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David__Osland

@David__Osland

Forty-year veteran of socialist politics. Freelance contributor to Labour Research Department and https://t.co/Q5pmn9zMlC.

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Employment rights in this country include the right to work the longest hours in Europe, the right to be sacked by Zoom call and the right to have your boss steal your pension fund. Labour shouldn't row back on changing this situation.

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The Tories made 'take back control of our borders' a central slogan of the Brexit campaign. But when push comes to shove, Britain is too skint even to fund hygiene checks on food imports.

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The party that runs Facebook groups for people who want to shoot Sadiq Khan is funded by a man who wants to shoot Diane Abbott. The more observant among you may spot a pattern here.

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Spare a thought for poor Count Binface this Thursday. Years spent establishing himself as a joke candidate for London mayor, and then the Tories run Susan Hall.

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Lord Cameron is neither president of the US nor on world tour with the Rolling Stones. So he doesn't need a private jet.

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Tory MPs branded Birmingham and Blackpool 'godawful', Stockton 'a shithole' and Tower Hamlets 'a no-go area'. Then this government diverted levelling up money to Tunbridge Wells.

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Boris Johnson bought a mansion in Oxfordshire for £3.8m in cash. That's more than some of Britain's poorest towns got in levelling up money.

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The Tories have cut the spending power of councils in Britain's most deprived areas by 40% since 2010. This is a policy that might best be described as levelling down.

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Pensions are 'unsustainable', the NHS is 'unsustainable' and now disability benefits are 'unsustainable', or so we are told. What's really unsustainable is this Tory government.

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The government now has the right to see claimants' bank accounts while cabinet ministers set up trust funds in offshore jurisdictions to avoid scrutiny of their tax affairs. That's class politics, right there.

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It's hard to fathom how anybody who voted without demur for austerity, Brexit, Trussonomics, benefit cuts for the disabled, Universal Credit, bedroom tax, tripled tuition fees, anti-union laws and the Rwanda deportations can suddenly declare that they're a Labour MP

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Tory staffers are running Facebook groups full of white supremacist content and the government is timing the arrest of asylum seekers for electoral advantage. But the Conservative Party gets upset if anyone calls it racist.

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The Tories' 'levelling up' advertising campaign cost over a million quid. That's more than most towns actually got in levelling up money.

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The Tories rigged the London mayor electoral system to favour their candidate, accused Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists and knowingly told lies about his supposed plans to introduce pay per mile. Is this the most disgraceful election campaign of modern times?

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If only the Tories were as outraged by 500 unnecessary deaths a week in A&E as they are by the National Trust selling vegan scones

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There would once have been stigma attached to deporting asylum seekers to dictatorships, looting pension funds, dodging taxes, illegally sacking entire workforces, dumping sewage in rivers and selling unusable PPE to the NHS. These things need to be shameful again.

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