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Philip C James

Then I recalled.

I'd listened to #BBC Radio Four's reading of George Orwell's 1984 on Saturday and the same technique was masterfully exposed by Orwell:

As a wage-slave deep in the bowels of Minitrue responsible for altering records of the past, Winston Smith recalled that the chocolate ration had just been cut to 20 grams but couldn't understand why the Proles swallowed the Party's propaganda that the chocolate ration had just been raised to 20 grams.

#ToriesOut #NastizOut #VoteToriesOut +

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Philip C James

2022: Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, outside No.10 Downing Street, promised:

"Integrity, professionalism, accountability."

Nought out of three ain't bad...

Help make it 'one out of three' by voting #ToriesOut on July 4th.

#GE2024 #NastizOut
#LBC #Wato #C4News #Newsnight
mas.to/@PhilipCJames/112574827

mas.toPhilip C James (@PhilipCJames@mas.to)Meanwhile in the British general election, another unforced error from our Second-Past-The-Post-Prime Minister. Not only has Rishi Sunak swallowed the entire Trump playbook (tbf, it's quite a thin colouring-in volume) by lying to the public about the £2000 tax claim and then doubling-down on it, he's now apeing Trump by disrespecting those who died on D-Day. Trump infamously refused to visit a Normandy cemetery in 2018 calling the dead "losers" and "suckers." #GE2024 + https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnz0w41kvo
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Philip C James

In business the old joke has it that you engage external consultants to tell you what you always planned to do because their "independence" (moot, as you are paying them) lends your choice a degree of credibility.

That is summat our wonderful government would never sink so low as to conceive of doing by appointing "independent" expertise to advise them how to restrict our rights, of course. Never.

#VoteToriesOut #NastizOut
#GeneralElectionNow!
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Who are the real extremists? The people challenging injustices or those trying to shut down our rights?By George Monbiot
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Philip C James

Good Morning, all

Welsh Tory David T.C.* Davies is 100% convinced the Nastiz can win the next General Election. I can sleep with Brigitte Bardot; the probability I will is vanishingly low.

Typical Tory, he rants against the Welsh Labour government for building no new roads in Wales and for trying to enforce a 20mph speed limit replacing the urban default of 30mph.

#GeneralElectionNow!
#NastizOut #ToriesOut
* No, not ' Top Cat' - T.C. stands for 'Talks Crap.'

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Philip C James

#R4Today is talking about the proposed free vote in the Commons today on a rolling minimum age for smoking which would mean those aged 15 or younger will never be legally entitled to buy cigarettes.

Apparently "former Prime Ministers" are agin it.

Well, Miss Trusst called it "un-Conservative" and Boris Sasha Johnson said something garrulous, erudite and nonsensical to the same effect.

'Nuff said. Can there be any stronger argument for voting in favour?

#NastizOut #LBC
#GeneralElectionNow!

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Philip C James

If anyone should be criminalised for causing a public pong it should not be the homeless - it should be the bosses of the privatised water companies who are filling the Untied Kingdom's rivers, lakes and coastal waters with our shit...

#ToriesOut #NastizOut
#GeneralElectionNow!
#LBC #C4News #Newsnight
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-687

BBC NewsHomeless people should not be arrested just if they smell - ministerLegislation could criminalise rough sleepers if they cause a nuisance, including "excessive" smells.
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Philip C James

The cash cow that 'Investors' have used as a beast of burden, loaded with the debt they've used to pay themselves ample dividends is struggling to keep its head above water and what do the water industry propose as the solution - more of the same; higher charges to consumers and higher dividends...

It's less of a water industry and more of a shit industry.

#ThamesWater #StopThePoo
#R4Today #LBC #BBCbreakfast
#ToriesOut #NastizOut
#generalelectionnow
theguardian.com/business/2024/

The Guardian · Come clean on secret taxpayer rescue plans for Thames Water, MP demandsBy Sandra Laville
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Philip C James

Good Morning, all

As today our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister Rishi Sunak acts out the next scene in his performative tragi-comic melodrama entitled 'Stop The Boats', I am still seething at last night's #C4News report.

Our Home Office is currently granting asylum to Rwandan nationals fleeing President Kagame's repressive regime while Sunak is legislating to assert, ipse dixit, Rwanda is a 'safe country' to which we should transport our own asylum seekers.

#NastizOut #GeneralElectionNow!

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Philip C James

Is it morally wrong to offer £3000 to failed asylum seekers to be transported to Rwanda instead of being a continuing burden on the public purse? asks this failed government and #LBC's Tom Swarbrick.

Yet another false dichotomy from Rishi Sunak's Nastiz: if refugees cannot be returned home because their safety would be at risk, why not allow them to work here, filling long-standing vacancies and paying taxes.

#BBCbreakfast #R4Today
#ToriesOut #NastizOut
#GeneralElectionNow! +

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Philip C James

Why is this man Hester being shunned for his racist 'jokes'?

Appalling as they are, shouldn't he be shunned - and his £10 million 'donation' returned by the Nastiz - because of the apparent conflict of interest that his company obtains significant amounts of work in our public health care system....

#Corruption #Bribery #Sleaze
#ToriesOut! #NastizOut #SaveOurNHS
#GeneralElectionNow!
#LBC #C4News #Newsnight
theguardian.com/politics/2024/

The Guardian · ‘No room for the Indians?’: Tory donor Frank Hester suggested staff climb on train roofBy Henry Dyer
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