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24 Jan, 7 tweets, 4 min read
Yes, this was always on the cards, as many of us correctly surmised, but for me, this has to be arguably the most anti-consumer, politically cowardly, wimping-out decision that the compulsively orally-flatulent Johnson has yet taken.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
Wonder what alleged 'feminist' Carrie-Antoinette thinks of her PM paramour's decision to keep the #BBC coercively funded by an illiberal regressive tax, non-payment of which accounts for one-third of all criminal convictions against women?
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Don't be fooled for one moment by our Wet-Lettuce 'Culture' Sec'y Dowden's promise the issue 'will remain on the agenda'.
What that means is 'right at the bottom of my Pending-Tray', and most unlikely to do anything other than remain there indefinitely.
Don't much like saying 'Told you so', but.....
Was almost nearly a year ago I predicted at @TheConWom
that Johnson would probably wimp out on his election pledge & post-election promise on #BBC 'licence-fee' decriminalisation.
The signs were there then.
conservativewoman.co.uk/is-boris-about…
While only 9 days ago, again at @TheConWom, I suggested that Johnson's pick for the new #BBC chairman indicated a strong likelihood that he would ditch his election promises on BBC funding reform.
conservativewoman.co.uk/backsliding-jo…
Recall when only recently Johnson went OTT as usual, praising the 'fantastic' #BBC for its online home-schooling provision during #Lockdown3?
Well.....
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
Yes, @WestminsterWAG, a masterclass in woke-indoctrination is precisely what it is.
What a pity, then, that your husband presumably supports it, along with retention of the illiberal regressive tax, aka the 'licence-fee', that coercively funds it.
dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
24 Jan
Just typical Nippy Krankie bluster & BS for her gullible domestic audience.
Without #IndyRef2 enabling legislation passed by the Westminster UK Parliament, it would just be an opinion poll, & could legally be ignored.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
As @Effiedeans so lucidly explains here, the latest 'road map to independence' put forward by Sturgeon & the SNP is neither a road, nor a map.
effiedeans.com/2021/01/the-sn…
UK Constitution expert: #SNP plan for #IndyRef2 without UK consent 'deluded and pointless'.
Unilateral vote would be vulnerable to court challenge to its legitimacy, and its result could be ignored, anyway.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
15 Jan
The BBC boat is not about to be rocked by its newly appointed Chairman; but the blame for which lies with a blustering, but backsliding & bottling Boris Johnson.
My latest for @TheConWom:
conservativewoman.co.uk/backsliding-jo…
"The BBC needs a chairman committed to demolishing its institutional groupthink. . . . . . .it isn't going to get one, thanks solely to the timidity & duplicity of Johnson and his flaccid government"
As pretty much confirmed by @Madz_Grant's perceptive sketch of the new BBC chairman's not so much grilling as gentle warming by an unthreatening DCMS Select Ctte.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/1…
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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
26 Dec 20
Moore is correct in his reminder of the logic of Brexit.
Less so, however in his a-little-too-fulsome praise of Johnson, whose current shine may start to dull quite quickly when the fine details of his deal start to emerge.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/2…
Already being reported that, as price of an ongoing deal with the #EU on security, UK has had to agree to remain bound by the ECHR, this ruling out any re-write or alteration for domestic purposes of human rights legislation.
That also means still subject to decisions of the judicially activist & expansionist European Court of Human Rights, which though not part of the #EU, nevertheless replicates several unappealing features of the ECJ.
Read 6 tweets
President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
22 Dec 20
Can't help feeling the 'could lead to a new, harsher, debt system' argument is just Johnson's excuse to break his promise.
The really simple answer would be to announce the definite abolition of the 'licence-fee' as part of the 2022 mid-period review of the current Charter.
But this would require some promise-keeping & political courage, both of which appear sadly lacking in Johnson's administration, and quite possibly also in his own psyche.
If an allegedly 'Conservative' government, despite a parliamentary majority of 80, won't even abolish an illiberal regressive tax, paid via the coercion even of folk who don't want to consume the product that it funds, then what's the point of a 'Conservative' government at all?
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22 Dec 20
So let me get this straight. In desperation to appease Napoleon Macron, Johnson will use British taxpayers' money to Covid-test non-British, especially French, drivers on British soil, so that they can return to France?
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/…>
Clearly a master negotiator!
Talking of master negotiators.....
Johnson offers to halve the amount by which Britain wants the EU's fishing catch from UK waters reduced, yet #EU still rejects his offer.
Why? B/c it knows he's so desperate, he can be pushed to go even further.
FFS, take his phone away!
Current EU fishing catch from UK waters ~82% of total.
Instead of sticking to wanting it reduced to only ~32% & over mere 3 years, Johnson offered a reduction only to ~55% & over 5 years, not 3.
And still the #EU rejected it.
Withdraw his latest offer, and walk away. Now.
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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
20 Dec 20
All part of plan.
1/ Ignore deadlines, spin EU talks out to last minute.
2/ Cancel Xmas for Tier 4 lockdown, b/c 'lethal' Covid mutation.
3/ Thereby provoke EU states to block travel/borders.
4/ Use Covid-caused 'import chaos' as excuse to cancel Brexit.
We're being played
#COBRA
"EU-wide travel ban in wake of Covid mutation........ferries, trains and freight lorries have been banned"
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/2…>
Which will of course seriously affect imports.
Despite so close to exit from Brexit Transition, the timing is of course pure coincidence, isn't it?
A PM with balls would now decide we don't need the distraction of continuing talks with a vengeful, intransigent & obstructive EU, abandon them for no-deal, & concentrate all our resources on ameliorating Covid mutation effect on ports & imports.
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