@therightarticle

Quoting Dan Hind in @openDemocracy

“But a 2024 @UKLabour govt committed to the #Blair-#Thatcher status quo, which refuses to meet the #UK’s accumulating crises with a programme equal to it, will only aid a nativist and authoritarian #Right that offers its own, hallucinatory solutions.

Our likely trajectory, absent fundamental reform, is one that discredits the centre-left in government and empowers the extreme right in opposition.

In these circumstances, our best option at the next general election must be a mobilisation that puts as many ecosocialists and sincere left Keynesians into Parliament as possible. Our priority should be to maximise the number of MPs willing to argue for replacing Thatcherism with a new green and democratic settlement.

Once we grasp that, the question then becomes technical: how?”

[..]

“If we can create the means for voters to communicate among ourselves in pursuit of our shared interests, if we then act with some fraction of the right’s energy and daring, with some fraction of their budget, we can begin to create a new economic and political settlement before the old impoverishes and demoralises even more of us. If we wait meekly for a #Starmer landslide, we will get nothing, and deserve less”

#LabourLies #StopStarmer #RedTory #EcoSocialism #Election2024

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-labour-general-election-2024-need-radical-change-green-left/

The past forty years have seen the rise and rise of a right wing politics that started out extreme (think of #Reagan and #Thatcher's support for #Pinochet's death-squads) and only got worse. Liberals and leftists forged an uneasy alliance, with liberals in the lead (literally, in Canada, where today, #JustinTrudeau's #LiberalParty governs in partnership with the nominally left #NDP).

6/

Pinochet stole thousands of newborn babies and gave them to his supporters.

A good friend of #Thatcher as we all remember her protecting him in the UK from prosecution for atrocities.

Pinochet and Thatcher were political siblings and children of the 'Chicago Boys' who thought their ideas could only be applied under totalitarianism which Pinochet effected.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/28/hi-mom-stolen-at-birth-man-reunited-with-chilean-mother-after-42-years

I can't shake the feeling that I'm being watched ... and judged.

#CatsOfMastodon #Thatcher
@KimberleyBSB

@yogthos OFC we all knew the situation won't last beyond 2047, thus it was unsustainable.

OFC #Thatcher didn't ask the people of #Hongkong.

Otherwise they may have requested #Independence instead...

Thatcher is a cat with trust issues. Finn’s a dog.


#DogsOfMastodon #Chihuahua #Finn 

#CatsOfMastodon #Thatcher

@KimberleyBSB

Hangin' out with the white boys

#DogsOfMastodon #Chihuahua #Finn
#CatsOfMastodon #Thatcher
@KimberleyBSB

What are you doing there?

#CatsOfMastodon #Thatcher
@KimberleyBSB

Don't tell Kama that I'm here.

#CatsOfMastodon #Thatcher
@KimberleyBSB

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/07/mark-zuckerberg-not-holding-breath-for-cage-fight-with-elon-musk

"Frit!!!"

(I can't believe I'm quoting #Thatcher but these are strange, strange times )

« Auteur de #Margaret ThatcherLInoxydable, le réalisateur #GuillaumePodrovnik revient sur son rapport intime à cette figure politique, en présence de l’humoriste #GuillaumeMeurice, narrateur du #documentaire. »

https://youtu.be/4NgXQQcTuEQ

#MargaretThatcher #Thatcher #thatchérisme #néolibéralisme #inégalités #RoyaumeUni #UKPol #SériesTélé

Ok, back to sleep then.

#CatsOfMastodon #Thatcher
@KimberleyBSB

What? You can see me?

#CatsOfMastodon #Thatcher
@KimberleyBSB

I'm still watching you

#CatsOfMastodon @KimberleyBSB #Thatcher

@horrowfide @youseeatortoise Her soul still lives in the empty cells of Excel spreadsheets.

#Thatcher

'As the #US, the #EU and even #China announced huge strides forward in renewable energy development, the #UK has fallen behind. It’s unworthy of the #Conservative Party, whose record on climate has been more glittering than some would like to admit: it was Margaret #Thatcher who made the 1992 Rio Conference matter; the Tories brought in the Climate Change Act...'

https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/sustainability/energy/2023/08/north-sea-oil-gas-licences-uk-government-net-zero

#UK #Conservatives #NetZero #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #oil #gas #FossilFuels #environment

@AnthonyFStevens I've now read your eighteen part manifesto, and while there are interesting ideas in it, it's still fundamentally neoliberal in outlook, looking to loans on international money markets (i.e. another way of ensuring the #plutocrats keep profiting).

The UK isn't "broke". Wages are not paid by the nation, but by corporations, which are raking in record profits. Anyone who believes in taxation as a social good who is not contemplating some form of #WealthTax probably hasn't really grasped the scale and nature of #inequality under capitalism (accelerating under its current neoliberal manifestation).

"Better links between universities and industry" entails further corporatisation of education and research (a neoliberal priority).

Why is the rail infrastructure so archaic and neglected? Privatisation, which has been a disaster, but was also a core neoliberal plank from #Thatcher onwards.

Public-private partnerships: not a solution, but another metastatis of neoliberal state capture, privatising much of the profits while effectively socialising losses and risks. Businesses often prefer this on risky infrastructure builds, so they can effectively walk away from the provision of critical needs once they've extracted maximum value (cf #ThamesWater).

Can you find the cat in this picture?

#CatsOfMastodon #Thatcher
@KimberleyBSB

@carolineslocock – director of think tank @CivilExchange – explores how politicians’ respect for our democratic institutions has shifted since she was the first female private secretary at No. 10 under Margaret #Thatcher

@BylineTimes @SydesJokes #GTTO

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/02/we-must-defend-our-democratic-space-before-its-too-late/

The three amigos ... er, acquaintances?

#CatsOfMastodon #Kamala #Thatcher
#DogsOfMastodon #Chihuahua #Finn
@KimberleyBSB