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11 Feb, 14 tweets, 6 min read
Thread on Gov’s chicanery to bamboozle the public on holidays h/t @alexwickham

✖️Jan 17: Raab people should not be booking holidays yet: “I think ATM it’s too early. Until we’re in a position to give the reassurance, I think it’s v difficult to plan.”

lbc.co.uk/news/too-early…
✔️Jan 18: Matt Hancock completely contradicted Raab: “I’m going to Cornwall. And I have said before I think we’re going to have a great British summer.” His remarks led to hotels and holiday companies urging people to book for the summer ASAP …
theguardian.com/politics/video…
✖️Jan 26: Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi then directly contradicted Hancock, telling Sky News he “absolutely” wouldn’t be booking a summer holiday yet as it was “far too early” to do so.

express.co.uk/travel/article…
✔️Jan 31: Optimistic 😎 Hancock doubled down, telling BBC Politics East: “In six months we’ll be in the middle, I hope, of a happy and free Great British summer.”

thesun.co.uk/news/13903872/…
✖️Jan 31: The same day, Liz Truss shot Hancock down, insists quarantine measures and restrictions on travel would be in place for foreseeable future, and that “it would be very dangerous for govt minister to make promises about people’s summer holidays.”

thesun.co.uk/news/13903872/…
✔️ Feb 1: On a visit to Yorkshire, Boris Johnson was asked whether the U.K. could have a “happy and free summer,” and said “I am optimistic” about the prospect of summer holidays, with the caveat that the vaccination program had to go well.

thesun.co.uk/news/politics/…
✖️ February 10, 8 a.m.: Transport Secretary Grant Shapps contradicted Hancock on the BBC’s Today program, warning: “People shouldn’t be booking holidays right now, not domestically or internationally.”
🤔 February 10, midday: Asked about the conflicting advice at the daily Lobby briefing, the prime minister’s official spokesperson produced another line, saying the decision on whether to book a holiday was “a choice for individuals.”
✖️Feb 10, 5pm: PM stressed it was illegal to go on holiday either at home or abroad and seemed to strike a more cautious tone: “I am afraid it is just too early for people to be certain about what we’ll be able to do this summer.” Laura Kuenssberg caught reacting on 🎤
✔️Feb 10, 5 p.m.: At the exact same time as the PM’s presser, Hancock inexplicably once again told Tory MPs on a Zoom call that he’d booked a trip to Cornwall, and shared jokes with Devon MPs who wanted him to holiday in their constituencies

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/coronavi…
🤡 Today’s Sun accuses ministers of “flip flopping” and “plunging summer holiday plans into chaos with mixed messages.”

thesun.co.uk/news/14013799/…
🤡 Mail calls it a “farce” and says ministers are bickering.

Charles Walker: “We had summer holidays last year when we didn’t have a vaccine. Now we’ve got vaccines coming out of our ears, we are told, ‘Don’t book a summer holiday’ for crying out loud.”
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Pro Lockdown Sage prof John Edmunds warned @itvpeston that if all schools are reopened on March 8 then 🇬🇧 would be “very lucky to keep R below 1.”

He also warned that the new Bristol variant could reinfect people who have already been infected or vaccinated.
So when people book holidays and spread the virus to ensure the vaccine rollout is compromised, who will be blamed?

newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…

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Fascinating @guardian interview with Stanley Johnson from 2012.

Clip 👇 and full interview here

Could provide some answers to the utter disregard of economic prosperity with #Brexit and #COVID19 if Stanley has played #CriticalRole in his son’s ideology.
There was this strange event too

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#Brexit project fear realised.

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Johnson talks with 30 business leaders about cutting red tape as ministers draw up plans to turn 🇬🇧 into “Singapore🇸🇬 of Europe”.

Govt source said Johnson pushing for 🇬🇧 to become a low-tax, low-regulation regime like 🇸🇬

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Last month Johnson raised the prospect of tax cuts for entrepreneurs.

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Ripping up red tape should be weighed against the cost of less preferential access to European markets.
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Playbook gossip from No 10 aides on rule of Dom:

“Dom would often go dark. For long periods and in critical moments he was simply absent from the building and unreachable. Most basic decisions, which bc of his all-pervading authority needed his sign off piled up in his in box
most of which went unanswered. Most decision-making simply became a matter of guessing what Dom would do — an odd way of forcing everyone to be brainwashed into the mind of Dom. He was entirely uninterested in 99 percent of issues or crises, leaving the No. 10 staff leaderless.”
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“That’s why on 2nd EU referendum (which I favoured) only one argument from the other side worried me.

It was that many of those voting for Brexit had seen the Leave vote as a rare victory. And if people like me took it away, it would be yet another sign that they didn’t matter.
“Now, in wake of #COVID and with Brexit looming, we may be about to prove again that they really don’t count. If you look at education in lockdown, you won’t be surprised by whose kids have fallen even further behind. Same for predicting whose jobs are going to go first.”
A germ of possibility lies in national tutoring programme announced last week to provide disadvantaged pupils with 1:1 tutoring to help them catch up.

👏 Why not make this £350M one-off perm and try to break the cycle of disadvantage and negative attitude to education?
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Susan Mckinney who runs 14 care homes:

“We had incident on April 10 where twice we rang hospital saying ‘we can’t accept this person back, we need them tested we need a negative test so we know what we’re dealing with. They turned up in ambulance and refused to go away.

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There was stand-off. Family members turned up, paramedics had poor resident on a stretcher at the door and wouldn’t go away until we allowed them in. And all we got was ‘you’re not following the guidelines’

We were threatened with the police if we did not let this person in.”
Care home managers were kept on the dark:

“Privately PHE was showing ministers data they had collected highlighting rapidly growing number of COVID outbreaks in care homes, data they had been collecting since early March.”

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