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Jonathan Lis

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8 Dec

Johnson trying to take initiative by apologising for the clip and pretending he was ‘infuriated’ by it. Somehow doubt that will cut it. #PMQs

This, if anything, should make us even angrier. Johnson knew exactly what happened, and knew what he was doing when he spent all week lying through his teeth. He’s coming clean now because he got caught. The end.

Johnson saying people should focus on what’s happening with Covid now, as though this is a matter of historical interest. Starmer notes the current situation requires moral authority and the prime minister doesn’t have any.

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Jonathan Lis

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1 Dec

Starmer going on the Downing Street Christmas party last year. Johnson doesn’t deny it and deflects by asking a question about Starmer’s party this year. Starmer reads him the government’s own rules from the time. This could quickly get interesting. #PMQs

Johnson desperate to talk about the rules *right now*. He has not denied that he held a Christmas party last year, which was in direct contravention of his own lockdown rules.

Starmer twists the knife by pointing out his own MPs not following the current rules on masks. Ties it in with his ‘one rule for us, another for them’ line of attack. This could and should be a story. #PMQs

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Jonathan Lis

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29 Nov

I know the reshuffle has divided opinion but I think it’s been broadly positive. Cooper’s one of Labour’s only genuine big hitters and carries more gravitas than anyone in the government. Lammy as foreign sec a great fit. Nandy in the role she should have had from the start.

Of course Cooper is further to the right on immigration than many of us would like, but that’s where Labour is right now and Patel won’t stand a chance against her. But bizarre to relegate Thornberry and sideline Miliband. Labour needs all the star performers it can get.

Interesting too to look at some of the promotions lower down. Bridget Phillipson has been quietly devastating when attacking gov’s cruelty to children and should flourish at education. Streeting should be effective at health, but that job ought to have Allin-Khan’s name on it.

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Jonathan Lis

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12 Oct

The irony of the last five years is that Theresa May’s empty slogan is the one thing that was actually true and which the British government has never managed to accept: Brexit means Brexit

Neither May nor Johnson ever accepted that Brexit came with consequences: specifically, consequences the UK would itself choose as a direct result of its policies, and which it would then have to live with.

The Northern Ireland debate has been stuck in the same unsquarable circle for five years: that if you deliberately erect a regulatory and customs border with another trading entity, it must actually go somewhere.

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Jonathan Lis

@jonlis1

13 Sep

A guy just ditched me on a first date by sneaking out of a Tesco where we were buying drinks and then immediately blocking me. How’s your night going?

Don’t say I never give you life hacks for a) having an extremely cheap date or b) being an extreme bellend

What with my earlier Hotmail malfunction it’s proving to be quite the Monday

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Jonathan Lis

@jonlis1

13 Sep

The people who quit GB News because it’s too populist are as much a mystery as the people who quit the Conservative Party because it’s too conservative

What do these people think they’re signing up for? Why do they always insist against the obvious reality? Why is it so hard for an insider to understand something nakedly transparent to everyone else?

It’s a serious question, by the way. You used to see it when people quit UKIP because it was too xenophobic or now when people resign as advisers to the Tories because they aren’t taking race or LGBT rights seriously enough. What evidence did they ever have to the contrary?

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