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Original Whig
@OriginalWhig
Live from the heart of the conspiracy. Politics, law, economics, finance & tech. Original thinkers & debaters sought. New insights prized. Name-callers blocked.
Oct 15, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Wow. The @Telegraph recants:
"Predictions on economic consequences of #Brexit, dismissed as "Project Fear", have been on a long fuse but turned out to be overwhelmingly correct & if anything underestimated both the calamitous loss of international standing & scale of damage." "Perhaps I exaggerate, but not since the humiliation of the International Monetary Fund bailout in 1976 have we seen an unravelling quite as spectacular. This too from a Tory Government with a substantial overall majority. It is scarcely believable."

telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…
Apr 25, 2021 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD:

There are multiple problems with #BorisJohnson's claim that he paid 58k for Downing Street apartment refurbishment "himself".

It is well known, from public reports, that the Prime Minister is in fact skint & struggling.

/1 He had to get the taxpayer to pay for a bed. Because he has no money and because his ex-wife had kept his stuff.

/2

metro.co.uk/2019/07/21/bor…
Apr 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
They were warned he was an imbecile, liar and cheat.

They ignored the warnings.

They put their fingers in their ears.

They elected him anyway, expecting something different.

They are now amazed to discover the warnings were correct.

#No10
#BorisJohnson
#DominicCummings "He is bereft of judgment, loyalty and discretion. Only in the star-crazed, frivolous Britain of the 21st century could such a man have risen so high, and he is utterly unfit to go higher still."
– Max Hastings, 2012
dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
Jan 13, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The problem is not partisanship; the problem is the person.  Personality matters and it matters even more than policy.

Leaders should set a standard of conduct and provide a role model to look up to. Trump did neither of these things and no I don’t care if he had some good policies.  I am delighted Trump has taken this double hit.

In these absurdly partisan times, I realise that polarisation comes from parties picking such polarising leaders from their ranks.
Sep 24, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Dear Colleague,

I would like to take a rain check on that vision of yours, although I can hear where you’re coming from. I think you have the suburbs of an idea there and you’re heading for the high street. I would like to kick it around, find a window to consider it and cascade the information to some functional unit main players at the next steering group brain-storm workshop.
Jan 12, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Liberal ≠ Socialist
Liberal ≠ Left

Before the year 2010, people knew that without being told. Image For those who believe “liberal” is synonymous with “leftist” - and that anyone who disagrees with alt-right populism is akin to Chairman Mao - here is my communism test result.

A #liberal believes in freedom, progress & human rights.

I’m delighted someone understands this. Image