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So the grenfell inquiry, whose decision was it to split into two phases with the first phase covering the night of the fire? Seems pretty transparently a way for the government to shift blame in the media on to the fire brigade. https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1189932863195697153?s=19
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Maugrim posted:There was a good graphic doing the rounds showing the difference between a million and a billion in piles of cash notes, but I can't remember where I saw it - if anyone else does it could be a good addition to the list of resources that someone is definitely compiling by now, right? (I'd volunteer but don't get much time at the PC atm) I was bored at work and started to put some resources for the election here: https://board.net/p/2019_UK_election Anyone can edit with that link so feel free to add anything! 2019 UK Election myths: I don't agree with all conservative party policies, but Boris is a legend! Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a bad man, e.g: * Tried to have a reporter beat up \url{https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/black-eyes-boris-johnson-plot-attack-reporter-darius-guppy} * Serial liar, being fired from both the Times and the shadow cabinet because of it. \url{https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-lies-conservative-leader-candidate-list-times-banana-brexit-bus-a8929076.html} * Racist - calling African people " piccaninnies " \url{https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-record-sexist-homophobic-and-racist-comments-bumboys-piccaninnies-2019-6?r=US%5C&IR=T} * homophobic: " "If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog."" * Islamophobic: " Islam is the problem." * Corruption allegations: \url{https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-mp-demands-boris-johnson-answer-corruption-allegations} * Series of failed vanity projects as mayor cost more than £940m of public money \url{https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/jul/16/boris-johnsons-biggest-design-letdowns-as-london-mayor-video} The best for britain getVoting website told me voting lib dem in my constituencyis the only way to stop brexit That was set up by lib dem supporters and is not accurate: https://twitter.com/MissEllieMae/status/1189936820995403776 This shows that it does not recommend voting Labour in any seats not already held by Labour: https://i.imgur.com/iCO4L1M.png People should be rewarded for working hard, whats wrong with people being billionaires? You don't get a billion pounds from your own labour, but from taking the profits of other people's labour. A billion pounds is not just a bit more than a million pounds, it is a ridiculously large amount that no one person should be able to have control over. The sun has a volume a million times that of the earth. In comparison, imagine a star with a volume a billion times that of the earth, such a star would cover half the sky and burn the surface of the earth to a crisp, before collapsing into a black hole. Billionaires should be placed in this star. "Billionaries aren't just a policy failure, they are the embodiment of immorality. You can't be a billionaire and a good person, despite what their astroturfing PR teams on reddit may try to tell you for some of the 'good ones'. It's literally impossible to accumulate that much wealth without the mass exploitation of others and the profits their labor generated. Not to mention the exploitation of the earth until it's uninhabitable for human life. George Washington was the richest man in the country when the US was founded, and he "only" had today's equivalent of 500 million. That wouldn't even get him in the room with some of these ghouls today. If people only understood just how obscenely rich these monsters were, they wouldn't be able to show their face in society while millions suffer. I like to use the analogy of a staircase, with each step on the staircase representing $100,000 of net worth. That's several years of working wages saved up for tens of millions of Americans: HALF of people in the united states are on the base or the very 1st step. Almost 200 million people who can't even get one step up in this system. Those households at the 80th percentile, richer than 4/5 Americans, are on the 5th step. That's about five seconds of walking to get up there. Those with more money than 90% of fellow Americans, millionaires who we consider our upper-middle class professional class and live more than comfortably, are on the 11th step. A few more seconds of walking up from that previous middle-class step. Most Americans won't even come close to accumulating this much over an entire lifetime of working. A billionaire is ten thousand steps up the staircase. That's enough to walk up five Empire State buildings. That's almost three hours of walking non-stop. You think they care about the petty squabbles of anyone on those first few steps or so? From these heights they couldn't tell the difference even if they wanted to. And yet those who've maybe ascended or were born on the first few dozen steps think they identify with this group as a class. And Jeff Bezos? He's so high up it only makes sense to describe his staircase in distance. His stairs take him up 133 miles. That's more than halfway to the space station. That's more than 24 consecutive Mt. Everest's stacked on top of each other. It would take walking, non-stop, no sleep, over two weeks to ascend that high, each single step worth more than five poverty-level families in America combined."
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Thought this tweet thread was a good way of arguing for universal benefits like Labour's free broadband policy: https://twitter.com/JWMason1/status/1196474118935384064
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