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In the mid-90s I set fire to myself. My sister and her husband arrived for dinner from the Isle of Wight. I turned up the gas on the stove and threw the pasta into the boiling water.
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As they came in I turned to greet them. The kitchen in our little flat was tiny. I leaned back and saw their faces turn from glad-to-be-here to sheer horror. Then I felt the flames at my back. My shirt was on fire.
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I'll spare you the details but I was extensively burnt. At Hammersmith A&E I waited many hours with no treatment for a doctor to examine me, just a protective pad over my back.
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Short story: The decline and fall of the UK's credit rating

Even before Trussonomics, the UK's triple-A rating has been downgraded under the Tories SIX TIMES.

0. STABLE Aaa (Blair/Brown)

1. DOWNGRADED to Aaa- in 2012 (Cameron)

2. DOWNGRADED to Aa1+ in 2013 (Cameron)

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The decline and fall of the UK's credit rating (continued)

3. DOWNGRADED to Aa1- in 2016 (Cameron)

4. DOWNGRADED to Aa2+ in 2017 (May)

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The decline and fall of the UK's credit rating (continued)

5. DOWNGRADED to Aa2- in 2019 (Johnson)

6. DOWNGRADED to Aa3+ in 2020 (Johnson)

7. 2022? (Truss) watch this god-forsaken space.

For the sake of UK plc, we have to stop these kamikaze Tories and #takebackBritain.

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To borrow from Hemingway, governments fail "Gradually, then Suddenly".

This is the Suddenly.

My new book explains the Gradually: the decade of hysterical farce that led to this.

Here are some reviews in a thread of shameless self-promotion...

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unbound.com/books/the-deca…
"Meticulous, brilliant, unstintingly splenetic... Our great-grandchildren will place it alongside Pepys, whose diary they will, correctly, judge much, much less funny"

– Howard Goodall, composer and broadcaster

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"A wickedly funny, furious, fast-paced romp through a decade of governmental failures"

– Rosie Holt, actor and comedian

amazon.co.uk/Decade-Tory-in…
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The UK has a sword-of-Damocles cost of living (and cost of trading) crisis hanging over it, and no effective government.
#takebackBritain
Will this get better when Johnson finally sheds his current snakeskin, and Truss or (just possibly) Sunak takes over? It will not. They both represent more of the same - a breathtaking disregard for real people.
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Amazingly (for Tories) they don't care about business either. When they had to choose between Brexit and business, they chose Brexit. They chose 'fuck business'.
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Say what you like about the suffering he caused to the victims and families of those who were sent to their deaths in care homes, but Boris Johnson got all the big calls right.
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Say what you like about Boris Johnson failing to chair Cobra meetings, shaking hands in hospitals, and sorting out his divorce, while tens of thousands caught Covid and died, but he got all the big calls right.
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Say what you like about Johnson embracing, enabling, and ennobling Russians in London, but when he saw the way the crowd was running, he did the right thing and ran out in front of them shouting 'follow me, because I get all the big calls right'.
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Right then.
We know Johnson is arrogant, lazy and dishonest, but his government is busy - busy with a slate of horrendous legislation which will damage our country for a generation, busy assaulting our institutions, busy undermining rule of law, busy poisoning...
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our waters and our discourse, busy destroying our international trade, busy denying the NHS crisis, and busy adding to the cost of living crisis. Busy bunging its mates peerages and billions in corrupt contracts. Busy partying while we suffered, and busy lying, lying, lying.
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They are out of control, while we are increasingly under their control. It is my civic duty, and yours, to fight back.

So I'm calling it.

Let's take to the streets.

It's time to #takebackBritain

Details of our plans and partners to follow.
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The problem with the Tories is where their money comes from.
The problem with the oligarchs is where their money comes from.
The problem with the 'think tanks' is where their money comes from.
The problem with the libertarian activist groups is where their money comes from.
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The problem with the 'taxpayer' advocacy groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the schoolchild advocacy groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the anti-vax groups is where their money comes from.
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The problem with the anti-climate action groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the rightwing 'disrupter' political parties, and their donors, is where their money comes from.
The problem with some new (and old) media outlets is where their money comes from.
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They say anti-Covid measures go against the British way of life.
No. It is British to be mindful of others. To go out of our way for others. Dunkirk came to define British spirit because it was a story about how civilians could play a heroic role in securing the safety of others.
Nationalists and libertarians want us to believe in a Britain of me-first selfishness and isolationism. That is their Britain, and, wrapping themselves as they do in the flag, they think they own - and they get to define - the very concept of Britishness.
But there is a better Britain than the one they portray. It is a decent Britain, a fair Britain, an open Britain. Proud of its democracy, its rule of law, and its protection of the vulnerable. That's why - to the surprise of some - I use the flag, and the words, #takebackBritain.
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Nobody voted for the privatisation of the NHS.
But that's what the Health and Care Bill allows.

Nobody voted for more sketchy health care contracts, given out in private.
But that's what the Health and Care Bill allows.

#BooTheBill
Nobody voted to lose the right to go to court when services are withdrawn.
But - you guessed it - that's what the Health and Care Bill allows.

This repellent Bill is in Parliament on Monday and Tuesday.

What can we do to fight it?

#BooTheBill
1 Join the demo at Parliament, Monday at 5pm, Richmond Terrace.

#BooTheBill
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#takebackBritain update. We have way too many members for in-house mailmerge to work. A good problem to have. So until I settle on a good mailing platform, my update is here.
First up: thank you. Extraordinary, website-buckling response. Heartfelt, insightful messages. A wealth of talent and experience for me to tap into as we grow.
You wanted me to liaise with others and I am doing that. Met some amazing activists, organisations and politicians. It's not quite a rebel alliance. But we're getting there.
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Right then.

The Health and Care Bill.

You know about it right?

It's in the Commons on Monday and Tuesday.

And it stinks.
There is no assault on our country quite like an assault on the NHS. An NHS already on its knees.

But that’s what this outrageous government wants to do with its Health and Care Bill.

We can’t fight every malicious manoeuvre, but we must fight this one.

What’s wrong with it?
The Johnson government’s NHS Bill is a Privatisation Bill.

We’ve all seen in the pandemic how bringing in private firms has wasted vast sums, and absolutely failed us as patients and as a country. What on earth are Johnson and co thinking? Image
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I was talking to a friend yesterday who is the national site manager for a very large supplier of animal feed stock. 12 sites across the country providing feed for pigs, cows and chicken. He was saying that in the last 6 months the supply chains for raw mterials have steadily..🧵
...been getting worse to the extent that they are now having meetings twice a day to decide what to produce depending on what they can actually get their hands on. The farmers can't get their stock off the farms because of driver shortages and staff shortages at the...
...slaughterhouses. So they're losing money. The feed companies like his can't pass on raw material costs because the farmers just can't absorb it. They can't always deliver whats needed anyway because of raw material shortages due to international supply chain issues. He said...
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🧵UXBRIDGE protest this morning #takebackBritain
This is the 1st of many activities you will see over the coming weeks & months. If you want to know if there's a group in your area, please contact .@madgie1941
Thanks also to .@DMinghella for his ideas. Also .@LloydHardy /1
First event in Johnson's constituency. Frightening lack of engagement today, but then we did have competition from a wildlife stall & Bertie the owl who was truly MAGNIFICENT! #takebackbritain
Our results came from interesting conversations on hard hitting questions about Johnson's performance as constituency MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip & PM. /3
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It's been three months since freedom day on 19 July.

Since then, thirteen thousand, five hundred and eight souls have been lost to Covid, RIP.

And around three thousand kids have been hospitalised with Covid, in England alone.

Some anniversary.

Libertarianism is lethal.
The libertarian stranglehold on our government, our institutions and our media is killing us.

The same ideology is leading us down a path to economic ruin and diplomatic isolation.

If you've had enough, join me by email at takebackBritain@reimagine.uk.com

#takebackBritain
(Reposted thread due to earlier errors - apologies! 😫)
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