Martin Dean #FBPE

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Despairing at what the UK has become under the Tories, and fearful of what more they will bring.
Pro Europe. Anti Brexit. #GTTO #FBPE
Heโ€™s right you know. Listen to Rep. Schiff.
Head of vaccine task force in the UK confirms that the reason vulnerable people in the UK weren't given Evusheld - and thus had to stay shielding, their lives wrecked - was because government didn't want to spend money on us. Disgusting when they bunged so much to their cronies.

When future #historians look back at the period 2010-2024, how will they balance in their analysis the following factors, when analysing the policies & actions of the successive #Tory administrations of this period?

a. incompetence
b. ignorance (stupidity)
c. corruption
d. strategy (to include enrichment of particular groups)

c. & d. many well be linked but one can also see political scenarios where d. is the result of ideology not corruption.

(This work has, of course, already started!)

Follow @RussInCheshire to get the excellent laugh/cry a week #WeekInTory UK politics summary of conservative activity (moving from the bird site due to recent "problems")
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Hi everyone. Time for #TheWeekInTory, and then probably a bit of a weep.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1669732513407811585.html

Thread by @RussInCheshire on Thread Reader App

@RussInCheshire: By any standards, it's a pretty hectic #TheWeekInTory, and it's been a battle to get this down to a readable size. If you like this nonsense, consider buying my books (links at the end). Or...โ€ฆ

In lieu of #TheWeekInTory here's an thing about, oh, yknow, all this shit, and why it's no surprise

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1670760179812450308.html

Thread by @RussInCheshire on Thread Reader App

@RussInCheshire: MEGA-THREAD (sorry) Boris Johnson was born in USA, and lived there using the name "Al" until he went to Eton, at which point contemporaries said he invented "the eccentric English persona" we know n...โ€ฆ

How to be An Genius:

1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn

It's only been 3 days since I did #TheWeekInTory, but that hasn't stopped them. It hasn't even slowed them down. It's an absolute blizzard of chaos.

(There's a mistake in this - I refer to Johnson's time as Home Secretary, I meant Foreign Secretary)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1674751880319123457.html

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@RussInCheshire: I did my last #TheWeekInTory at lunchtime on Tuesday. So this is just whatโ€™s happened since then. Pick your jaw up, Mabel: thereโ€™s nothing surprising about this level of mayhem anymore. (Long thread...โ€ฆ