Thread by @TrialByTruth

When your ex-PM is hobnobbing with people who excused and helped to brew the lies that were instrumental in an insurrection

Diplomats walk a tightrope with all kinds of people. Johnson is not doing that, he is getting tips and signalling his loyalty to GOP

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1614545814956695553

*The GOP, as featured at the end of this long and pertinent thread as caution

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1615357656868478976?s=20

I hear from people in a position to know that there is sanguine acceptance or even approval that our politics and public life is being Americanised, including campaigning, funding, rhetoric and legal system. We have to decide if that is what we want for the UK. Constant division

The signs are indisputable and I know most people would not want it

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1591360635904069632?s=20

We have a cautionary tale, but our government are apparently allergic to pertinent hindsight

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1603384659999703041?s=20

But it will not be them and their donors who will end up suffering

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1612063627380416512?s=20

The people who suffer will be those who who are not wealthy, who need good healthcare, social care, education, access to justice, decent public servants, and a government that delivers bylinetimes.com/2023/01/26/min…

A government that doesn't brew up deep state plots to excuse their own incompetence and failure to create conditions for more productive investment and support for our essential serviced

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1620339879690514433?s=20

A country that does not rely for strategy on think tanks and their culture war that prompted death threats

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1561275421655719936?s=20

Largely concocted by the same set of political power brokers and strategists, with no loyalties

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1609866707354492928?s=20

So now both you and the party have been warned against this

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But there is a huge pot of money as a salve for some consciences

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Whether from sale of state assets to private equity firms or the public money that will continue to subsidise them

https://twitter.com/ImaginarySelf/status/1610764830398418964?s=20

So again, what have we got to lose? /END

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*services

But you are not daft. You see through it

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1620212855567167488?s=20

You know it is drama to cover for the economic situation and we can all do a lot better. Change is coming and we can improve this

https://twitter.com/MrMarkEThomas/status/1204409500423221249?s=20

As always, I struggle to stop with the joining dots and the typos. It is sometimes pretty amusing

This one might make some of you chuckle

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1545374324047101952?s=20

Just circling back with a similar view from a diplomatic service veteran on this tax payer funded jaunt

https://twitter.com/alexhallhall/status/1620608066520780800?s=20

This never got better, why would it now. Johnson likes shiny things and easy opportunities to show off

https://twitter.com/mdouganlpool/status/1203802995789615107?s=20

As evidenced by the rushed roll out of these 50yr 95% mortgage and Benefits to Bricks pitches

More Johnson history and some studies to counter his economic nostrums in the rest of the thread

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1543225103567228931?s=20

Thread starts here in case interested

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Telling everyone what they want to hear and then guiltlessly lying while sponging off anyone who will trade cash for favours is not my preferred definition of leadership

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1472188432164265989?s=20

All allegedly. We are still waiting for the bill for legal fees for covid party and PPE VIP investigations

https://twitter.com/BylineTimes/status/1620049254944505859?s=20

Depending on evidence still in possession of the government

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1613100900179927048?s=20

Which appears to be a bit of a theme, along with calls for civility

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1457694029471223820?s=20

Noting who calls for politeness come from. While government is passing more draconian curbs on free speech, unions, worker rights and our right to protest

Is corruption the wrong word?bylinetimes.com/2023/01/27/dam…

Anyway, probably quite enough now

But maybe try clicking your heels together 3 times and repeating:

There is no place like proper Brexit

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Circling back again. Our public record of this time is going to look like Swiss cheese at this rate

https://twitter.com/GoodLawProject/status/1620036008824930304?s=20

Just so many missing messages

This is Patel and the Met over policing of Extinction Rebellion when Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act was being passed bylinetimes.com/2021/06/11/pol…

Now #PublicOrderBill. No, I don't think it is just a coincidence

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1586658548980801537?s=20

Mr Gardiner works for Heritage Foundation and lives in the US

Some stories may be exaggerated

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Also Heritage Foundation. This time featuring Dowden. Who is incidentally a key strike negotiator bylinetimes.com/2022/02/14/rum…

Now for a comedic interlude

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Will this thread get me referred to the Prevent programme?

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I categorically don't hate Britain

I love our country and want it to be run by people with integrity, humanity and a sense of public duty

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Perhaps not evident right now?

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1591416050939207681?s=20

Some other Ex-PMs have been intervening. Here Mrs May in the debate on the #PCSCAct. Since over used to arrest journalists

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1592102955788177414?s=20

Where are we headed now with media critics, climate protestors, unions, nurses, lawyers, teachers as the enemy?

Bankers, energy firms, RW think tanks, the US GOP as friends

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1595395928944427010?s=20

Let's just hope there are no shenanigans around the election

https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/1484016298019495937?s=20

Been a bit worried about that for quite some time, but we can all be diligent about voter ID and all the sneaky little voter fraud lies

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1620705444586213377?s=20

That started a wee while ago

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The truth really is essential

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1483742753267851264?s=20

But the lies keep mounting

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Definitely time for a change

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

Rather than this careless and profit-centric disregard for people

https://twitter.com/pmorganbentley/status/1620836514212225024?s=20

Of the kind that will mount with chaotic deregulation in Retained EU Law Bill, packed with too much poorly governed exec power

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1608050434429620225?s=20

Johnson on Tucker Carlson

https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1620866370492825601?s=20

Also about Tucker Carlson. He is Russian TV's favourite American

https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1503195423623811072?s=20