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As fines are issued for breaking lockdown rules at the #DowningStreetParties, here's seven occasions when Boris Johnson lied.

Britain has called for regime change in Russia. We shouldn't have to wait years for regime change here in Britain.
theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…
On 28th February, a spokesman for Boris Johnson said the sanctions against Russia “we are introducing, that large parts of the world are introducing, are to bring down the Putin regime.”

Downing Street later insisted that the official had “misspoke”.

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Boris Johnson lied to & misled voters about the #DowningStreetParties:

1/12/2021

“What I can tell the right hon & learned gentleman is that all guidance was followed completely in No 10.”

2/12/2021

"The guidance is there & I am very, very keen that people understand this.”
7/12/2021

“All the guidelines were observed.”

8/12/2021

“I have been repeatedly assured that the rules were not broken. I repeat that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken.”
8/12/2021

“All the evidence I can see, people in this building have stayed within the rules."

13/12/2021

“I can tell you once again that I certainly broke no rules … all that is being looked into.”

20/12/2021

“Those were people at work, talking about work."

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Mar 30
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During & after Jeremy Corbyn's election as @UKLabour leader, there was a surge in Labour Party membership; from 201,293 on 6 May 2015 (the day before the 2015 general election) to 552,000 by January 2018. It's now 'stable' at 430,000.

What should we make of this?
This article investigates the remarkable surge in individual membership of the @UKLabour Party after the general election of May 2015, particularly after Jeremy Corbyn was officially nominated as a candidate for the leadership in June of that year.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Using both British Election Study & Party Members Project data, researchers explain the surge by focussing on the attitudinal, ideological, & demographic characteristics of the members themselves - with some surprising findings.
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The Institute of Economic Affairs are on #PoliticsLive AGAIN?

The IEA is a dodgy free-market fundamentalist think tank which refuses to say who funds them, & represents the interests of billionaires who want to reduce taxes & remove worker, consumer, & environmental protections.
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Is civilisation collapse imminent?

"The climate is changing, the gap between the rich & poor is widening, the world is becoming increasingly complex & our demands on the environment are outstripping planetary carrying capacity."

@LukaKemp makes a compelling argument.
Writing about existential risk, @lukakemp explores who is causing planetary destruction & why, making a compelling argument: the source is the same whether it is nukes, climate change, wealth inequality or new technologies: secretive, unchecked, power.

bbc.com/future/article…
I'll summarise Kemp's argument:

"Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.

So concluded the historian Arnold Toynbee in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 different civilisations."
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Mar 27
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The 1945 @UKLabour Party election manifesto, which led to the unexpected landslide victory for Clem Attlee, is still a cracking read, spelling out many of the progressive policies that the people of Britain once again desperately need today.
"So far as Britain's contribution is concerned, this war will have been won by its people, not by any one man or set of men, though strong and greatly valued leadership has been given to the high resolve of the people in the present struggle."
"The people made tremendous efforts to win the last war also. But when they had won it they lacked a lively interest in the social and economic problems of peace, and accepted the election promises of the leaders of the anti-Labour parties at their face value."
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Mar 27
International nurses working for #NHS trusts & private care homes have clauses in their contracts that require them to pay up to £14,000 if they try to change job or return home early.

This, & P&O, is the stark reality of post-Brexit Cruel Britannia.

theguardian.com/society/2022/m…
It's cruel, greedy, exploitative & unfair for employers to pass recruitment costs on to workers, when hiring internationally can save them huge sums.

It costs £10-£12,000 to recruit an overseas nurse, but employers can save £18,500 in agency nurse costs in the first year alone.
By comparison, it takes three years to train a nurse in the UK and costs about £50,000 to £70,000. The government does not pay tuition fees, but provides maintenance grants of £5,000 a year.

Unison knows of cases where nurses were “trapped by unethical contracts”.
Read 4 tweets
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A Financial Times review said Britannia Unchained can be seen as a call to end the Conservative party’s wishy-washy Cameronism. Instead, the authors recommend an approach that is economically libertarian, Eurosceptic, & intolerant of 'the feckless & work shy'.
The book’s premise is that the UK in 2012 was a bit shit: Singapore’s maths whizz children compared to our innumerate kids; Israel’s venture capital market suggests Britain neglects its tech sector; Australia is less burdened by regulation; Brazil is more optimistic etc.
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