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Aug 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Home Office are confirming the anti-migrant video has been deleted and ‘should not have been used on an official government channel’, but are currently refusing to explain why.
Worth noting the background information sent to journalists by civil service press officers yesterday also included the phrase “activist lawyers”.
There’s a line between what departmental officials can say and what politicians can say. I think it’s important to establish where that line is.
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Mar 25
The community notes on this are going to be a doozy. I give it a day before it gets disappeared.
Well, that was quicker than expected
In case you missed it, this official communication from the party of government included the following sentence: “In the depths of these narrow passage ways tread squads of ulez enforcers dressed in black, their faces covered with masks terrorising communities at the beck and call of their Labour mayor master."
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Apr 22, 2023
STORY

Boris Johnson returned to the Dominican Republic for the easter break - staying at the villa owned by Sam Blyth, his millionaire cousin who helped him get an £800,000 loan.

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Blyth's villa sits in the gated resort of Casa de Campo - well-loved by celebrities and the super rich.

He normally charges £4k a night to rent it out.
The Johnsons flew economy (bulkhead seats, extra legroom, natch) - but declared use of the VIP suite at Gatwick on the way out, worth £1500.

He's used the private terminals at Heathrow and Gatwick 27 times since August, at a total notional cost of more than £47,000.
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Mar 8, 2023
So there's been a series of PMQs questions complaining about 'extreme' sex education in schools.

These seem to have been kicked off a think tank founded by Tories Miriam Cates and Danny Kruger.

You will be STUNNED to learn they're not quite as advertised.

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Let's start with today's question from Miriam Cates. NCSU has published a ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR page report on the sex ed landscape in schools.

Not one of these claims is backed up by the report.

newsocialcovenant.co.uk/RSE%20BRIEFING… Image
For example, while there are (sniffy) references to 'gender fluidity' and gender positivity throughout, the number 72 only appears in page numbers and footnotes.

Nowhere does it provide evidence of children being taught there are "72 genders".
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Jan 21, 2023
🚨STORY🚨

Matt Hancock met with representatives of US tech firm Palantir at the height of the pandemic, offering to hand them the private information and Covid test results of millions of Brits.

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Emails detailing what took place in the October 8, 2020 meeting can be revealed for the first time, after an 18 month battle with DHSC.

They were only disclosed after the Information Commissioner stepped in and ordered them to do so.
The government insists it did not deliberately resist the release of the emails, claiming they only broke the statutory time limit by 17 months because they were just really busy.

Not a joke.
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Jan 20, 2023
God forbid actions should have consequences.
One day, Westminster will stop whinging about being made suffer the consequences of the expenses scandal.

But not today.
Perhaps if there was an acceptance that it was the generations of the political class caught with their fingers in the till who were to blame for the public anger, rather than whingeing about the public being angry...then people would be less angry.
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Jan 14, 2023
STORY

Two Tory MPs publicly expressed solidarity with locals plagued by enormous wifi masts popping up on their doorsteps...

...without mentioning they'd accepted donations from IX Wireless, the company behind them.

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Scott Benton's donation went unnoticed by some, because while it was on the Electoral Commission database, he hasn't declared it on the Register of Interests.

He says he doesn't have to because it was to his local association, not to him directly, and they're "separate entities"
Other MPs have declared similar donations from IX Wireless to their associations on the Register, under section 2a of the rules. For example.
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