Thread by @brucemcd23

There has always been a question in my mind as to where sophistry met stupidity in Jacob Rees Mogg’s answers on Brexit

Listening to him today on #R4Today I realise I have been wrong.

For all the self assurance and well modulated tones his answers are entirely stupid

As the full scale of the Brexit disaster unfolds in the midst of our Cost of Living Crisis the haunting question is how has our system of accountability failed so comprehensively as to allow this gang of incompetent outlaws to wreak the harm they do

Johnson’s government is out of touch and out of ideas. Pumping out a succession of knee jerk announcements to appease their base and their media partners. Today’s is the hit on the Civil Service

The attack on the Civil Service - apparently an across the board 10% initially implemented by freezing recruitment opportunistically with no regard for priorities- is a crude and desperate measure

Which to its promoters will serve a double edged purpose. Payback for opposition to Government’s fossilised thinking on Working From Home. The world has changed . Johnson’s govt and its property developers backers are virtually alone in their Canute like unwillingness to accept