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I am going to counterpoint Boris Johnson

With some words from Margaret Thatcher

Dear God

Can people stop fucking making me quote Margaret
"Your hospitality tonight precludes me from giving you one of those high-minded lectures on the importance of your behaving responsibly, which some politicians in the past have made the mistake of delivering to your profession."

"In any case, I am bound to say that I am reasonably satisfied with the traditional arrangement under which we politicians leave you journalists to get on with your job while you journalists tell us how to do ours."

"It is an arrangement which, for all its exasperations, is essential to the functioning of parliamentary democracy."

"Guardians of the public conscience you may be, and it is a noble role; formers of public opinion you certainly are, but you are also, and it is in this that your value largely consists, you are also reflectors of the public mind."

"Without you politicians would easily find themselves living in a cosy little world of their own imagining, blissfully ignorant, until too late, of what the people thought of them and of their policies. "

theguardian.com/media/2020/nov…
hence

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I once transcribed Boris Johnson and "bung a bob for a big ben bong"

I thought that was a low point

I was wrong

Today it was @MattHancock with @piersmorgan and @susannareid100

Here's a reminder of Boris

Before we start on Matt

Roll on to June 2020
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independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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[thread]

The WHY as always matters

This is deliberate

It is confected

It is concerted

It is the UK's fault that coronavirus hit us so hard

Not politicians

IT IS YOUR FAULT

Why is the Daily Mail so afraid
The headline

"Britain's status as the 'sick man of Europe'"

We aren't

Malta Has The Highest Levels Of Obesity In Europe

"With an obesity rate of 28.90%, it is the most obese nation in Europe, even though these numbers aren't high by world standards"

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Now you can go back to Newton

link.springer.com/chapter/10.100….
"Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature."
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[thread]

"UK's official contract is actually dated August 28, one day after the EU's contract."

edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/eur…
A reminder
"British officials had earlier declined to provide the contract to CNN, making no mention of the redacted version, and have repeatedly refused to give details on the country's vaccine supplies, citing "security reasons."
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[thread]

#StandingOnTheShouldersOfGiants

A small thread

On giants

So so many giants

God bless open global Britain and all who sail on her as she buccaneers her way on the seas raising her eyes to the horizon

The biggest giant - Boris

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