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5 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Boris Johnson - cocaine & cannabis.

Jeremy Hunt - cannabis.

Andrea Leadsom - cannabis.

Dominic Raab - cannabis.

Rory Stewart - opium.

Matt Hancock - cannabis.

Esther McVey - cannabis.

Michael Gove - cocaine.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/boris-…
House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has promised to raise allegations of drug use in Parliament with the Met Police, after traces of cocaine had been found in several lavatory areas.

These corrupt hypocrites want locking up.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
The Government estimates that last year there were around 300,000 opiate or crack users in England, & around one million people using cocaine per year.

The latest ONS figures for England suggest that one in 11 adults aged 16 to 59 years took a drug in the year to March 2020.
Meanwhile, following a decade of #austerity, drug misuse poisoning deaths are at a record high, having increased by nearly 80% since 2012.

The illicit drugs market in the UK is worth £9.4 billion a year, but costs society more than double that figure.
If health considerations, the cost of crime, & societal impacts are combined, the total annual cost of illegal drugs is around £19 BILLION.

Our Government of 'free-market' 'libertarians', who claim to care about 'law & order' AND 'personal freedom', are sanctimonious hypocrites.
Two drug dealers were arrested & 13 people were detained for possession of various drugs on or around the parliamentary estate which includes the Palace of Westminster in the 12 months to March. Those were among more than 200 crimes recorded on the estate.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/o…

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5 Dec
#THREAD

Did you know that on December 5th 1921, the English Football Association (FA) passed a resolution BANNING women's football matches from being played in their stadiums?

I didn't! 🤯⚽️

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To mark the 100th anniversary, the delayed Women's #FACup Final is taking place at Wembley Stadium TODAY, as part of a day celebrating the women's game that their organization stymied for 50 years.

Women's football was incredibly popular prior to the ban.
At the time of the ban in 1921, women's football in England was thriving, in no small part due to the all-conquering Preston-based team 'Dick, Kerr Ladies FC', who played matches raising money for charitable causes, & frequently drew five-figure crowds.

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5 Dec
Just 5% of voters think politicians are in the job primarily for the good of the country.

In 2014, 48% of voters believed politicians were “out merely for themselves” as opposed to their country or party, it was 57% by May 2021, & 63% last week.

#GTTO

ippr.org/research/publi…
Growing distrust in politicians should be of great concern to democrats & progressives: growing distrust can lead to a downwards spiral of democratic decline, with voters disengaging, becoming polarised, or turning to populist leaders and causes.
It's terrifying that in 2021 the Tories - just like the US Republicans, Viktor Orban, Jair Bolsonaro, Modi, Putin & other antidemocratic authoritarian leaders - are using the fascist playbook, unhindered by either mass protests or a concerned news media.

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4 Dec
#THREAD on press responses to Arthur.

Some people DO need removing from society.

It's often impossible to know exactly what caused or motivated their despicable behaviour: some have been abused themselves, others have psychological problems, there may even be biological causes.
Whatever the cause, some behaviours are intolerable, & it's only right that they should be removed from society.

But it is often impossible to be 100% certain about what motivated a person to engage in cruelty toward children.

There's certainly something wrong with them.
However, certain sections of the press are imho deeply irresponsible in their reporting of child abuse.

What I object to is the predictable, instant, & speculative demonisation of social workers, police officers & doctors by some sections of the press, without knowing the facts.
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3 Dec
#THREAD

The horrific news about Arthur has of course shocked, angered, & distressed all of us.

And I hate to say it, but the predictable, instant, & opportunistic politicisation of this tragic case by the usual toxic newspapers, makes me feel sick & angry.

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In January 2003 Lord Laming published the report of his official inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie.

She had been sent to Britain by her parents from the Ivory Coast, in the hope she would receive a better education. She was in the care of her great-aunt.
With her boyfriend she systematically tortured Victoria over several years until she died in 2000. The aunt and boyfriend were imprisoned for life for murder in 2001. An official inquiry was immediately announced.

The inquiry lasted 62 days and took evidence from 128 witnesses.
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2 Dec
#THREAD

In 2019, one of the USA's foremost civil liberties lawyers published a book describing how America’s constitutional checks & balances were being pushed to the brink by a president consciously following Hitler’s extremist propaganda & policy template from the early 1930s.
Imho, the rhetorical & policy similarities displayed by Boris Johnson & the UK's @Conservatives, to the ones used by the Nazis & the Trump administration, are now impossible to ignore.

British democracy is under threat.

milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/civil…
Trump "became the twenty-first-century master of divisive rhetoric... Hitler didn’t take power by force. He used a set of rhetorical tropes codified in Trump’s bedside reading that persuaded enough Germans to welcome Hitler as a populist leader."
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2 Dec
Live facial recognition systems have been deployed across England & Wales by the police, supported by the Govt.

Combined with draconian anti-protest legislation & other antidemocratic measures, the UK increasingly resembles an authoritarian regime.

theconversation.com/facial-recogni…
theconversation.com/uk/topics/surv…
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