Hugh Janus is a massive Farage fan it turns out
“Happy birthday, Hugh Janus...er...”
@Nigel_Farage
The one on the right has just announced a review into the dodgy dealings of the one on the left. Why do I doubt it will be thorough and impartial?
Greensill is the privatisation of the NHS writ large: access to data and billing was the big prize and #Greensill met everyone who mattered (Hancock, Harding, Stevens etc). This is why this scandal matters
Sir David King accuses Tories of corruption and NHS privatisation. The former Governement Chief Scientist, and founder and chair of @IndependentSage, lashes the Government 'chumocracy' as the scandal grows.
Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s ‘chumocracy’ is using Covid crisis to sell off health service by stealth, says Sir David King
www.theguardian.com
Hey Siri, explain structural misogyny, patriarchy and sexism in a headline.
It’s interesting to see how this @OversightBoard makes decisions, but just another reminder that this board is essentially just a non-binding hand-picked and highly compensated meat shield for @facebook’s terrible decision making and should be viewed as such. https://twitter.com/emilybell/status/1382013621836914691
The case Facebook @OversightBoard took at the same time as the Trump removal decision, "Zwart Piet" has been decided - and Facebook's removal of Dutch pictures featuring a racist blackface character in a traditional Christmas pageant will not be restored https://oversightboard.com/news/162400975760482-oversight-board-upholds-facebook-decision-case-2021-002-fb-ua/
The Cabinet Office is not fit for purpose at this point. It's become a fiefdom within a fiefdom. A mafia boss's special ops unit.
NEW - Explosive letter from Eric Pickles, chair of Acoba, reveals that Bill Crothers, the senior civil servant who became a director at Greensill, joined the company as an advisor WHILE HE WAS STILL A CIVIL SERVANT.
The Cabinet Office APPROVED it.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/977745/Follow_up_Letter_to_CO_re_Bill_Crothers_13_April.pdf
Fun fact.
Lockdown easing doesn’t inevitably lead to rise in deaths if you:
✅ Have a Test & Trace system that actually works
✅Control your borders properly
✅Pay people enough to self-isolate
✅Stop blaming the public & shrugging your shoulders and act
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/covid-deaths-uk-lockdown-boris-johnson-b1830561.html
Young black people are 3 times more likely to be unemployed than young white people but tell us again, oh government race report, how the UK is a model to other nations on race.
Young black people three times more likely to be unemployed than white peers
Young black people are three times more likely to be out of work than white peers, research shows.
www.bbc.com
Michael Gove, 2 weeks ago:
“Transparency drives everything this government does”
In unrelated news:
Rishi Sunak decided not to show up to answer questions on the Greensill lobbying scandal
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19229951.rishi-sunak-nowhere-seen-commons-asks-questions-tory-lobbying-scandal/
Now on 9.6 million views. Help drive it to 10 million tonight & send a message to @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @SkyNews that if they won’t hold this truth twister to account we will do it ourselves
Private companies are blowing £37bn on a failing Test & Trace.
The NHS has successfully vaccinated 32m people ahead of schedule with 7.6m having had their second dose.
GOVERNMENT CONCLUSION:
Sell off more of the NHS to private companies.
Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s ‘chumocracy’ is using Covid crisis to sell off health service by stealth, says Sir David King
www.theguardian.com
Here’s David Cameron coming down hard on ex-ministers who abuse their influence for lobbying like - *checks notes* - David Cameron.
Shock as man who’s frequently made racist comments defends racist comments.
Boris Johnson defends Prince Philips' racist comments, saying people "understood he was trying to break the ice, to get things moving, to get people laughing."
Thanks to Northern Ireland being in a Customs Union with the Republic of Ireland.
Sure hope nobody pushed an agenda that threatened that arrangement, Mr Telegraph Columnist. 😬
James Dyson says Brexit has given him ‘freedom’.
That’s good, because a £16.2billion fortune definitely won’t give you that.
The police turn on Luther every chance they get. How is that NOT an authentic black character?
Brexiteers prevented people from having a "single issue" say on Boris Johnson's Brexit.
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Then used the election result to argue people wanted it.
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We point out that the majority voted for 2nd referendum parties
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They say "but it wasn't single issue".
Saw Luther trending. | Saw the reason.
I'll address this ridiculous argument once and for all.
The problem with our 2-party FPTP system is the SAME PROBLEM as the referendum:
People aren't binary. People aren't ALL Labour or Tory, OR all Johnson's deal or Remain!
Ask the DUP if they feel they got what they voted for!
@Femi_Sorry yet the referendum was PR Femi yet you have been moaning about that for 5 years now!
This is a tweet to all those idiots who say that we already had a PR referendum in 2011.
We didn’t.
AV ≠ PR https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1382099866290167810
Current Vote system: FPTP
Problem: 1 MP per constituency so 40-60% of votes don't count.
2011 Referendum: AV
Description: Voters put 2 choices. 2nd choice counts if 1st doesn't win.
Problem: Votes of smaller parties still don't count.
We want: PR
All votes of all parties count.
