8 handy points to note about our ‘green’ PM:

1) He has “almost always voted against measures to prevent climate change”

2) He supported shale gas fracking & told readers of his column to “ignore doom merchants” worried about emissions
3) He declared thousands in donations from Michael Hintze & Terence Mordaunt who fund the climate science sceptic ‘Global Warming Policy Foundation’

4) He called wind farms “white satanic mills”
5) He held back a report on the impact of air pollution on deprived schools which could have reduced traffic & improved air quality

6) He said he would “lie down in front of bulldozers” to prevent a third Heathrow

…and then was absent for the vote
7) As Foreign Minister he oversaw a 60% cut in UK’s team of global climate officers from 165 to 65

8) Cited climate sceptic Piers Corbyn (I know!) saying:

“Whatever is happening to the weather at the moment, it is nothing to do with the conventional doctrine of climate change”
This

And more

Is all gloriously documented here…

Bring on COP26!

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11 Sep
This is grim

So we’ve got the Elections Bill to ‘protect democracy’

When actually it does the opposite

It attacks it

And now we have this…

The Govt’s new “UK data protection regime”

It doesn’t protect

It attacks

These 6 chilling terms are hidden in the proposal…
1. We will be made to pay to exercise our data rights & access our data

2. It scraps data protection in one blow - meaning companies no longer have to get us to tick a box to collect our data - they’ll just take it

3. We will no longer be asked whether we want to be tracked
4. Govt will bring the ICO (the watchdog that exists to protect our rights) under Govt control

5. Companies will be free to shred evidence of wrongdoing

6. If there’s a data breach - companies may no longer even need to notify anyone

And this is supposed to PROTECT us?
Read 4 tweets
21 Mar
Have a look at this sea of old white dudes

85 dukes, earls & barons

46% of them Eton educated

All of them hereditary peers who vote on our laws

They didn’t earn their positions

Nope

In this increasingly ridiculous country...

IT’S SIMPLY THEIR BIRTHRIGHT TO RULE
They also cost the taxpayer £47m in expenses claimed since 2001

But are they worth it?

That will be a HARD NO

“The average hereditary has spoken in the chamber just 50 times in the past five years”

thetimes.co.uk/article/reveal…
I liked this bit too...

“When they do speak, they are 60% more likely to mention business or personal interest”

COURSE THEY DO
Read 4 tweets
24 Feb
Why has the point been so SPECTACULARLY missed by Starmer & even left-leaning media?

Hancock's unlawfulness was the result of trying to PREVENT SCRUTINY

And he's lying STILL

A huge number of contracts remain unpublished because he simply REFUSES to publish them...
Which takes Hancock's "about a fortnight" delay average TO 78 DAYS

He then bolsters this lie with another, claiming his team deserves thanks:

“We never had a national outage of it because of my team & the work they were doing”

When we know NHS staff were dying due to shortages
Not forgetting the reason for the scramble for PPE...

Because of a dangerously under-resourced NHS - despite the Cygnus report red flags - thanks to 10 years of TORY Govs

And if we're scrambling

Why wouldn't Hancock turn to trusted suppliers who were queuing up, ready to help?
Read 4 tweets
17 Feb
Lots of my tweets are about the misuse of taxpayers money by our Govt

So imagine my surprise this morning to find I am blocked by @the_tpa – THE TAXPAYERS’ ALLIANCE

This is a group that claims to represent “ordinary British taxpayers” fed up with tax waste

The truth?

1/5
The TPA is a privately funded lobbying group based at the same Tufton St address in Westminster that campaigns for:

-Greater privatisation
-Free market capitalism
-Climate science denial
-State reduction

They call themselves an “independent grassroots campaign”

BUT...

2/5
In reality they’re bankrolled by overseas billionaires that we’re not allowed to know about

Why?

To “respect their privacy”

Which is why they’re eerily silent on the BILLIONS wasted by our Govt on, say PPE

And very vocal on:
-Carbon tax rises
-Corporation tax rises

3/5
Read 5 tweets
16 Feb
Gavin Williamson has dealt another HAMMER BLOW to education

GUESS WHO LOSES

A few snippets from his latest plans...

1) Teaching grant to be cut by 50% to courses outside of Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths

F*ck business, media, the Arts

Poor Fatima needn’t bother
2) Removing the London Weighting allowance for London Unis

This means a pay cut for staff that work in these Unis

Because living, traveling and working in London has got cheaper?
3) Govt, NOT UNIVERSITIES, to set min entry grades

This will massively disadvantage students coming from a non-traditional A-Level background

4) Removing support for Foundation year courses

The same disadvantaged students will lose out

DOES THIS LOOK LIKE LEVELLING UP?
Read 4 tweets
18 Nov 20
IT’S HERE

The report from the National Audit Office on the Gov’s PPE spending

And it’s DAMNING

Here are the top 8 scandalous take-outs…

Brace yourselves
1) Contracts worth £18bn were awarded, £10.5bn of these with ZERO competition

2) Spending controls were not applied due to the seniority of staff working on contracts

3) Gov did not set out a process to mitigate risks such as bias or conflicts of interest
4) A “high-priority lane” was set up for firms recommended by officials, ministers, MPs & peers

5) 1 in 10 firms going through the priority lane got contracts vs 1 in 100 for the bog-standard lane

6) Sources of referrals to high-priority lane were sometimes not even recorded
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