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2 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Proportional Representation can fix the gender balance problem in Parliament on DAY ONE.

Under PR each party puts forward a list of candidates in order of preference depending on how many votes the party gets.

So you make it the law that it alternates woman-man-woman-man etc.
Anyone who thinks I'm suggesting some crazy new idea that's never been done before...
Please look across the Channel. Just for one second.🙄
Also, you see women make up 34% of UK MPs, and me suggesting that we make it 50% and you're like "NOOOOOOO!"...
And to the people saying we should "let it be 50%" not "Make it 50%"... How has that worked out so far?

It's called systemic inequality because the people running the system maintain that inequality.

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29 Jan
Thank f*** for that. I had a 3-part thread ready to go, slamming the commission over #Article16.

I'll put the it below because it's still useful to say.
news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
1/5
 If not for the pandemic, the path we were on was going to see the UK government unlawfully allowing unchecked goods into Northern Ireland, forcing the EU Commission to tell Ireland "To avoid a hard border and protect the Single Market, we need France-Ireland border checks.".
2/5
 That would put the Ireland in a position of having to choose between being letting Brexit damage peace, being dragged out of the Single Market or uniting Ireland.

That's a horrible position, entirely the UK government's fault, but it avoids any abrupt border disasters.
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27 Jan
Today's interview with Robert Jenrick and the one Matt Hancock did on GMB prove that all the Tory MPs have been given one simple instruction:

Under no circumstances admit to doing the wrong thing, or any responsibility for the consequences of that wrongdoing.
In both circumstances...
Matt Hancock would have looked better if he had simply told @susannareid100 & @piersmorgan that he regretted not getting the kids their meals sooners.
And Robert Jenrick would have looked better if he'd said something along the lines of "I believe we were too hopeful about how things would go, and too worried about damaging the economy our citizens have to live in."
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27 Jan
Robert Jenrick:
"Some people have been profoundly impacted by this".
(The most British way over saying "over 100,000 people died" ever.)
Robert Jenrick:
"There is no textbook for how to handle a pandemic like this"
(I'm pretty sure there bloody well are)
Robert Jenrick:
"There will come a time when we should learn lessons"
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26 Jan
With 100,000 Covid deaths, Journalists better mention that Boris Johnson:

Feb-
Said he wanted UK to have the loosest reaction to Coronavirus.
Skipped 5 Cobra Meetings.

Mar-
Told people to shake hands
Allowed mass crowds

May-
Denied the Stay Home order existed to save Cummings
Seriously!?
This was a #DowningStreetBriefing SPECIFICALLY on how we ended up at 100,000 Covid deaths!
None of you journalists mentioned this!?!

NONE OF YOU mentioned this!?
#DowningStreetBriefing
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22 Jan
😄 I tweeted this last night because I expected a Twitter storm over Nissan.
Just logged on to Twitter properly... and I see everyone is having fun. So let's address some things...
1) As explained above, we damaged the supply route 70% of Nissan cars use, so now their survival depends on swallowing those costs or increasing their market share in the UK.
But their competitors in the UK will be thinking the same thing, so keep an eye on TOTAL UK car jobs.
2) A vital part of increasing their market share in the UK will be bigging up their plans for the UK with announcement like today.
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21 Jan
The same reason some white people didn't want to take the vaccine invented by Turkish Immigrants, is why too many black people are nervous about taking the vaccine which Boris wanted to put a British flag on.
This government's vaccine nationalism is going to get people killed.
Black people's vaccine nervousness is ultimately wrong as the vaccine is safe, but given that the man who tried to plant a UK flag on it said blacks have watermelon smiles and the UK should still own Africa and suppressed the Covid Bame report for months... it's not surprising.
.@Nadine_Writes explains it far better than I can, but my key point is:

When people start getting back into work, a person's vaccination status will almost definitely be a factor.
So, black people, we cannot afford to face further discrimination. Not now.
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/black-as…
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