.@NickCohen4:
“I have spoken to many Conservative sources who are concerned about the way their party is heading and equally concerned that the security services are evading their responsibilities…Observer tried to talk to MI5 but, perhaps inevitably, it didn’t answer our qu’s”
“Russia & China want to influence Brit politics. One way to do it is to give money to ruling party & run front orgs. In 2010s, Sergey Nalobin of Russian embassy set up Conservative Friends of Russia. In 2015, his diplomatic visa was revoked after the security services intervened”
“Such is the decadence of the Johnson regime, no one expects anything of it. Johnson has rich men pay for his holidays, his decorators and even the food on his plate. To say he is up for sale is to understate the case against him. He has already been bought.”
“The old Britain of good chaps who could be relied on, occasionally, to do the right thing has died. We do not have a government of good chaps any more, only of bad actors.”

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10 Jul
“Southern was not alone..Environment Agency data for 2020 showed water companies discharged raw sewage into rivers and coastal waters in England more than 400,000 times, up 37% on the previous year.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
“Thatcher’s govt wiped out the industry’s debts prior to privatisation; since 1989 the industry has loaded it back up again with £48bn.
Research….found that the debt was not used to fix leaky pipes or treatment works but went straight into shareholders’ pockets.”
“shareholder divs since 1989 reached total of £57bn. In that time, customers’ water bills have increased by 40% above rate of inflation. It is the water users who have paid for upgrades to network, such as they are, while shareholders walk off with cash paid for by higher debt”
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9 Jul
“many scientists & health experts have angrily challenged the govt’s argument:
‘The world is looking at us with disbelief - a country with some of the best universities & minds acting with arrogance’ says Ravi Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at Cambridge university.”
“The proposed end of compulsory mask wearing on public transport and in crowded indoor spaces has attracted the strongest criticism. Gupta says:
‘It defies logic and it’s criminal frankly. There will be unnecessary deaths as a direct result of that’.”
“clinical psychologist Julia Faulconbridge:
‘Long Covid is a serious problem, with 10-20% of people, including children, who catch the virus suffering illness, disability & psycholog problems for months & that appears to have been completely neglected in [govt’s] announcement’.”
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6 Jun
“Compounding the ill-feeling is the belief that while the Commission, according to officials, is working flat out to find flexibilities, the UK is either dragging its feet on implementing the Protocol, or publicly criticising the EU’s interpretation of it.”
“The UK pushed for the EU to agree an equivalence deal, whereby UK food standards are accepted as similar to EU ones…the EU rejected this, arguing that the UK had pledged to diverge from EU standards”
“Instead, EU has urged UK to consider SPS agreement, aligning with EU’s food safety & animal health rules, even temporarily, in order to do away with 80% of checks on the Irish Sea. London has refused to consider this.”

So Johnson is prioritising chlorinated chicken over NI
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5 Jun
“the govt learned its lesson [from care.data]. Which is to say that 8 years on it’s doing same thing, only in less time, without public awareness campaign, with trickier opt-out, & in the middle of a global pandemic. Have you, at some level, got to admire the work?”
“difficult to summon anything other than deep suspicion, born of bitter experience, about fact that @NHSDigital has barely informed GPs, waiting till last minute to order them to submit records of every patient, where they’ll become permanent & irreversible part of new database”
“According to the very much un-promoted page on the NHS website, the NHS will be able to unlock the pseudonymisation codes ‘in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason’.”
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3 Jun
.@LaylaMoran:
“It is staggering that Heathrow only this week announced that it has received the government support needed to ensure travellers arriving from red list countries have a separate terminal, rather than waiting alongside those from green and amber list countries.”
“Even now, those arriving from red list countries who have transited via another destination are being allowed to mix with others, & airports are warning of lengthy queues as internat travel reopens. The govt must fix this gaping flaw in our defences against covid immediately”
.@LaylaMoran:
“The next few months could define so much of what happens next, and yet the government seems incapable of stepping up and providing the global leadership we need. Time is running out for them to listen to scrutiny, learn lessons and lead.”
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.@docneilb:
care.data, the disastrous data-grab project scrapped back in 2016, is back from the dead. And it's bigger than before.”
“millions of people simply will not have a clue that this is happening.
Their right to be informed is not being upheld. As a consquence, they will not be afforded the right to object/opt-out. No radio or TV ads, no letters to individuals, no junk mail to households. On the quiet”
“care.data2 is not about information sharing between healthcare professionals.
It is about data extraction, linkage and analysis: in other words, data mining.”
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