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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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'They're gonna have to introduce conscription
They're gonna have to take away my prescription'
- Joe Strummer predicts the 2024 Tory manifesto in 1977

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Rishi Sunak (Winchester), Jeremy Hunt (Charterhouse) and Lord Cameron (Eton) are right to identify social cohesion as a problem in Britain

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I didn't have enough money to put my son's name down for Eton. But I did manage to get him on the waiting list for an NHS dentist instead.

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Crumbling schools don't matter if your kid is at Eton, two-year NHS waiting lists don't matter if you use private hospitals and the housing crisis doesn't bother you if you own four homes including a holiday house on Malibu Beach. Vote accordingly.

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The Tories say national service will promote social cohesion. But not half as much as abolishing private schools would.

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£2.5bn to bring back national service, £1.3bn to lift the two-child benefit cap. Is that really a 'tough decision'?

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If the Tories bring back conscription, the public schoolboys will be the officer cadets and the working-class kids will be the squaddies. That's class politics, right there.

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A party whose leaders keep their money in the Cayman Islands, Panama and Gibraltar wants young people to fight and die for Britain

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'They're gonna have to introduce conscription
They're gonna have to take away my prescription'
- Joe Strummer predicts the 2024 Tory manifesto in 1977

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Sunak says 'bring back National Service'. I say bring back secure well-paid jobs, final salary pensions, union rights, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition and student grants, affordable rail fares and social housing.

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Paula Vennells has blamed five other Post Office bosses for the subpostmasters scandal. She was chief executive and picked up millions of pounds in salary and bonuses; the buck stops with her.

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If Boris Johnson wants to bring up Starmer's handling of the Savile affair, let's not forget that Johnson described money spend investigating historic child sex allegations as 'spaffed up the wall'

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Johnson forgets that Thatcher called Osama bin Laden a freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela a terrorist, Augusto Pinochet a good friend. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.

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Your grocery shop costs 20% more and your energy bills are hundreds of pounds higher than two years ago. And Rishi Sunak says the economy has 'turned the corner'.

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