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Feb 4 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
Are we all psyched for Truss to do her Cummings tomorrow?

Reportedly a 3000 tome on why she was right. Maybe with a wee bit of help from all the US think tanks she visited since resigning
Do we suspect they were not the progressive policy kind of think tanks? I wonder if she had a chance to catch up with Boris
Seems a very selective visit like Mr Johnson. Just when most of the Republicans are panicking about Biden's record job figures politico.com/news/magazine/…
And our lot are going full GOP nonsense pretending that any kind of social contract is some sort of wild Soviet communism
As I said in replies, Raab sounds a bit Margorie Taylor Green there thedailybeast.com/house-condemns…
A pre-emotive watch and read or two as good faith people will try to pick bits out, while most of the favoured media will have their pre-briefed soundbites prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-…
Pre-emotive? Nice typo. I meant preemptive. About half a dozen more relevant reports in replies
But first a reminder on Truss and her views on inequality. Shared a few times. Redistribution is a thing we spent too much time on?
One Tory voter at the conference
Truss cut and pasting think tank content on civil service cuts
Martin Wolf again in wake of the budget. Not mincing words here
Video version of the FT figures quoted with the video of Truss on redistribution being useless
This was the one. Not so great
Grieve on Truss at the time of her budget. More Reagan than Thatcher, adjusted for 2023 GOP
Speaking of which. The GOP account on Biden's economy

The policies all looking familiar
Source for that Grieve Quote from @bylineTV in case interested
@BylineTV More on the think tank influence to get a feel for the likely content bylinetimes.com/2022/10/25/liz…
@BylineTV Finally, lest we forget, pork markets
And Mr Rees-Mogg desperately trying to discredit BoE and most other statistics bodies after the Truss budget. Familiar tack now
On the real value of trade deals. Not, as Gove stated, £800bn theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Retrospective on the Scholar sacking from @tortoise. Very much worth you all listening
@tortoise So now brace for the tsunami of Truss fans singing her praises

Britannia Chained to a very old low tax / deregulatory strategy with progressive rights erosion
As footer a wee anecdote from @rickperlstein. How much was just comms and pace Vs plans?
@rickperlstein I'm rubbish at finishing threads, there are too many landmines

This really is the last one now
@rickperlstein Breaking a promise (I hope you can forgive me). This was Mail on Sunday on why the IMF reported the awful outlook for UK growth

It is totally bonkers, but aligned with current civil service attacks
Here we go. Strap in folks, but please don't take your eye off their legislative agenda now

#REUL #PublicOrderBill the Minimum Service Level Bill

Perhaps #BillOfRights Bill if Raab survives 24 complaints

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Feb 6
Musing today. I think navigating periphery of groups of people that gained so much from easy belonging maybe equipped me with observational skills. While others were watching cues to signal loyalty and enhance their standing, I was watching same across multiple different groups
I tended to gel with either the top dogs or the group surfers and outliers. It was a childhood of wanting easy belonging, then pretending not to care, then a time when I appreciated how much time I saved by not paying the dues and compromising my principles to bully or exclude
As so often the price of entry. It worked out pretty well in terms of self-reliance and being able to change speed for audience

As well as a bit of a broader and more open appreciation of the different things that were more important to various people
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Feb 6
While teachers are striking and this government argues strikes cause more harm than a lack of funding, we have the Freedom of Speech Higher Education Bill back in parliament tomorrow 🧵1/10

#FreeSpeech #TeacherStrike bills.parliament.uk/bills/2862/pub…
Is that good faith legislation?

Something to help you assess the merit of the stories likely to appear in government friendly media over the next few days 2/10

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Is this a meaningful contribution to the education debate for us? 3/10
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Feb 5
Regarding this thread. Going to append those from others who have shared vital context for all 🧵
Notably and exhaustively here is @AdamWagner1 do follow him
Succinct and vital from a barrister
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Feb 5
Today a thread of threads on the European Convention on Human Rights. It is worth understanding what the PM wants to get rid of. I will be building it during the day 1/? 🧵
It has always been a target and it depends on stirring up more fury about lawyers and the EU. It is about freedom from liability for much broader rights erosion

Narrow focus on deportations is intentional and also misleading 2/?
Cummings signposted this very early doors. No point getting rid of the Human Rights Act if folk can lean on the #ECHR when the selective impacts on local workers and consumers mount 3/?
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Feb 4
Being right holds no joy. Who will stop this roller coaster of heads (ours) being banked against walls
*Banged, not banked, but that is probably most pertinent right now
No self awareness, no contrition

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Feb 4
"He enjoys the imbalance in power" is part of the dictionary definition of a bully
My six cents, from a post I wrote in 2016, exploring what I saw in America and the trajectory in UK ICYI buymeacoffee.com/TrialByTruth/b…
This excellent thread on a civil civil service cull elsewhere looks like is fantastic context for all
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