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Nov 10, 2018 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
In a universe of dense Brexiters, @Jacob_Rees_Mogg is a neutron star:
-That Brexit turned out horribly doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it.
-Most UK trade is under WTO (a lie).
-Most world trade is under WTO (a lie).
-This is very smooth using “systems”.
-We don’t have those systems.
This is the leader of their faction. The leader. The one they see as future Prime Minister. The. Best. They. Can. Offer. God help this country.
Fuck me sideways

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This is such UTTER NONSENSE by Bulford. The whole point, which she is unable or unwilling to grasp, is that the BBC is complicit in giving these entirely opaque orgs the veneer of respectability they crave. It doesn't matter whether their views are challenged (which they're not).
Imagine I launched a private co called The Royal Trust Against Poverty. Would I ever be invited to comment on economic policy? NOT IN A MONTH OF SUNDAYS. And yet The Taxpayers Alliance or the (formerly) Institute of Ideas are precisely the flip-side of that.
The question is not whether the BBC challenges their views. By inviting them on, it de facto signals they have some authority to express them. Has it ever questioned their funding, agenda and reason for being BEFORE deciding whether they deserve a chair?
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I applaud Cummings' efforts to remove the PM. But it was under his guidance that Johnson ignored laws, prorogued Parliament, lied to HM, attacked judges, abused the press, lied to voters, sacked civil servants, hired 'misfits' and surrounded himself with a cabinet of fools. 1/4
Knowing - as he claims - that Johnson was a dangerous idiot, a 'faulty supermarket trolley', veering wildly from side to side, it was Cummings that trashed every single constitutional bulwark, designed precisely to keep an errant PM's course broadly straight and true. 2/4
If Johnson is the wrecker, Cummings is the enabler. It was Cummings that ensured 'Big Dog' was off the leash, causing maximum damage.

"It will seem chaotic and ‘not proper No10 process’ to some. But the point of this government is to do things differently", he wrote in 2019. 3/4
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Jan 6
Jury verdicts do not "set precedent". Seeing as you're so interested in saving your culture and heritage, you might want to open a book.
Aaaaand... "scene". Image
Then again, the same dude wrote this in support of the banning of democratic protest in the policing bill. It ends: "... look at the people around you. And if David Lammy is there, run like hell." @_SaveOurStatues

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Dec 16, 2021
More from Mordaunt US speech, suggesting human rights are secondary to trade and boasting UK will ditch regulation on procurement, data, gene editing, medicine, and agriculture.

“You want the prospect of a best-in-class deal on agriculture. Think you will get that from the EU?”
It's basically OPENLY advertising that Britain is now a free-for-all. Alngside offensively patronising advice like "you need to increase your relevance in the Indo-Pacific". No! Really, Penny? Gee, thanks.
These are utterly toxic notions and they are targeted DIRECTLY at the Trump base. The idea that trade with no standards can address corruption and human rights abuses. The idea that the EU stands in the way of Western capitalism fulfilling its destiny, by having RULES.
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Nov 9, 2021
THREAD: There is only one issue, in truth, here and I have been writing about it for over a decade. Since Andrew Lansley declared a donation from someone associated to a private healthcare co, WHILE he was Health Secretary. The issue is the notion of "above board". 1/
Politicians, of all ilks and at all levels, are meant to register ourside interests. The purpose of doing so is to make public any potential conflicts. This system, however, has been subverted by the idea that registering an interest somehow magically resolves any conflict. 2/
IT. DOES. NOT.

Politicians in a position to make or influence decisions should not be taking money from ANY entity, in a way that may or even APPEAR to compromise them. An obligation to declare would ensure this didn't happen. 3/
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Nov 9, 2021
There are hot takes and then there's Sherelle Jacobs.

Paranoid, McCarthyite, enemy-within dross, with one aim: to excuse those in power; to say that this maelstrom of isolationism, corruption and effluent is not their (or their pom-pom-shakers) fault. The opposite of journalism.
On a day the gov't is neck-deep in a swamp of sleaze, the morning after the PM ran away and left his MPs to defend a decision they were against, to begin with, four days into the Telegraph trying to ignore this story, up pops Sherelle to tell us it's AKTCHULLY all Labour's fault.
And her colleague, Olivia Utley, on Sky News obligingly defending this utter undignified nonsense, and continuing the Telegraph's attack on tHe LiBeRaL eLiTeZ by branding COP26 "a jamboree" and Barack Obama - WAIT FOR IT - "a has-been".
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