Thread by @docrussjackson

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Daughter of Tory MP Sir Robert Atkins, Tory MP Victoria Atkins. is now competing with Nadine Dorries' for the role of 'Chief Dead Cat Thrower & Shit-Stirrer': she's full of snide remarks, culture war crap, & now a whiny & unwarranted complaint.

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

Prior to her political career, Atkins worked as a barrister specialising in the field of fraud - which is handy considering how $BILLIONS of our money has been "spaffed up the wall" by her Govt of liars, & seeing as Britain is now world-beating in fraud.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1542157825459232773?s=20&t=5b-CQrvJQf3BwxHa7DCc1w

Privately educated Atkins was selected for the safe Conservative seat of Louth & Horncastle, continuously held by the party since 1924. In April 2018, now working in the Home Office, she said she did not know the number of police officers in the country.

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-hom…

In 2018, Atkins - then Drugs minister & said to be "a hard-line drug prohibitionist - was accused of "hypocrisy on a grand scale" after people found out her husband was overseeing a legal cannabis farm. The Home Office said Atkins declared it when she was appointed in 2017. 😬

In June 2019, in a spiteful act, Atkins vetoed the appointment of Niamh Eastwood, director of Release, to the independent advisory NGO Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs because she'd been critical of the Home Office's drug policy on social media.

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

Eastwood had previously been approved by a Home Office advisory panel. A subject access request by Eastwood revealed ministers vetted social media profiles of appointments to public bodies including references to "#Windrush", "the Govt", "Brexit", & "anything diversity-related".

In October 2019, Professor Alex Stevens resigned from the ACMD over the "political vetting" of panel members by the Govt. Kit Malthouse, the Minister for Policing replaced Atkins as the minister responsible for the government's drug policy on 7 October.

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

It May 2021 it was reported that Victoria Atkins’s promising political career is feared to have hit the rocks after she was is said to have observed that Carrie Symonds could not be trusted because she ‘stole another woman’s husband’. 😬

dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

In September 2021, following the withdrawal of foreign defence forces from Afghanistan & takeover by the Taliban, Landlord Atkins became Minister of State for Prisons & Probation at the Ministry of Justice - poor bastards, as if prisoners don't suffer enough already...

Last week, Atkins, now Justice Minister, told Newsnight from what looked like a prison cell: “I spent two decades working in criminal courts & one of the things I was always conscious of was that when the phrase 'human rights' was used then jurors very often rolled their eyes.”😬

Victoria Atkins, Dominic Raab & all the other infantile anti-British Tory MPs criticising the EHRC should learn some history - it was their hero Winston Churchill who drove the EHRC to protect people from people like them, & prevent another #Holocaust.

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