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@IanDunt
Oct 9 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The mood in that hall sounds genuinely bloody jubilant.
(I wouldn't know, I try never to go to conference, it's a dreadful fucking business. The smell of cheap sandwiches on someone's breath in a hotel lobby at 2am as they talk endlessly at you about some nonsense or other. Awful.)
Prefer to spend the day accompanying Thanos on his daily missions. This is him today, sniffing out a clue and following a lead.

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Oct 4
God help me, I'm not sure I can survive an hour of Sunak's hypocrisy.
While we're waiting, here's a Thought for the Day from John Maynard Keynes:

"We do nothing because we have not the money. But it is precisely because we do not do anything that we have not the money."
And also while we're waiting, here's a preview of some of the bullshit he's about to say and why it is bullshit iandunt.substack.com/p/hs2-the-day-…
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Sep 29
Festering bullshit. Every single policy here is utterly deranged.
A conscious attempt to undermine environmentally friendly transport and encourage environmentally damaging transport. It's the kind of thing a supervillain would do if they became mayor in a Spider-Man comic.
And the 15-minute cities attack. My god. The shame of it. Taking the dumbest conspiracy theory bullshit, the most shrivel-brained online fucking idiocy, and turning it into government policy.
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Sep 4
Would strongly recommend reading last month's NAO report into the condition of school buildings. It's evidence of full scale failure - in the department and the Treasury. nao.org.uk/reports/condit…
Even if the department had all the money it needed, it would struggle to target it effectively, because it lacks quantitative evidence. Image
But the far greater problem is in the Treasury. You do of course need someone controlling spending given how inadequate and short-termist ministers can be. But how in God's name can it not see the need for spending to ensure children are safe at school? Image
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Aug 11
On Monday, the UK Health Security Agency warned about respiratory infections on the barge. They were ignored. news.sky.com/story/asylum-s…
The UK’s Fire Brigades Union has described it as a "potential death trap". A government source dismissed it as propaganda from "Labour and its union backers". amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug…
The health warning was on ventilation, not water transmission, and obviously we haven't seen a fire yet. But the pattern is clear: Deploy punishment accommodation against asylum seekers and then dismiss concerns as a plot by political enemies.
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Aug 3
We spoke a lot about the radicalisation of the Labour membership under Corbyn, but much less about the radicalisation of the Tory membership under Brexit.
After all, these are the people who put Liz Truss in charge of the country. In short: they're batshit.
They could return to power pretty quickly after the next election if they picked the right leader, but I very much doubt they will. Strongly suspect they'll go full right-wing Corbyn, picking some lunatic who keeps them out for a decade.
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Jul 31
In terms of policy this is all utterly obscene. No interest in the environment, or road safety, or quality of life - just a fake half-arsed sense of electoral game-playing. Sunak's next desperate failed attempt to divide people for his own gain. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
He's an absolute embarrassment of a prime minister: a technocrat pretending to be a populist. Failing to fix anything, failing to divide people, lacking any of the chummy charisma required for the role, a pitiable spectacle of a man.
But this is also, just as importantly, a disgrace in terms of local democracy. One of the few areas where there is any local control. And as soon as No.10 think they've spotted an advantage, they seek to overrule from the centre.
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