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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 months

Do you really understand capitalism?

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

7 months

I really expected to be bombarded with hate when this interview came out. Instead, I’ve experienced the most incredible outpouring of love from Palestinians and their supporters all over the world. And they give the most heartfelt and lyrical compliments I’ve ever heard 😂

Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

7 months

End the occupation of Palestine.

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Grace Blakeley

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End the occupation of Palestine.

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

Pay workers. Tax profits.

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

Imagine if journalists grilled government ministers the way they do unionists.

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

The drudgery of life under capitalism is going to become much more obvious as people can no longer afford to go out and buy stuff to numb the pain of working constantly for people who pay them nothing and treat them like shit.

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Grace Blakeley

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8 months

I am so sick of people taking liberal rights that were created to protect against the despotism of the state and projecting them onto every area of social life. *The state* has to presume your innocence, the average person does not.

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Russell Brand is entitled to the presumption of innocence.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

If we’ve learned anything over the last few days it’s that the right are the real virtue signallers; the real snowflakes; the real perpetrators of cancel culture; and the real enemies of free speech.

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Grace Blakeley

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3 years

There are two explanations for this: 1. Overt corruption: someone has spent £5 and pocketed the £30. 2. Covert corruption: state procurement is so ineffective that the public gets charged £30 for something worth £5.

Louisa Britain

@RoadsideMum

3 years

#FreeSchoolMeals bag for 10 days: 2 days jacket potato with beans 8 single cheese sandwiches 2 days carrots 3 days apples 2 days soreen 3 days frubes Spare pasta & tomato. Will need mayo for pasta salad. Issued instead of £30 vouchers. I could do more with £30 to be honest.

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Grace Blakeley

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7 months

Up to now I’ve been open minded, and willing to make a strategic choice about who I voted for next election - but there is no way I can vote for a Labour leader who endorses war crimes. I await my letter of expulsion…

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

Bosses can afford to raise pay. They just don’t want to.

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Grace Blakeley

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4 years

It's depressing that the opposition doesn't realise that by repeating your opponent's frame (nationalism, family values etc), you don't steal their votes, you just strengthen their narrative. If voters go into the polling booth thinking 'Britain first' and they'll vote Tory.

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

Let’s be clear: heating your home is not a luxury good. It’s a basic necessity. The government’s choice to hike fuel prices by 54% is equivalent to forcing through a massive, society-wide pay cut - and the effect is larger the poorer you are.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

6 months

If Keir Starmer cannot call for an end to the mass slaughter of innocent children, then he is worse than pointless. He’s complicit.

Save the Children International

@save_children

6 months

3,195 children killed in #Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire.

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Grace Blakeley

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7 months

I know it can be demoralizing to see such blatant doublespeak and hypocrisy amplified throughout the media. But the main reason they’re trying so hard to ignore the suffering of Palestinians is that the vast majority of the planet is on the side of the oppressed.

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Grace Blakeley

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7 months

The whole private school debate shows how much individualism has rotted our brains. Everyone assumes that if private school is good for one person, it must be a good thing. No one considers how private schools systematically entrench the privilege of one class over another.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

5 years

‘Calm down woman, we’ve all dabbled in mass murder from time to time’

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

Rising energy bills represent a direct transfer of wealth from workers and consumers to profiteering corporations. Cap prices. Tax profits.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

3 months

Don’t look away. Don’t vote for Starmer.

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Grace Blakeley

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5 years

The crazy thing about this is - even though I know exactly what happened during the Boer wars -Rees-Mogg’s measured tone and deep self-confidence made me second guess myself. The deep-rooted urge in British culture to defer to aristocratic authority is truly terrifying.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

We are living through the wreckage of an economic model constructed 40 years ago to suck wealth up from the bottom of society to those at the top.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

7 months

Remember the outrage when @GaryLineker compared UK migration policy to that of the Nazis? Here is the sitting UK Prime Minister cozying up to a woman who can trace her political heritage right back to Benito Mussolini. Met with total silence from the British media.

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

7 months

It must be the British people that decide who comes to the UK. I chaired a meeting with @GiorgiaMeloni to strengthen European action to ending illegal migration. Working in lockstep with our international allies, we’ll end dangerous small boat journeys that put lives at risk.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

There is more than enough wealth in this country to feed our kids - it’s just in the wrong hands.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

9 months

Profits are driving inflation. Not wages.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

It’s very fitting that British people could forgive the PM for corruption, authoritarianism and criminal negligence, but drew the line at him going for post work bevs when no one else could.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

CANCELLED by the WOKE PC MOB for voicing my opinion

Piers Morgan 'boos off' TalkTV guest after anti-royal rant

PIERS MORGAN kicked off guest Grace Blakely during a debate on Wednesday evening in a tongue-in-cheek shut down after she made it clear she was anti-royalist.

www.express.co.uk

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

It is truly reprehensible that, in the midst of an economic emergency, our media is dominated by coverage of the monarchy.

Byline TV

@BylineTV

2 years

"These people have no idea what ordinary people are going through" While the Press has decided the cost of living crisis "pales in significance" to the death of the Queen, people are facing a winter that may literally kill them. @graceblakeley doesn't hold back 👇

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

5 years

The Independent Group has a very clear ideology: maintain a status quo that has seen wealth and power monopolised by a tiny elite. Watch as they back privatisation, spending cuts and tax breaks for the rich, win zero seats and leave politics for six-figure salaries in the City.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

The dads are not alright folks.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

4 years

Ah, that age old neoliberal tactic of training people for jobs that don’t exist while failing to create jobs that should exist

New jobs coaches will help people back to work, says Rishi Sunak

Jets scheme will help those laid off during pandemic, chancellor to tell Tory conference

www.theguardian.com

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

The history of the housing crisis - and how to solve it - in 2 minutes

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

9 months

Crime didn’t start to rise 10 years ago because everyone suddenly lost their minds. It started to rise because people got poorer, more desperate, and a lot angrier with a system that bailed out bankers while working people ended up on the streets.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

3 months

It’s incredible how Britain’s political class can lie, cheat and manipulate ad nauseum and then wail about how terrified they are of an electorate that treats them with justifiable contempt.

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Extremely corrupt stuff

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

Public ownership now.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

7 months

Who had ‘Elon Musk takes a stronger stance against war crimes than Sir Keir Starmer’ in 2023 bingo

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

7 months

@Imobaidanjum I hope that electricity and essential services are rapidly restored to Gaza

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

5 years

There are a record number of billionaires in the UK, many of whom made their money on the back of a property bubble that has seen rents skyrocket and thousands made homeless. Our economic model is broken.

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Grace Blakeley

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5 years

It's amazing that centrists believe they won in the nineties because they were good at politics, rather than because of the political economy of finance-led growth. It's even more amazing that they can look around the world today and claim that their politics is still viable.

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Grace Blakeley

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5 years

People like Jacob Rees-Mogg want to use Brexit to turn the UK into a low-tax, low-wage Thatcherite utopia. The only way to stop them is to lay out a vision for the post-Brexit economy that puts people and planet first. We need a #GreenNewDeal now.

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Grace Blakeley

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4 years

How many of the #WeWillNotComply brigade do you think complied with the decimation of their NHS, schools and local government? It’s miraculous how lockdown has made people who have been cowering from real resistance for years suddenly want to rebel against the British state.

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Grace Blakeley

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4 years

Everyone - and I do not say this lightly - everyone should read this piece. The information that @bencsmoke has uncovered on companies receiving government funding is truly staggering.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

7 months

This is a Labour councillor responding to my statement refusing to vote for Keir Starmer while he supports the use of collective punishment, a war crime. Meanwhile, in Gaza:

Cllr Lee Steptoe 🌹

@lees1969

7 months

@graceblakeley That’s a real loss, Grace. Take your trust fund and your far left ideals to the Greens or one of the Trot fringe groups.

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Grace Blakeley

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4 years

Billions have been pumped into the pockets of private investors during the pandemic, while working people have risked their lives to keep the economy going. The wealthy should pay for the costs of the recovery - not nurses, teachers and retail workers.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

The world’s richest man - supported by some of its most powerful financial institutions - just bought an entire media platform on a whim, with no democratic accountability and no push back from the state. This isn’t free market exchange - it’s capitalist central planning.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

Liverpool is just the best city

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

Exxon Mobil knew about climate breakdown in the 1970s. 2021 was it's most profitable year in seven years. Since the Paris agreement, the UK government has given Exxon £360m worth of subsidies. But it's 'not sustainable' to tax the oil companies to support those in fuel poverty.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

3 years

Oh look, it’s a handsome carpenter being attacked by the establishment and calmly exposing their ignorance hmm where have I seen this before 👀

Clare Hymer

@ClareHymer

3 years

oh my lord this is UNREAL

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

7 months

This in response to me saying thank you to Palestinians for all the lovely messages they’ve sent me...

WristyGymnast

@BoothSenior

7 months

@graceblakeley They would rape and beat you, you silly little girl

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

I have done nothing this year other than write my book, which I handed in at the last possible moment I was contractually obliged to do so, which was just now.

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

This is unbelievably irresponsible and unprofessional reporting from the FT. Criticising NATO does not make someone ‘pro-Putin’. It’s not only moronic and facile to suggest this, it’s a threat to the safety of MPs like @zarahsultana who have faced horrendous online abuse.

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

4 years

“We’re seeing consultants being brought in for a week who are being paid a year’s worth of nurse’s salaries. That is an abject failure. Why are the taxes of key workers being used to line the pockets of big corporations?” @MiriamBrett smashing it on QT

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Grace Blakeley

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7 months

Politics rule #1 : Never, ever, ever be surprised at the self-righteous hypocrisy of liberals

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Grace Blakeley

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5 years

This country is angry - about our failing economy, crumbling public services and an elitist political class that doesn't represent them Boris and his wealthy backers want us to direct our anger towards each other, rather than the 1% who caused this mess We can't let them win

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

There’s a warped cross-party pact on the NHS: the Tories defund it so it doesn’t work properly, then Labour privatises it in the name of ‘efficiency’, which makes it easier for the Tories to make more cuts. Meanwhile politicians cash their cheques from private healthcare giants.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

2 years

Labour would use private providers to cut NHS waiting lists, says shadow health secretary Wes Streeting

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Grace Blakeley

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4 years

Entering my 27th year with some excellent new books (ft @LalehKhalili )

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Grace Blakeley

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7 months

It’s actually shocking to watch him lie repeatedly over and over again while an audience member - not, of course, the chair or anyone on the panel - tries to hold him to account with the truth. Well done Muhammed.

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Grace Blakeley

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9 months

Junior doctors aren’t causing the crisis in the NHS. They’re trying to end it.

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Grace Blakeley

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2 months

“We’re sending resources to… this massive military-industrial complex that spans the Atlantic… [that are] being used to rip the limbs off children in Palestine. I think it’s going to be the defining moral issue of our age.”

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2 years

It's SO important that we keep Zarah in Parliament! Sign up to support her campaign using the link below

Zarah Sultana MP

@zarahsultana

2 years

The seat I represent is a hyper-marginal and at the next election the Tories are going to throw everything at me. I need your help to win and to continue standing up for our principles in Parliament:

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Grace Blakeley

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29 today and still dressing like a 16 year old 🎂

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Grace Blakeley

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3 years

This is actually painful to watch #RoboKeir

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@AaronBastani

3 years

Starmer won’t even acknowledge this young woman. Just horrible!

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

Given our political class is so obsessed with 1984, it’s odd that none of them seem to have noticed we’re living in an Orwellian nightmare in which opposing nuclear war makes you an enemy agent. War is peace.

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Grace Blakeley

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Overheard in Cornwall: a woman talking about how hard it is to maintain her second home down here, and how excited she is to be voting Labour for the first time at the next election 🙃

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Grace Blakeley

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3 years

Happy Christmas darlings xoxo

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Grace Blakeley

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5 years

It is absolutely incredible watching the establishment panic as they realise that socialism has the future.

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Grace Blakeley

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7 months

Literally HUNDREDS of messages like this - I’ve never experienced anything like it before. Basically, Palestinians are amazing (and incredibly poetic) and it’s never been more important to support them and amplify their powerful voices ❤️

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My Ethiopian taxi driver is talking to me about the extraordinarily deadly conflict in Tigray. His mother is trapped there. He hasn’t spoken to her in a year because the gvt has shut off communication. And he’s heartbroken that no one seems to be paying attention.

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Grace Blakeley

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Streeting is being very clear here: if you’re angry at Labour over NHS privatization - or indeed Gaza, or the dropping of green policies - they don’t even want your vote.

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On NHS privatisation, Streeting attacks the 'keyboard warriors on their ideological hobby horse' and reads out an email from 'Dave' who tells him to ignore the haters

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

Raising interest rates won’t solve the cost of living crisis. It will make it worse.

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Grace Blakeley

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4 years

I am delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a grant by the Lipman-Miliband Trust to set up a podcast with @tribunemagazine 🎉 More information to come, but I’ll be discussing current events, Marxist theory and socialist news with your favs from all over the world 🌹

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

Inflation is political. It affects different groups differently, and this isn't captured in headline statistics. Rising energy prices - which feed into higher food prices - disproportionately harm the poor. And our response - raising interest rates - just makes things worse.

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“God bless your free soul” “Words fall short in capturing the depth of my gratitude… from the core of my being, thank you for being a resolute guardian of what’s right” “It meant so much to hear your support at a time where it feels like everyone is against us”

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Grace Blakeley

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The way we think about attention is so profoundly wrong. I have ADHD. I've written 3 books. Because the ideas fascinated me so much that nothing else could grab my attention (which became it's own challenge). People can't focus because they're being forced to focus on bullshit.

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Grace Blakeley

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It looks like I’m now banned from schools. Not a sentence I ever thought I’d say but that’s 2020 for you.

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PSA: Don’t be a creep

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4 years

The main take away from this should be that Trump owes millions of dollars that he’ll probably never repay, while millions of indebted Americans will be pursued for the small amounts they owe until they’re destitute.

The New York Times

@nytimes

4 years

The Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump extending over more than two decades. It shows his finances under stress, beset by losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

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Grace Blakeley

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3 years

The game where you scroll back through the accounts of people commenting ‘why can’t you just support Labour so we can beat the Tories’ to find their tweets slamming Corbyn is becoming more fun every day.

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Grace Blakeley

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2 years

We're headed into the worst economic crisis in a generation - millions will be facing unemployment, poverty or homelessness. If our politicians won't protect people, then people will have to protect each other. Join the campaign @eiecampaign

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5 years

The central message of Stolen💵 is that the political chaos engulfing the rich world is not simply a succession of random crisis - we're living through the collapse of an entire system Finance-led growth is dying - what comes next is up to us

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@graceblakeley

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This is shocking, even for Starmer

Fatima

@fatimazsaid

7 months

I spoke directly with South Wales Islamic Centre and can confirm this account. Keir Starmer completely misrepresented the visit and the discussion he had with the mosque. The mosque feels exploited and used by the Labour Party and this has caused… 🧵

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Neoliberals literally told us a decade ago that their plan to destroy the NHS is to make the service so unuseable so that the wealthy are forced to opt for private care instead, making the institution easier to defund and privatize.

How to abolish the NHS

The National Health Service enjoys strong support among the public, making it almost impossible to introduce radical reforms, even if … Continue reading "How to abolish the NHS"

iea.org.uk

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Right wingers in the 70s: free markets will make future generations so much richer! Right wingers today: actually everything was fine in the 70s stop complaining.

Buy British

@EU_NO_MORE

2 years

Who remembers living in a house without central heating, no double glazing, no loft insulation etc. and waking up and scratching pictures in the ice on the inside of the windows?

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Sometimes it feels like Reeves and Starmer have been in suspended animation for the last 15 years and don’t realize we figured out austerity doesn’t work 🙃

The Guardian

@guardian

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Labour rules out universal childcare for young children in fiscal credibility drive

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

2 years

Now do billionaires

Matt Goodwin

@GoodwinMJ

2 years

76% of academics in the social sciences in the world's leading universities self-identify as left-wing with 16% identifying as 'far left'. Just 1 in 10 are on the right. I think this is a problem Source:

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

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Please stop whatever you’re doing and watch this

Palestine Deep Dive

@PDeepdive

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📽️MUST WATCH | Israel is MASSACRING Palestinians in Gaza @m7mdkurd .

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Grace Blakeley

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Theresa May came to power promising to fix the broken economic model that helped cause Brexit and tackle burning injustices. Instead, we’ve got more austerity, low pay, flatlining productivity and rising inequality and household debt. She’s got to go.

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I am once again, BEGGING those journalists who claim to care about war crimes to cover what is going on in Ethiopia. More than HALF A MILLION PEOPLE have already died and there is basically NO coverage.

Randa HABIB

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#Tigray is crying famine, after food aid suspension reached now 420 days No progress, and in fact the situation is getting worse and worse

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“Gurner was forced to apologise because you are simply not allowed to say these things out loud. It is critical to the maintenance of neoliberal hegemony that the violent and coercive power of both capital and the state remain invisible.”

The Viral CEO Shows the True Face of Capitalism

Real estate CEO Tim Gurner sparked outrage this week after calling for a rise in unemployment to put workers in their place. We should be grateful for his comments — they reveal what the ruling class...

tribunemag.co.uk

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

5 years

Boris Johnson is a disaster capitalist who will force through his Thatcherite economic agenda using the politics of emergency. He'll use his emergency budget to provide giveaways to the City, big business and the rich, and a no deal Brexit to turn the UK into a tax haven.

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Cameron and Johnson were soft on Putin’s mates because they needed the cash. Blair and Campbell cosied up to Putin for the trade opportunities. Yet they have the nerve to call Corbyn - who has been calling out Russian influence on our politics for decades - ‘pro-Putin’.

Peter Oborne

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I've fact-checked the claims that Jeremy Corbyn is "pro-Putin". It turns out that no politician has been more consistent or more prescient about Putin than Corbyn. When he warned about Russian donor money he was mocked. My new column for Middle East Eye:

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Grace Blakeley

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Debt is 100% of GDP because successive governments spent billions bailing out their mates in finance and big business as soon as any crisis threatened their interests - not because we’ve been paying nurses too much money.

Albie

@albieamankona

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Astonishing that the position of many left wingers like @AyoCaesar @graceblakeley or @OliDugmore is still: “debt is cheap, let’s borrow more” I take the point, but cheap borrowing has been UK govt policy since 1997. Debt is 100% of GDP & life has never been better. Oh wait.

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The Labour leadership is hamstrung by its own rigid and incoherent ideology, based on two nonsensical dogmas: 1. If Jeremy Corbyn said it, we can’t say it. 2. We have to ‘balance the books’.

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This article is from 2013, 2 years before Labour lost an election by basing their campaign on the assumption that they didn’t need to announce policies to deal with economic crisis because people would be angry enough with the Tories to vote Labour.

Labour leads Conservatives by 12 points in poll

Guardian/ICM poll gives Ed Miliband's party 41% of vote and David Cameron's 29% – the biggest gap in almost a decade

www.theguardian.com

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9 months

Pay doctors. Tax profits.

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5 years

After eight years of failed austerity, the Tories are now happy to admit that the economy isn’t working. What they won’t tell you is who it is working for.

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3 months

"If current policies are maintained in office, we will see basically no changes in macroeconomic policy under a Labour government. This is not Blairism. This is something far, far worse." Me for @tribunemagazine

Labour Has Given Up on the Climate Crisis

On the same day that climate scientists announced the world had breached the warming limit of 1.5 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, Starmer effectively announced that he had given up...

tribunemag.co.uk

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7 months

I used to get so frustrated at the hypocrisy of the UK media. Now, I’m encouraged when I see the usual suspects doing mental gymnastics to justify their incoherent positions - it shows quite how desperate they are to retain control, and how close they know they are to losing it.

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2 years

I’m buying a lucozade at the gym and the woman at reception says ‘it’s £2 now it’s gone up!’ Me: ‘hasn’t everything at the moment?’ Her: ‘not our wages’

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11 months

I’m back! It’s been nearly 9 months and 11 countries. 5 islands, 2 mountain ranges, 2 deserts, 1 rainforest. 2 oceans, 10 beach breaks, 3 point breaks, 2 reef breaks. 30 meters below sea level, 4,900 meters above - and a lot of stuff in between. Happy to be home… for now!

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Those who want to return to the 1990s refuse to acknowledge that Blair's political settlement was based on the illusory gains of finance-led growth. After a decade of stagnation, politics is once again a question of who gets the gains from growth - and the centre has no answers.

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2 years

Brother just bought a new car after moving in with his girlfriend and my dad’s response was ‘ah, the 3 M’s - marriage, motor, mortgage - it’s how Thatcher trapped us all’

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4 years

Our government is giving out billions of pounds to huge international firms so they can pay dividends to shareholders and lay off workers. This kind of corporate welfare is unconscionable when the real welfare system is forcing many into poverty.

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