Sophie #The99% #3.5% 🐟 Profile picture
PhD in lifesci, @99organisation member & co-founder of @99PercentRising, combatting rising UK poverty & inequality: join today! Views own #GTTO #ClimateCrisis
May 31, 2022 9 tweets 6 min read
🧵With (some) Tory MPs finally acting against their corrupt sham of a PM*, it would be great to see current and former politicians of all allegiances joining @99Organisation.

❓Why?

(1/) 🏘️Many politicians want to improve their communities
🧒& invest wisely in the future so today's children have a better life
💷& end mass impoverishment

😡Our increasingly polarising, vitriolic & corrupt Cabinet is good for almost no-one.

🚨It's very bad for 99% of us.

(2/)
May 30, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
“[Johnson] is showing signs of being extremely impatient in regard to the constitutional constraints upon him. He gets angry if the courts or parliament try to interfere...'

- Ken Clarke, Nov '21 (theneweuropean.co.uk/tim-walker-int…)

🚨 & now Johnson has rewritten the #MinisterialCode 🚨 - adding this clause:
1.7 Where the PM determines that a breach of the expected standards has occurred, he may ask the Independent Adviser for confidential advice on the appropriate sanction. The
final decision rests with the PM...
May 30, 2022 10 tweets 5 min read
Letter to my MP Matthew Offord #PartyGate #MinisterialCode #JohnsonOut

Dear Matthew,

Thank you for your letter dated 27th April, wherein you stated that 'there is currently no evidence' [that the PM misled the House of Commons], and that a vote of no confidence... ...'would [not] be helpful in advance of the Met Police completing their investigations and the release of Sue Gray's full report'. Now that the Met have completed their investigation & the report has been released, I am keen to hear how you intend to proceed.

#JohnsonOut