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29 Nov

"Maugham has, over recent months, launched crowdfunding for a legal challenge to the appointment of Dido Harding – wife of Tory MP and government “Anti-Corruption Champion” John Penrose – "

"- as head of the newly formed National Institute for Health Protection, without any interview process or open competition."

"It has ongoing proceedings aimed at answering the question “Just how does public money end up in the pockets of Cummings’s friends?” "

"Separately, last week it opened the latest in a series of cases against the Department of Health to shed light on the award of PPE contracts worth more than £250m to Saiger, a Florida-based jewellery company with no experience of supplying PPE."

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1 Oct

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Gizmo

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28 Sep

"At the end of October, Twitter announced that it was banning political advertisements. The announcement came after its bigger rival Facebook ruled out the possibility of banning political ads on its own social network."

"But not only did Facebook refuse to ban political ads, it also refused to subject such ads to fact-checking, something which critics said was necessary in view of the often deceptive nature of posts from political sources."

"Well, this controversial policy appears to have had the desired effect, as the incumbent Conservative government celebrated a "crushing" victory in Thursday's U.K. general election."

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Gizmo

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28 Sep

"Belief that Britain is a force for good in the world has plunged in the last 18 months, a national poll has found, with under half of the UK now convinced of the country’s positive impact."

"Just under half of Britons (49%) believe that Britain is a force for good in the world, down 10 points from April 2019."

"While 41% of Britons say the UK should punch above its weight in world affairs, the proportion who believe Britain should stop pretending it is an important power is up five points from last year to 38%."

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Gizmo

@Sakura509

26 Sep

"One year on, we know what happened next. An election, an 80 seat Conservative majority and Brexit achieved - the first stage at least."

"The prime minister's team will point to that as evidence their approach was the right one and he was on the side of the public."

Those bigots and cronies of #LiarJohnson & The Parrots 🦜🦜 might say that, but they are seeking to rewrite history and to brainwash the Great British Public into believing those LIES!!

Furthermore, they are WRONG!

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"In a democracy the government must do what the majority want. The current government’s “majority” is actually a minority of 43% of the electorate."

"What you have to realise is that this government’s “huge majority” is nothing of the sort!"

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Gizmo

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26 Sep

"Allan Hogarth, Amnesty’s head of policy and government affairs, said: “It’s a step too far to ban materials which question an economic model such as capitalism."

“The only extreme view here is the one which suggests that it's somehow illegitimate to even consider the validity of socio-economic systems other than the prevailing one – a system that has of course only been in existence for a comparatively short period of time.”

"And Andrew Scattergood, Momentum co-chair, accused the government of its own “cancel culture” – the accusation levelled at leftwingers in universities – saying: “The guidance references our fundamental rights to free speech."

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