"Hancock Cock Inn Cockup”

Ystdy, @MattHancock tried to get @AnnelieseDodds to withdraw a comment re his helping the ex-landlord of his local pub, the Cock Inn, to get a PPE contract

We’ve see the emails

Hancock & Lord Feldman helped 47 firms win 'VIP' contracts worth millions
Ystdy, @MattHancock went on the attack claiming Alex Bourne "never got a contract from the govt" & this was a "fabrication pushed by the Labour Party"

He was lying

@NAOorguk found PPE suppliers with links to Tory MPs were 10x more likely to win contracts
Digging by @JolyonMaugham reveals the contract went to Alpha Laboratories

That contract stipulates that Alpha Laboratories will sub-contract the manufacturing to Hinpack Ltd, owned by Alex Bourne

This info was redacted before publishing in what seems a clear attempt to deceive!
Last December, @MattHancock’s neighbour admitted exchanging personal WhatsApp messages with #Hancock offering his services to produce PPE

Hancock says he “had absolutely nothing to do with that contract”

It’s been clear for a year, someone has been lying
“What an absolute load of rubbish... Did anyone else’s friends get contracts?”

@JessPhillips rips @MattHancock a new one over the #ContractScandal & handling of PPE contracts during the pandemic. #HerdImmunityScandal @Peston #COVID19 #Peston
At the height of the pandemic, @MattHancock came to my local outdoor cafe

He was laughing with a friend

I muttered something to the guys next to me

“True. But I guess he’s on a day off”

Overhearing, Hancock piped up: “Yes! I’m on a day off”

“Day off from lying, Matt?” I spat
“I told him right at the start”

@MattHancock says he warned @BorisJohnson about #COVID19 at the beginning of January 2020

He says he remembers thinking: “Nobody’s asking about the single biggest issue that's about to come & hit us”

He certainly wasn’t
“We put a call out to our local pub landlords on see if they fancied diversifying into supplying PPE in return for multi-million pound contracts.” @MattHancock on @Peston
#ContractScandal #PalantirPlan #HerdImmunityScandal #GenomeUK
In September 2020, @MattHancock launched #GenomeUK, a 10-year strategy that will transform the NHS & put genomics at the heart of the entire programme for govt

Bizarrely it was launched on a Saturday with zero media coverage

Is this what the #PalantirPlan is really all about?
“The flagrancy is part of the point.”
(Orwell)

#Lockdown parties in No.10

@Dominic2306 in #BarnardCastle

#Palantir, who rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data, running NHS data store

#GemomeUK putting genomics at the heart of everything

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25 Nov
1. “The narrative around #Thanksgiving today ignores our history”

The story of America is incomplete without understanding the genocide of Indigenous populations

It is a day of national mourning #ThanksgivingDay #Thanksgiving2021 #NationalDayOfMourning
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2. “To me, #Thanksgiving is a reminder of our resistance as Indigenous People navigating this settler society that continuously tries to erase & destroy us, yet we are still here.”

#MUSTREAD 2018 essay by @lilnativeboy
#ThanksgivingDay #Thanksgiving2021
papermag.com/thanksgiving-n…
3/. For Indigenous Americans, #Thanksgiving = a #dayofmourning

For other Americans, #ThanksgivingDay = a day to start along the road of redemption

Redemption requires:
🌻Acknowledgment
🌻Contrition
🌻Penance (i.e. making amends)

At COP26 this man took two steps along this path
Read 5 tweets
24 Nov
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is not

Let’s not close our eyes or bite our tongues

We’re all responsible for each other
& we can all make a difference

This photo of refugees (@Rober_Astorgano) was taken in Greece a few years ago but it could have been taken today in many places
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark
No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”
(Warsan Shire)

Tonight we should reflect on the desperation people must feel to try to cross the channel in a dinghy. inews.co.uk/news/migrant-c…
Orwell’s 1984 opens with Winston Smith writing about a film he’s seen

“A ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Med. Audience much amused”

Today's Channel deaths = sadly predictable, as are crocodile tears & the "serves them right" reactions
Read 6 tweets
21 Nov
Andrew Marr is leaving the BBC

In Sept 2020, #Marr wrongly & publicly cast aspersions about me

I asked him for a retraction & an apology

I’ve been waiting 14 months

I’ll accept @AndrewMarr9’s apology if given - publicly or privately - in good faith

A proper apology is needed
#MARR: Is it raining?

#HANCOCK: No

MARR: But we're standing here getting wet, so surely - even by your own definition - it’s raining - & why are you holding an umbrella?

@MattHancock: I'm holding an umbrella to keep the bloody rain off me.

MARR: I see.
A fortnight after @AndrewMarr9 had failed to comprehend my criticism of his @MattHancock interview & had insulted me on @Twitter, I was in a pub & he & his wife sat nearby me

My friend said I should say something to him

I let him eat his supper in peace.
Read 4 tweets
20 Nov
1/. “I will continue with my hunger strike for as long as my health permits as it is the only way I see of to try to get the govt to bring Nazanin home”

89-year-old Margaret Owen has gone without food for 5 days in solidarity with #NazaninZaghariRatcliffe theguardian.com/news/2021/nov/…
2/. “When I heard about Richard Radcliffe’s hunger strike I went to meet him & was struck by his incredible courage. I went back several times & made a promise to him that I’d do all in my power to help end this terrible injustice”

Follow @ElectionMargie for updates #FreeNazinin
3/. “I cannot bear the idea that Richard Radcliffe’s three-week hunger strike would have been in vain”

89-year-old @ElectionMargie says she is one of several people across the UK who are hunger striking to demand the govt take action to free #NazaninZaghariRatcliffe
#FreeNazanin
Read 10 tweets
10 Nov
Tap the gif
Stop the bra
Support the moobs
(via @Agitate4Change) #BorisJohnson @BorisJohnson
How many goes did it take you to get the bra on #BorisJohnson?
"No bra can support that tit" @OLovekill

"Mine's broken" @GorysTRS👇 Image
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7 Nov
1/. “For two weeks, Scotland has become the centre of the world. Not just a place where we can meet one another, but a place where we can truly recognise one another.” Mindahi Bastida, Mexico

A delegation of 140 indigenous people have come to #Cop26 with a message. #COP26Glasgow
2/. “We came here to #COP26 because we knew world leaders would be here. But these world leaders are not listening to our leaders; to the indigenous leaders”

Uboye Gaba from Mexico (& his 1 year old son, Mene)
#COP26Glasgow @MingaIndigena #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousPeoples
3/. “We are physically kicking out loggers, mining companies & land grabbers every day. We need your support. We need you to help to bring attention to what’s happening”

Puyr Tembe, president of @FEPIPA_Oficial in Brazil speaking at #cop26 #COP26Glasgow on #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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