ChildHealthUTurn
Together we’re calling for the Prime Minister to put our children’s health above politics
#EtonMess #ChildHealthUTurn
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I am an economist who believes that, given that socialism has failed in more than two dozen countries, it is not especially likely that Corbyn, of all people, is the man who is going to make it work. That's why #IDontSupportJeremyCorbyn
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I am a mental health nurse who believes in supporting the many not the few. Thats why #ISupportJeremyCorbyn
But remember: "Cancel Culture" is not real. It's just far-right propaganda.
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JUST IN: England's Ollie Robinson suspended from international cricket by the ECB, pending a disciplinary investigation into racist and sexist tweets posted in 2012 and 2013.
This is absolute drivel.
Brand was at the height of his political influence in 2013-15, when Britain's entire cultural establishment, and all the trendy hipsters, were dancing around him.
He has since become a low-status conspiracy crank.
Politically, he has long ceased to matter
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The 21 seconds that sums up why the establishment and big corporations hate Russell Brand
dorseteye.com/why-the-establ
Communists like Loach always pompously take the moral high ground, because everyone else plays along, and lets them get away with it.
Socialism has killed millions of people, and inflicted untold misery on many millions more. He has no moral right to lecture anyone on anything.
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Being on the Left is considered cool, and high-status.
In a more rational word, it would be considered childish, and cringeworthy.
Watch this video, and tell me with a straight face that this "activist" isn't representative of the Left. She IS the Left. twitter.com/_sagnikbasu/st
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2 or 3 years from now, there'll only be the phone book left.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/1
We should do this for other government institutions as well. Why is there no HM Revenue and Customs jumper? Or how about HM Land Registry, the Forestry Commission, and the Water Services Regulation Authority?
You're closer to the truth than you realise.
Nobody truly thinks Nish Kumar is funny. You can say that you do, but I just will not believe you.
People pretend to find him funny, because it's a way to signal that they hold right-on, socially approved high-status views. t.co/1aclvdctZZ
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Communism:
What everyone under 40 thinks it will be like
vs
What it will actually be like
After his party has been in government for 12 years, a conservative politician finds out that the arts & culture sector is dominated by woke commies, and that they have been throwing tax money at their enemies the whole time.
And you won't believe what happens next. (Nothing.)
-"Hello. I have a debt problem. Any advice?"
-"But of course! You need to see this through the lens of historical materialism, and consider the structuralistic neo-structural power structures which structure the power relations of Capitalist Realism."
Stay in the Customs Union, leave the Single Market. That's like throwing away the burger, and eating the paper it was wrapped in.
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Emily Thornberry reveals Labour will seek to replicate current customs union - and give up the ability to strike independent trade deals after Brexit. Big move.
Copenhagen's "5-Finger Plan": not perfect, but infinitely better than Britain's greenbelts.
The idea was to let the city grow outwards, but with green wedges between new developments, so that people have a place to live, but also easy access to green space.
Britain is basically a health service and a TV channel with a country attached.
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If I had only 6 letters to encapsulate what makes Britain Britain, they would be NHS-BBC. The Tory government is destroying everything that makes us us.
"Ms Muller also campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn, took aim at the “racist and elitist” Conservative Party and said “I hate this country”"
-OK, but you could say this about virtually everyone under the age of 45. These are standard Millennial/Zoomer opinions.
This could become a genre: the "I was actually never REALLY that much of a Corbynista. (Please ignore my two dozen Jezza-cheerleading articles, and the fact that I can't name single issue on which I'd differ from Jezza)" article.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
Unpopular opinion: Tony Blair wasn't that bad, and the way the whole nation gets a collective hissy fit every time he says "Good morning" is getting a bit childish.
"Capitalism is heteronormative cis-patriarchy and white supremacy. Pass it on."
🔁27 trillion ❤️32 trillion
"Actually, that's not true. Market relations tend to reduce prejudices between groups. Here's a link to a review of the empirical literature."
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Wild how high-status hooliganism has become something we just accept.
This could be sorted out in 10 minutes, if the political will was there.
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Climate activists glued their hands to Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ at the Uffizi in Florence today. No damage was caused to the Renaissance masterpiece thanks to its protective glass.
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"I can't BELIEVE that a guy who used to peddle MY kind of conspiratorial juvenile drivel is now peddling a different kind of conspiratorial juvenile drivel! I feel BETRAYED!!"
The replies.
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A landlord murdered at the start of the People’s Republic of China. Nothing to celebrate in 70 years of communism.
That cameraman has done more to put the eco-commies in their place than the entire British police force.
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Crazy climate change protesters tried to crash a Swedish dance show and the camera guy swung the crane into them!
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It has certainly liberated a lot of souls from their earthly prisons.
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I'd rather say: The Right is good at winning elections, and then kowtowing to the Left anyway, and the Left is so good at winning every culture war that they no longer really have a need to win elections.
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The Left is good at tearing down statues, the Right is good at winning elections
"She is not in line with what we believe in!"
-And we can't have that, can we? The entitlement mentality of the communist mob is quite something.
Jack Monroe: *Writes several books on how to cook healthy food on a tight budget*
Someone who isn't Jack Monroe: "It's possible to eat healthy food on a tight budget."
Jack Monroe and everyone else on Twitter: "HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE POOR?!? FASCIST SCUM!!"
I don't buy the "well-intentioned" bit. People supported them because it was the fashionable thing to do, and the easiest way to boost one's social status.
So it's not that they innocently fell for a scam. They got something out of it as well.