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To: ggersh who wrote (62873)	10/14/2019 3:46:31 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71406

Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas of "Fraud Guarantee" and "Mafia Rave" - just more typical Eastern European associates of Donald Trump and Rudi Guliani. Donald and Rudi are still the same people they've always been. People with no values who believe in nothing.

To: ggersh who wrote (62873)	10/14/2019 6:00:43 PM
From: maceng2	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71406

AAV speaks. facebook.com "If you didn't have time to catch the Queen's speech today I'll run through some of the most important aspects of it for you:.An old lady who was elected by nobody read out a bizarre speech prepared for her by the administration of a proven liar who was elected Prime Minister by a tiny cabal of wealthy hard-right ultranationalists, and has nowhere near the parliamentary numbers to deliver any of the false promises the speech contained. Aside from promising to deliver a hard-right interpretation of Brexit that nobody voted for, the speech also contained a promise to strip UK citizens of their automatic right to travel, live, work, study, and/or retire in any one of 31 European countries, as if that's some kind of good thing. The speech also contained a pledge to disenfranchise 11 million (mainly poor) British citizens for the "crime" of not having a passport or driving licence. At the last general election there was just one single proven case of electoral impersonation, yet the Tories are attempting to collectively punish 11 million Brits for the crime of this one individual. There's a term for this kind of rotten agenda, and that's "voter suppression". But perhaps the most absurd aspect of the speech were the numerous promises to put more funding into the NHS, schools, and policing, without the vaguest mention of the last nine years of ruinous Tory austerity fanaticism that has stripped huge amounts of funding from these services, and reduced them to the parlous states they're in now, nor that the increased funding is only a tiny fraction of the £billions that have been stripped away over the last 9 years. Back in 2015 all three of the main Westminster parties went into the general election promising "more of the same", with varying degrees of ruinous hard-right austerity fanaticism in their manifestos. The election of the consistent anti-austerity pro-investment figure of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in the aftermath of that election has completely rewritten the narrative, with virtually nobody left still publicly defending and promoting failed, economically illiterate austerity fanaticism (apart from hapless Lib-Dem leader Jo Swinson of course). But rather than admit that their fanatical and economically illiterate austerity fanaticism caused a tidal wave of poverty, misery, death, and destruction, and apologise for it ... the Tories have clearly settled on the policy of simply pretending the last nine years of austerity ruination never happened, whilst distracting the public with the window dressing of spending increases that represent only a tiny fraction of the funding they've ripped out of these services since 2010. All of Boris Johnson's promises of increased spending on public services represent absolute proof that Corbyn the other austerity-sceptics were absolutely right when they said that it's impossible to indiscriminately cut your way out of a crisis, and that stuff like well funded public services, a vibrant education sector, and investment in infrastructure and research and development are actually crucial to maintain a stable and successful economy. Tory promises of spending increases on public services is crystal clear proof that their claims that austerity fanaticism was necessary and unavoidable were outright lies. If we can afford to fund public services now, when the deficit still hasn't been cleared, it's beyond obvious that we could afford to fund public services back when the Tories were ideologically wrecking them. Most people will, understandably, focus on the Brexit and voter suppression aspects of the Queen's Speech, but the Tories' massive ideological U-turn on austerity fanaticism, and their pathetic efforts to hide the tire marks leading back to the economic crime scene are incredibly telling, especially since Tory/Lib-Dem austerity fanaticism is what caused the collapse in living standards that resulted in the furious 2016 Brexit backlash in the first place."