Thread by @receiptkeepers

It’s been a huge week, and not just for football fans.

In the last 7 days, drastic legislative changes have been brought forward, the unrelenting cronyism at the heart of government continues to be exposed, and cuts threaten thousands of those most at risk.

Let’s recap:

1: The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill was passed with a majority of 100, attacking the freedom to peaceful protest, targeting traveller communities and homeless people, and rejecting statutory minimum sentences for rape.

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1412584569258364931?s=20

2: The very next day the Home Office published the equally draconian Nationality and Borders Bill, criminalising asylum seekers who enter the UK “irregularly” and those that aid them. It also includes proposals for removing people to “offshore centres”

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1412584906631401472?s=20

3: A third massive piece of legislation introduced this week, The Health & Care Bill, aiming to “modernise the legal framework” of the NHS, includes moves to allow NHS bodies to award contracts to private health suppliers without tender

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1412586266378616832?s=20

4: Staggeringly, a 4th act, the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill, was also approved on its second reading. It will repeal the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, allowing the PM to call for elections at will

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1412585539023290369?s=20

5: Further Conservative attacks, on some of the most vulnerable in society, have also been proposed, with the government planning to cut the £20 top-up to universal credit

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1413320112820609029?s=20

6: An inquiry has now been launched into the government’s ‘opaque’ handling of FOI requests, after @openDemocracy won their transparency court case against the Cabinet Office’s ‘Clearing House’

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1413320698735611909?s=20

7: An official investigation has also been announced by the ICO into the use of private channels of communication within DHSC, something @allthecitizens have been campaigning for for months

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1412585865587593221?s=20

8: Health minister Lord Bethell is under investigation too, for sponsoring a parliamentary pass given to the former aide of Matt Hancock, Gina Coladangelo.

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1412595892650233861?s=20

9: In other news, the consultation to formally privatise Channel 4 has now been formally launched by No.10

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1413319042010603520?s=20

10: Finally, it has emerged that more than £2.6m has been handed to the Tories from ‘shadowy’ donors since Johnson became PM

https://twitter.com/receiptkeepers/status/1413329687221264389?s=20

These were just the top 10 this week. The landscape around us is shifting daily, but we intend to keep on #KeepingTheReceipts. Follow and subscribe to our substack to keep updated and catch our weekly newsletter:
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