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RT @LiamStarsong
If you really, really mean it when you say "Tories out", it means we tear out their capitalist ideology by the roots.

Today's two party system is a mechanism to protect power from change.

Changing the actors is easy enough, but we have to change the play.

RT @JolyonMaugham
I regret I must tell you we will now endure weeks of 'however did it come to this' from a commentariat that urged and cheered each step.

RT @Lesism
Any lingering flicker of doubt that the is well and truly gone must surely have come, this month, in the shadow of even darker times to come, when the people of the cried out for a hero, and Tory consensus replied 'How about Grant Shapps?'

RT @Cmacf76
We’ll be joining our friends @ScottishTrans @LGBTIScotland @LGBTYS @LGBTHealthy outside Parliament for a rally of support on the day of the Stage One vote of the GRA reform Bill. Come and join us. Details below. 👇🏻👇🏻
twitter.com/scottishtrans/stat

Looks like the pound will recover against the dollar, then. Same hedge fine rhymes with bankers.
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RT @davetroy
2/the US debt ceiling, early next year. Republicans are threatening not to raise it; causing the US to default on its debt, which will have catastrophic effects on the dollar and make it more expensive for the US to borrow. They threatened this... washingtonpost.com/opinions/20
twitter.com/davetroy/status/15

The article is more coherent than the click bait title, but doesn’t offer anything other than stating the bleeding obvious. What to do, then? No idea.

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Well, sweetheart, it didn’t fucking help, either.
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RT @TheAtlantic
“To believe that the country’s problems can be explained by a single act of stupidity, rather than by structural issues much harder to rectify,” writes @TomMcTague, “is, after all, comforting”: theatlantic.com/international/
twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status

RT @JamaalBowmanNY
As Egypt hosts the world at next month, some 60,000 Egyptian activists will be suffering in prison. We cannot be silent about this. Fighting the climate crisis can never be separated from struggles for human rights, justice, and democracy.
theintercept.com/2022/10/07/eg

RT @family_martyn
@orangesky_JC @LizWebsterLD @EdwardJDavey @Edwardbloke @peterjukes @Mandoline_Blue @JohnWest_JAWS @JessicaCheshi15 this

RT @zimpenfish
"Braverman says she quit after sending an official document from her personal email, a breach of ministerial rules"

Suddenly they're for following the ministerial rules? After the last few years of ripping them to shreds? What?

Later in the same article:

Today *unity* with the opportunists actually means subordinating the working class to their 'own' national bourgeoisie, and an alliance with the latter for the purpose of oppressing other nations and of fighting for dominant nation privileges; it means *splitting* the revolutionary proletariat of all countries.

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Nothing has changed, has it?

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RT @TomLondon6
Our news come to us WITH NO CONTEXT
How, for EXAMPLE, are our problems now linked to
1 Thatcher's neoliberal revolution
2 Banking Crash of 2008
3 Austerity after 2010
AS WELL AS the "mini-budget"?

News is reduced to breathless soundbites, not least about individual politicians

RT @BThroughParty
The Public Order Bill has passed its first hurdle.

This includes banning protests, electronic tagging and increased powers of stop and search.

Tories want to ram through their agenda of austerity and deregulation with no opposition.

We must resist ✊

RT @D_Raval
This is why I don't share petitions. They had their day back in the 17th century, they have no value in the 21st century (other than data capture for mailing lists etc). People create and share them because it's what they've always done. Time to think of alternatives. twitter.com/ShoaibMKhan/status

RT @Andr0Tat0r
@nscscience @GeorgeMonbiot Already did, now they're trying to secure permanent minority rule. The worst bit is that even if we get a Labour government in at the next election, they're extremely unlikely to repeal any of this.

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