Thread by @TrialByTruth

A system that lauds the altruistic giving to charities, while saying all poverty is personal failing, tried to further tax the taxed to pay a premium for life-saving healthcare, while also concealing huge corruption and kick backs in return for powerful positions

Billions wasted or overlooked as sweeteners for deals and favours

Eroding human rights and broad access to affordable legal advice. Weakening unions and the right to protest, with more to come

Complicating voting, making the local elections first past the post

Demanding benefit irregularities are stamped down on further to the tune of billions more given to private firms doing the stamping

While effort to avoid as much tax as feasible is a badge of honour in the cabinet. Slightly careless trust formation a trivial oversight

Colonial history , mention of any LGBTQ folk, critiquing capitalism all need to be kept out the mind of impressionable youngsters

While free speech of folk who push the product of that kind of closed minded intolerance is the thing most vehemently defended

Transparency and a deterrent for public dissent is aim if surveilling social media for plans to stage a protest. but calls for a stop to lies and incendiary language (that led to death threats for lawyers) saw Home Office call for evidence to be removed from public domain

Perhaps some contradictions?

All of our fundamentally needed services and utilities have been increasingly monetised, with the deterioration in quality / delivery

While ministers work to coerce workers to increase productivity with no commensurate reward for work to burnout to provide that

Banking deregulation a core plan as is deregulation in freeports and more generally in the country

While devastating impacts in the existing sites like Teesside is still not being effectively scrutinised

Calling for civility in parliament when opposition MPs, or even, (over fracking), their own party revolt

While Lee, Bridgen, Braverman, Gullis, Jenkyns, Dorries, Jacob Rees-Mogg et al, farm outrage about all of our essential workers

A former leader with huge and unanswered questions about his trips to visit ex-KGB officers in Italy, works to rehabilitate an image as wartime leader via a rapid taxpayer funded trip to Kyiv and before that a trip to David

Having previously earned more than £1m for speaking fees, in part to crypto and other more traditional finance audiences

Abandoning constituents and now potentially getting airlifted into a safer Conservative seat. A thing that is somewhat of a rarity

Might we need governance rather than spin and showmanship at this incredibly fragile time in history?

The poverty as failing narrative is partnered with a 'something for nothing' scrounger line in RW media

Figures for the inactive include retirees, most who paid tax all of their lives and now watch effort to make all work more precarious

In a small and increasingly more isolated nation, innovation will be vital. Leading drives to renewable energy and sustainable and novel technologies that benefit many

DCMS is spearheading this, first under Dorries, forcing through many half-baked laws and regulations

Sorry, not first under Dorries, we had Dowden before that. Perhaps a few others, hard to keep track

A recent EU delegation said the plans to weaken data protection were devoid of any human rights consideration, even surpassing the profit focus seen in Hungary

Do feel free to challenge, I have a source for every single one of these statements. For some I have a few dozen. This thread will be incredibly long and growing

Vital correction, a trip to Davos, but there are renewed questions about backchannels to Cameron regarding contracts for Greensill and Illumina - a genomics firm

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1617801857052860417?s=20

Back to DCMS and the task to lead us in vital tech innovation

They were tasked under Dorries with writing UK's semiconductor strategy. Critical for most of the new manufacturing and other forms of domestic tech capability

The output reportedly could have been written by a keen undergrad who had flexed their search skills

Honestly the outcome, do your own searching if you have any passing interest in such things

As the right wing talking heads are so very fond of telling you

Speaking of supportive tech to make rapid gains in sustainable energy. Our much hyped battery startup is now in administration

Might talking a good game and having to lean on populists (who not just ignore but discredit the domain specialists) be unhelpful?

Our automotive industry was a jewel in the pre-Brexit trade crown. Now investment is far lower as is revenue generated

Perhaps the pre-Brexit sectoral impact assessments, supply chain understanding, and some transparent post-Brexit studies might help inform doing better?

David Davies told us no sectoral assessments happened, Johnson binned our industrial strategy in 2019. A supply chain research body under Johnson stopped work without having really started

Rees-Mogg says there is no point studying post-Brexit effects. We should trust assurances

Mr Rees-Mogg and supportive and ever more right wing chorus tell us that this bonfire of our rights, regulations, protections will be beneficial for households

Almost everyone with any insight into the likely outcome has been shouting about the opposite

The plan is his 'brainchild'. A man who has persistently dismissed impacts on households as trivial

A man whose father wrote 'Blood on the Streets' a manual for the quashing of dissent and making optimal profit after the welfare state has been dismantled

Sins of fathers... etc, but it is not contradicted by subsequent conduct, whether post-hoc health and safety advice for families of those who were trapped in buildings, or calling border checks that were required by our EU-exit an act of self-harm.

Maybe cruel and inconsistent?

That such a man was promoted to lead BEIS and Braverman had to be reappointed to a great office of state, is maybe some indication of the cost we all pay for a government that has to bow to incompetent or coopted populists to retain power

Braverman is trapped between the mounting evidence of dire migrant processing backlogs and need to sustain the ERG anti-immigrant talking points. It was very apparent in her response to the Holocaust survivor recently

You should all listen to the whole video and judge against all of the historical lies about immigration figures, Rwanda programme cost vs benefit. language used to sell it and downright hate promotion

Hate crimes were credibly linked and Patel allegedly hid evidence

No-where is this dichotomy in campaigning Vs economic need more apparent, than in relation to the Indian trade deal. A key part of that is granting of freer and more liberal movement of Indian tech and other specialists into UK.

Will the government collapse (yet again) under weight of contradictions?

Perhaps like many ailing firms who try to restructure and cut their way to better, dismissing the ground floor warnings from workers about unsustainable work, evident and predictable impact, and the erosion of terms and conditions. Is it working?

Perhaps, unlike firms who then listen to their experienced and skilled managers and effect change before it's too late, they will just continue to outsource strategy to consultants (think tanks) with eyes on follow on work and new contracts, not on any kind of long-term welfare

Businesses, as we know from leaks, are craving stability. Is that in any way feasible with a party in power that is direly divided?

Who else gets caught in crossfire as factions scrabble for position?

Securing the golden parachutes for their time as an opposition party

As the debunked 'Tragedy of the Commons' theory goes, those who are given something for nothing will work as hard as is feasible to ringfence it all for their own benefit. It was not born out on scrutiny of the sources

In the same way the Lord of the Flies, used as emblematic of the abject chaos if people are left to their own devices, was not at all as it was dramatised. The real life incident it was based on saw the kids look out for each other

Perhaps (just possibly), those raised to believe that others will always take what is theirs and default to laziness if given means to avoid hunger and cold, are the ones in power and the ones who are benefiting from governing on that basis.

It is contrary to evidence in many prior UK and other governments

Might greed, cruelty, dishonesty, fear mongering and governance soaked in corruption, removing accountability, excusing more wrongdoing, make expectations a broadly self-fulfilling prophecy?

Who are they ruling for and who is set to benefit? Honestly people?

We can do better. There is acres of space between this market fundamentalism and communism

It serves political purposes to try and polarise you to ignore that

https://twitter.com/MrMarkEThomas/status/1575419266337280001?s=20

A couple of references for later assertions about beloved theory

First 'The Tragedy of the Commons' blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tra…

Second 'Lord of the Flies' history theguardian.com/books/2020/may…

A list of references on the by far most common narrative that this inequality and poverty motivates us and wealth accumulated is shared

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1609922335842394114?s=20

A list of human rights bodies who are raising red flags about direction

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1614039583712317440?s=20

On our semiconductor capability

https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1550376046264025090?s=20

On the 'strategy' via @Bloomberg

https://twitter.com/EditorBTB/status/1616420408638545921?s=20

On business desire for stability

https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/1613588384777392128?s=20

On deregulation complexity from a Director of the Hansard Society

https://twitter.com/RuthFox01/status/1606317197667618817?s=20

On the claims that worker rights will not be impacted from a lawyer

https://twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1610202022447403009?s=20

On Rees-Mogg's #REUL claims, from a barrister who scrutinised detail

https://twitter.com/GeorgePeretzKC/status/1590650811704410113?s=20

A long thread tying much about related ethos together. Very much a must read in my honest opinion /END

https://twitter.com/TheScepticIsle/status/1615759775903383553?s=20

For the rest do ask where all the assertions came from and I will be happy to provide references

Just one more. On immigration spin and lies about operational issues

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1587760108020404226?s=20

Sorry, it is the need for context that always drives me, so this too on vested interests and kick backs

https://twitter.com/MartinBarrow/status/1534503015197155330?s=20

The top of that thread. This is a private equity investor that sold children's homes to an Abu Dhabi wealth fund, before getting his current NHS role

https://twitter.com/MartinBarrow/status/1534460428310519813?s=20

Out today. Johnson reportedly briefed Cambridge Analytica that minutes must not come out due to risk of damaging diplomatic UK-US relations. Perhaps telling? bylinetimes.com/2023/01/26/min…

Some history of the advertising at the time of the referendum, partly informed by work I have done on occasion with brokers in my role as data protection GRC specialist

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1607152039427211264?s=20

There is no pleasure in any of this

IMHO it is deeply dishonest and shameful disregard for welfare of most in our country

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1535615438796759046?s=20

Whatever you think of the outlet does this seem to ring true for you?newstatesman.com/comment/2023/0…

CORRECTION: Foreign Office and the ICO blocked release of minutes under an FOI

Potential impact on the UK-US diplomatic relations was cited as basis

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1618617265435598848?s=20

I said it would be a long one. I had 2021 figured to back up my tweet about the car industry. Now there's this

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1618523462611656705?s=20

Bonus tie in to the farcical and far too late semiconductor strategy

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1618523466977923073?s=20

We need specialists, not loyalists and populists back in driving seats

Just like tolerating politicised and bad faith demonisation of others

If we swallow PR about what will be delivered and ignore the drip drip drip of failure to do so with 40 hospitals, 15k nurses, 20k new police, Levelling UP, better transport for the North...

There is never effective sanction for non-delivery. Govt and the private firms consulting to plan and then falling short so often

https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1618855226726809603?s=20

Just like happens with the Covid response. The record spend on the private sector Test, Trace and Isolate, failing while established NHS capacity cried out for those funds and then had to prop up the private firms to finally deliver

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1550996558224756738?s=20

The 'record' NHS spend includes all that shamefully wasted money plus this wasted PPE deal money

Civitas quoted in the tweet above is just one think tank providing self-referencing, or aspirational statistical cover for government

https://twitter.com/GoodLawProject/status/1618663238442356762?s=20

This university 'wokeness study' is also Civitas. An academic with a sense of humour destroys it

https://twitter.com/DurhamSUOpps/status/1615020831976947713?s=20

But not before Toby Young's Free Speech Union and personal blog spin it into horror about poisoning minds and dangerous educators

Do read the whole thread about where that bad faith free speech fight is taking the UK, like the US

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1615036103756779520?s=20

Basis for this outrage merchant's tweet and Daily Mail headline?

You guessed it. Another Civitas 'study' that includes 11 million of our pensioners who mainly also paid tax all of their working lives

As said before it always escalates

From easier to dismiss persistent and worsening child poverty in the North, that we gloss over as another scandal hits, to spinning up criticism of their voter base to justify even harsher new policies

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1617488764053643264?s=20

This coming out coincided with the above stuff and headline. I am no longer writing such things off as any kind of coincidence. It is coordinated political PR to give a grounds for the brutal austerity

https://twitter.com/premnsikka/status/1618566791651000322?s=20

Small pause with a request. If you find my threads of context helpful this is a way you could leave a tip

Maybe it's stupid or maybe vital. I spend about half my time finding, checking, sharing. Less time to earn, more time researching it all

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1618327401699901441?s=20

Over the last 6 years I combatted a sense of horrified helplessness by keeping the breadcrumbs of history in a form I could go back to reference in monster threads

I am well placed with skills and contacts to make a killing, but not at the expense of so many others

We are not stupid people and this is a country with huge potential

Truth, trust, transparency, hope and accountability are essential to realise that

Far more humanely and equitably for all in the country

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1614576570823213056?s=20

Prior to dedicating more time to this I volunteered substantial time to a non-profit working on ethics focused AI governance solutions

All the rushed automation of so many gateway services for things like benefits and healthcare, was a persistent concern, so I put my money where my mouth was and spent months researching all that

An illustrative thread as example

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1520317991661019137?s=20

You think that so many are free to speak out and take action, but are they really? Unable to do the same due to damaging optics for their current or future employers

Mounting sanctions for protest and reporting critical of government

How many will take the risk now?

Another topical related thread on that slide on free expression and routes to redress for any overreach

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1529053877277949952?s=20

But this is how it was all sold to us in 2016. We have been misled and taken advantage of for too long

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1607153059829792769?s=20

With a business degree heavy on economics and econ history, plus a long career in IT, cybersecurity and data protection GRC, also an independence from employers as I consult, I am reasonably well placed to research and join dots

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1520759528073142272?s=20

In this news ecosystem with data hungry power brokers and power hungry data brokers, perhaps my using my related knowledge to do this is more essential than stupid?

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1607119439077548041?s=20

My now traditional footer for my threads. We all deserve far better

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1602658308019699712?s=20