‘The New York Times analysed 1,200 contracts worth nearly $22bn and found that roughly half went to companies run by friends and associates of Conservative party politicians, or with no experience in that area.’ 1/n theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
‘Conservative peer Theodore Agnew, former minister of state at the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, quit in January 2022 in protest at Sunak’s failure to tackle massive fraud during the Covid pandemic.’ 2/n
‘Labour has seized on this key issue… a Labour government would appoint a new Covid corruption commissioner to track the billions lost in waste, fraud and flawed contracts, and try to return this to the government for spending on health and education, 3/n
‘Very quietly, apparently while hoping that no-one was watching, the Home Office has used a ministerial power to directly overrule Parliament. It is unprecedented. It's the kind of thing no previous government would have ever dreamed of doing.’ link.news.inews.co.uk/view/63aa9c68d…
This goes way beyond corruption.
‘Put simply: Parliament rejected something. And then the Government did it anyway. All very hush-hush. All very tucked away. All very technical and nerdy. But it broke the central principle by which free societies are distinguished from authoritarian ones.’
“Johnson is… the most accomplished liar in public life - perhaps the best liar ever to serve as Prime Minister.”
Rory Stewart
1/n
“He has mastered the use of error, omission, exaggeration, diminution, equivocation and flat denial. He has perfected casuistry, circumlocution, false equivalence and false analogy.”
Rory Stewart
2/n
“He is equally adept at the ironic jest, the fib and the grand lie; the weasel word and the half-truth; the hyperbolic lie, the obvious lie, and the bullshit lie – which may inadvertently be true.”
He came from Eton, had a thirst for profit
He studied Greek at an Oxford College
That's where lies
Caught his eye
He told us all that he was special
Said one day he’d be king of the world and boss of the UK
Then in just a few years time he had…
Ruled all the common people
Lied and cheated the common people too
Fooled lots of common people
Fooled lots of common people
Like you
Oh what else could we do
All his lies, just who knew?
He wrote some lies in a Tory paper
I don't know why
But he had to start it somewhere
So it started there
I said pretend we’ve got no money
He just laughed and said
Oh you're so funny
I don’t care
I don’t care if everyone is poor here
If I’m rich
All you UK citizens who are also Irish citizens or could apply to be so, do you realise that this awful nationality and borders bill that government is about to try and make law has the potential to remove your citizenship should the Home Secretary decide to?
Everyone who qualifies or could be made to seem as if they qualify for a second citizenship could have their UK citizenship removed at the whim of the Home Secretary.
Apparently you are a citizen if the Home Secretary says so and not by right.