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17 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Lots of my tweets are about the misuse of taxpayers money by our Govt

So imagine my surprise this morning to find I am blocked by @the_tpa – THE TAXPAYERS’ ALLIANCE

This is a group that claims to represent “ordinary British taxpayers” fed up with tax waste

The truth?

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The TPA is a privately funded lobbying group based at the same Tufton St address in Westminster that campaigns for:

-Greater privatisation
-Free market capitalism
-Climate science denial
-State reduction

They call themselves an “independent grassroots campaign”

BUT...

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In reality they’re bankrolled by overseas billionaires that we’re not allowed to know about

Why?

To “respect their privacy”

Which is why they’re eerily silent on the BILLIONS wasted by our Govt on, say PPE

And very vocal on:
-Carbon tax rises
-Corporation tax rises

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-BBC license price hikes

Do you see the direction of travel here?

HARDLY GRASSROOTS

In fact, they’re one of 475 right-wing global firms promoting free, unregulated markets.

The best bit?

The TPA founder was also the founder of…

VOTE LEAVE

One Matthew Elliot

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...and there’s a whole other wild rabbit hole on him

Wonder why they blocked me

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16 Feb
Gavin Williamson has dealt another HAMMER BLOW to education

GUESS WHO LOSES

A few snippets from his latest plans...

1) Teaching grant to be cut by 50% to courses outside of Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths

F*ck business, media, the Arts

Poor Fatima needn’t bother
2) Removing the London Weighting allowance for London Unis

This means a pay cut for staff that work in these Unis

Because living, traveling and working in London has got cheaper?
3) Govt, NOT UNIVERSITIES, to set min entry grades

This will massively disadvantage students coming from a non-traditional A-Level background

4) Removing support for Foundation year courses

The same disadvantaged students will lose out

DOES THIS LOOK LIKE LEVELLING UP?
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18 Nov 20
IT’S HERE

The report from the National Audit Office on the Gov’s PPE spending

And it’s DAMNING

Here are the top 8 scandalous take-outs…

Brace yourselves
1) Contracts worth £18bn were awarded, £10.5bn of these with ZERO competition

2) Spending controls were not applied due to the seniority of staff working on contracts

3) Gov did not set out a process to mitigate risks such as bias or conflicts of interest
4) A “high-priority lane” was set up for firms recommended by officials, ministers, MPs & peers

5) 1 in 10 firms going through the priority lane got contracts vs 1 in 100 for the bog-standard lane

6) Sources of referrals to high-priority lane were sometimes not even recorded
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10 Nov 20
Gove in 2016

Says all rights & privileges of UK citizens in EU will be "carried on & respected" after Brexit

Gov website tells a different story...

1) Take out travel insurance with health cover – You may not have access to free emergency medical treatment & could be charged
2) Check if you need a visa/permit – You may not be able to enter or work in some countries if you do not meet requirements

3) Check what you need to make sure you can pass through borders - You may not be allowed to enter the EU if you cannot show you meet immigration rules.
4) You must now apply to be a resident

5) Check for disruption to journey before travel between UK and the EU - border checks may take longer. If you don't allow enough time, you could miss your flight or train

6) Get an EU driving license – UK license no longer recognised
Read 7 tweets
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8 Nov 20
This is REAL

And I can’t think of a more perfectly humiliating ending
Wait wait...

Here’s Trump’s advisor trying to pretend it was intentional

This is too much
If anyone wants me, I’ll be down this magical rabbit hole
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29 Sep 20
CHECK

CHANGE

GO

Piece of cake, right?

Not quite

I just had a go on the Gov.uk site to see what I'd need to do if I were a business that traded with the EU...

- Update all my import/export processes

- Make customs declarations for all imports/exports

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- Update accounting & reporting so as not to be in breach of rules

- Update contracts relating to accessing personal data

- Pay tariffs on import goods (though they don't tell you what these are yet)

- Get visas/work permits for you and your staff for travel to the EU

2/5
- Update your insurance

- Get permission to bring work equipment into EU duty-free (such as laptops)

- Check if you need to apply for a license for the goods you want to bring into the EU

- Hire a person to deal with customs for you (they assume you can afford this)

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13 Sep 20
Embarrassing

“Bullied” to uphold an agreement that your PM negotiated, signed, called a “triumph” and won a GE on the back of

And which you voted for

At what point in your career did you lose your way, @Alex_Stafford ?

And at what cost?

#ToryLies
Seriously how do these people get through life?

What do they tell their spouses? Their kids?

“Look, I know it’s wrong, but I’m just doing what I have to do, otherwise Cummings will have me out of a job - and now is not the time to be jobless”

Is that it @Alex_Stafford ?
And I get it

I get the courage it takes to dissent, to risk losing a well paid job

But to do the opposite

To keep actively promoting a stream of lies

Knowing it’s wrong

Knowing the damage being caused

That will stick longer than the temporary hardship of losing the whip
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