Thread by @BestForBritain

The most hypocritical speech in history from @BorisJohnson? Here are nine things we spotted...
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🚨1: The PM praised the spirit of our England footballers who made it to a European Final this summer - but he refused to condemn those who booed them for taking the knee. Indeed his Home Secretary accused the lions of gesture politics...

🚨2: Johnson was critical of the UK's low number of rape convictions - but in July he instructed his MPs to vote against introducing minimum sentences for rape, against criminalising street sexual harassment and against making it easier for survivors of rape to testify in court.

🚨3: He lamented our imbalanced society - but his party has been in power for 29 of the past 42 years. Just last month they broke a manifesto pledge by increasing taxes on working people rather than the mega rich & today cut more than £1,000 per year from the poorest families.

🚨4: The PM spent much of the speech praising NHS workers, referring to their work during the pandemic - but words are cheap and this incredible work protecting the UK during the pandemic is apparently only worth a 1% pay increase.

🚨5: "To level up, we need to give people the options, the skills that are right for them."

In reality, adult skills education has been cut by two fifths over the past decade....And most of the current labour shortages are in what the govt categorises as 'unskilled' work.

🚨6: Despite the PM trying to play the greatest hits from the 2016 referendum, immigration does not drive down wages. Countries outside of the EU that have higher wages and higher productivity, like Switzerland & Canada, have also had higher per capita immigration than Britain.

🚨7: For the self-proclaimed party of business, Johnson has alienated this community - first crippling them with added costs and red tape, then blaming them for not sorting out the supply crisis that Brexit helped create. The FSB has accused him of walking off the pitch.

🚨8: Johnson waxes lyrical about the importance of upholding international law in the Indo-Pacific - but has repeatedly threatened to break it on his own doorstep, by unilaterally reneging on the NI protocol and the international agreement he signed with the EU.

🚨9: The PM concluded by reassuring the party faithful he would stand up to those trying to rewrite the national story, promising to “defend history & cultural inheritance”. But as we can see from the rest of his speech, he's done a pretty good job rewriting his own history.