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@docrussjackson
Sep 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Brendan Clarke-Smith is the ERG crank who described food banks as a "political weapon", saying it is "simply not true" that "people can't afford to buy food on a regular basis", & compared footballers taking the knee to the Nazi salute.

Liz Truss has just promoted him. Image
Clarke-Smith signed a letter to The Telegraph in 2020 from the "Common Sense Group" of Tory MPs, accusing the National Trust of being "coloured by Cultural Marxist dogma" - 'cultural Marxism' is the antisemitic conspiracy theory in far-right terrorist Anders Breivik's manifesto. Image
On May 24, 2022, Mystic Brendan explicitly admitted he would happily back a lawbreaker as PM during a @Channel4News interview, saying about Boris Johnson, "I think he's still got a long time in office as well!" The mass resignation followed 6 weeks later.

channel4.com/news/partygate…
At the end of May 2022, Carol Vorderman labelled Brendan Clarke-Smith "pathetic", accusing him of mocking the millions of voters who had obeyed lockdown rules, after he tweeted making light of Boris Johnson's lawbreaking during the #Partygate scandal. Image
In June 2022, after a vote of no confidence in the leadership of Boris Johnson in which 41% of his party voted to get rid of him, Clarke-Smith announced he'd be supporting him, describing the vote as "one of the most ridiculous acts of self-harm I have witnessed in a long time!" Image
Brendan Clarke-Smith's new role includes oversight of the Government Digital Service, tasked with transforming the provision of online public services & the wider use of digital & data right across government.

With Ministers like Brendan in the Cabinet, Britain is fucked. 🇬🇧 Image

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Nov 24
🧵Call a General Election?

A 2016 petition calling on the Govt to have a threshold on the EU referendum got more than FOUR MILLION signatures. A 2019 petition calling on the Govt to revoke Article 50 & remain in the EU got more than SIX MILLION signatories.

Both were ignored. Image
The Express says the petition, pushed by some of the UK's worst people, “is now being branded Britain’s fastest-ever growing petition!”

WHO BY?

Started on 20/11, by 11am 4 DAYS later, it had 509,095. The 2019 Revoke Article 50 petition got FOUR MILLION signatures in 48 hours! Image
The relatively new, highly suspicious, divisive anonymous right-wing #disinformation @X account, @InevitableWest, amplified by Musk & which falsely claims Tommy Robinson was jailed "for journalism", is pushing the petition, & making false claims about it.

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Nov 23
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There was outrage when in 2020, the Tory Govt conceded a new bill to amend the UK's Brexit deal would "break international law" in a "specific & limited way".

But what is international law? What is the ICC?

And what were Margaret Thatcher's views on international law? Image
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First, what is 'international law'?

Broadly (it's complicated!) it refers to the body of legal rules, norms, and standards that apply between sovereign states and other entities that are legally recognized as international actors.
The term was coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832). According to Bentham’s classic definition, international law is a collection of rules governing relations between states. This original definition omits individuals and international organizations.
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"Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government."

John Prescott has died.

In September 2000, John - then Deputy Prime Minister - gave a speech at the @UKLabour Party Conference, introducing Nelson Mandela. Image
Nelson Mandela died in December 2013. Writing a tribute in the Daily Mirror, John reflected on his death, writing: “In my office at home I have a picture that is my most treasured possession. It’s of me shaking Nelson Mandela’s hand on stage at the @UKLabour conference in 2000." Image
At the Rivonia Trial, between 1963 & 1964, Mandela gave a dramatic speech from the dock.

John wrote in 2013 “When I read that, I knew that I wanted to enter politics. He was my ­inspiration. So when he walked free in 1990, we felt as if one of our own comrades had been freed.” Image
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Nov 16
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Allison Pearson posted then deleted disinformation, falsely accused three people of being "Jew haters", lied about where the photo was taken & what they were doing, then lied about what the Police said to her - and then moaned about being a victim! FFS

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
The Telegraph's divisive shit-stirrer Pearson falsely claimed she was told by the police who came to her home it was over a “non-crime hate incident”. Her lie was then dutifully amplified by every Reform UK MP & billionaire-owned right-wing "news" media, painting her as a victim.
Essex Police said “At no stage... was she informed that the report being investigated was being treated as a non-crime hate incident. To suggest otherwise is wholly inaccurate and misleading.”
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Nov 15
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Pearson, Farage, Musk, Young, Habib, & many other shit-stirrers who shamelessly try to normalize hateful, divisive, provocative & inflammatory rhetoric, often refer to George Orwell's 1984, but Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is much closer to the dystopia we inhabit... Image
Harassment, malicious communications, incitement, & threatening violence are all crimes in the UK, & have been for a long time.

Print & broadcast media, & online social media are simply platforms on which we behave or misbehave: it's not about the medium, it's about the offence. Image
The UK is signed up to Article 10 of the #ECHR: everyone has the right to free speech, which may only be qualified in limited circumstances, including: national security; public safety; the protection of morals & of the reputation or rights of others.

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Nov 15
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"Enoch Powell was a hero of the young Nigel, but at this point he could do without any association with the politician who made the notorious Rivers of Blood speech... the accusation of racism follows Farage & his party around like a bad smell." - Allison Pearson Image
"Farage has tried for years to shrug off the charge that his parties are more than “the BNP in blazers”... although I don’t think Farage is a racist, it’s a problem that racists attach themselves to Reform." - Allison Pearson Image
“We’re investigating a report which was passed to us by another force. The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed. An investigation is now being carried out under section 17 of the Public Order Act.” - Essex police spokesman Image
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