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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

9 Oct, 15 tweets, 5 min read

"Tory MP says using term 'white privilege' should be reported as extremism

Jonathan Gullis also urges 'sacking' of teachers who criticise Conservative party in classroom"

Let's all get to know Jonathan Gullis better... Buckle in, this could take a while!
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

"Tory MP: We'd save £2m by getting someone with Down's syndrome a job in McDonald's"

Jonathan Gullis suggests it would reduce the state's support burden over their lifetime from £3 million to £1 million ("I know it sounds crude to talk about money terms")
uk.news.yahoo.com/tory-mp-taxpay…

"An MP has been ordered to pay back £253.78 of taxpayers' cash and apologise - after breaking parliamentary rules."

Jonathan Gullis used postage-paid HOC envelopes and parliamentary headed notepaper to send unsolicited mail to some Kidsgrove households.
stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-…

Jonathan Gullis has firm views about the Insulate Britain protests: "The selfish and self-indulgent so called 'protesters' are nothing more than metropolitan elites trying to ram their extremist views down the throats of ordinary people."
thesun.co.uk/news/16215628/…

Jonathan Gullis complained about the Tory Party's decision to locate its second headquarters in Leeds:

"Why is the new HQ in Leeds? We've literally sent our new HQ to a Labour controlled city rather than a small town or a small city that's just gone blue"
businessinsider.com/red-wall-tory-…

"Too common for the Commons! Scruffy MP Jonathan Gullis is SNUBBED as he tries to address the chamber via Zoom without donning a suit and tie"

A transgression of a truly arcane rule, but still...
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

Jonathan Gullis was a co-signatory of a letter urging Boris Johnson to stamp out cancel culture:

"We must begin the process of reversing cancel culture before it becomes institutionalised and steals a march over common decency." (from the letter)
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…

Jonathan Gullis got into a war of words with Warwick University:

"[Warwick] University's assembly also criticised two Tory MPs, Jonathan Gullis and Robert Halfon, who called for the sacking of lecturers over their criticisms of Israel"
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/warwick-academ…

Jonathan Gullis called for the BBC licence fee to be scrapped: "With the rise of satellite and online streaming, the imposition of a compulsory tax is now rightly questioned."
thesun.co.uk/news/16009006/…

Jonathan Gullis warned schools not to over-react to covid cases:

"Unions must stop issuing blood-curdling warnings and pull together to help get kids where they belong — in school."
thesun.co.uk/news/16017929/…

Jonathan Gullis refused to address what he called "a baying mob" at a foodbank visit, after he voted against extending free school meals into the holidays.
stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-…

"Tory MP Jonathan Gullis forced to apologise after media attack"

He was forced to issue an apology after attacking journalists for their "sick obsession" with the coronavirus death toll.
thenational.scot/news/18418749.…

Jonathan Gullis attacked the NEU: "the NEU, or the not education union as we should refer to them always, [are] continually wanting to shut schools"
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Jonathan Gullis posted a "CULTURE WAR ALERT" on Facebook,

"telling his followers that research by Greenwich Maritime Museum into the Royal Navy’s links to slavery was 'leftwing ideological nonsense'"
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

And finally, let's round off this little refresher course with this. Seems somehow appropriate, don't you think?

"Stoke-on-Trent North MP Jonathan Gullis quits Twitter as rivals say he's avoiding scrutiny"
stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-…

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

@uk_domain_names

5 Oct

Read the main front page headline in the Telegraph today... then read my article!

The Tories have carefully, deliberately, cynically shifted the conversation around Brexit and the damage it's causing. Instead of denying it, they're now blaming others.
link.medium.com/EKYTk1qT5jb

This isn't some off-hand remark by a couple of disgruntled MPs at a fringe Tory Party Conference event.

This is a shift at the highest levels, from the PM on down.

And this new strategy has consequences for Labour, and all of us. Because it means the Brexit pain won't stop.

Indeed, the Brexit pain doesn't need to stop. It's all part of the journey towards a future high-wage, high-productivity Britain.

A fantasy, but one which will be compelling to a significant portion of the Tory base. (Alternative: admit to themselves their 2016 vote was wrong.)

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

@uk_domain_names

4 Oct

We're in a new Brexit world...

Paraphrased: "Brexit pain is real, but it's a necessary stepping stone towards the high-wage economy of tomorrow."

That is the stance being adopted by the Tories at their conference.

It deflects all criticism, because the sacrifice is "worth it".

In this new Brexit world, you no longer need to secure the flagship trade deals that were put forward as a key part of the old Brexit offering...

"Truss: US trade deal is not 'be-all and end-all' for Britain"
mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/p…

In this new Brexit world, you no longer need to keep the Special Relationship ticking over...

"UK Brexit minister Lord Frost warns Joe Biden to stay out of Northern Ireland talks"
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

@uk_domain_names

4 Oct

More and more Tories are jumping onto the "Short-term Brexit pain? Sure - it's a milestone on the way to higher pay." train.

If enough Leavers swallow it (alternative is to admit to themselves they voted wrongly) they'll have cemented that contingent.

Oh, and Lexit is dead.

This approach has several advantages for the Tories:
- The first part, i.e. the bit we see now, matches reality: there are Brexit problems. ("Aha, but they're Brexit-problems-for-a-good-cause...")
- Stuffs Labour. Already impossible to out-Leave the Tories, now double impossible.

Other advantages...
- Once people become invested in the idea, they will accept almost any hardship. Why? Because of the sunk cost. They've already "accepted" the current damage. That's the price of continuing to believe in Brexit. So reversing their thinking becomes ever harder.

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

@uk_domain_names

4 Oct

The Tories seem to be pivoting to an "Everyone voted to be poorer, and all we did was implement the result of the vote" Brexit strategy...

It's a controversial move. But it has some merit, from their POV.

It doesn't tell Leavers they were stupid or didn't know what they were voting for. Instead, it's subtle: it forces them to agree to something terrible to avoid admitting to themselves they were wrong about Brexit.

IF Leavers buy into it, then the more everyone else points the finger at everything that's going wrong, the more likely they are to retreat into an even more defensive strategy.

Ultimately: "Of course there are problems. It's Brexit. But it will be worth it in the end."

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

@uk_domain_names

3 Oct

Something happened on 1 October that will severely hurt inbound tourism to the UK & damage the business sector too...

As Priti Patel boasts, the Tories binned the use of national ID cards to enter the UK. But an estimated 200 million EU citizens only have ID cards not passports.

School trips, especially, will be a thing of the past.

A national ID card, ubiquitous in most EU countries, will get EU citizens into over 50 countries and territories. (See list below.)

The ONLY exception is the UK. We've slammed the door by demanding passports only.

The final nail in the coffin for school trips is that the Tories also got rid of the "List of Travellers" scheme for non-EU citizens accompanying EU citizens on class trips. So it's now harder for EU citizens to come (they need passports) and much harder for non-EU citizens.

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

@uk_domain_names

2 Oct

Trying to figure out where voters stand on Brexit is HARD. There are at least 7 groups of voters:

2016 REFERENDUM
- Leave
- Remain
- Registered, did not vote
- Invalid votes

OTHER
- Joined electoral register since 2016
- Came of voting age since 2016
- Died since 2016

Out of those 7 groups, only one ("Leave") contains a big majority of people who are likely to still favour Brexit.

That's the group that the Tories and Labour seem to be fighting tooth and nail over.

Dead people cannot vote.

That leaves 5 groups almost totally sidelined.

What else do we know?

Well, we know the people who've died are more likely to be old rather than young. And we know more old people than young voted Leave.

We also know that everyone who came of age since 2016 is young. And young people are more likely to be anti-Brexit.

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