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ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Profile picture
@campbellclaret
Dec 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
So the government has spent an extra £100m on the Rwanda gimmick and didn’t bother to tell Parliament or the public when the third Rwanda Home Secretary went off on his treaty signing day trip the other day. We are now on £240m - £80m per Home Secretary. And not a single 1/4
migrant has gone. We are paying the price of performative politics, populism which is all about exploiting a problem not addressing it. It was their decision to make this one of their five “priorities.”
For the public it is way behind cost of living, NHS, energy/environment 2/4
and more. And even if they get a plane in the air, it will be a tiny pinprick in the problem they claim they are addressing. The Rwanda government must be laughing their heads off. First they came for the sleeves on the Arsenal shirts. Then they came for our cash and jobs to 3/4
build reception centres that won’t get used. And then they came for our sovereignty. Sunak is very very bad at politics. Braverman is just very very bad. And a Parliament that finds out this way the true cost of this farce needs to be changed. Just call the bloody election 4/4

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Nov 4
Populism is politics which seeks to exploit rather than solve problems, and to turn any issue, trivial or serious, into an exercise in polarisation. We now have a government that seems to be actively agitating for trouble on November 11. “Marches of hate” was Step 1. 1/4
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Oct 9
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of the purpose of terrorism and why they have rightly been so widely condemned. The solidarity being shown for 🇮🇱 must be matched by solidarity for Jews in 🇬🇧 Twitter is not a good place to have this debate as it is perfectly possible to feel and express absolute horror and2/4
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Sep 21
Just listened to @bbcnickrobinson interview with Sunak. Even last night, at Budleigh Salterton book festival, I was saying Sunak is not as dishonest as Johnson nor as economically illiterate as Truss. A low bar I agree. However listening to his slippery gaslighting I wonder if1/4
in some ways he is worse. Everyone knew Johnson was a liar and Truss out of her depth. Sunak has the surface veneer to suggest he is different but in the interview he came close to the qualities of both of his predecessors. Can also report that one of the loudest rounds of 2/4
applause last night came when I said any party that inflicted Johnson and Truss upon the country deserved to be swept out of office. And in this true blue part of the country, with not a black face in the crowd, and most of the audience closer to my age than my children’s when3/4
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Jul 12
Like virtually everyone else, I know absolutely nothing about the events that have led to the statement by Huw Edwards’ wife. But I do know that he is a superb broadcaster. I know too that he has a long history of depression. He and I have spoken about it often, including in 1/4
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help them 2/4
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