Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org

Asked this morning whether Brexit has in any way contributed to the UK's economic downturn, Rishi Sunak blames "global factors" such as "the legacy of Covid" and "what Putin is doing."

In reality, while all G7 countries have been hit by these, only the UK economy remains smaller than before the pandemic.

🤔 Did you notice how, once it was exposed as hollow, talk of a 'fiscal black hole' disappeared?

😔 This country can't take another round of austerity

💪🏽 We need to tax the super rich and the polluters and pay public service workers to match inflation

#AutumnStatement

Brexit ‘Permanently Damaged’ UK Economy, says former Bank of England policy maker.

“If we hadn’t had Brexit, we probably wouldn’t be talking about an austerity budget this week. The need for tax rises, spending cuts wouldn’t be there.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-14/michael-saunders-says-brexit-permanently-damaged-uk-economy?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-bloomberguk&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=bloomberguk&leadSource=uverify%20wall#xj4y7vzkg

‘Invasion’

Chris Bryant - I have a real sense of anger when people say mistakes have been made.. it's a weasel term.. the Tories should apologise & say Britain is broke... £37b was wasted on test & trace.. £9b wasted on PPE that couldn't be used & £4b on PPE that ended up being burnt..

#PoliticsLive

So far, 27 years of COP meetings have been a complete failure; you can't argue with physics. Anyone saying otherwise has fossil fuels or books to sell. #EmergencyMode

@lavenderlens

Agreed. The back story is long and crazy. But in short the LGBTQ and others in the community at the time were being mass banned simply for following bad actors, even when they didnt boost, promote, or in any way show sympathetic leaning towards those bad actors.

The reason they were following them was to watch their account for violent threats and then disseminate that throughout their community for safety. But many instance admins didnt care and blocked/banned anyway.

As a result the LGBTQ community in masse migrated here for their safety.

We added a feature for them called subscribe. It lets you follow a person without them knowing you are following them. BUT it only lets you access the posts that person gives you permission to view (basically public posts, you cant see follower-only posts on a subscription). We did this so members of our community could follow these bad actors without alerting them and putting themselves at risk of violence or retaliation.

People again twisted this feature into being privacy violating despite the fact that it honors the privacy rules set by the poster.

Needless to say a lot of people were very mad that their blocking and banning abuses were coming back to bite them in the ass and ultimately distorted and lied the truth about QOTO and our feature to try to make it sound like something evil when it wasnt... those lies persist to this day.

@trinsec @War_Kittens

It is annoys me to hear people like @PJTheEconomist from the @TheIFS saying there are big financial constraints on government right now when the only constraints are people not being allowed to work to their full potential and the planet itself. He gets economics so wrong.

When Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in World War II, he responded “Then what would we be fighting for?” an apocryphal quote but when Ukrainian forces retook Kherson the people and the soldiers gathered together to sing and dance in celebration.
These images of Banksy's work also reflect how important culture is not just to Ukraine but to the civilised world. It's our turn to protect it from the marauders at the gate.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63606658

My FT piece on the implications of the fall of FTX is now free to read. The crypto world must be made safer for investors and users - https://on.ft.com/3NZA05r

Just this. Please Boost.

RT @micketheridge@twitter.com

NHS staff: can we have a pay rise in line with inflation please?

Tory governments:

2010: no
2011: no
2012: no
2013: no
2014: no
2015: no
2016: no
2017: no
2018: no
2019: no
2020: no but 👏
2021: no
2022: no

Enough is enough! No choice but to strike. #VoteYesfortheNHS

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/micketheridge/status/1589546795763318785

The economy is shrinking because of falls in consumer spending. Soon it will be because of increasing interest rates. Straight after that it will be because of austerity and tax increases. This is the first time we will have ever had a deliberate government manufactured recession

Please boost this post if you see it! It will help my new Mastodon server federate with other servers to get us all connected. Thanks! #fediverse #mastodon

New #CoppolaComment post, explaining how I think #FTX's sudden disastrous #collapse happened, and why I believe #Alameda is #insolvent too. The FTX-Alameda nexus: https://www.coppolacomment.com/2022/11/the-ftx-alameda-nexus.html

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