Indian child poverty charity offers free school meals in UK https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/27/indian-child-poverty-charity-offers-free-school-meals-in-uk?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=soc_568&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1603815283
The government's secretive Covid contracts are heaping misery on Britain | Public services policy | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/21/government-covid-contracts-britain-nhs-corporate-executives-test-and-trace
Remember the £7k a day rates paid to Boston Consulting Group? Government has also just awarded six contracts for £30m each to its peers. Great work by @WritesBright. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/26/outsourcing-brexit-180-million-cabinet-office-contracts-corporate-giants/
Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to US Supreme Court: For Barrett to allow herself to be used this way by a morally bankrupt man days before the Presidential election says all you need to know about her. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54700307
When you see the horror show of a politicised judiciary in America just imagine what Cummings, Johnson and Gove will do if they ever manage to seize control of ours
Some Johnson quotes from Oct 2019 about his revised Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland. What is now apparently an EU threat to UK sovereignty was - at the time, in Johnson's very own words - a great deal for the UK, a chance to get Brexit done, indeed... a "real Brexit".
The select committee who hold the government to account about constitutional issues wants to know YOUR priorities.
If you want think we need to #ChangeTheVotingSystem, tell them in this short survey.
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/327/public-administration-and-constitutional-affairs-committee/news/120202/pacac-launches-survey-to-invite-public-views-on-constitutional-reform/
A whole world of glorious replies too, in which it is patiently explained to the execrable @tradegovuk that a) they’re wrong and b) virtually all soy sauce is imported from the EU and so is currently being lined up for the precise WTO terms they say are terrible. Wunderbar.
Very very much enjoying the actual Department for International Trade explaining that WTO terms are shit and you’d have to be insane to inflict them on yourself for no reason. https://twitter.com/tradegovuk/status/1321194448710225920
Under WTO terms, the tariff on soya sauce is 6%. Under our deal, they will be 0%.
🇬🇧 🇯🇵 https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1321189001240432649
Love a bit of Danny Dyer talking sense 💪🏻
Now looking forward to the Tory snowflakes complaining to the BBC.
Danny Dyer - The people who went to Eton can't run this country...
#BBCBreakfast
This feels big. FT reports that London happy if Gibraltar cuts deal with Madrid that maintains Freedom of Movement without challenging UK sovereignty. Makes sense but gives Gibs huge FoM rights denied other UK citizens @lisaocarroll @BBCkatyaadler @jimbrunsden @BrunoBrussels
Greenwich, Feb 3rd, 2020.
@BorisJohnson sets out his deadly corona virus strategy.
The UK will ignore "irrational panic" around this new disease and instead take advantage of the economic opportunities by deploying its extreme free-market super powers.
https://twitter.com/uk_domain_names/status/1321135304171003904
How have relatively wealthy island countries fared during the pandemic?
On the whole, they have coped very well, with one notable exception that sticks out like a forest of sore thumbs.
Some Johnson quotes from Oct 2019 about his revised Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland. What is now apparently an EU threat to UK sovereignty was - at the time, in Johnson's very own words - a great deal for the UK, a chance to get Brexit done, indeed... a "real Brexit".
#KayBurley - Are you going to help feed children at Christmas through #FSM?
George Eustice - No. #FMS are for term time... that's why we're no longer going to be offering free school meals during the school holidays.
Danny Dyer - The people who went to Eton can't run this country...
#BBCBreakfast
Lord Griffiths - I was in receipt of #FSM throughout my entire school career... Marcus Rashford & I have this in common... we remember, not in our heads, but in our entire bodies... an old Etonian can't be expected to have had the same experience.... #Powerful
Piers Morgan - We have an absolutely woeful government, led by a blustering buffoon, who have got every decision catastrophically wrong on #COVID19.... it's been a disaster.
#TodayShowAustralia
#KayBurley - Is Dido Harding doing a good job?
Nadhim Zahawi - She's doing a very difficult job really well... as she's working 7-days a week, 19 hour days... & that has to be commended.
Matt Hancock - The test & trace system, which is the size of Tesco, has been built over the last 6 months.
Nick Ferrari - If Tesco performed like test & trace it would no longer be with us.
#LBC
“More important than the food to them, was the activities.”
#KayBurley - I'm not sure that's true
You can't eat activities, Nadhim Zahawi. 🤔
