Oh dear.

@Nigel_Farage on @bbcquestiontime has had an absolute meltdown.

Trying VERY hard to say it is not @Channel4 "set him up"

But ABSOLUTELY saying Channel 4 set his party up.

And then having all of his candidates words read back to him.

1/ He goes on to lie about the vetting company he paid £145,000 to use their software.

And then failed to use their software.

Before going on to complain they have not done what he should have done.

AND THEN says his party is a START UP company.

When it is just a rename.

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Much is being made by @AliMirajUK about the @rcolvile piece in the @thetimes , suggesting that the complete collapse of the Tories would be bad for the UK.

That it would somehow lead to a huge central left position & result in far right splinter groups.

1/ This is, of course, utter tosh.

There is panic amongst @Conservatives & their associated Think tanks (Robert is the director of @CPSThinkTank - 57 Tufton Street).

The cosy control of British politics they have enjoyed may well soon fall apart.

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The important question on the Wragg matter.

WHEN did it happen?
Is this somewhat historical?
Did the Whips office know and used it against him?

We are being the impression this just happened.

But not the statement.

1/ This is important because Wragg's real crime is passing on the contact phone numbers of other MPs.

We do not know which MPs - bad enough if they are his own party, far worse if it is OTHER parties.

It opens up many to the possibility of blackmail.

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So, here we are.

A PM who accepts a bet on human life,
Who then says he was "caught by surprise"
Says he is not a betting man.
But spread bets on the cricket,
Oh, and ran bets in the stock market
Which brought down the UK economy,

And then?

1/ Seeks to score points by being a transphobe.
Whilst the mother of a murdered trans teenager is in the room.
And then declines to apologise to Esther Ghey
Because - according to No, 10 - his comments were "legitimate"

On what FUCKING planet is that legitimate?

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Politics isn't about winning.

It's about representation - with the party representing the majority considered best to lead for 5 years.

No political party is empowered to win or lose - only the electorate.

But shorn of representation? Only the electorate who LOSES

1/ Our politics in the UK is REALLY poor.

We no longer have representation as such, just marketing.

"Politics" is not a market - but it is being arranged as if it were.

Vendors & consumers.
Winners & losers.
Haves & have nots.

Marketed to death.

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On the 23rd January 2023, Baroness Natalie Bennett (Green) asked this question in the Lords:

"To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of schools have had electrostatic precipitators installed for the purposes of air filtration, particularly for viruses and bacteria".

1/ You can see the government response in the Hansard link below.

You may wonder WHY such a technical question was asked in the Lords by @natalieben.

Please do read the Hansard reply before the next tweet in this thread.

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questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…

No, it ISN'T 1997 and all that.

There is no guarantee that things are going to get better.
Things are SO bad it will be a battle to turn this mess around.

Some reports say it is the biggest challenge since the 50's

I would go further.

It is as bad as the mid 40's

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https://twitter.com/channel_tsc/status/1751970701236445614

Whilst we are NOT under attack from a foreign nation intent on our destruction, we may as well have been.

Our public buildings are unsafe - the much promised fortnightly update on RAAC has vanished.

Our healthcare system is in shock & on life support

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Here is why this is SUCH a disaster for Sunak.

He & his team see the over 50's as "OLD"

They think we are weak people, comfortable with our gains & selfish - like them.

But that is NOT how we see ourselves.

If you are over 50, your life will have had many aspects.

1/ You will have lived through the awful years of Thatcher.

You will have known the miners strikes.

You will remember water shortages & standpipes.

And riots.

You will have listened to punk, rock & many "subversive" music.

You may have protested against MANY wars.

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Let's have a little chat about WHY the government wants freeports & SEZ's.

The UK is NOT in a good financial position - UK national debt is at 104% of GDP

Bankrupt. And in technical default if you want to erroneously equate The Economy with household budgeting.

1/ In reality it can be viewed as "collateral" in property & finance terms.

"Affordability" When your total outgoings exceed your total income, how do you intend to repay?

In Government terms that translates to Bonds and Gilts & Markets

2/

In 2016, whilst we were IN the EU:

British Conservative government officials rejected the EU funding for food banks because it considered member states are best placed to take charge of such funding.

The British government failed to apply for EU funding on flooding.

1/ And in doing so, they rejected helping the many thousands in Britain who have lost their homes and businesses because of wide-spread flooding.

in 2014, the South West of England was hit with similar flooding.

2/

"Rishi Sunak says"

Nothing.

He doesn't decide when the election will be - The Party does.

He's gone on May 3rd because a trouncing at the locals means he CANNOT and WILL NOT be allowed to fight a General Election shortly after.

1/ I imagine Sunak would love a May 2 GE - which allows him straight out of politics without the ignominy of being removed as party leader.

So why are The Party holding off?

Well, they will be trounced in the locals on May 2.

Badly.

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I am hearing - YET AGAIN - that @PoliceWarr are failing in their duty to protect citizens from abusive people in their jurisdiction.

If you would care to contact me @PoliceWarr, I will happily make you fully aware of the issue.

Before I contact national press. Just so you are aware - laughing & joking with the perpetrator of a crime,

Leaving the scene,

And ALLOWING that perpetrator to commit a FURTHER office against the victim?

Not the mark of a professional body.

Do you agree @MetCC

In October 2021, the government published maps of the Freeport sites.

Took me a while to locate them again, but they are still there:

gov.uk/government/pub… There were updates in September 2022.

On the 19th December, 2023, the Department of Levelling up put out the Freeport roadmap.

It makes an interesting read - actually, it reads like a sales brochure

The 12 Freeports have been underway for 2 years now - and £2.9Bn has been spent already.

1/

gov.uk/guidance/freep… This is paragraph one of the Ministerial forward from Michael Gove.

I would love to see some evidence of this claim - any MPs out there willing to ask urgent questions when Parliament returns this week?

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We have a national monetary problem currently, and it's not the one everyone thinks it is.

It links back to COVID Quantitive Easing and once understood, it will put the Govts COVID Corruption in much sinister light.

Inflation is not the cause - it's the cover story.

1/ Don't think of inflation as a measure of price rise, but a measure of currency value.

Currency is now so devalued that price rises cannot be reversed, but it is continuing to lose value at a rate which means business cannot sustain price rises.

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I saw this and was shocked - but not as shocked as I was when I found out this is normal practice.

The government has to give first refusal to compulsory purchased land to the original seller if it is surplus to requirement - and at current market value.

1/

https://twitter.com/janemerrick23/status/1710308650630148552

This falls under "Crichel Down Rules" which are explained in this short article

(It is an interesting story)

The reasoning is that the government has an obligation to the taxpayer to get the best price for the land.

And I see an issue.

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leathesprior.co.uk/news/buying-yo…

It is not even 8am.

So far I have seen:

Vallence & Whitty were not even told about "Eat out to help out"

Johnson wrote "BOLLOCKS!" across a DoH guidance document on Long Covid

Richard Dearlove (Ex head of MI6) & Brexiteers secretly attacked a top science journal

1/ That last one was them demanding the UK government spy on the "Nature" magazine after their debunked paper on an "alternative" Covid vaccine was rejected.

It is a Hell of a story & deserves reading.

They all do.

So I am threading some in below.

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"We just need to keep a lid on this for the next 2 years"

Reportedly said by Gillian Keegan.

But let's think what it means

The resistance to renovating and improving ventilation of public buildings during Covid?

Was it to prevent contractor discovery of RAAC?

1/ The RAAC issue was well known to govt from 2018, following the primary school roof collapse.

And here's where Keegan's revelation becomes serious.

Deaths and serious debilitation through Covid were unnecessarily caused by cover up on RAAC?

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Oh, They're done.

They are not even PRETENDING to have a clue anymore.

THIS is ALL on them.

Don't believe me? Read the next tweet.

NOTHING they say can be believed as the list HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.

If you are still intending voting Tory come the next GE you are mad.

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https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1698027609156645284

In 2010, Michael Gove shut down the Building Schools for the Future program.

DESPITE his own commissioned report telling him to keep it.

He was taken to court. He lost.

Yesterday they pretended it had all happened over the summer

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theguardian.com/education/2011…

Labour allocated $55 Billion to Building future schools, 20 years ago.

The Tories killed the program with the already costed and allocated funding

13 years have passed with not a shovel lifted

And that 55 billion is gone.

Where did it go?

1/ NOW we need 20 years and £100 billion MINIMUM to rectify.

And that is ONLY schools.

Never mind the housing, courts, hospitals etc.

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For those a little bewildered.

RAAC is reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete.

A material commonly used in Europe, but which was badly made in the UK - with inadequate reinforcement and a tendency to corrode.

Failing without warning.

Used in schools, hospitals...

1/ ..bridges, social housing and other places between the 1950's and the mid 1990's.

Alarms were raised in 1996 about it, and its use stopped.

Plans were put in place to replace affected buildings

Plans dumped in 2010.

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