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Writer, satirist, blogger. Not a journalist.
Oct 21, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
I was really hoping someone else would do this, but no-one else has and time is short. So here it is:

SCANDALS OF BORIS JOHNSON - 14 reasons why Boris Johnson should never see power ever again.

1988 - Johnson sacked by Times newspaper for lying, openly making up fake quotes. 1990 - Johnson secretly recorded discussing beating up a journalist with convicted criminal Darius Guppy.
2005 - Johnson sacked from shadow cabinet for lying about claims he'd had affair with journalist Petronella Wyatt.
Sep 4, 2022 11 tweets 2 min read
The Role of Narratives in Politics.
The populist Right understand really really well the role of narratives in politics, with Brexit a perfect recent example of how they are able to win, despite their opposition having facts and reason on their side. Trump and his supporters ... ... also understand this pretty well too, and it would be another mistake to write them off yet. Another master of this is Rupert Murdoch and co. with Johnson of course also an expert.
Until their opponents understand the importance of creating narratives, these people on the...
Mar 19, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Putin's revenge.
Why has @POferries chosen right now to fire so many British people, in such a public, brutal way?
They could have done this more subtly, without the bad publicity. Why the hurry?
Putin's flagship project for 10 years has been the Northern Sea Route. This is a... ... an artic trade route controlled by Russia connecting Asia and Europe via Russian waters. Google it. It is due to become fully operational this year, 2022.
The project is being developed by Russia state owned company Rosatom.
Just 6 months ago, Rosatom signed a partnership...
Feb 23, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
The incompetence of the @BorisJohnson circus of clowns, collectively known as the UK Tory government, descends into farce.
Johnson announced sanctions against 5 small private banks in Russia. However, he got a bit mixed up and included the Russian State bank (not sanctioned) ... @BorisJohnson ... in his official statement.
One of the private banks is called Bank Rossiya, with an address in St Petersburg. The Russian State bank is known colloquially in Russian also as Bank Rossiya, but with an address in Moscow.
Guess which bank was listed by ...
Feb 20, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Facts conveniently forgotten by the press since Boris Johnson became PM.
In 2017 Johnson set up a new 'free' trade think tank, called the IFT:
#BackBorisJohnson Image One year later, in 2018 the IFT revealed their post brexit plans for letting US firms run the NHS.
So #BackBorisJohnson if you want the NHs to be run by private US health firms.
Or don't: Image
May 25, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
Questions journalists should be asking #DominicCummngs
1)Why couldn't your wife drive?
2) Why couldn't your niece come to London?
3) Why did you drive when you had poor eyesight?
4) How can a 4-year-old go from London to Durham without a toilet break?
5) How is going even ... .. for a short drive not breaking the stay-at-home rules?
6) Why is it not possible to arrange child-care help in London?
7) Not breakng the rules applies if your family have a sprawling estate hundreds of miles away. Is that your opinion?
8) It's simple. You left home ...
Aug 7, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
My theory about Boris Johnson's no-deal plans.
He's a historian with a great eye on history. My theory is he first of all just wanted to go down in history on the list of British PMs, have his painting on the wall of nr 10 (or wherever PM portraits hang). His name is now... ... in the history books, whatever happens. He's not stupid. He knew to win the leadership contest, he HAD to be a hard brexiter. So he was. Nothing else mattered at that time.
Now he's already guaranteed his name has gone down in history, he has to deal with the promises ...
May 25, 2019 14 tweets 5 min read
Here it is!
The GREAT EU DEBATE featuring two of the finest debaters on opposite sides of the argument:
@BorisJohnson vs @BorisJohnson

#BorisJohnsonShouldNotBePM First up.
How necessary or important was it to you that the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU took place? Over to you first, @BorisJohnson
Apr 28, 2019 9 tweets 2 min read
Please share this.
As I have reported previously (but ignored by any journalists), our investigation into UK antisemitism revealed threats to Jews in the UK are overwhelmingly from the Right.
These hate accounts are being IGNORED and being left to openly peddle their hate ... ... by the press because they do not fit into their fale narrative that antisemitism is from the Left.
The San Diego suspect who attacked a synagogue also was involved in attacks on Mosques.
As I have pointed out again and again - the real, dangerous antisemites hate Muslims too.
Apr 6, 2019 13 tweets 4 min read
OK @ThomasEvansSDP. Challenge accepted.
Can I prove being a UKIP activist makes you right-wing, not centrist?
1. Bill Walker, one your party's candidates in 2015, retweeted a racist cartoon from the BNP's Twitter account.
Not very 'centrist'.
tompride.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/ukip-b… 2. Michael Waddington, UKIP candidate standing in Pendle at the time you were a UKIP member, openly shared posts by Britain First on social media.
Britain First are not centrists.
Mar 31, 2019 13 tweets 3 min read
How to Replace a Cracked or Broken Prime Minister
MOST of us will have encountered the misery of having a cracked or broken prime minister. And we've all felt that sinking feeling as we realise it's going to cost us a LOT of time, money to replace it.
So here's some advice ... What To Do If Your PM Is Cracked
These days, our pms are pretty much all about display. So, for the clumsy among us, having a cracked or broken prime minister is a serious, ever-present danger.
Broken premiers come in many different levels of severity ...
Mar 13, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read
Remainers beware.
'Malthouse B' is a way for Brexiters to push through no-deal Brexit and be able to blame the EU.
Malthouse B 'solves' the NI border problem by using 'technology' to avoid a hard border.
But this technology DOES NOT EXIST and has already been rejected by the EU. Malthouse B also needs the EU to reopen backstop negotiations. This already rejected by the EU COUNTLESS TIMES.
The people suggesting Malthouse B are knowingly suggesting something impossible that they know will be rejected by the EU.
So they can blame a no-deal Brexit on the EU.
Feb 17, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
OK. So there's something quite interesting here.
Is it really possible that @TheSun and @DailyMailUK journalist @thequentinletts doesn't know that Switzerland is in the Schengen zone with the EU?
The answer is no. He's not that stupid. He's really not. So why did he tweet this? Look at the number of likes and retweets he's getting, from Brexiters who - unlike him - do not realise that Switzerland is part of the Schengen Area.
He's deliberately stating something on social media that he knows to be untrue. In order to knowingly spread lies.
Feb 13, 2019 5 tweets 1 min read
Dear every hard Brexiter who wants a hard Brexit with WTO rules,
I'll write slowly so you can follow this.
1. If we go to WTO rules we will need to apply tariffs to our exports and imports.
2. If we apply tariffs, then British manufacturers exporting will be more expensive. 3. If our exports are more expensive, fewer people will buy them and jobs will be lost and the economy will tank.
4. If we decide NOT to apply tariffs, then WTO rules say that foreign importers can flood us with cheap tariff-free goods.
Jan 15, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
Why we need to revoke article 50 now.
Politicians are too afraid to speak out against the EU referendum result because they’re scared they’ll be accused of undermining democracy ...
#BrexitVote and sensible journalists are also mostly too afraid to speak out, lest they’re accused of being in a middle-class, out-of-touch establishment bubble – which of course most of them are.
But I’m not a politician or a journalist. So here’s the truth.
Dec 15, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
FELLOW ANTI-BREXITERS AND REMAIN SUPPORTERS - THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Leavers have already started campaigning on social media to win a second referendum - with even more extreme lies than in the first referendum.
This is happening right now, and we cannot afford to ignore it. This fake news is ALREADY being shared extensively by Leavers, especially on Facebook and Twitter, with lies about what is going to happen if the UK remains in the EU. And it is already 'leaking' onto the timelines of ordinary voters - many of whom may believe the lies.
Jun 24, 2018 5 tweets 1 min read
The biggest lie I've heard about Brexit - and there are oh so many - is that Brexit was some kind of 'working class rebellion.
The most working class parts of the UK - Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle, Peckham - were all Remain strongholds. Jacob Rees-Mogg, Rupert Murdoch, Paul Dacre, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson et el do NOT represent the best interests of workers.
It's more than bizarre this has to be pointed out.