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2 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
you don’t need to be a super-forecaster to guess the impact of JD Wetherspoon offloading its beer at 99p a pint on Wednesday

ft.com/content/1e98ff…
on the plus side William Hague will be able to procure his daily 14 pints for just £13.86
showing my age here with a contemporary reference from the year 2000

google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
so @tianran reminds me how the local pub landlord remembered Hague’s drinking “exploits”:

“Some of the old boys have been coming in here for donkey's years and no one can remember Hague coming in for as much as a half of lager. He....was known as Billy Fizz and Billy the Pop.”
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5 Nov
I know everyone is distracted by the USA but Rishi Sunak extending the entire 80% furlough to the spring is a huge U-turn - even by the standards of this, the *government of the U-turns* - and a reminder of the grim winter prognosis
here’s the @FT story - it’s hard to think of an economic statement that has been as comprehensively ripped to shreds as Sunak’s September “winter economy plan”

ft.com/content/8f9371…
- first (September announcement) it was 22% state support for furloughed jobs
- then they added 67% for furloughed staff in Tier 3
- then (late October) overall scheme became 62% of hours not worked
- then it was 80% for 1-month November lockdown
- now it’s 80% for six months
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3 Nov
Sadiq Khan has just confirmed that the Greater London Authority (GLA) will leave City Hall (aka the glass gonad) next year and move to The Crystal building in the Royal Docks - estimated saving £61m over five years
if you're interested in the etymology it was Ken Livingstone who dubbed it the "glass testicle", Boris Johnson who called it the "glass gonad" and then latterly "The Onion"
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29 Oct
Breaking:

The Labour Party has been served with an unlawful act notice after an investigation into antisemitism by the Equality and Human Rights Commission found it responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination.
From the @EHRC

The Party is responsible for three breaches of the Equality Act (2010) relating to:

- Political interference in antisemitism complaints.
- Failure to provide adequate training to those handling antisemitism complaints.
- Harassment
"The EHRC found evidence of political interference in the complaints process, with 23 instances of inappropriate involvement by the Leader of the Opposition’s Office (LOTO) and others in the 70 files looked at."
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28 Oct
soy sauce was going to be more expensive because of Brexit but now it's exactly the same why aren't you more grateful
and now the experts (typical experts) are telling us that most of our soy sauce comes from the EU with which we may or may not have a trade deal, great thanks
so complicated, who knew
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20 Oct
Grant Shapps has threatened to seize control of Transport for London unless Sadiq Khan accepts package of measures inc higher council tax, pension reforms, larger congestion charge zone and higher fares in return for rescue funding
ft.com/content/fc7ad3… via @financialtimes
letters have leaked:

this month Shapps, transport secretary, wrote to Khan setting out a list of demands in return for any financial rescue package, according to a letter seen by @FT:

key is the threat to use new legal powers to “direct TFL” aka seize control of the authority
Shapps demanded:

- extra council tax supplementary payments from Londoners

- congestion charge to be 18 times larger (from north circular to south circular)

- fares to rise by more than RPI+1%

- pension reforms at TFL

- fewer fare concessions

- driverless trains sooner
Read 13 tweets
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1 Oct
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
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