#Newsnight digs up a clip of @David_Cameron (then PM) saying that lobbying was "the next big scandal waiting to happen".

Oops.

#Greensill
@David_Cameron .@campbellclaret on #Newsnight, saying that Johnson and his ministers regularly break all 7 of the #NolanPrinciples - and he finds it "scary" that no one seems, with this government, to care very much about those breaches of public standards, or to view them as scandals.
@David_Cameron @campbellclaret Prof Elizabeth David-Barrett says on #Newsnight that the matters around Cameron/Arcuri are not so much about rule-breaking as "declining [public] standards".

And she gives examples, including those around (lack of) transparency.

@JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject
@David_Cameron @campbellclaret @JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject .@CharlesWalkerMP on #Newsnight - possibly a little milk-deprived - may be the only person in the UK coming out batting for Cameron, on the basis that 'a former PM's gotta have a life, and gotta be able to earn a crust'.

Astonishing tin-eared nonsense.
@David_Cameron @campbellclaret @JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject @CharlesWalkerMP .@vincecable says on #Newsnight that there is an accountability and transparency deficit at the heart of UK politics, and sets out why.

#Greensill #Arcuri #Cameron
@David_Cameron @campbellclaret @JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject @CharlesWalkerMP @vincecable Here is @maitlis's monologue from #Newnight on public standards.

Clear, concise, compelling.

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.@RishiSunak @michaelgove

I take it that this, by biggest @Conservatives donor Frank Hester, would be caught by your new ’extremist’ definitions and policy?

And that you will be cutting links and returning all his donations?

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@RishiSunak @michaelgove @Conservatives @CassHorowitz @JMSellers93 @RicHolden @OliverDowden It gets worse.

Disown him, NOW.

@RishiSunak @michaelgove @Conservatives @CassHorowitz @JMSellers93 @RicHolden @OliverDowden @metpoliceuk

I am reporting Mr Hester to you [see thread above] for investigation into this as a Racist Hate Crime.

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Some days, as an immigrant to Spain who loves the food and its approach to it, I just despair.

’Pork Pie Exceptionalism’, post-Brexit.

(And Spanish sausages have much less non-meat filler. And are better value.)

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And, by the way, NFEU is not the point.

Bloody leaving the EU •is•.

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Yes, let's lay a bet, shall we, on whether you can deport at least one forrin to a despotic regime in Africa before the next GE.

Gonna use a word I use sparingly here:

You're a total 𝑐 𝑢 𝑛 𝑡.

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.@chrisgreybrexit is compelling today on Labour and Brexit.

He even does an extended footnote on a referendum for (re)joining the Single Market.

And there's the wonderful phrase, too [commenter, last week's post]: "shrinkflated cupcakeism", to enjoy!

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Excerpts. But *please* do read the whole piece!!

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I see that @anandMenon1 comments today on the @paulwaugh piece which Chris mentions in

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Tell me you've not lived in Spain, without saying you've not lived in Spain.

I like the shops here being closed Sundays, festivals, and (mostly) between c 2-5 pm.

It imparts a pattern to the day/week.

It reminds you that pausing matters (customers and shop workers)...
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That said, it's a cultural thing, and it would not export well. In fact it's under pressure to change here too.

A +ve: it gives rise to periods where consuming is not all. It is part and parcel of quite a localist and home-cooking, anti-UPF, Spanish agenda.

I value it.
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UPF = 'ultra-processed food'.
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