"There was a core group of awkward squad MPs centred around Steve Baker, John Baron, Peter Bone, Douglas Carswell, Chris Chope, Philip Hollobone, David Nuttall and Mark Reckless, although others would drift in and out."
#WhoGaveYouRawSewage
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#WhoGaveYouRawSewage
bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
https://twitter.com/karlmccartney/status/1452310311625805824
"They would meet for an hour, every Tuesday morning at 08:30 in Room R, an out-of-the-way committee room in the parliamentary office building, Portcullis House, to go through the Commons agenda, seeking opportunities to push their views&agree on tactics. "It never, never leaked."
"On govt side, the whips spotted there was an organised low-key insurgency under way, but, as 1 senior figure now admits, they didn't spot how organised&more importantly how strategic the whole exercise was. They dismissed the group as chronic conspirators w/time on their hands"
"Think-tanks alumni backbenchers setting the political weather from within the Commons"
https://twitter.com/StillDelvingH/status/1061669805537853440?s=20
Two decades of planning.
Yet the names of the coalition members who delivered shortages, chaos and raw sewage are not publicly bragging about their achievement.
(Only the "useful idiots")
Yet the names of the coalition members who delivered shortages, chaos and raw sewage are not publicly bragging about their achievement.
(Only the "useful idiots")
https://twitter.com/StillDelvingH/status/1061670220971106307?s=20
Gee why?
Who provided support (and funding) to the think tank alumni backbenchers?
Who provided support (and funding) to the think tank alumni backbenchers?
https://twitter.com/StillDelvingH/status/1065744899549605888?s=20
If tax havens could talk..
(But surely the current chaos policy architects, coincidentally linked to the same sponsors/shadowy funders, are just coincidentally going for good-for-dark-profits deregulation (as in attacks on human rights and the environment)
(But surely the current chaos policy architects, coincidentally linked to the same sponsors/shadowy funders, are just coincidentally going for good-for-dark-profits deregulation (as in attacks on human rights and the environment)
https://twitter.com/StillDelvingH/status/1065752881683472386?s=20
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