[thread]

On the UK "will not hesitate" to tighten border controls

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/2…
For the record

Months the UK "hesitated"

January 2020
February 2020
March 2020
April 2020
May 2020
June 2020
July 2020
August 2020
September 2020
October 2020
November 2020
December 2020
January 2021
February 2021
Priti Patel

Is eager to divulge internal debate held in cabinet to bolster her reputation & get a boost for Tory leadership post Boris

“On ‘should we have closed our borders earlier?’ the answer is yes, I was an advocate [of] closing them last March.”

theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
So this is going to be a really simple thread

I have a larger thread on Priti Patel

Which we will come to at the last

But I want to focus on

“On ‘should we have closed our borders earlier?’ the answer is yes, I was an advocate [of] closing them last March.”
So I would ask of Priti

What evidence did you have that informed your advocacy?

Did you have (to borrow a phrase) an "absolute burden of proof"?

Was it just a hunch or belief?

Were you trying to "do-good" so to speak?

Now if I was Home Secretary

In March 2020

As a pandemic was raging out of control and resulting in a panicked delayed and late lock down

I would be marshalling and arguing

All my skills

All the evidence or views I held

To persuade my colleagues of my case
And behind that would come the fact

That I am the British Home Secretary

One of the senior offices of state in Her Majesty's Government

And the weight of that office behind marshalled behind that argument
If I had clearly failed to persuade your cabinet colleagues

In a room full of people who wanted to "take back control" of our borders

IF I had managed to fluff up persuading them that in the midst of a public health emergency they had allowed to "ramp up" out of control
I did not manage to persuade

I would take a lesson from that

On the evidence I brought

On the hunch I brought

And on how I marshalled my arguments and persuade people
And if I failed in March 2020

I would be eternally vigilant

As the UK death toll went from ..... well you know the numbers there through Spring of 2020

To where we are now
I would be keeping an eye on other countries that did similar travel restrictions

And how they fared with those

Of course - its no simple direct analogy - every country has a panoply of measures they choose to follow in containing coronavirus
To borrow a phrase

I would take notes

Boris Johnson 17/4/2020

"I’ve been comparing notes & talking to leaders around the 🌍, & I can tell you that 🇬🇧 is leading a growing global campaign amongst friends & allies"
And over the course of the virus progression

I would be revisiting that decision back in March 2020

And reminding my cabinet colleagues of the growing strength of concern and basis for travel restrictions
I would be refining and preparing the plans and detail of how to implement travel restrictions

So that should that day come when I do win the argument

The Home Office is ready to go

It has a plan

It is oven ready (again to borrow a phrase)
Here we are in February 2021

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-560479…
Now I remember the days where Conservative's used to get annoyed at a Home Secretary for getting a number wrong

theguardian.com/politics/video…
On police funding - here's also a thread on the priorities of the "People's Government"

Yes the one who cut police funding for a decade

Denied the consequences

Blocked their local police federation

And now want your gratitude

They also weaponise other topics

A reminder: they told the police to shut up and stop crying wolf

Anyway sorry back to Priti

it is the headline

gets it "wrong for second time in three days"

uk.style.yahoo.com/priti-patel-co…
So to end with two threads

One on Priti Patel

And two more general questions

Priti Patel said Boris Johnson was "ahead of the curve"

Ask her to explain

1. What absolute burden of proof does she have for that claim?
2. What would the UK had looked like if we were "behind the curve"?

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