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So... Esther McVey is backing Boris Johnson because he’s going to take on board her “Blue-Collar Conservatism” agenda (aka fascism-lite), whereas Matt Hancock is backing him on a pro-enterprise One Nation ticket. Hmmm
It’s almost as if Boris Johnson were trying to be all things to all people.
It’s also as if Conservative MPs are falling over themselves to find excuses to support Boris Johnson’s leadership bid even though they must know deep down that the reasons don’t stack up
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Boris Johnson is reprising Vote Leave’s call for an “Australian points system” for immigration. A Commons Library paper from 2018 coyly stated “it has not always been obvious what advocates [of an ‘Australian model’] specifically have in mind.” I beg to disagree. It is obvious➡️
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The question that could sink Boris Johnson...
h/t @harrisimo 👍
Sorry @harrisimo, couldn’t retweet your original because Johnson tagged in, so would have broken one of my Twitter rules of engagement: never boost social media algorithms of purveyors of disinformation, polarisation or evidence-hating, anti-empirical zealotry. #UseScreenshots
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Stop referring to it as an “implementation” period. We haven’t agreed what we’re transitioning too, so we can’t implement it. It isn’t even a transition period. It’s a pre-cliff edge standstill period during which we’ll try to negotiate the thing that we’re going to implement.
Language matters. It’s partly this kind of abuse of language that got us into this mess in the first place.
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