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Feb 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Boris Johnson's mini-reshuffle begins:

Jacob Rees-Mogg moved (demoted) from Commons Leader to Minister of State for "Brexit Opportunities and Government efficiency."
Mark Spencer moved from Whip to Commons Leader...not sure that will be greeted well by rebellious MPs.
Chris Heaton-Harris to Chief Whip.
And @JamesCleverly to Europe. That's a much better use of his talents. He was a dynamic party chair and has been a bit MIA ever since going into Foreign Office.

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Feb 10
John Major's speech to @ifgevents already off to a cracking start.

'Democrats were so confident that their way of government was the way of the future that they stopped arguing for it.'

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Major: 'Trust in politics is at a low ebb, eroded by foolish behaviour...too often ministers have been evasive and the truth has seemed optional.'
Major: Misleading replies to question invite disillusion, outright lies breeds contempt.

Politicians are not all the same and lies are just not acceptable. To imply otherwise is to cheapen public life.
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Nov 8, 2021
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Some very interesting data just out from NSW, one of the few jurisdictions around the world to keep/publish records of Covid infections/illness/death v vax/unvaxxed.

Of 61.8k cases (16/6 - 07/10):

* 63% NO vax
* 6.1% fully vax
Of 8.6k hospitalised in NSW with Covid:

* 5.7% fully vax

* 1015 ICU <-- 3% or 30 were fully vax <-- 26 of these people had significant underlying health conditions.
Of the 412 people who died with Covid in NSW during this period:

* Only 11 % or just 47 of these people had received both jabs, the average age of these deaths was 82, 29 were living in aged care homes and 18 had significant underlying health issues.
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Oct 15, 2021
NSW Premier @Dom_Perrottet has DROPPED QUARANTINE FROM NOVEMBER 1 for fully vaccinated Australians.

i.e NO HOME or HOTEL quarantine for citizens returning to their country.

#FortressAustralia is finally actually crumbling!

"We are opening Sydney, NSW to the world."
NSW Premier @Dom_Perrottet says returning Australians will need to show Vax proof and a neg PCR.

"Sydney, NSW is open for business, we want people back, we are leading the nation out of this pandemic and hotel quarantine is a thing of the past."
I spent this whole week writing a 1500 word explainer about all the things we didn't know about how home quarantine would work.

Never been so happy to see a piece spiked!

#FortressAustralia #StrandedAussies
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Jul 30, 2021
PM Scott Morrison speaking after national cabinet.

He says no state should increase restrictions beyond where they are now according to new plan agreed with Premiers today.
Morrison says learning of Delta strain is that quick lockdowns are required while the goal remains to suppress circulation of the virus.
Morrison says lockdowns are still possible in the next phase of the road out of lockdown.

But they 'are not something you would normally expect'.

International border caps will remain.
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Jun 20, 2021
PM @ScottMorrisonMP speaking from The Lodge on 2GB:

'Like everyone who comes back [from overseas] you do your 2 weeks quarantine.'

(PM and Cabinet members do their quarantine at home, regular Australians do theirs in mandatory hotel detention under guard at a cost of $3k).
Morrison asked about secret side visits to family sites in Cornwall while telling Austns cases in UK are too high for them to travel abroad.

'I wouldn't describe it like that at all' (double standards)... 'pretty innocent'.

Doesn't deny PMO organised it weeks in advance.
Worth listening to that audio for yourself. PM, usually a very smooth communicator, noticeably struggled to get the words out cleanly when trying to defend his Cornish family tracing trip as 'pretty innocent' and insisting Australians wouldn't see it as a double standard.
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Apr 6, 2021
Prime Minister Scott Morrison claims Australia's goal was always to rollout 80k vaccines per week.

But this can in no way square with his earlier stated goal of delivering 4 million jabs by April given the very first jab would only given in March.
Then the PM said the delay was because 3.1 million doses didn't arrive in Australia.

Italy/EU blocked 250k doses.

At the time @ScottMorrisonMP + @GregHuntMP said this would have NO effect on the rollout b/c they hadn't even factored in that shipment

npr.org/sections/coron…
Then Morrison took a question on global corporate tax to sledge NZ's vaccine rollout.

He again runs the peculiar narrative that countries vaccinating well are only doing so because it's so dire.

Yes SOME can and are but that's the point - it is due to competency.
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