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MMT for Progressives

@MMTLabour

3 years

The genius that is Stephanie Kelton 👇

Stephanie Kelton

@StephanieKelton

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Thank GOD the private sector is saving enough to supply the federal government with enough money to support the private sector in this moment of crisis. 🙃

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MMT for Progressives

@MMTLabour

2 years

Voting for Jeremy Corbyn would have given you four extra bank holidays, a 5% pay rise and publicly owned broadband, energy, rail, water and transport systems...and you didn't want that because...?

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@BeckettUnite Every penny of that $3bn is now either in the hands of his employees, contractors & their employees, local suppliers, caterers and other businesses or heading to the tax authorities. What's the actual issue here, Howard?

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Why am I now regularly seeing tweets by Kelvin McKenzie, Sophie Corcoran and Darren Grimes in my t/l when I follow none of them? Why is Twitter boosting right wing bigots? All since Musk took over.

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@JessieG05894984 @asIiceofhistory @mamma_mia111 No. They were so exploited.

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This MP promised to end lucrative second jobs for politicians, thus protecting them from any accusations of bribery and corruption whilst simultaneously protecting democracy for our nation.

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Remember when Starmer, Nandy, Streeting, Reeves, Lammy, Ashworth, Peston, Jones, Cohen, Hodge, Phillips, Watson, Mandelson and Akehurst all stood up and defended Jeremy Corbyn against untrue smears? Nope, me neither.

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@guyverhofstadt Fun fact: the EU is not a nation or a continent. It's a neoliberal trading bloc and economic project designed to impose political control over formerly independent nation states.

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@joshrogin @PostOpinions A law must be passed that in the event of military hostilities all politicians, journalists and columnists will be immediately drafted along with eligible members of their immediate family. That should restore some sanity.

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@MMTLabour

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Result in Uxbridge & South Ruislip was a Tory collapse, not a Labour surge. Labour did better in 2019 (when it was "virtually extinct") Labour votes 2023: 13,470 - Starmer 2019: 18,141 - Corbyn 2017: 18,682 - Corbyn 2015: 11,816 - Miliband

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@MMTLabour

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@SpriterTeam Similar to my idea of an inter-galactic sports stadium stationed on Beta Antares IV

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If the cretin, @RachelReevesMP thinks the govt's credit card is "maxed out" - can someone ask her what the credit limit is, what currency it's in and who issues the limit?

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@Spriter99880 Translation into Sane: "The US is ready to cut off its main supplier of manufactured goods before it has built up its own capacity to match the potential in lost output. The US is ready for hyperinflation and social disruption for no material gain."

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I now have a visceral hatred of the Labour Party, in addition to the Tory and LibDem Parties. The UK is finished.

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@MMTLabour

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@f_zlim @asIiceofhistory So tough they would die at 17 from emphysema.

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@CatalunyaKZ @asIiceofhistory I doubt people are judging the father, rather than the raw in tooth & nail capitalism that created this kind of human hellscape.

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@BTnewsroom The "Russia problem".... echoes of the "Jewish problem". If it thinks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi and acts like a Nazi, it's probably a Nazi. NATO has been subsumed into a Nazi philosophy, possibly down to all the Nazis the West absorbed after WWll.

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@Femi_Sorry You deliberately misrepresented what Eddie Dempsey said. We all heard his speech and witnessed your response. When presented with an opportunity to retract, you doubled down.

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The entire foundational framework of a society that accepts these people as better than others purely by accident of birth is simply laughable. It should be consigned to the same dustbin as witchcraft, voodoo and alchemy.

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@Red_Orthodox @richimedhurst Putin is not a madman. He's way smarter than our imbecile neoliberal leaders. We have underestimated the Russians and Chinese for years... this kind of sums up our analysis:

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@MMTLabour

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Hey @JewishChron @BoardofDeputies @margarethodge @JewishLabour What's your opinion of Canada's Parliament literally cheering a Waffen SS officer? You've been very quiet on this .

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I find it amusing that centrists seem to think they're not Tories.

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@MMTLabour

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Starmerites, you really need to make up your minds - do you want socialists to vote Labour or not? If you do then offer us some socialist policies. If not, then stop calling us Tory enablers and stop worrying about our rejection of your neoliberal narratives. Cheers #StarmerOut

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@MMTLabour

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@WestminsterWAG Did you ever stand up for Jeremy Corbyn who had people smear him, accost him, & camped on his front garden for five years, despite him not having inflicted poverty, humiliation, degradation and death on anyone? Did you?

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@MMTLabour

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The only scam I've fallen for in my life was paying subscriptions to a political party who used my money to scupper their own election campaigns. Guess which party that was.

The Labour Party

@UKLabour

1 year

Fed up of scam calls? Labour will take tough action to prevent them 👇

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@KayBurley @GrahamSmith_ You seem incapable of interviewing anyone you disagree with without engaging in childish over-talking, incessant interruptions and appallingly argued nonsense. To quote Dawn Butler MP in her demolition of you, "What is wrong with you?"

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@MMTLabour

2 years

This is Biden's America. He's submitted a defence bill that will issue $800bn to buy weapons destined for neo Nazis in Ukraine. Meanwhile in Philadelphia 👇

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@MMTLabour

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Thatcher's entire experiment is collapsing around us. Crises, failures, collapse, bankruptcies...wherever you look: housing, health, energy, transport, education, water, care homes, youth services, mental health, legal & policing.. nothing is safe from her vandalism.

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@MMTLabour

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@Peston @meadwaj It was clear to me that a vote to leave the EU would destroy Cameron and split the Tory party in two. What I didn't appreciate was the depths to which the Labour Party would sink in order to destroy its own elected leader at the time. We could have had a socialist govt.

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Absolutely no point in voting Labour.

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@jrc1921

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Labour's Darren Jones states that his party is committed to austerity as the Tories 'have spent all the money and maxed out the country's credit card'

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@ClarkeMicah You were a former Trotskyist who joined the Conservative Party... so was the Conservative Party a Trotskyist organisation!?? This seems to be your logic.

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@adamlangleben @jeremycorbyn And if 100% of what someone says or does shows zero racism or antisemitism but you refuse to even think about the possibility that they are right & look deeply inside yourself, then you definitely have a problem. You're defending Israel, mate - that's the truth of it all.

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@MMTLabour

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@jmkorhonen You seem to have left out this bit.

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@BBCWorld Oops.

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@IsabelOakeshott Er... the Daily Mail was the main Nazi-supporting newspaper - the very kind of fascists who are exposed by Niemöller's poem. You are a disgrace.

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@SkySports None because I've had to cancel SkySports to pay my energy bill.

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@MikeGapes You joined a scare campaign that specifically targeted Jewish voters. You told Jews they weren't safe. You told them Labour was out to get them. You spread lies and rumours in order to terrorise them to the point where some were thinking of leaving the UK. That is antisemitism.

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@MMTLabour

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Labour is promising to freeze your heating bills at their current record highs, even though wholesale gas prices are plummeting. Vote Labour, stay poor. @UKLabour @Ed_Miliband

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@MartinSLewis @Baddiel I know a man who saw antisemitism up front in London when Margaret Hodge wanted to sell off a Jewish Cemetary to property developers. He stood up for the Jews in his area many times. He stood up for Jews like you and me. How should we thank this man? His name is Jeremy Corbyn.

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@GirlyswotFbpe Students didn't have any debt before Blair and a million Iraqis might still be alive.

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@ImReadinHere The big mistake was Russia being too quiet about NATO expansion at the time - although I understand it's v likely back channel discussions were held - but Yeltsin was never taken that seriously by the US. The real policy mistakes (as Mearsheimer says) were made by Nato expansion.

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@MMTLabour

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@ukraine_map We were told the following were all 'game changers': HIMARS JAVELINS STORM SHADOWS PATRIOTS LEOPARDS CHALLENGERS Now it's cluster munitions.

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@MMTLabour

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@BBCNews That's your response to the largest leak of documents in British political history? You're beyond redemption.

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@MMTLabour

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@jrc1921 "There's no magic money tree"...unless you want a Royal yacht, £37bn for a useless test & trace system, billions in private contracts for your mates & an upgraded nuclear deterrent. It's time Labour understood how monetary mechanics work for sovereign governments. @kimleadbeater

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Her face is a fucking picture! It's about time the left found some balls on this entire Ukraine fiasco. Where's the UK Labour Party? The Greens? Honestly @ClareDalyMEP and @wallacemick are the only other two politicians I've heard question this insanity.

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@battleforeurope

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Belgian left-wing MEP to Ursula von der Leyen: “100 millions Europeans are at risk of poverty and you’re giving away billions to arms manufacturers”.

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@timfarron Unity!!! In a country where less than 1% of the population control the lives, incomes & destinies of the other 99% . You can't pretend the country is united with such iniquities. To propagate such rubbish is simply trying to gaslight us.

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@Mikah_Avi @Kev_____l No - you were told they were good people.

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@MMTLabour

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How come Starmer didn't mention his admiration for Margaret Thatcher while he was campaigning for the Labour leadership? 🤔

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@MMTLabour

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Can the left please get on board with taxing the rich for reasons other than "We need their money or we can't build a hospital." Taxes do not pay for spending. We can argue for taxing the rich because we need to address gargantuan inequality, market power & political influence.

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@TweetForTheMany He's totally out of his depth and being outflanked on the left by of all people the "broadband communism" BBC. Truly there's never been a bigger shyster in charge of the Labour Party.

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@RachelAlter007 @HillaryClinton

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What we are being subjected to hour after hour should be a fitting reminder that Orwell wrote 1984 after his experience working for the BBC, not North Korea. Big Brother Corporation is telling you what to think, how to mourn, what is acceptable and what isn't.

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@MMTLabour

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Why can't the super rich just sit back and enjoy their incredible lifestyle without interfering in our lives? Why must they lobby and strategise, plan and plot? Just let us get on with having a decent health service, well paid jobs and the odd holiday. Leave us to live a life.

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Conservatives are so concerned with govt deficit spending because apparently it leaves our kids with a 'huge debt burden' (it doesn't)... while simultaneously arguing in favour of student debt (which does). Their hypocrisy is gargantuan. #MMT

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@MMTLabour

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@BeckettUnite Please show us your emergency tax demand to cover your share of this unexpected and 'uncosted' funeral. Strangely, I haven't received one yet. Where on earth must the money be coming from!!??? 🤦‍♀️ Here's a clue: It's NOT taxpayers. #LearnMMT

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Why do "tough choices" in politics always result in a choice being made that's favourable to the rich?

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@MMTLabour

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The Shakespearean tragedy about #MMT is that the right-wing know about it, use it for their wars and robberies, but declare it to be nonsense, while the left wing reject it because it doesn't represent 'fiscal credibility' in the eyes of the right-wing zeitgeist.

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Anyone moaning about high energy bills who campaigned to stop Jeremy Corbyn becoming PM, can sit & freeze for all I care. You brought this on us & our kids. You deserve everything you get. And let's be honest, if another socialist stood up now - you'd smear them too.

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@MMTLabour

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The govt has no supply of money in the same way you have no supply of emails. The govt is short of money in the same way you are short of emails. Also the govt has an infinite capacity to spend ££ in the same way you have an infinite capacity to send emails. Sunak is lying to you

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@AndyBurnhamGM By refusing to reverse any existing NHS privatisation, Starmer has effectively just given the Tories the green light to complete the entire process. Our wonderful #NHS has just had its death warrant signed by the Labour Party. I hope those who voted for him are happy. #StarmerOut

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@EmmanuelMacron First the international courts have to deal with the backlog of so many similar cases against the US, France & Britain for their actions against Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria & Yemen that Russia (& Ukraine) will just have to wait their turn.

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@davesumnersmith @jeremycorbyn Centrists in 2016: No one takes Corbyn seriously as a politician, let alone Labour leader. Centrists in 2022: Corbyn is so influential despite not even being a Labour MP.

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@MMTLabour

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If we need billionaire's money, then we need billionaires. #MMT says we need neither.

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@MintPressNews He's completely correct of course, which is why they have to shut him up, rather than beat him with the truth in a debate.

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@WARREZ420 @scottsantens @elonmusk @wapodavenport No he doesn't. That's not how govt 'debt' works. Govt debt is the money supply. If you want to reduce it, be prepared to pay more tax or see your infrastructure collapse. It's not a problem, the Treasuries roll over on maturity. Govt debt is our assets.

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I presume her mum didn't issue the national currency from her privately-owned bank, or have the power to tax the entire population! I wonder what else her mum taught her that will have as much use as Chancellor as balancing a household budget? #MMT

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Honest to God 🤦‍♂️

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@margarethodge Perhaps write 200 false allegations of antisemitism against them - that usually does the trick.

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@MMTLabour

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Capitalists think socialists believe no one should live in a fabulous house. Whereas socialists actually believe everyone should live in a fabulous house.

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@ProudSocialist

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Guys, my boyfriend owns a house and took me on a trip to Hawaii so that means I am not a real socialist. The latest smear campaign against me. 🤦‍♂️

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@JustrightF @BBCNews

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@Campb37345Maree @christi02455387 ISIS= Israeli Secret Intelligence Service. This was revealed in an episode of After Dark on Channel 4 back in the 1980s IIRC by an Israeli guest.

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@mrjamesob It's easy - just tell them centrists like you preferred them to a decent, honest and caring man.

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@Cardamungus @The_UnSilent_ @ljscII_27 And the white plantation owners were the reason slaves had food. Ridiculous argument. The rich employ the poor to make themselves richer... if it didn't profit them, they'd sack everyone they employ. We don't need the rich to employ soldiers, do we?

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@afneil And the US water supply is undrinkable, so there's that.

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Orthodox economics: 'Whatever we can afford, we can do.' The truth: 'Whatever we can do, we can afford.'

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Let's make it simple... Spending creates new money Taxation deletes old money Now do you get it?

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@stellacreasy You're in danger of initiating a Streisand Effect here. Keep going... the more people who look into this entire business, the better. Maybe you could speak to the BBC, Times or Telegraph to look into this.

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@johnpilger In went the Chicago Boys to give Russia a taste of Pinochet-style economics.

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@KayBurley That would still be less than your salary... and I honestly believe senior doctors are worth more than a tv presenter.

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@lisanandy Do you also stand with the Jewish bloc opposed to genocide, because we haven't seen you with that Jewish community?

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@MMTLabour

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Biden: "Nothing will fundamentally change" Liberals & Conservatives: "Hooray" The poor, homeless, destitute, uninsured, under housed, public ally educated, students: "What about us?"

Power to the People ☭🕊

@ProudSocialist

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My blood pressure goes up when I see how sedated liberals are by your empty platitudes because it means they still haven’t figured out that you are full of shit and the DNC’s new hope to continue their neoliberal corporatist agenda after Biden and Kamala.

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@Keir_Starmer It's not an energy company though, is it? You're creating a publicly funded credit facility for private energy firms. That's using public money to subsidise private energy giants. That's why it's the one promise you'll keep!

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@JamesEFoster Personally I was terrified of free broadband, a properly funded NHS, affordable housing, cheap integrated transport networks, unpolluted rivers and my kids not being in student debt to the tune of 30k.

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@joshrogin @PostOpinions Will you be offering your services on the front line, brave boy?

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@adamlangleben @jeremycorbyn If 90% of Jews think this man isn't racist, then those Jews have a problem.

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@LordIanAustin Some Christmas reading for you...

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@lisanandy So now Labour supports apartheid. Well thanks for clarifying. Your target audience of fanatical Zionists is a minority so small as to be electorally useless - they are also racist bigots. What's your angle?

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Where were the BBC's impartiality police back in 2017?

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Boris Johnson wants us to "endure" huge energy bills to help Neo Nazis in Ukraine. Let that sink in.

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Why are so many people who consider themselves on the Left, still proponents of Thatcherite narratives on govt spending and taxation? Don't they want progress policies? #MMT

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@AnnaRichardso @Baddiel @Channel4 I'm a Jew and this is utter bollocks. You're being played. Good luck.

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@Keir_Starmer I can only assume Labour's social media team are in their 20's and have absolutely no comprehension of the utter revulsion felt in Liverpool from the actions of @Keir_Starmer since becoming leader of the Labour Party. This tweet is totally insulting. #Hillsborough

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@Jonathan_K_Cook I'm also puzzled by one thing. The scenes of Hamas returning to Gaza with the body of a dead Israeli woman on the back of a pick-up truck. Why do that for one dead civilian & not the others? Seems strange as the dead don't make particularly valuable hostages.

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@cathynewman Then why not mention Chris Bryant's expenses or David Lammy's donors? Or Keir Starmer's broken pledges or money from private healthcare investors. It's called corruption and you're ignoring it so you can continue the smears against a thoroughly decent man. Is this what you are?

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@Tedsquare23 Judging by his communication skills, ability to handle ridiculous biased questions and his steadfast commitment to getting his members decent wage rises, I'd argue he's worth more than that.

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The Left really needs to stop asking itself "Where will the money come from?" and instead start asking itself, "Where will the money go?" #MMT answers the first question, politicians need to answer the second.

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Meaningless terms that don't scare us - we get #MMT Fiscal space Fiscal headroom Maxed out credit card Record Debt to GDP Live within our means Tighten the govt's belt Coffers Taxpayers' money Bond vigilantes Our children will have to pay Financial black hole Any more?

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@johnredwood You talk as though privatisation and marketisation of a vital life source for the profits of the rich is nothing to do with this crisis. Your ideology has caused the multiple crises we face as a nation. Own up, apologise and repair it.

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So many otherwise excellent Tweets I feel unable to retweet simply because they contain references to taxpayer this, or taxpayer that. The left needs to #LearnMMT

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You can always tell an economist/commentator that hasn't updated their thinking since we left the Gold Standard... they'll use terms like: Taxpayers' money Government borrowing Fiscal black hole Government credit card Printing money #MMT economists won't use those terms.

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