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Lefty liberal by temperament, exasperated by experience. Also @eddwilson .bsky.social
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I'm currently in A&E, waiting for transfer to a ward. There's a guy in the next bed going through a Q&A sequence to check he's lucid. Without giving anything away... he was asked who the prime minister is, and answered "joker". "I'll take that", said the doctor.
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The Rwanda scheme HAS NOT been "through Parliament". It isn't a law and has not been voted on, even by Peter Bone.
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Grant Shapps doesn't have time to help with the rail negotiations, he's too busy milking the situation for political advantage.
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P&O Ferries' owner DP World expect to run two of Rishi Sunak's "freeports".
Proper journalists would ask exactly what tax and law exemptions they're getting, and why we don't need to know who owns companies in a freeport.
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"DHSC said it could not provide... minutes from the meeting because none were taken, and refused to share any papers handed out to attendees."
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France has offered facilities near Calais to process asylum applications. That would stop the boats.
Sunak doesn't want to stop the boats. He wants enemies on the beaches and in red wall hotels. There's an election coming.
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To those I know around here, one way or another. . .
After a good month in hospital with a variety of non-newsworthy malfunctions, I now suddenly find myself CORVID-positive and being wheeled into the Red Bay Zones! A bit of a surprise, but I'll try to hang around.
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The Johnson-Gray meeting shouldn't have happened, but if there isn't a proper record of the meeting (who called it, full minutes) between a prime minister and a senior civil servant, then the reorganisation of the No 10 power base needs to start with the absolute basics
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There's an MP who has been barred from the Commons because he's been arrested on suspicion of rape.
But he's been re-adopted to stand at the next election and is still going on parliamentary trips.
And we still shouldn't name him.
#bbcaq
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This man knelt before the queen to be knighted. I hope he wasn't carrying a camera.
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Hunt: I'm tired of people talking the country down.
Us: We're tired of you taking the country down.
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Good point of order from Chris Bryant yesterday: if a minister refuses to come to the Commons to correct an "inadvertent" misleading of the house, it is no longer inadvertent but advertent.
This rule (of not calling out lies) is not going to last, is it? asks Bryant.
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Here are three occasions on which the UK Statistics Authority has reprimanded the government for lying
On trade deals
On asylum backlogs
On crime figures
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@bbcr4today
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New BBC investigation initiated to discover why Chris Mason and previous political erditors were never slipped a leak about the salaries of Dominic Cummings, Nick Timothy, Fiona Hill and many others.
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If Sunak really wanted to stop the boats, he'd have done something to stop the boats.
He could take the smugglers' market away at a stroke by taking up France's offer of processing facilities near Calais.
But he wants enemies on the beaches for election time.
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Dear Jacob Rees-Mogg,
"The ECHR is British in origin. It is our heritage and our standards. If you cannot operate by our British values, you should not be in our Parliament."
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Good point of order from Chris Bryant: if a minister refuses to come to the Commons to correct an "inadvertent" misleading of the house, it is no longer inadvertent but advertent.
This rule (of not calling out lies) is not going to last, is it? asks Bryant.
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No Mr Rajan, the government is not sending *failed asylum seekers* to Rwanda. They are refusing to consider the applications for asylum, and leaving that to Rwanda.
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Check your records.
How often has it "emerged" that an audience member on Question Time is also an activist of one flavour or another?
And how many times have you reported that?
It has emerged that the father who confronted Boris Johnson in a London hospital is also a Labour activist
Read more:
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Boris Johnson's first speech as PM 24 July 2019
My job is to protect you or your parents or grandparents from the fear of having to sell your home… we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared…
Still waiting for a plan.
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The withdrawal agreement is now being described as unacceptable and incompetently written. By those who wrote and agreed it.
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Who thinks the Russia report should be published?
Jonathan Evans, former head of MI5
Peter Ricketts, former National Security Adviser
David Anderson, former reviewer of terrorism legislation
Robin Butler, former head of the civil service
Who doesn't?
Johnson and Cummings.
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There are people discovering the stuff about Brexit they should have known last June.
And some of them are in government.
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This morning, millions of listeners will go away with some version of "the EU charges massive tariffs on imports from African countries".
It's not true, but that's another bit of damage done, another lie reinforced a bit more.
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I could have sworn Nadine Dorries hosted the odd TV programme for TalkTV.
She must have done it out of the kindness of her heart, because she hasn't declared it in her register of earnings.
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After Jeremy Hunt's announcement on faster medicine approval, I just happened to find two pictures
- the London building which used to house the European Medicines Agency before Brexit
- the Amsterdam building which now houses the European Medicines Agency
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Boris Johnson's first speech as PM 24 July 2019
My job is to protect you or your parents or grandparents from the fear of having to sell your home… we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared…
#BBCPM
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Labour should reject "will you reverse it?" and "how will you pay for it?" questions, and say. . .
"You might notice we're not in government. We can't undo Friday's tax changes, no matter how wrong they are. What we put in our manifesto will depend on the mess we face"
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@RNLI
@MailOnline
@thetimes
RNLI does great work, and if it decides to share its experience and expertise that's going to cost money. A small amount of money, as we see.
The British people like to think of themselves as charitable. This is a project to make the world a better place.
With you all the way.
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Shapps is now accepting that he sets negotiating mandates. He denied it a month ago.
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If the BBC was a serious news operation it would have established
a) the US embassy relocation was approved by George W Bush
b) the US didn't own the Grosvenor Sq site, so couldn't sell it
c) the Trump Tweet of the Day is often a long way from the truth
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I love it!
Cameron's excuse for getting out of Sunak's shadow cabinet is that he couldn't hold Labour's foreign secretary to account from the Lords.
The other way round was of course no problem.
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Nikki da Costa was Boris Johnson's director of legislative affairs. She also designed an unlawful prorogation of Parliament.
She has a new job now, and all the tweets are gone, but this one is useful.
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The UK put its proposed tariff schedule to other WTO members on 22 July 2018, which might seem ludicrously late.
Did anybody at the BBC notice?
At least seven countries have lodged major objections to the proposal.
Shouldn't that be considered news?
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Johnson: People are not filling in the right forms.
Johnson, a year ago: People should refuse to fill in any forms.
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Johnson believes he is bound by the wishes of 17.4 million people.
He has that wrong. He is bound by the interests of 66 million.
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Carole Cadwalladr (for example) couldn't be allowed on without somebody "from the other side".
Raheem Kassam on the other hand...
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Why did Carillion continue to get contracts when it was already in trouble?
Why did G4S continue to get contracts after being found guilty of fraud over tagging?
Why did ATOS continue to get contracts after giving up the work capability assessment in disgrace?
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Raab is concerned about "untold anguish for victims of crime" all of a sudden.
He's ignoring the impact of the last decade, when the justice system has been cut by government choice.
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The current COVID death rate is more than 1,000 a week, which is more than 50,000 a year.
Is that OK?
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There is no "Remain". We've been out of the EU for seven months. Why are Brexity Tories incapable of working without a fictitious enemy?
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Questions following on from yesterday's
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scoop, and ignored by the BBC because:
1. Not invented here
2. Anything to do with Cambridge Analytica is somehow invisible to BBC news people
#wato
@lbc
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Reminder: Dominic Cummings used a sister company of Cambridge Analytica (AIQ) to target millions of UK voters in 2016, illegally overspending to do this.
We know a lot of the material used to influence them was disinformation. But was voter suppression another objective?
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On Sunday, 703 people crossed the Channel in 11 small boats.
What did Cleverly have to say on 18 June 2024 when 882 arrived in 15 boats, or 1 May 2024, well before the election was called, when it was 711 in 14 boats?
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Hancock: Please drop everything and start making lots of ventilators.
Manufacturers: What are the standards? What's the design? Where can we get the components? Have you only just bloody thought of this?
(Some of us will work something out, but not by next Tuesday.)
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Is somebody counting the contracts that G4S has cocked up?
And then the number of new contracts they were awarded afterwards?
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Gove: The people who were at the party have been disciplined.
Do they still work for the Conservative party?
Mallett is running a campaign for one of the Tory mayoral candidates in London.
Bailey is heading to the Lords for life.
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If Defra wants to blame the EU Commission for changing the rules for import of shellfish, but can't produce any evidence, is it useless or lying?
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For some people, the population of this country for the last three years has been a fictitious 17.4 million people.
The rest of us, including their kids, are still here.
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It's really not fair to let Yvette Cooper ask Boris Johnson questions.
She has a brain.
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I really don't want to put any individual down, and I am interested in the tiny snippets of history or constitutional detail that pop up from time to time, but this has been a tediously repetitive and painfully shallow ten days of broadcasting.
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Starmer: Why have there been so many deaths in care homes?
Johnson: We are working to cut the rate of deaths.
World, but not
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: Why don't you answer the bloody question?
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We've known for four weeks plus that Johnson and Hancock have been lying about test stats. Now it's official.
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Forty potential breaches of the Ministerial Code have not been investigated over the past five years
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Are you just going to keep on announcing that Johnson's "in invincible mode", or are you going to switch your brains on?
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Javid: Firms have had three years to prepare...
... for something entirely unspecified.
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It's still quite something to acknowledge that we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who thinks it's OK not to declare his earnings to his own tax collectors.
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Why did Carillion continue to get contracts when it was already in trouble?
Why did G4S continue to get contracts after being found guilty of fraud over tagging?
Why did ATOS continue to get contracts after giving up the work capability assessment in disgrace?
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Labour has not blocked a single thing in your collection of ludicrous immigration laws Mr Shapps, more's the pity. You have the majority.
This misuse of the word "block" is a dishonest framing of Labour as dangerous villains when they've done nothing.
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To hold a strike in the public sector you have to get the support of at least 40% of the electorate - not just a majority of the votes.
To run the country, Johnson got 29%, and 37% was enough to leave the EU.
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It's actually worse than No Deal. Australia has a quota for lamb exports agreed with the EU. The UK won't, and will be locked out of the market by Australia and - more importantly - New Zealand.
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Well said
@nazirafzal
! When will it "be the right time" to investigate all these offences by the powerful against the powerless?
And well done, to make your case despite Ed Stourton's desire to cut you short.
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I almost feel sorry for Liz Truss, having Brandon Lewis as a spokesperson.
Not as much as I feel sorry for all of us, having Truss as a likely prime minister.
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I've never switched
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Kirsty Wark insists on rejecting every other point as an "allegation nobody is here to answer". That's pathological.
People have broken the law.
A person has leaked a report which is not yet finished. Why?
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This isn't a prime minister, this is someone who tours the country collecting hi-vis jackets for the Downing St dressing-up box before catching his own plane on to the next escapist adventure.
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Two reasons James Cleverly's interview shouldn't have happened:
1. If mouthpieces are all that's available, that campaign doesn't deserve to be heard.
2. Cleverly said nothing of any substance.
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Owen Paterson faces expulsion - let's replace the committee.
Paul Dacre judged by Ofcom recruitment panel to be biased and unselectable - let's rerun the process with a new panel.
Government standards.
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Last week Humphrys shouts down a member of the Irish government.
This week Robinson does the same.
Would you do that with a member of the French or US government Mr Robinson? Or anybody but Ireland.
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Sunak had insisted all week that no final decision had been made on HS2. However, he later posted a video online – outlining why he had made the decision – that had been recorded in No 10 at least three days before the conference.
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One of his major qualifications for his new job is that he's tidy.
#wato
@mrjamesob
Toby Young has deleted almost 50,000 tweets today
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When does
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Steve Barclay: It's time to return power to communities.
What kind of communities? What kind of power? When did communities ever have power?
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I've just got out of my flat under my own steam for the first time since February 2020. Celebrating.
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Ministerial code: A minister who inadvertently misleads the Commons must correct the record at the earliest opportunity.
Johnson, 01 Dec, PMQs: All guidance was followed completely in No 10
He hasn't yet corrected the record.
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In 2006, a requirement for new houses to be net zero by 2016 came in.
In 2015 it was scrapped.
Global sodding leadership eh?
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Do you think it might be a habit?
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Saturday's Independent digital: "Patel faces scrutiny over Nigerian corruption case"
#BBCPapers
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No Mr Jenrick, your government detained 130,000 people - mostly in hotels - refused to consider their asylum applications, and pretended a Rwanda scheme would handle more than a few hundreds of them. You created the "hotel problem" which will now take time to sort out.
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December: That's all agreed then, and we'll turn it into legal language.
January: La la la....
February: What's this legal language stuff? It's unacceptable!
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Did MPs go into mourning in August 1976 when the clock was stopped for nine months or is this an entirely novel outbreak of idiocy?
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Will everybody please stop taking Johnson's little bursts of self-publicity seriously!
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The head of the UK statistics authority had to tell Boris Johnson he was wrong to claim that crime had fallen, but Philp is still making the same claims.
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