Say what you like about the suffering he caused to the victims and families of those who were sent to their deaths in care homes, but Boris Johnson got all the big calls right.
1/8
Say what you like about Boris Johnson failing to chair Cobra meetings, shaking hands in hospitals, and sorting out his divorce, while tens of thousands caught Covid and died, but he got all the big calls right.
2/8
Say what you like about Johnson embracing, enabling, and ennobling Russians in London, but when he saw the way the crowd was running, he did the right thing and ran out in front of them shouting 'follow me, because I get all the big calls right'.
3/8
Say what you like about Johnson running the NHS into the ground, so that you can't be sure of an appointment, a referral, or even an ambulance - but he got all the big calls right.
4/8
Say what you like about Johnson breaking the law, feigning apology, and lying from morn till night whilst holding the highest office in the land, but he got all the big calls right.
5/8
Say what you like about Johnson's economy being dramatically smaller than it should be if it was following the pre-Brexit trajectory, meaning we are all poorer, but he's got the big calls right.
6/8
Say what you like about Johnson's shameful government letting kids go hungry, and pushing pensioners onto buses to keep warm, but he's got all the big calls right.
7/8
Say what you like, because he'll say what he likes, and he'll get away with it.
Unless Tory MPs do the right thing, and get tonight's Big Call right.
8/8
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May 4
We know the Tories aren't going to help us with the cost of living.
Why? Because they've said so.
- It's 'down to individuals to make spending choices'.
- it's ideology for them. They don't really believe in helping people. They like to let markets do their thing.
1/15
- Their interim solution is a loaned reduction on our energy bills. It's not enough, and it'll have to be paid back.
- their broader argument is that there needs to be a long-term energy policy. That helps nobody now, and who has faith in a Johnson-led long term policy?
2/15
By the way, a leading energy-sector expert told me a year or more ago that it wasn't that the government's energy policy was bad - it was that it didn't exist. No energy policy. Maybe that shouldn't surprise us. Populists do now. They don't do the future.
3/15
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May 3
If you voted for a party calling themselves 'Local Conservatives', you'd be voting for people who couldn't even be honest about who they really are.
1/4
If you voted for a party calling themselves 'Local Conservatives', you'd be voting for people who know their national leadership is a disgrace, but still want your support for their wrecking-ball mismanagement of the UK.
2/4
If you voted for a party calling themselves 'Local Conservatives', you'd be voting for people who are ashamed of their national party but still espouse their 'values' of squeezing the breath out of local government - the opposite of levelling up, and the opposite of 'local'.
3/4
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Mar 16
The problem with the Tories is where their money comes from.
The problem with the oligarchs is where their money comes from.
The problem with the 'think tanks' is where their money comes from.
The problem with the libertarian activist groups is where their money comes from.
1/5
The problem with the 'taxpayer' advocacy groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the schoolchild advocacy groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the anti-vax groups is where their money comes from.
2/5
The problem with the anti-climate action groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the rightwing 'disrupter' political parties, and their donors, is where their money comes from.
The problem with some new (and old) media outlets is where their money comes from.
3/5
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Feb 28
Ukraine reopens the casebook on our recent history with Russia, and exposes the Vote Leave cabal, now in power, to a scrutiny they thought they had successfully avoided. It presents them with a bind - they harder they go on Putin, the more they risk undermining their own

1/4
Brexit-dependent legitimacy. Putin's paws and cash were all over Brexit. The Vote Leave Tories are in power on a 'get Brexit done' ticket. They have literally done the bidding of World Enemy Number 1.

2/4
But they won't have a choice. They will have to fall in behind world opinion on Putin, and even be seen to be tougher than others on him - which means they'll have to redouble their efforts to expunge Putin from the Brexit narrative, and move harder than ever

3/4
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Feb 23
Hands up if all those rubles sloshing round the Conservative party make you queasy.
Hands up if Johnson's off-grid Russian partying makes you queasy.
Hands up if you see a massive nesootvetstviye (discrepancy) between the Johnson regime's stern rhetoric on Russia, and its startling warmth towards Londongrad.
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Jan 5
It's 2022. Let's stop pussy-footing around and call the regime what it is... The Policing Bill, the Elections Bill, the Nationality & Borders Bill, media control, othering of migrants and lawyers, sweeping use of secondary legislation, brazen lies and wholesale corruption...

1/6
You know where I'm going with this. If it makes you feel uncomfortable saying the word, or you think it's somehow "unhelpful", I get it. I've been there too, I've done that too, I've sat on my hands too.

2/6
But I for one no longer have the stomach to keep giving them a free pass to pretend they are benign democrats, when I know beyond all reasonable doubt that they are not.

3/6
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