Conservative MP for Chingford & Woodford Green Promoted by M. Goldie of 105c Station Road, Chingford, E4 7BU.
May 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1) Section 13.8 in the #NIProtocol makes it very clear that both sides are committed where necessary to 'replace either in whole, or in part' if it doesn't work or areas cause trade diversion and/or political instability which is damaging for the Good Friday Agreement.
2) Any agreement signed under Article 50, cannot be forever it's a temporary arrangement, this was always going to be a transitional agreement. The EU should have been sitting down properly to discuss what was necessary, but they have been intransigent from day one.
Dec 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Schools must reopen in January ⬇️
A recent @csjthinktank report showed, our most disadvantaged children already face a barrage of adversity, now made worse by the Covid pandemic and school closures. Children are disengaging from school at frightening pace in autumn 2020.
2. Number of pupils who were severely absent soared by 54.7% year-on-year. Disadvantaged pupils faced an 18-month GCSE attainment gap before Covid. Mental health problems are spiralling - the rate of probable disorders among children rose from 1 in 9 in 2017 to 1 in 6 in 2020.
Aug 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
ByteDance (TikTok) claims it's a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven. The reason for this unusual boast is to show it is not a Chinese company. However, this was laid bare last month when Wang Wenbing, a spokesperson for the Chinese Government, confirmed...1/4
...that ByteDance is in fact a Chinese company. This is important because it means ByteDance and its subsidiaries, including TikTok, are subject to the Chinese National Intelligence Law - a law requiring Chinese organisations to hand over data to the Chinese Government... 2/4
Apr 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Chinese authorities were alerted to the threat the #coronavirus outbreak posed when human-to-human transmission was confirmed early December, just as they were about to sign a trade deal with the USA ending the damaging standoff between the two countries. Was the reason 1/4
that the government closed down any mention of the outbreak through December and January to protect this deal? Phase 1 of the deal was set to lift tariffs on about $200 billion of Chinese exports. However, if the deal hadn’t been agreed on December 15. 2/4
