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6 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
That time Nadine Dorries warned of a "tidal wave" of immigrants coming from Yugoslavia - which hadn't existed for 20 years.
Shortly after she tweeted this.
Dorries: "My faith isn't something that's a big thing. Do I believe in God? Yes. Do I believe that Jesus lived? Yes. Do I pray? Yes. Do I pray often? No. Am I a sinner? Yes. Frequently. Daily. Minutely. So what does that make me?"

A lying hypocrite?

politics.co.uk/news/2012/10/2…
In 2012, Nadine Dorries claimed the left's support for abortion rights wasn't about choice, but stems from its historic relationship with the "eugenics movement".

Most voters have absolutely no idea what depths this grotesque, lying, hypocritical smearing-machine will sink to.
In 2012 a regressive controversial "unevidenced ideologically motivated" bill proposed by Nadine Dorries, calling for teenage girls (but not boys) to be given compulsory lessons in sexual abstinence, was pulled at the last minute from the House of Commons.
theguardian.com/education/2012…
That time Nadine Dorries compared Theresa May to Adolf Hitler as Brexit debate goes 'Downfall'.

"Nadine Dorries seemed to suggest the Prime Minister might follow the Nazi Fuhrer's example of killing himself in a locked underground room." 😱

#TorySleaze

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6 Nov
In May, Boris Johnson was under investigation by the standards watchdog over £15,000 Caribbean break.

Now he won't declare cost of the holiday he took in the £25,000/week Goldsmith property, held by an opaque offshore structure based in tax havens.

#TorySleaze #ToryCorruption
Johnson:

2018: breached Ministerial Code by starting a £275K/yr newspaper column three days after quitting as Foreign Secretary.

2018: ordered to apologise for failing to declare £52K of income on time.

2019: 11 months late registering his 20% share in a property in Somerset.
Like so many of his former teachers, friends, colleagues & employers, the Parliament’s Standards Commissioner has accused Boris Johnson of a “lack of respect” for the system adding: "I do not accept that this was an inadvertent breach of the rules."

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5 Nov
'State capture' happens when narrow interest groups take control of public policy, buying influence to rewrite the rules. It's well documented that rich individuals & corporations fund the Tory Party & buy access to Ministers.

#TorySleaze
#ToryCorruption
opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
State capture is different to classic bribery or corruption. An example of classic bribery or corruption is where a property developer pays a bribe to get permission to build on a piece of land – a one-off benefit that breaks the existing rules...
State capture is when the property developer influences a Govt minister to CHANGE THE RULES about what kind of property can be built on what kind of land – the developer then has access to a whole new range of opportunities. Could state capture be what Brexit was about all along?
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5 Nov
4.4 MILLION adults in England & Wales work for gig economy companies (15% of working adults - up from 6% in 2016).

Low-paid, challenging, insecure & exploitative work, with very poor working conditions, has been normalised in free-market #ToryBritain.

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
“Gig work can offer flexibility, but many workers also experience lower pay & poor working conditions".

Millions of workers now have to rely on casual & insecure jobs to make ends meet - often on top of other work.

“Gig economy platforms are using new technologies to carry out the age-old practice of worker exploitation. Too often gig workers are denied their rights & are treated like disposable labour.”- Frances O’Grady, general secretary of @The_TUC.

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3 Nov
A new account claiming to be a "Lifelong Labour voter; but want nothing to do with the loony left that has emerged."

I understand the rationale for anonymous twitter accounts, but it means ANYONE can claim any background, without any evidence.

Let's look at "Richard's" views:
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2 Nov
Last Wednesday, Priti Patel said people crossing the Channel “are not genuine asylum seekers” & are only making the journey to live in UK hotels.

But this is simply impossible to know: anyone arriving by boat can claim asylum, & applications take months or even years to process.
On 7th September, @SkyNews said "the total number of people who have crossed the UK aboard small boats this year is more than 12,500."

On 27th September, @BBCNews claimed that "at least 17,063 people have crossed in small boats in 2021 compared to just over 8,460 last year."
Today (2nd November) the Daily Mail claimed "a total of 19,741 migrants have made the crossing so far this year", while the Telegraph went with "the number of Channel migrants reaching the UK in small boats has hit a record 20,000".
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1 Nov
Our PM is a populist nationalist liar, a corrupt opportunist charlatan, a bigoted antidemocratic cheat & a regressive global embarrassment who serves the interests of a cabal of rich disaster capitalists & has overseen 140,000 mostly completely avoidable deaths - so far.
#COP26
You want evidence? Fill your boots:

And if you're not extremely concerned about the parlous state of British society & democracy, you're really not paying attention:

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