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Karam Bales Profile picture
@karamballes
Dec 20, 2021 • 27 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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🧵UK MPs and RW media have had "enough of experts"

Some examples of the disinformation and ideology we are up against

Swayne describing SAGE as "Dr Strangeloves"
2/ Swayne again, claiming road accidents and flu are killing more people than covid

They aren't
3/ Bridgen claiming infection is 20× better than vaccination at providing immunity
4/ Morgan equating basic public health measures far below a lockdown as tyranny
5/ Mcvey ( Chair of Collateral Global APPG)
"Pushing back against the lockdown fanatics"
6/ Mark Harper Chair of CRG being quite blunt in his criticism of Johnson and SAGE
7/ Graham Brady Chair of the 1922
"Authoritarian nonsense"
"Labour would have us in permanent lockdown"

8/ "The Saj" Our health secretary has gone to Balloux for advice

Couple of weeks ago he claimed UK wouldn't reach 100k cases...
9/ Meanwhile Lucy Johnson in the Express weaponises child deaths from abuse with a very misleading use of the statistics to fit her agenda
10/ Pearson of Telegraph claiming the government will manipulate hospital figures

O'Sullivan reckons Omicron won't kill anyone
11/ Carl Heneghan is also across the media, written and broadcast

Still claims masks don't work, claimed there would be no second wave, Collateral Global member
12/ Good article linked here on Heneghans track record
BTW he deleted the whole of his twitter from 2020 after all those claims covid was over
Sidenote:For accuracy Balloux 100k comment was more than a few weeks ago
14/ Then Fraser Nelson gets into a discussion with a SAGE member which the typical characters jump on as if its some smoking gun
15/ We then get people in the media arguing with scientists about what modelling means

16/ Doesn't matter how clearly its explained, their confirmation bias won't allow them to understand now.

This is why UK policy is a mess
17/ As this is the message the hardcore rebel MPs are giving Johnson

Your lockdown or your political life
18/ One person who doesn't get it is MP Marcus Fysh, he calls for the removal of the scientific advisors

This lot are like Trumpian Republicans with posher accents
19/ Telegraph reports that at least a dozen ministers blocked measures

So Johnsons hands are tied until the ideological libertarians in his party decide the situation is out of control

We're screwed
20/ 21st and Ian Duncan Smith is quoting Heneghan on #r4today 🤦🏽‍♂️
21/ And now we're back to the with not from arguement, so what's happening in London @johnredwood?
A mass outbreak of clumsiness?
22/ We shouldn't be in this situation, failure of accountability and lack of scrutiny has led us here
23/ How representative are the MPs opposing our current measures?
24/ And Triggle at the BBC appears to be hooked up on a hopium IV
25/ Christopher Chope sounds like a cultist
26/ Daily Mail intent on maintaining its usual journalistic standards
27/ All in this together
CRG, Great Barrington Declaration, RW media

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Jul 3
🧵A thread of links on Reform's general election
2/ Worth noting this other UK based coordinated disinformation network includes Together Declaration

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3/ Casting doubt on validity of UK voting process
Read 21 tweets
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Jun 26
🧵Oh what a suprise, Together Declaration are part of this network, and members of the Exec like UsForThem founder Kingsley accused anyone who said they were a hard right political project of smears and defamation
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2/ Founded as anti-lockdown but going straight into anti-vax talking points, Together then switched to anti Ulez, anti net zero heading towards climate change denial
3/ They have been one of the main groups peddling nonsense about the WHO pandemic treaty, starting two years ago with Farage then becoming the leading face of a new astroturf group
Read 6 tweets
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May 24
🧵The Covid in Schools Scandal

While much of the media claims the inquiry is accomplishing nothing, its slowly revealed the gov knew transmission occurs in schools and causes harm to a not insignificant number of children
2/ The much delayed testimony of Simon Case reveals that covid in schools policy ignored the science and was designed without expert advice

Macnamara
"Genuine suggestion that we secretly do different things in schools in places to see what the impact is.. last straw for me" Image
3/ Sunaks appearance revealed that the senior scientific advisors had warned that schools were the most significant risk to transmission

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Read 205 tweets
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Apr 24
1/ Contrary to its name, changes in the Data Protection and Information Bill further shifts the balance of power towards commercial interests
2/ The bill gives the Secretary of State the power to add to the list of interests that can access your childrens data through secondary legislation avoiding parliamentary scrutiny Image
3/ The Bill also permits 14-18 year olds to be targeted with political marketing Image
Read 7 tweets
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Apr 24
1/ The thing is, the UK is institutionally not curious about identifying harms directly caused by covid

For instance it's been a year since they stopped collecting and publishing data on long covid
2/ Many families of children with long covid have faced gaslighting and struggled to access meaningful care
3/ More and more evidence emerges of the long term harms caused by covid, but the UK govs preferred paedatricians continue to peddle claims that with enough infections children will develop lasting immunity
Said this would occur after 1 infection, what is it now? 5? 7? 10?🤷‍♂️
Read 15 tweets
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Apr 11
🧵Cass Review
Not had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but have had time to look through the main points

What positives can be taken from it? The time spent on waiting lists was identified as a major issue, all children's services are massively underfunded at the moment
2/ I would like to think that this will lead to an investment in all children's support services like CAHMS, more pastoral support in schools etc

That would be a positive outcome, regardless of what else is included in the review, unfortunately real terms cuts are the reality
3/ What matters is how government interprets the review and what it chooses to implement, additional funding for children isn't going to be prioritised over tax cuts to appease RW papers
Imagine if the billions from last round of tax cuts had instead been invested in children
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