Cost of London Olympics: £9.3 billion
Cost of test-and-trace: £37 billion
Other eye-catching/eye-watering contrasts are available so you can pick your own.
🧵 What kind of system and what kind of people do we have in govt in the UK?
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Cost of test-and-trace: £37 billion
Other eye-catching/eye-watering contrasts are available so you can pick your own.
🧵 What kind of system and what kind of people do we have in govt in the UK?
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The purpose of this 🧵 is just to draw your attention to 🧵s by @alexhallhall and @syrpis that I think are very important reading. I would highly recommend following both of them.
Both 🧵s succinctly outline the reality & the (lack of) principles in our govt systems.
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Both 🧵s succinctly outline the reality & the (lack of) principles in our govt systems.
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First this 🧵 by @alexhallhall in which she beautifully describes the real nature of our systems and the people within it, and the painful disjunct between this and, what we think is right and how we'd like to see ourselves and our institutions.
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https://twitter.com/alexhallhall/status/1479546012607909889?s=20
@alexhallhall is not talking about some fantasy version of how we thought/think the world is.
It is the 'I know systems are shitty, corrupt & flawed & there are assholes a plenty, but there are also important values, good people, checks & balances, etc. But this is worse.'
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It is the 'I know systems are shitty, corrupt & flawed & there are assholes a plenty, but there are also important values, good people, checks & balances, etc. But this is worse.'
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And it is worse and has got worse under the Tory govt, particularly the current incarnation under Johnson. In this 🧵(and several others of his) @syrpis explains how this happens and just how sinister the current cabal is.
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https://twitter.com/syrpis/status/1479510489285734400?s=20
I'm trying to amplify these 🧵s because it is important that we know AND understand the systems and the people we are living under. It is also vitally important to bear in mind that these are the people who have been in charge of our pandemic response all along.
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They have shaped our poor and at times frankly incorrect public health messaging ('masks don't work') and our shambolic public health response and are continuing to do so.
As of yesterday we've had 173,248 COVID deaths.
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As of yesterday we've had 173,248 COVID deaths.
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