Thread by @karamballes

🧵Internal Tory Party Politics will be the death of some of us

Freedom is the new Sovereignty of Parliament which resulted in the illegal poroguing of Parliament

The call for Freedom at all costs takes us ever further away from freedom and normality

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1451142195986280450?t=iTQGVAlIZuNHLonnDgNFCw&s=19

2/ If we want to get back to normal we need to get RO below one, we need to understand that #COVIDisAirborne and appreciate what the virus actually does to morbidity and the immune system

Its not endemic and living with it makes healthcare unsustainable

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1450912255034499073?t=iTQGVAlIZuNHLonnDgNFCw&s=19

3/ As others have said we need an air sanitation revolution in much the way we did in regards to water sanitation when we came to understand waterborne pathogens

This also puts us in a far stronger position when another variant or pandemic comes along

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1424675235723456512?t=iTQGVAlIZuNHLonnDgNFCw&s=19

4/ Remember last Spring when there was talk of a leadership challenge, some Tories were claiming Johnson was too timid after having covid, they called for boldness, they called for Sweden, quoted Sikora,Heneghan, Gupta that we'd already obtained herd immunity by April 2020

5/ No second wave, covid will mutate into a milder illness, we won't get more dangerous variants, its already over

We got the early disinfo groups like UsForThem who met Johnson over Summer 2020, good going for "grassroots"

https://twitter.com/SafeEdForAll_UK/status/1338384159505518598?t=DhRj55E1k9DUxQOe-SyQwg&s=19

6/ While the "grassroots" group only a few months old also threatened the government with legal action backed up by some very expensive lawyers

The trolley got steered into a return to normal

https://twitter.com/BylineTimes/status/1376900604526739459?t=42jtU6zK_SuezDRuSxsIcA&s=19

7/ By October we knew it was clear we didn't have herd immunity.
Plenty of the media promoted the GBD claiming we had herd immunity, there would be no second wave

He played chicken with covid and we lost

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1448975611012259841?t=NoOFqT9c7bUH0dMp3K_MTA&s=19

8/ So after meeting the GBD crowd in autumn, ignoring Alpha and putting us into a late lockdown, those whod claimed there would be no second wave were arranging meetings with MPs and media behind closed doors

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1421852115148943364?t=jg5Z0zavY2YKfh3YPZVQiw&s=19

9/ Once again there were mutterings of leadership challenges as increasingly skeptic MPs got frustrated with measures.

Brady says as much, discussing internal partty politics to HART members

10/ Thats why we had Freedom day, to appease an increasingly ideological section of MPs who have the backing of key RW papers

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1420846434962788353?t=yW2F9Az3SbtvZf1pQpiq4g&s=19

11/ Now they are still claiming the virus will get milder and Endemic is now the new Herd Immunity

Same old snake oil, just in new packaging.

When Johnson said irreversible, that wasn't for the public it was for Tory MPs

12/ They are agitating in the background and in RW press, Johnson has gone against them in the past, he's not a purist. Brady is chaired of the 1922 committee, with the CRG they just need a few ministers on board and they are capable of a leadership bid

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1443965128890793987?t=xKQ01SFuUY8L8hA6crN9SA&s=19

13/ So like May with Brexit and ERG
Johnson has made unworkable promises that CRG will hold him to

Javid knows the score

Johnson is trapped, he can't bring in the measures to prevent healthcare collapse, which makes collapse more likely

14/ Back to playing chicken with covid, healthcare collapse is entirely avoidable but if we end up there a lockdown that shouldn't have to happen might be the only option left

Those who called for caution will be more angry, the skeptics will be angry, he could be toast

15/ What happens then in the event of a leadership bid?
Javid? Brady? Baker? Truss? How far down the rabbit hole are the remaining Tory members, how vulnerable are they to further entryism?

Too many MPs seem comfortable with associating with some worrying and opaque groups

16/ The opposition have gone AWOL, many people and organisations with the platforms to speak up are either unaware or seemingly willfully belligerent as to the links between policy makers and coordinated disinformation

17/ Please help #ShineALight on policy makers and coordinated disinformation

Template letter to send to MPs, local councillors, media, unions, and anyone you think might listen

docs.google.com/document/d/1eq…