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Nov 1, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Utter chaos at security for COP26. It's not as if they couldn't plan for this is it? Image
It's an international embarrassment. All nationalities in this queue. #globalbritain
Thank god it ain't raining. But it's nippy.
Just noticed the *very small letters* that say "In partnership with Italy".
Something tells me Mario Draghi will be happy to own the chaos Image
Message from someone who works for UN, who arrived yesterday Image
The queue inside is moving, slowwwwly, but moving.
This thread is giving me flashbacks to yesterday.
#willigetsentback? Image
Just chatting to some overseas delegates and they joined the queue outside at 9am.
Nearly a 90 minute wait outside.
Made it. I'm now in the little bit of Glasgow that is United Nations territory for the next 11 days (their UN badged cops actually guard the cop)
Last time I was in this building was LibDem conference 2013.
But today made any party conference delay feel like a picnic Image

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Apr 21
George Galloway and the Lib Dems, a Tale of 5 Acts.
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1. Galloway says the Lib Dems are the most ‘utterly vile, unprincipled and treacherous’ party he’s ever encountered in 50 years in politics Image
2. Galloway endorses LibDem candidate in Rochdale’s Spotland ward, tweets a video endorsing her.

She nods along. TWO other rosette-wearing LDs appear in same video.
3. Lib Dems suspend Spotland candidate, saying the party rejects Galloway’s ‘divisive politics’ and does not want ‘any endorsement or connection to him’

manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
Read 6 tweets
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Mar 19
George Galloway told the voters of Rochdale he would be their voice on Gaza.

Well, there's an Urgent Question in the Commons right now. And Galloway is nowhere to be seen.

Meanwhile, lots of Labour MPs demanding immediate ceasefire and suspension of arms sales to Israel.
.@BenPBradshaw points out both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair suspended arms sales to Israel to influence policy.

With several Tory MPs also v critical of Israel, notable that @AndrewmitchMP says arms sales under review but not job of minister to "make policy" at despatch box
.@liambyrnemp asks if govt will publish FCDO internal assessment of whether Israel breaching international law.
Mitchell replies Govt bound by convention on publication of legal advice BUT (and this sounds significant) Govt will update the House on this issue "in due course".
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Read 4 tweets
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Feb 26
.@RishiSunak tells @BBCYork that "Lee's comments were unacceptable, they were wrong." Says it's incumbent on politicians not to inflame situations. "The words Lee chose were unacceptable"
Note that the PM stresses Anderson's *words* were wrong, not Anderson himself.
Q that needs to be asked: under what conditions would you restore the Tory whip to Lee Anderson?
ie is this just a question of putting him in a sin bin until everyone's attention is elsewhere? Can he demonstrate he has learned and won't repeat his remarks? Or is he out for good?
.@BBCYork highlights one of the many reasons the Conservatives are behind in the polls. Presenter says a paramedic told her to ask Sunak: ‘why are you running down the NHS?’
Also presenter points out 9 hour waits in A&E.
Sunak repeats bromides about stick with his plan
Read 6 tweets
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Dec 2, 2023
Labour's voters are overwhelmingly (75%) pro-EU and want Starmer to be too.

Sir John Curtice: "If indeed it is elected into office by a predominantly pro-EU electorate, it’s then got to think about how it’s going to best keep that electorate.”

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Is there little appetite for a #RejoinEU referendum?
Curtice: “This is one of those great myths of our time. If you actually look at the evidence…a majority of those people who want to be inside the European Union are in favour of having a referendum within the next 5 years.”
“One of the myths was, ‘oh, Remain voters have given up and they accept it’. Well, that was the myth about two years ago and we’ve discovered that was a myth.”

Full interview in the Brexit episode of our @theipaper podcast, ‘Labour’s Plan For Power’.

pod.link/1714608436/epi…
Read 10 tweets
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Aug 7, 2023
Exclusive: Covid Inquiry verdict on Tory austerity set to be delayed until after the next general election

inews.co.uk/news/covid-inq…
Meanwhile, @CovidJusticeUK have compiled their own analysis of Module 1 of the Covid Inquiry.

The evidence "overwhelmingly and unquestionably demonstrates the significantly negative, dangerous and devastating impact of prolonged austerity”

inews.co.uk/opinion/covid-…
Barbara Herbert, whose husband Paul died of Covid: "Module 1 has revealed in black and white a catalogue of mistakes ranging from failing to address the impact of austerity to the failure of the government to learn from its own crises exercises in the lead up to the pandemic...
Read 8 tweets
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Jun 20, 2023
.@George_Osborne as fluent as ever in evidence to Covid Inquiry. Cites OBR chair Richard Hughes for saying 'in the absence of perfect foresight', the best prep for a pandemic any Treasury can do is to have a healthy balance sheet to allow flexibility of emergency spending needed
Osborne: “No one said to us there could be a health pandemic that is not influenza for which the likely response is you’re going to have to shut down the economy…This is not disparaging the health experts. "
Adds it doesn’t seem any country prepared like that.
Sharp jab at Truss's economic implosion last autumn from Osborne there, when he says her administration showed the need for sound finances [as opposed to borrowing binges]
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