The Resolution Foundation in the UK has provided some fascinating data that show one thing very clearly. That…

The Resolution Foundation in the UK has provided some fascinating data that show one thing very clearly. That 'politics' is always just social groups battling for different status and thereby share of society's resources. A few examples (see https://t.co/OYgql7wCtv). /1

The Tories have been in power for 13 years in the UK. Strip away 13 years of propaganda and spin and what's been their fundamental aim and achievement? To redistribute wealth and power to its team, the wealthy and powerful. /2 https://t.co/jAOFnsVZFs

They'll claim they've provided 'opportunity' for all to do well. Aspirational politics. They know it's just spin to hide looting of the Treasury, by their team. As always, everything is about cuts to their own taxes. Funded largely by bracket creep for ordinary folk. /3 https://t.co/CS06qD1glP

If we give up pretending societies are economies and go back to seeing them for what they are, groups of people acting in social ways, the world makes sense again. Everybody going backwards, except their team. /end https://t.co/M7OCBOBr0L