I’m having quite a bad day.

It feels as if the country is in a very very dangerous place.

We are experiencing losses and damage across a number of metrics and there is insufficient will and courage for those who have to power to step up to ACTUALLY step up.

Trust is nil.
It’s not just the cravenness of #PartyGate.

Not just the loss of GDP

Not just the high risk to so many small businesses watching their businesses being strangled

Not just the asylum seekers threatened with Iraq

Or Syrians to Rwanda
Or people terrified they can’t pay their bills.

Or the accusations loss of hope

Or the terrifying ambulance waits and delays in A&E and waiting lists

Or GPS struggling to manage ever increasing lists.

Or the fact that they plan to cull public services.
Or the stupidity about tackling environmental issues, insulation and energy production…instead giving kick backs to fossil fuel industries.

It is that sense of being in an unstoppable waterfall of harms and nothing much by way of ethical and competent and serious leadership.
That’s not even the end of the list.

The burden on young people to secure homes..pay for higher education and attendant spiralling debts.

The alarming attacks on the arts and education.

The careless corruption in procurement.

The war on Ukraine.

It feels quite febrile.

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Jun 2
Johnson drags every organisation down with him.

And those that led in the Met allowed this to happen.

They get paid enough to have refused and to treat him (and Carrie) like all other suspects.
And, yes, I do expect a police officer presented with clues whilst walking through a corridor crowded with people drinking alcohol, + 15-20 >people in an adjoining room drinking alcohol to investigate and reach supportable conclusions from those clues.
That should have resulted in him issuing warnings and fines as they would have to anyone else.

And they clearly do start retrospective investigations. See the cases against 4 people for an outdoor vigil. Sarah Everard.

They have lost their way, their purpose and trust.
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Jun 2
Do look at this short video clip about what to do in the event of a school shooting event.

Then look at some of their faces when the “expert” was introduced.

Then see how that changed. Image
Look at this.

The only emergency drills I recall throughout my own entire school life in England were fire drills. I asked a near neighbour to ask her children if that had changed. Still the same.

Meanwhile in the 🇺🇸
Also meanwhile in the 🇺🇸

It seems there is never enough dead and injured people in the 🇺🇸 for them to look the fact that it is their gun culture and access to firearms that is driving this.

21 mass shootings since the Texan school shooting last week.
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Jun 2
via @YouTube

Listen to this #Newsnight interview with a Russian State TV journalist who resigned over the 2022 invasion, explaining what happens when you don’t toe the Party line.

But then I wonder about @maitlis when she did not toe the party line
Or @MatthewStadlen

How different is that, really?

Richard Sharp being a massive Tory Party donor, overt Brexit supporter & boss of Rishi Sunak at Goldman Sachs was seen as a Gov benefit in the appointment. Is this too not influencing where to toe the Party line? Literally.
Tim Davie, now DG of the BBC, had stood as a councillor for the Conservative Party in Hammersmith in 1993 and 1994 and was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party in the 1990s.

That, too, influences the boundaries set.
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Jun 1
We can upgrade Brexit & ease the cost of living by going back to the single market

A Tory MP comes out & says what Labour is too scared to say.

For me it’s an issue of patriotism

Maybe that’s why it’s an MP from a forces background that is stepping up politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
What’s patriotic about watching our economy limp around with a ball and chain attached to it?

What’s patriotic about reducing the freedoms of our citizens and hampering the opportunities of the young?
What’s remotely patriotic about lying to try and cover up the manifest failure of the project?

What is patriotic about squandering taxpayer money on a pointless project when it is so desperately needed to invest in our health, education, environment and future?
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Jun 1
Why the Ministerial Code is a constitutional nonsense – & why the only course for Lord Geidt is to resign–The Law & Policy Blog

The Nolan Principles :Aspirational, uplifting, comforting word bingo. The Ministerial Code: Metaphorical aspirational wallpaper davidallengreen.com/2022/06/why-th…
Love @davidallengreen ‘s word “tuttery” perfectly describing the pointless, disapproving, toothless “tut tutting” we are seeing from Geidt (& not just Geidt. Lord Evans framing of his disapproval didn’t sound much more effective either).
“The textual changes may as well have been scribbles of a bored Boris Johnson, because the content of the Ministerial Code has no constitutional import outside of what a Prime Minister decides it has.

Which is to say it has no real constitutional import at all.”
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Jun 1
Try as he might, Boris Johnson can’t use the jubilee as ammunition in his culture war | Rafael Behr | The Guardian

Beautifully written by ⁦@rafaelbehr⁩ with an exposition of nostalgia and why it won’t save Johnson. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
We long for a sense of common purpose and the solidarity that arises from it.

We experienced it to some degree during the first lockdown. Too often the likes of Johnson rely on past events in which we did not participate to try and evoke those feelings.
He does this whilst also stoking division and culture wars which reveal how shallow his understanding is of solidarity and what it takes to bring about real common purpose.
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