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Jim Pickard 🐋 Profile picture
@PickardJE
Oct 1, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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in case you thought the idea of building anti-migrant walls in the English Channel is either 1] trolling by Number 10 or 2] blue-sky thinking

I can reveal Home Office has launched a secret consultation with the maritime industry into how this might work:

ft.com/content/ac028f…
email from September 17 reveals Home Office wants to find solutions to “the small boats challenge”.

Joint Security and Resilience Centre (part of HO) is working with Border Force and Dan O’Mahoney, a former Royal Marine recently appointed "Clandestine Channel Threat Commander"
here are the relevant passages making clear that “marine fencing” and other technologies are being sought by Home Office to block asylum seekers in boats
this is not entirely novel, in that the Greek government has already announced a similar plan just off Lesbos

theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…
but @MaritimeUK (the industry umbrella group which passed on the request to its members) says:

“The clear view, which we shared with the Home Office, was that as a matter of international convention, that this is not legally possible.”
FT readers respond
how could I miss this classic reply
“a sticky floating barrier made out of Werther’s Originals”
the Home Office have provided a reply, 8 hours post-deadline:
tonight’s @FT front page

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May 9
look away now if you have zero interest in employment law, because this thread is going to compare and contrast - in minute detail - the 2021 Labour New Deal For Working People and the new, rewritten version which I got hold of yesterday.....
- Labour insists this new document does not represent a "watering down" of its signature package of employment policies designed to help workers

- that's because some of the big changes were made behind closed doors at last year's "national policy forum" and so aren't new per se
but it's worth a reminder of how significantly some of the biggest New Deal pledges have shifted since the original 2021 document
Read 15 tweets
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Jan 3
- Morgan McSweeney, Labour's head of campaigns, gave an anti-complacency presentation to the shadow cabinet before Christmas

- his slideshow (which I've got hold of) features recent elections which defied almost all predictions when voters actually went to the ballot box
- the presentation is a useful tonic for the surprisingly widespread view that Labour is cruising for an easy landslide victory

I've written an @ft column on it today here:

ft.com/content/6d51dc…
At one point in 2019, the SPD was only the fourth most popular party in the German polls, on a meagre 13 points

Yet Olaf Scholz’s party somehow emerged victorious in September 2021, confounding forecasters Image
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Aug 25, 2023
remember when Boris Johnson’s distant cousin was offering to guarantee an £800,000 loan for him?

and a few weeks later he popped up on an FCDO list of four suggested candidates to be chief executive of the British Council?

and no one could explain how that happened?
we only knew any of this thanks to dogged reporting by @HarryYorke1 and @Gabriel_Pogrund at the Sunday Times
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@HarryYorke1 @Gabriel_Pogrund I put some FOIs into the Foreign Office in January which they’ve finally answered after seven months of prevarication and stonewalling

(albeit heavily

and it turns out Nigel Adams, one of Boris Johnson’s closest ministerial allies, was involved in the recruitment process
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Mar 22, 2023
Rishi Sunak paid an effective tax rate of 22% on his almost £2m of income, the same rate (21%) as the average nurse

Tax Justice UK says: “our tax system is set up to allow the super-wealthy people to pay low levels of tax"
as the @ft explains

ft.com/content/ae6746…
should have namechecked @robertnpalmer and @TaxJusticeUK
Read 4 tweets
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Mar 14, 2023
the UK government is planning to eliminate import tariffs on palm oil from Malaysia, a product blamed for widespread deforestation, as the price of joining an Asia-Pacific trade deal, prompting outrage from green campaigners

ft.com/content/eb8b75…
Clare Oxborrow, senior sustainability analyst at Friends of the Earth, said the plans could lead to more devastating loss of forest ecosystems.

“This concession is completely at odds with the government’s commitment to curb deforestation from UK supply chains”
Compared with EU, which retains palm oil tariffs and is planning tough new rules against imports linked to deforestation, the UK has a relatively light regulatory approach, with a law that only addresses deforestation defined as illegal under local laws in producing countries
Read 4 tweets
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Mar 13, 2023
🚨 London and Edinburgh are heading for another constitutional clash as Rishi Sunak’s government prepares to thwart a controversial bottle recycling scheme in Scotland

ft.com/content/25d4a3…
the Scotland bottle scheme may sound esoteric but it’s set to become a major constitutional flashpoint - and a key test of devolution
reaction from @GreenpeaceUK which says the Westminster government is failing to live up to its own "mantra" of tackling plastic waste:

"not content with fumbling their own attempts at an effective DRS, the UK government is trying to kibosh Scotland's more ambitious scheme"
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