#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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2 Apr
I wonder if @Keir_Starmer or someone in @UKLabour could advise us as to what kind of voter Labour is trying to attract on 6 May?

"...traveller incursions..." Image
@Keir_Starmer @UKLabour (As @JudiDoodlecat has just pointed out,) what does

"𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 traveller incursions..."

actually mean? Image
@Keir_Starmer @UKLabour @JudiDoodlecat .@charlotte2153

Perhaps (since this is image is taken from a tweet of yours) you can offer some insight?

In particular, is this not inflammatory, in view of the anti-traveller part of the #PCSCBill? Image
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.@LindsayHoyle_MP, the House of Commons Speaker, seems more concerned with the occasional good wishes expressed in #Cymraeg and #Gaeilge than he does about misinformation and lies spoken by UKGov ministers.

bit.ly/2P5jC8Z
@LindsayHoyle_MP And, if anyone wants to say: 'Hoyle doesn't make the rules' ...

.. then I'd respond: the HoC rules are no longer fit for purpose, and need to be changed.
@LindsayHoyle_MP Of course, there's a problem with this.

The House is theoretically in charge of its own rules.

But, really, Johnson is.

Since the current rapacious government, with its majority, has a stranglehold on HoC rules and procedures, nothing will change.

It's still true, though.
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No.

@pritipatel is - and has been found to be - a bully.

On her public utterances alone, "kind" is the last word anyone would apply to her.

@TomTugendhat used to be so much better than this feeble submission to all things neo-Tory.

What happened to him?
@pritipatel @TomTugendhat The only reason Patel may have some support across parts of the Tory bedrock vote, despite her incompetence and bullying, is that her unremitting xenophobia appeals to part of that increasingly UKIPified constituency.

@pritipatel @TomTugendhat And, after her frankly subversive Israel meetings, she should never have been appointed to a senior or indeed any govt post.

The only reason she was, was her hardline Brexiter credentials.

Mr Tugendhat does himself no favours in supporting her.

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Such a vile tweet, which implies that you cannot be both Muslim and British/English.

This tweet is reported to @Conservatives @10DowningStreet @amandamilling and to @HoCStandards.
@Conservatives @10DowningStreet @amandamilling @HoCStandards @Mike_Fabricant To be scrupulously fair, Fabricant did also tweet as below a little later.

But the tweet at the head of this short thread has not been deleted, or apologised for. Image
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.@LindsayHoyle_MP now has the summer to contemplate what the future for HoC is to be, and what he wants as his legacy as Speaker.

Options:

1) HoC becomes a fossilised institution, honoured in the breach by a rampantly authoritarian Tory government....

[1/?]
@LindsayHoyle_MP ...Gradually, HoC offers less and less scrutiny over runaway Executive power-grabbing.

To achieve this, Sir Lindsay needs to do... precisely nothing. Carry on turning the creaking Parliamentary cogs, as if nothing were wrong.

[2/?]
@LindsayHoyle_MP Option 2) HoC revivifies itself as a (even, the) wellspring of democracy in our country.

To achieve this, Sir Lindsay will need to be bold. With others, he will have to find new ways of working...

[3/?]
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Why is Farage breaking the law by not self-quarantining after his trip to the US?

@metpoliceuk @kent_police
@metpoliceuk @kent_police For clarity, here is the current position on self-quarantining on a return to England.

bit.ly/2VOGSsG

bit.ly/31JEDdZ
@metpoliceuk @kent_police Here is Farage in US on 20 June.

Looks like he may have been in Florida when he posted that tweet.

That's a 5 hour time difference.

So, when he posted at 15h15 local time, it was 20h15 in the UK.

20h15, 20 June <--> 13h23, 4 July is less than 14 days.

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