RT if you're old enough to remember this being the job of the State.
Neither Goldman Sachs nor colleagues at TCIF or Theleme were exactly shy of tax avoidance. It would also be interesting to see Sunak's tax returns. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/27/huge-wealth-of-sunaks-family-not-declared-in-ministerial-register?CMP=share_btn_tw
We at @GoodLawProject are getting increasing numbers of applications from Government lawyers to delay service of documents or whole cases on the grounds they can't cope with the number we are bringing.
In other news, we have eight staff and it is the State!
And the price of this chocolate teapot? £100bn+, according to Government's own figures. https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/nov/26/untested-untraced-how-three-quarters-of-covid-contacts-slip-through-cracks?CMP=share_btn_tw
Four meetings is not a conspicuously successful attempted day off.
Because Government Press Officers are claiming Ministers were exonerated by the National Audit Office report, let's take a look at what it actually says.
(1) we cannot give assurance that government applied appropriate commercial practices
“Misogyny and online violence are a real threat to women’s participation in journalism and public communication in the digital age. It’s both a genuine gender equality struggle and a freedom of expression crisis.” #16days https://theconversation.com/online-attacks-on-female-journalists-are-increasingly-spilling-into-the-real-world-new-research-150791
A phenomenal article by @AnthonyBarnett which needs re-reading https://twitter.com/bylinetimes/status/1332311933786222594
COVID-19 and the End of Economic Fatalism – Byline Times https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/covid-19-and-the-end-of-economic-fatalism/
@peterjukes It wouldn't be any fun if a comparison with the Luftwaffe wasn't involved. Good old Blighty, still firmly stuck in 1940 as the 21st century charges on without it.
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Another damning week of scandals under this government https://twitter.com/BylineTimes/status/1332398019099176963
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It's understandable that Labour is deliberating how to vote if Johnson puts a deal to a vote in the Commons, but it seems likely that voting for the deal would do the party more harm than good.
Me in @BylineTimes on why abstention is a better option:
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/11/27/by-voting-for-johnsons-brexit-deal-labour-is-playing-a-risky-game/
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Ben Bradley, chairman of 'Blue Collar Conservatives', is charging the taxpayer an eye-watering bill for second-property rent 🔽🔽
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/11/27/ben-bradley-expenses-second-property-london-lifestyle/
@MichelBarnier @DavidGHFrost @jimbrunsden @BorisJohnson It remains clearly in both sides interests to do a deal - really it does - but it's hard to get there if your conception of your own side's offensive economic interests (your farming and pharma industry, chemicals and cars) is so warped.
Bad news. This means that freight will divert from the Rosslare to Pembroke and Rosslare to Fishguard routes. The Pembroke to Rosslare route alone supports 500 jobs in Wales of which 400 are in #Pembrokeshire. Thank you so much all you who voted for #Brexit. This is catastrophic. https://twitter.com/DFDSGroup/status/1332258308388958208
Good news: we are opening a direct Ireland – France ferry route on 2 January. This new freight ferry route between Rosslare and Dunkerque offers lorries and their drivers direct and paperless transport between EU countries
http://social.dfds.com/2LS
#dfds #Ireland #france #newroute
Next week is shaping up to be one hell of a week in 🇬🇧 politics
It all revolves around parliamentary sovereignty, Tory party shenanigans, and Johnson's need to survive and if that contradicts with doing the right thing
Bear with me - this is messy but important
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Liz Truss, she of Truss Independent Traders, right royally roasted.
Watch, listen, enjoy. https://twitter.com/EmilyThornberry/status/1331920701171888133
Yesterday in the House, I confronted Liz Truss with her own Department’s report on the question she’s repeatedly refused to answer: what’s the difference, in pounds and pence, between her Japan deal and the EU-Japan deal it replaces? She didn’t look happy.
Excellent piece by the always interesting Brendan Donnelly
@Brendandonn
https://fedtrust.co.uk/johnsons-brexit-dilemma-no-good-outcome-in-sight/
A flat-out lie from Sunak. We did not ‘have all the arguments about no-deal’ in the referendum. We didn’t even have them in the 2019 election. The Brexiters never once suggested we’d leave without a deal and the Tories based their campaign on having one.
The endless othering, the boot-on-the-throat innuendo about fancy, foreign ways not being for the likes of you has always been a pile of Brexit fuel waiting to be lit.
