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So let's be clear: @ICOnews began a formal investigation into "#DataAnalytics for #PoliticalPurposes" in May 2017:
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putting out an "update" in July 2018:
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and a report to Parliament in November 2018:
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putting out an "update" in July 2018:
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and a report to Parliament in November 2018:
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And in January 2019, @ICOnews was still 'chasing' the (now insolvent) SCL Elections Ltd, i.e. Cambridge Analytica, for failure to respond to an enforcement notice on a DSAR:
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while clearly stating that its 'investigation' was still ongoing:
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while clearly stating that its 'investigation' was still ongoing:
Through 2019, @ICOnews handed out a few more related fines 👇 & even managed to get @facebook to cough up... £500k:
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It consulted (briefly) & "reminded" political parties to behave in #GeneralElection2019:
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But has pretty much...
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It consulted (briefly) & "reminded" political parties to behave in #GeneralElection2019:
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But has pretty much...
Thread: The UK Parliament is set to approve Boris Johnson's #Brexit deal in one hour.
It was thought Johnson's large majority in #GeneralElection2019 could allow him to defy the hardline ERG faction and be more flexible for an EU free trade deal.
But the opposite is happening.
It was thought Johnson's large majority in #GeneralElection2019 could allow him to defy the hardline ERG faction and be more flexible for an EU free trade deal.
But the opposite is happening.
Johnson is still promising “no quotas, no tariffs, no dumping”.
But the bill the parliament is about to approve, which rules out extending negotiations past end 2020, means an FTA with no tariffs now impossible.
A full FTA cannot be negotiated in 11 months.
But the bill the parliament is about to approve, which rules out extending negotiations past end 2020, means an FTA with no tariffs now impossible.
A full FTA cannot be negotiated in 11 months.
Brussels is responding by recalibrating its post-Brexit expectations, according to sources.
The landing zone is now expected to be a minor partnership, nothing like the Canada-style FTA promised.
Come 2021, Canada will have less tariffs on trade with the the EU than the UK.
The landing zone is now expected to be a minor partnership, nothing like the Canada-style FTA promised.
Come 2021, Canada will have less tariffs on trade with the the EU than the UK.
THIS WEEK AT CCC 🔽 our Fellows have been exploring the implications #GeneralElection2019 may have for the constitution.
The election has seen a fundamental transformation of #NorthernIreland political landscape @jevershed01 assesses what has changed and how this is likely to impact on the constitutional future of #UK
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.@MalcH provided a rundown of #GE19 results in #Scotland asking is this the new norm?
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Unit Director and Senior @UKandEU fellow Meg Russell gives her take on the consequences of the #GeneralElection2019 for Brexit and parliament with Uta Steiger @ukstaiger from @UCL_EI.
In this clip Meg discusses, what are the immediate next steps for Brexit?🤔
NEW Video📹
Unit Director and Senior @UKandEU fellow Meg Russell gives her take on the consequences of the #GeneralElection2019 for Brexit and parliament with Uta Steiger @ukstaiger from @UCL_EI.
In this clip Meg discusses, what are the immediate next steps for Brexit?🤔
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Meg looks at how the election changes the political situation in parliament.
We might have a weaker Commons due to an influx of new MPs finding their feet - this could the House of Lords steps up to hold govt. more to account.
Meg looks at how the election changes the political situation in parliament.
We might have a weaker Commons due to an influx of new MPs finding their feet - this could the House of Lords steps up to hold govt. more to account.
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And what structural changes should we expect in parliament?
Meg asks, will the Department for Exiting the EU cease to exist, if so, what structures will replace it to oversee the Brexit process❓
And what structural changes should we expect in parliament?
Meg asks, will the Department for Exiting the EU cease to exist, if so, what structures will replace it to oversee the Brexit process❓
I've had enough of Senior #BBC Management & journalists gaslighting the British public & refusing to apologise for the BBC's appalling #GeneralElection2019ً coverage. Complaint letter to Director Tony Hall here: docs.google.com/document/d/1T5… #BBCbias
@bbclaurak @Renegade_Inc @nw_nicholas @medialens @BBCNewsPR @TheMendozaWoman @LabourLeft @SouthHackneyLab @ta_mills @D_Raval A key point here is the #BBC are completely out of touch with their audience, partly because BBC complaints & monitoring is palmed off to outsourcing crooks #CAPITA. Send your GE2019 #BBCbias complaints direct to BBC management instead👇docs.google.com/document/d/1T5…
@bbclaurak @Renegade_Inc @nw_nicholas @medialens @BBCNewsPR @TheMendozaWoman @LabourLeft @SouthHackneyLab @ta_mills @D_Raval Here is Tony Benn's 5 tests for those in power. #BBC top brass answer public complaints with nothing but contempt, because they don't represent our interests, and are in no way accountable to us. #BBCbias cc @jimwaterson
I tried to make a more nuanced #GeneralElection2019 map. It runs from blue (100% Conservative) via grey to red (100% non-Conservative, ie Lab + LD + SNP + etc).
The UK is more complex than the bright, bombastic, winner-takes-all maps show. Much of it is literally shades of grey.
The UK is more complex than the bright, bombastic, winner-takes-all maps show. Much of it is literally shades of grey.
Obviously this still isn’t nuanced enough: ‘non-Conservative’ is a rather broad category, and I left off Northern Ireland which was just a bright red block given the lack of Tories there!
I was inspired to do this after making a similar map of the EU referendum. Maps of brightly-coloured regions were part of the toxic polarisation of that issue, with whole regions which were only 52:48 one way or the other labelled ‘leave’ or ‘remain’. Reality is again greyer.
Boris Johnson’s crushing win in Britain should be seen by progressives as a huge victory for the anti-globalization movement that grew out of the 1999 Battle of Seattle.
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This election was another referendum on #Brexit, on the public’s overwhelming resistance to the massive de-industrialization of Britain imposed by corporate interests in control of the European Union — for example, the wholesale shift of the auto industry from England to Germany.
Tony Benn warned in 1975 that joining the European Union (then the “Common Market”) was “the most formal surrender of British sovereignty and parliamentary democracy that has ever occurred in our history”. Benn was proven right with a vengeance.
🇬🇧¿Qué ha pasado en Reino Unido?🇬🇧
Después de seguir el recuento durante esta noche, y cuando quedan todavía una veintena de votos por recontar, estas son nuestras conclusiones de la #GeneralElection2019.
🧵DENTRO HILO👇
Después de seguir el recuento durante esta noche, y cuando quedan todavía una veintena de votos por recontar, estas son nuestras conclusiones de la #GeneralElection2019.
🧵DENTRO HILO👇
🇬🇧1. APLASTANTE MAYORÍA CONSERVADORA
El Partido Conservador consigue la mayoría amplia desde 1987, las últimas elecciones que ganó Margaret Thatcher.
Y han ganado con un mensaje claro: "Saquemos adelante el brexit". ¿Qué explica su victoria?
El Partido Conservador consigue la mayoría amplia desde 1987, las últimas elecciones que ganó Margaret Thatcher.
Y han ganado con un mensaje claro: "Saquemos adelante el brexit". ¿Qué explica su victoria?
🇬🇧El hartazgo de los británicos con el estancamiento del brexit, la claridad del mensaje, y el hecho de que el Partido Conservador no tuviera rivales entre los partidos favorables al brexit, después de que Nigel Farage decidiera retirarse de 317 circunscripciones.
Just got home from helping with coverage of #GeneralElection2019 and honestly I don't know how to feel... I'm currently between sick and angry (or some mixture of the two).
Apart from f-ing Brexit, which the conservatives will try to do with no deal messing up this country even more, I see no AND I TRULY MEAN NO reason why the Tories could possibly win such a majority.
We have already had 9 years where nearly every subset of people have been negatively affected... And now we're giving them, led by a noted racist bigot, practically unchecked power for 5 years...
Fantastic #GeneralElection2019 analysis from
@JamesMelville. Thread follows
Brexitannia: The British Identity Crisis on @BylineTimes bylinetimes.com/2019/12/13/bre…
@JamesMelville. Thread follows
Brexitannia: The British Identity Crisis on @BylineTimes bylinetimes.com/2019/12/13/bre…
@JamesMelville @BylineTimes The Great British public have decided to give the Tories five more years of power. To “get Brexit done”, millions of voters have stuck two fingers up at a window, without realising it’s a mirror.
Britain is now a battered ship Britannia sailing against the wind across stormy waters and travelling towards an iceberg which, because of a lack of planning and poor navigation, 52% of the crew somehow decided didn’t exist.
Been reliably informed that people respond better to Twitter threads so in the spirit of the future here is my #kentvotes master thread for the #generalelections2019 in Thanet!
More to follow.
More to follow.
Had a quick chat with Lib Dem South Thanet candidate Martyn Pennington, who is “really disappointed for the young people” who may not have been able to vote in the referendum #ExitPolls #kentvotes #GeneralElection2019 @kmtv_kent
North Thanet Green candidate Rob Edwards says he will continue to fight for local issues and that we may be on the cusp of the exit process #kentvotes #GeneralElection2019ً @KMTV_Kent
The UK polls are now closed and the British broadcasters exit poll is out showing a MASSIVE win for the Tories and Brexit #GeneralElection19 #GeneralElection2019 #ElectionDay
CCC coverage of #GeneralElection2019 ⬇
Throughout the campaign, our Fellows have been analysing the territorial issues and constitutional impact of #GE19
Throughout the campaign, our Fellows have been analysing the territorial issues and constitutional impact of #GE19
"it is far from certain what impact this would have on the Brexit process, given its wider volatility and unpredictability." @jevershed01 discusses #GE19 in #NorthernIreland & the impactvgreater representation of pro-Remain is likely to have
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General elections in #Scotland have always had a distinctive flavour, but the dynamics in #GE19 feel very different. @McEwen_Nicola on #GE19 campaign north of the border.
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Ali Avaei, a candidate of the UK @LibDems in the Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency for the British Parliament, is the son of Iran's dictator @Khamenei_ir’s representative & nephew of the regime's current justice minister.
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@LibDems @khamenei_ir .@ARMilani_, born in Iran & moved to the UK at the age of 5, is the @UKLabour candidate challenging PM Boris Johnson in Uxbridge & S. Ruisli.
British voters should beware of #Iran's growing influence in their country.
#GeneralElection2019
British voters should beware of #Iran's growing influence in their country.
#GeneralElection2019
@LibDems @khamenei_ir @ARMilani_ @UKLabour Listen to @ARMilani_'s remarks about Israel, Palestine, BDS, "the apartheid regime," "our movement" and ...
Interview with #Iran's state-run Press TV.
#GeneralElection2019
Interview with #Iran's state-run Press TV.
#GeneralElection2019
Early reports of my Election Day is that I am now cooking a big steaming vat of bolognese sauce. Updates to follow 🍝
Ingredients
Onions in
Just voted to save our NHS. ✅
Just voted against Britain's violent colonial legacy. ✅
Just voted to end British arms to Israel. ✅
Just voted for Corbyn. ✅
#VotingLabour #GeneralElection2019 #UKElection
Just voted against Britain's violent colonial legacy. ✅
Just voted to end British arms to Israel. ✅
Just voted for Corbyn. ✅
#VotingLabour #GeneralElection2019 #UKElection
My special election analysis from yesterday: electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
I don't want to exaggerate the significance of this, as it was only a small queue, but at my usually sleepy polling station I did have to line up to vote for the first time.
First time I can ever remember queuing to vote. #GeneralElection2019 #VotingLabour #VoteLabourToday
First time I can ever remember queuing to vote. #GeneralElection2019 #VotingLabour #VoteLabourToday
#GeneralElection2019 is here! And our Fellows continue to consider what the election outcomes might hold for #UK territorial and constitutional future ⬇
CCC Fellow @Coree_Brown @TheScotsman analysing @theSNP success in #GeneralElection2019 and the likelihood of #IndyRef2 following the result.
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Read @Coree_Brown @UKandEU blog referenced @TheScotsman 'The 'other Union': Indyref2 and the future of the UK'
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THREAD:
24 reasons you should not vote for the Conservatives if you care about the NHS.
If people can read these and still give the current government 5 more years, we may as well close the doors now.
#GeneralElection2019 #GE2019
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24 reasons you should not vote for the Conservatives if you care about the NHS.
If people can read these and still give the current government 5 more years, we may as well close the doors now.
#GeneralElection2019 #GE2019
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1. A&E waiting times are now the worst since records began.
In 2009 just 2% of patients waited over 4 hours in A&E - by 2018 this had risen to 15%.
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In 2009 just 2% of patients waited over 4 hours in A&E - by 2018 this had risen to 15%.
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2. The NHS is currently 44,000 short of nurses.
Even worse, more nurses are leaving than joining under the Conservatives.
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Even worse, more nurses are leaving than joining under the Conservatives.
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BREAKING: Polling stations have opened across the United Kingdom in the parliament elections, it is one of the most crucial elections in the countries history.
Polling stations will close at 10pm Local time, with results to be known most likely only Friday morning.
Polling stations will close at 10pm Local time, with results to be known most likely only Friday morning.
BREAKING: Polling stations across the United Kingdom have closed with exit polls forecasting biggest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher
#GeneralElections #UKElection #GeneralElection2019
#GeneralElections #UKElection #GeneralElection2019
UPDATE: Leader of the Labour party Jeremey Corbyn says 'I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign' does not announce his resignation, says he will lead the party during a period of 'reflection and discussion'.
The path to the UK #GeneralElection2019 (thread)
The 2017 general election, called by Theresa May to strenghten her hand in Brexit negotiations, resulted in a hung parliament. Turnout was 68.7%, the highest since 1997. The conservatives won 42.3% of votes and 317 seats.
This was below the majority of the 650 seats of the House of Commons - which was actually 322 seats, when subtracting the seat of the Speaker (neutral) and the seven seats of the Irish nationalist Sinn Féin (abstentionist policy: does not take its seats in Westminster).
The thing that gets to me re #punchgate and @bbclaurak & @Peston's role in it is how they've reacted afterwards
Compare with @afneil & Johnson's no-show. I was pissed off with the BBC & Neil until he did that piece to camera. That was fair enough, he can't force him to show...
Compare with @afneil & Johnson's no-show. I was pissed off with the BBC & Neil until he did that piece to camera. That was fair enough, he can't force him to show...
... but Neil showed he understood how out of order it was
But Laura K & Peston have acted like it's no big deal that "senior Tories" lied to them to manipulate the media narrative. Indeed I was quite disgusted listening to Election Cast where they downplayed it & made out it...
But Laura K & Peston have acted like it's no big deal that "senior Tories" lied to them to manipulate the media narrative. Indeed I was quite disgusted listening to Election Cast where they downplayed it & made out it...
... it was an unclear situation. Anyone who's seen the video knows there's no doubt there was no punch
What's problematic is that they've given no kickback against whoever fed them the fake information. There's no sense of outrage at being used by the Tories in this way. No...
What's problematic is that they've given no kickback against whoever fed them the fake information. There's no sense of outrage at being used by the Tories in this way. No...
2) On November 16th we wrote to local Tory candidate @RobertLargan, voicing concerns about Islamophobic, transphobic and homophobic comments made by former Conservative Councillor Clive Johnson.
3) We received this response via both email and twitter.
Russian Report EP3 | Susie Boniface: @BorisJohnson Russia links @KremlinRussia_E must be made public before the General Election this Thursday #ReleaseTheRussiaReport
The report @BorisJohnson is sitting on should be leaked by a whistleblower in the national interest. Voters about to choose the next government have a right to know what's been going on as after the general election 🗳 it’s too late 👇🏼 #ReleaseTheRussiaReport #GE2019
Since 2004, Russian trolls, service providers, security services and shady businessmen have been linked to political interference in 27 countries worldwide. #Russia
With Boris Johnson poised to win a majority in Thursday’s #GeneralElection2019, Remainers could be about to lose their 3 1/2 year fight to stop Brexit bloom.bg/348iGmm
3 problems currently plaguing the remain side
1⃣ The Liberal Democrat’s controversial Brexit policy
2⃣ Feuds within the People’s Vote campaign
3⃣ Labour’s ambiguity bloom.bg/348iGmm
1⃣ The Liberal Democrat’s controversial Brexit policy
2⃣ Feuds within the People’s Vote campaign
3⃣ Labour’s ambiguity bloom.bg/348iGmm
Jo Swinson’s election as leader of the Liberal Democrats in July was a high point for pro-Europeans. But her marquee promise to revoke Brexit has proved unpopular with voters who see it as undemocratic bloom.bg/348iGmm
