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21 Nov, 11 tweets, 5 min read
This week alone there's been more scandalous revelations on the Government's cack-handed PPE purchasing, the scandal of the Windrush compensation scheme, the Grenfell inquiry, Priti Patel bullying cover-up ...

... and Labour has focused on itself with inevitable results:
In case you've missed any of this ... 🧵

We’ve seen shocking testimony from Grenfell from the former employee of the cladding company involved

This is corporate manslaughter
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…
The scandal of the Windrush compensation scheme
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…
And the most senior black Home Office employee quit describing the scheme as systemically racist and unfit for purpose
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…
More evidence of the corruption, incompetence and waste at the heart of Government outsourcing

The Daily Mail even did a decent splash on this to be fair (though I'll link to a more reputable news outlet)
tribunemag.co.uk/2020/11/the-to…
The Tories poach Labour's ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ slogan ... and then offer a pathetic homeopathic version when it comes to the policy detail - which won't even get them back on track to meet their inadequate 2050 net zero target

We’ve seen the Tories cut funding to prevent anti-LGBT bullying in schools ... during #AntiBullyingWeek
bbc.co.uk/news/education…
Then, during #AntiBullyingWeek, the Home Secretary is found guilty of bullying by the independent Standards chief, but then cleared by the PM (and the Standards chief quits after being bullied to change his findings)
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
We’ve seen thousands more jobs go as more firms go into administration (and the Government still has no economic plan)
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
We’ve seen the appointment of David Goodhart – who has praised the racist hostile environment policies – as a Commissioner to oversee protection of human rights and equalities
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Even where Labour has attempted to comment on some of these issues (for example @RachelReevesMP who has been v good on the outsourcing scandal) ...

... all the media want to ask about or write about is ‘Labour civil war, pt 94’. And Labour only has itself to blame for that.
Shout out too for @AnnelieseDodds who has been clear immediately that @UKLabour will oppose another round of public sector pay freezes

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The first was Conservative Northamptonshire County Council in 2018
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Johnson says number of cases and hospitalisations are higher now than when we went into full national lockdown in March ...

So why are all his measures watered down compared with the lockdown measures in March - even in the Tier 3 areas? 🧵
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Why when workplaces are shut is furlough only at 67% instead of 80% in March?

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We were at the QEII centre to hear the result. Jeremy went into the green room with John McDonnell to be told the result. They’d go on stage before it was officially announced. John said if we’ve won he’d wear his tie, and if not he wouldn’t … or was it the other way around?
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Seeing lots of simplistic "tax rises suck demand out of the economy" nonsense on here - including from people who should know better 🧵 1/n
Do you know what does suck demand out of the economy?

People paying over half their income in rent
Debt repayments at high interest rates
Profiteering utilities and rail overcharging their customers Low wages
Benefit caps or freezes (i.e. deregulation and austerity) 2/n
Of course, *some* tax rises would suck demand out of the economy at this time – e.g. increasing the basic rate of income tax, increasing NI, or hiking Council Tax ...

(but I haven't noticed anyone suggesting these - except Sunak hiking NI for self-employed, which is dumb) 3/n
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Interesting comments by Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey in the Telegraph today ... 👀

Remember when @jeremycorbyn said "austerity is a political choice, not an economic necessity"? Well, it was true then and it's true now ... 🧵
🏦Bailey says, "We can help to spread over time the cost of this thing to society and that to me is important. We have choices there and we need to exercise those choices"
But it's not just the Bank of England converting to anti-austerity economics ...

The IoD's Chief Economist argues, "The best way to address the public debt burden is actually by boosting growth and productivity. For now, the Treasury can tap low interest rates to help fund this"
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