#TheWeekInTory

1. It’s been a busy 3 weeks, during which we’d denied entry for refugees, allowed refugees if they'd pick fruit, turn back over 600 refugees in Calais, hung posters in France saying, “no visas here”, and taken 0.015% the number refugees taken by Ireland

2. This week the Home Office followed up on their *excellent* start by sending emails to displaced people in Ukraine, asking them to head INTO THE WAR ZONE to attend a visa application appointment at a UK centre 500 miles from their home

3. And that visa centre is shut

4. Michael Gove, with the soul of a hyena, said the UK had “granted 300,000 visas”

5. Sky News asked if he was sure about that number

6. Michael Gove, with the mind of a goldfish, said the UK had “granted 3000 visas”

7. And only 300 people have actually been allowed in yet

8. Poland has taken over 1.8 million

9. So Boris Johnson, an internationally recognised lodestone for bullshit, said “we have taken more refugees than any other country in Europe”

10. And then he halted Home Office plans to expand the refugee offer

11. Meanwhile Daniel Kawczynski, the gobshite’s gobshite, tweeted it would be “immoral” and “left wing” for Britain to take refugees

12. Instead he said kids, pensioners and pregnant women fleeing Russian bombardments should “remain on the front line” for “their own good”

13. Having bravely volunteered Ukrainians to the front line, he bravely deleted his Twitter account because people mocked him for being as thick as a boxing day turd

14. But the govt has eventually done the right thing, having finally exhausted all the alternatives

15. The Tories created a website where you can register to house a refugee

16. The website crashed

17. When it did occasionally work, it was discovered you need to know the individual names of any refugees you wanted to help, and the govt wouldn’t assist with that in any way

18. Michael Gove suggested the best way for Ukrainian refugees to let volunteers know their names was to “set up an Instagram account” (presumably while being shot at in a freezing crater that used to be their bombed-out home), quickly learn English, and “advertise”

19. Gove said he’d “had it up to here” with people saying his govt was dishonest about its commitment to refugees, and that “Labour introduced the Hostile Environment”

20. It was 2012 when Tories announced their policy to “create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment”

21. Trundling horcrux Priti Patel said incredibly slow visa applications were necessary because of Windrush, which ended in people being unable to access benefits

22. Windrush only happened because of the Hostile Environment the Tories created, and are still running

23. Sajid Javid said he had considered taking in a refugee, but decided not to because “he wouldn’t be a good host”

24. He’s worth over £8m, and owns 3 homes in the UK

25. One has 5 double bedrooms, a Star Wars themed cinema, and a self-contained guest barn

26. But he can’t put up a refugee, cos he's not around to offer canapes

27. Patel tweeted it was “appalling misinformation” to suggest Ukrainians still needed a visa to enter the UK

28. Same day, Boris Johnson announced details of the visas Ukrainians needed to enter the UK

29. Tory MPs accused Patel of misleading the House of Commons (again) over visas

30. Patel told MPs “I have made it clear, the visa application centre has now been set up and we have staff in Calais”

31. That Calais visa centre is in Lille, which is 70 miles from Calais

32. And it didn’t exist when she told parliament it “has how been set up”

33. But she did tell MPs refugees could take “a free Eurostar” to the quantum fluctuating visa centre in Calais/Lille, so that must be a relief to them

34. Or maybe not, since no such train route exists

35. This week Boris Johnson wrote a Telegraph article blaming the EU for not using its influence to prevent Putin’s expansionism

36. In 2014 Boris Johnson wrote a Telegraph article blaming EU influence in Ukraine for Putin’s expansionism

37. Warming to his theme of Bullshit Tsunami, Johnson denounced our dependence on oil from a brutal undemocratic dictatorship that has invaded neighbouring lands

38. So instead, he went to ask for more oil from Saudi Arabia, a brutal undemocratic dictatorship that invaded Yemen

39. And Jacob Rees-Mogg, a cross between a cursed dildo and the concept of gout, claimed UK “leads the way” in removing corrupt Russian money from our system, thus proving the UK had previously led the way in allowing corrupt Russian money in our system

40. Bearing that in mind, grant me the balls of Nadine Dorries, who launched a “crackdown on people telling lies, using the internet to exploit innocent people”

41. She then asked Microsoft “when are you going to get rid of algorithms”, which are the basis of computer science

42. Meanwhile Facebook deleted quotes by Dorries and Boris Johnson for breaching their decency standards

43. Dorries then announced “400 new jobs” in culture

44. This consisted of her firing 600 people, moving 400 of their roles to Manchester, and cutting the remaining 200 jobs

45. Covid: and the former Corruption Minister (who earlier resigned cos there was too much corruption) said Tory Covid policy was “happy days if you were a crook”

46. As cases soared and scientists globally warned “the pandemic is not over” the Tories leaped into inaction

47. They cancelled funding for Covid tracking apps

48. And cancelled funding for Covid transmission studies

49. And cancelled all travel restrictions

50. And abolished the Covid declaration form on entry into UK, so we have no clue about new infections

51. Sajid Javid, apparently the health minister and a child’s drawing of infinite irresponsibility superimposed onto a competitively evil gonad, said Britain is “in a very good position” as 12,000 people ended up in hospital with Covid

52. Then he cut NHS training for new staff

53. The NHS already has 94,000 full time vacancies

54. And because of cuts a record 791 medical graduates were refused training places this week

55. Unsurprisingly Javid said we should “prepare ourselves” for many deaths. I'm gonna do 10 press-ups and bleed my radiators

56. Grant Shapps celebrated this great health news for people who somehow make it through alive, saying “you can now travel, like in the good old days”

57. And Greg Hands tweeted his delight at the memory of his 1985 move to Germany, where he went to live and work

58. They’re both members of a govt that ended the right to do any of that

59. Boris Johnson said the NI Protocol (which he negotiated, said was “brilliant”, and pushed through parliament without scrutiny) now needed “significant changes” because he said it might break the law

60. Courts ruled the Protocol is “not simple, but it is lawful” so we're stuck with it

61. MPs said the Festival of Brexit is a £120m “recipe for failure”, “vague”, “shape-shifting” and “an irresponsible use of public money”. Therefore a perfect celebration of Brexit

62. Rises in prices for energy, heating, oil, water, council tax, broadband, food and National Insurance all happened before Russia invaded Ukraine

63. But they all happened since Brexit

64. So after their last stunning success, the ERG transformed into a pro-fracking group

65. COP26 chair, climate super-champion, and the world’s first spine-donor Kwasi Kwarteng suggested fracking should go ahead in 138 English constituencies

66. Of those 138 MPs found only 5 would allow fracking under their OWN homes, but were all for it under anybody else’s

67. And speaking of COP26, this week it was revealed a Tory peer - no, not Evgeniy Lebedev, a different one - had attended that conference as a **Russian delegate**

68. Needles to say, the govt denied Russia was too embedded in the Downing St operation

69. And then it emerged Russia had fitted all the electronics, computers, recording and broadcast equipment for the ghastly £2.6 million Downing St briefing room that was only used for Allegra Stratton to admit to illegal parties, and for Johnson to watch Bond movies.

70. Minor stories you may have missed, or may wish you had: only 29% of students with disabilities were approved for govt disability grants

71. We suddenly face a multibillion-pound bill from China, because we forgot to collect customs duties on Chinese imports for SIX YEARS

72. Having left the Charity Commission without a chair for a year, the Tories finally found a former Tory candidate (what a coincidence) to take over, just in time for the review of whether private schools should still be charities

73. And finally, some much-needed good news: the law banning the import of dead wild animals from trophy hunters was axed after “lobbying from a small group of wealthy Tory peers”. And I bet that’s a huge relief to voters in those Red Wall seats

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1504126014540042240.html

The UK faces 5 crises: Brexit, Covid, Economy, Ukraine, and the PM’s belief that all business meetings should involve a glitterball.

Let's dive into #TheWeekInTory

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494316463737303048.html

The top Kremlin mouthpieces think that now is the perfect time for Putin to be interviewed on Fox News.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1494388011093663748

Russia fight shows off tensions between McConnell, pro-Trump wing

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/594646-russia-fight-shows-off-tensions-between-mcco...

Besser?

Ja.

Die Sanktionsdrohungen der Tories nimmt Lawrov nicht ernst, denn ein großer Teil der Regierungspartei möchte garantiert nicht auf russisches Geld verzichten.

Da wäre ich mir nicht sicher, weil der London Laundromat ein öffentliches Thema in GB ist, die Wählerschaft der Tories nicht ganz so verrottet ist wie Trumps Base und sie sich im Zweifelsfall einen Verzicht auf Sanktionen ungefähr genauso wenig leisten könn(t)en wie die SPD ein weiter so bei ihrer maximal weltfremden Version von Ostpolitik. Zudem hat GB Ukraine ein paar brauchbare Waffen geliefert.

Auf Twitter habe ich neulich versucht, Toomas Hendrik Ilves und anderen zu erklären, dass nicht alle führenden und geführt habenden deutschen Sozialdemokraten so zynische Egomanen wie Kreml-Gerd sind, sondern Ostpolitik bzw. die irre Version davon für einige darunter so etwas wie ein superstarkes Kraut ist, mit dem sie sich 30 Jahre lang selber hypnotisiert haben. Allein, ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich damit völlig durchgedrungen bin, weil es nicht-deutschen Beobachtern schwer fällt, zu glauben, dass zumindest ein Teil der sozialdemokratischen Ostpolitik wirklich auf so schwere ideologische Doofheit zurückgeht.

Immerhin heißt das auch: Deutsche Politiker werden generell nicht für total bescheuert gehalten.

Dass Truss einfach hätte zurücktrollen müssen, ist klar.

Deshalb hätte ich gleich Nadine Dorries geschickt, mit sowas hätte Lavrov nicht gerechnet. Wahrscheinlich wäre es auch so peinlich geworden, aber er hätte sich dafür rein gar nichts zurechtlegen können.

Aber sie war einfach schlecht vorbereitet. Ostsee und Schwarzes Meer zu verwechseln war ein Elfer für Russland. Absolut unnötig.

Ganz so einerlei scheinen westliche Sanktionsdrohungen aber dann doch nicht zu sein. Der Vlad hat drei Jachten aus europäischen Häfen abgezogen.

Warum haben wir den Gasgerd noch nicht auf die Sanktionsliste gesetzt? Wird Zeit für die Daumenschrauben!

Gute Frage. Teilantwort:

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/gerhard-schroeder-was-passiert-mit-bundesmit...

Kurzform: Es ist gesetzlich nicht klar geregelt, was eine Bundeskanzler a.D. in seinem Büro veranstalten darf und was nicht, es gibt nur ein paar dürre Passagen in der "Hausordnung" des Bundestages.

Die Sanktionsdrohungen der Tories nimmt Lawrov nicht ernst, denn ein großer Teil der Regierungspartei möchte garantiert nicht auf russisches Geld verzichten.

Dass Truss einfach hätte zurücktrollen müssen, ist klar. Aber sie war einfach schlecht vorbereitet. Ostsee und Schwarzes Meer zu verwechseln war ein Elfer für Russland. Absolut unnötig.

Ganz so einerlei scheinen westliche Sanktionsdrohungen aber dann doch nicht zu sein. Der Vlad hat drei Jachten aus europäischen Häfen abgezogen.

Warum haben wir den Gasgerd noch nicht auf die Sanktionsliste gesetzt? Wird Zeit für die Daumenschrauben!

“I’m honestly disappointed that our conversation turned out like the mute with the deaf. We appear to be listening but we’re not hearing anything. Our detailed explanations fell on unprepared ground,” Lavrov said.

[…]

Away from the cameras, Truss allegedly confused the Russian regions of Voronezh and Rostov with Ukrainian territory when Lavrov asked her whether she recognised Russia’s sovereignty over them. She repeatedly told Lavrov that the UK would never recognise Moscow’s claim, until the British ambassador was forced to step in to correct her, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported.

[…]

The episode follows a previous taunt by Russia last week when the foreign secretary was taken to task over her comment that “we are supplying and offering extra support to our Baltic allies across the Black Sea”. The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea – where Ukraine sits on the coast – are on opposite sides of Europe.

The remark led Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, to observe: “Ms Truss, your knowledge of history is nothing compared to your knowledge of geography. If anyone needs saving from anything, it’s the world, from the stupidity and ignorance of British politicians.” The Foreign Office said that Truss’s remarks had been misinterpreted.

The British sanctions package remained under government review on Thursday, somewhat undermining Truss’s threat as she led a British diplomatic effort to head off a potential Russian offensive in Ukraine.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/10/russia-must-respect-ukraine-sovereignt...

Die Überschrift ist falsch gewählt, die schlechteste Diplomatin aller Zeiten würde von sich aus ein kompromiss- und verhandlungsbereites Gegenüber verprellen, irgendeinen Elfer verschießen.

Das ist hier mit Blick auf Lavrov nicht der Fall. Baltic Sea und Black Sea zu verwechseln ist dämlich von ihr; dass sie die Regionen verwechselt hat, geht hingegen wohl auf ein kleines Gotcha-Spielchen Lavrovs zurück.

Wenn ich gekonnt hätte, hätte ich Nadine Dorries zu Lavrov geschickt.

Why the West’s Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing
American and European leaders’ profound lack of imagination has brought the world to the brink of war.

By Anne Applebaum

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/lavrov-russia-diplomacy-ukraine/622075/

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Fast ironischerweise hat Frank Walter Steinmeier heute eine klare Rede gehalten, besser spät als nie.

“I’m honestly disappointed that our conversation turned out like the mute with the deaf. We appear to be listening but we’re not hearing anything. Our detailed explanations fell on unprepared ground,” Lavrov said.

[…]

Away from the cameras, Truss allegedly confused the Russian regions of Voronezh and Rostov with Ukrainian territory when Lavrov asked her whether she recognised Russia’s sovereignty over them. She repeatedly told Lavrov that the UK would never recognise Moscow’s claim, until the British ambassador was forced to step in to correct her, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported.

[…]

The episode follows a previous taunt by Russia last week when the foreign secretary was taken to task over her comment that “we are supplying and offering extra support to our Baltic allies across the Black Sea”. The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea – where Ukraine sits on the coast – are on opposite sides of Europe.

The remark led Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, to observe: “Ms Truss, your knowledge of history is nothing compared to your knowledge of geography. If anyone needs saving from anything, it’s the world, from the stupidity and ignorance of British politicians.” The Foreign Office said that Truss’s remarks had been misinterpreted.

The British sanctions package remained under government review on Thursday, somewhat undermining Truss’s threat as she led a British diplomatic effort to head off a potential Russian offensive in Ukraine.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/10/russia-must-respect-ukraine-sovereignt...

I would hate to ruin your weekend, so let's do #TheWeekInTory now, and get it over with.

Events since Tues

1. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the haunting end-product of The Child Catcher having hate-sex with a pendulum, was made “Minister for Brexit Opportunities”

2. It is 10,388 days since UKIP began the Leave campaign, so Brexit mastermind Rees-Mogg’s first move was to ask people who read The Sun to tell him what the hell any of it meant

3. The Public Accounts Committee found the only effect of Brexit was severe damage to UK trade

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1492198773736579074.html

Wenn wir bis jetzt nur Boris mit Unterstützung seines 'externen Gehirns' erlebt haben, wollen wir womöglich gar nicht rausfinden was nun kommt.

Um das zu überprüfen, müssen wir uns unbedingt dieses sehr bemerkenswerte Interview mit Nadine Dorries ansehen:

https://twitter.com/GNev2/status/1489876497322197000

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https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1488403829712379904

Die Zusammenfassung von Ros Atkins / Reaktionen:

https://twitter.com/BBCRosAtkins/status/1489324216000425989

Tory insider - 'Munira was Boris’ brain and longest serving adviser. For her to depart at such a difficult time and in such a publicly critical way is simply devastating for the PM. It sends a strong signal to the Tory party that even those closest to the PM have now lost faith

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1489273558077423616

For his right to party!

https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1488174679764439041?cxt=HHwWgsC48ZG_h6cpAAAA

Oh, I should point out, this is just since 9am Monday. Perhaps #TheWeekInTory is a misnomer

1. Our PM, Sir Plankton Churchill, cancelled a call to Putin so he could go to parliament and tell them he must focus on phoning Putin

2. Theresa May, a tin seabird that’s swallowed a kazoo, asked Johnson whether he was too thick to understand the rules, or too corrupt to care

3. Andrew Mitchell became the 2nd long-term Johnson supporter to tell him to go and spend more time with his family. Or somebody else’s. Boris isn’t picky.

4. Because Johnson had quite obviously lied to parliament, he covered up by [checks notes] lying to parliament some more

5. Johnson said he’d got “all the big calls right”. Oh, is that right pal?

6. An Imperial College study says his delayed first lockdown cost 20,000 lives

7. It found he prioritised 2020 Christmas over public safety, and as a result 80,000 more people died by Feb 2021

8. Johnson accused Labour frontbenchers of having a drug problem, seemingly forgetting he works with shite in sheep’s clothing Michael Gove

9. He accused Starmer of letting off Jimmy Savile, which is a lie so big even the speaker rebuked Johnson – albeit 24 hours too late

10. Johnson claimed we had the fastest growing economy in G7: we’re 6th

11. He said crime was down 14%: it’s up 14%

12. He said he’d “got Brexit done”, just before the constitutionally slack-brained Liz Truss headed off to continue negotiating the supposedly "done" Brexit

13. Truss promised Brexit will all be sorted in a month

14. She had also promised that in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021

15. Truss was given a direct quote from the Sue Gray report, and refused to discuss it because “I won’t comment on hypotheticals”

16. Truss also sat unmasked for an hour next to the entire cabinet in parliament, and then told them she had Covid

17. She was sat immediately next to Priti Patel, Miss Trunchbull in larval form, and I don’t fancy Truss’s chances if “Razors” Patel gets poorly cos of this

18. Straight after that, Johnson piled into a room with 365 Tories and a few trillion Covid particles, to tell maskless MPs he takes the pandemic seriously

19. He reassured MPs his old campaigner Lynton Crosby was coming back to fix shit

20. Crosby said he’s not taking the job

21. And then up rocked the ethereally gormless Nadine Dorries, seemingly dragged in front of the cameras fresh from a fight outside a flat-roofed pub, and bizarrely claiming “The PM does not tell lies”

22. She said a quote directly from the Gray report was “pure conjecture”

23. 2/3 of voters want Johnson to resign

24. 83% think he broke rules

25. 75% think he’s a liar

26. Presumably Tory MPs think this is all just fine and dandy, cos they still haven’t ousted him

27. Not all though: Angela Richardson, aide to Michael Gove, resigned in disgust

28. Tory MP Peter Aldous called on the PM to resign

29. Tory MP Tom Hunt said Johnson's story is not “acceptable, excusable or defensible”

30. Other Tory MP quotes:

31. The entire party "is fucking deluded”

32. “Boris still things this is all a game”

33. Johnson is “a bastard [who will] do anything to wriggle off the hook”

34. “I have to say, isn’t the PM just fucking awful?”

35. “He’s dead, we’re just waiting for the coroner”

36. “I am currently in Europe and can report the PM is turning our country into a laughingstock”

37. Sue Gray said there was a culture of excessive drinking in Downing St

38. Oliver Dowden, Tory Chairman and adenoidal Morph cosplayer, said the PM is “committed to tacking the underlying culture” of everybody getting pissed whilst driving a country

39. Johnson is on record saying “I drink an awful lot at lunch”

40. Gavin Barwell said drinking didn’t happen under Cameron or May, so the "underlying culture" is basically Johnson

41. So an whole new govt dept is being formed to try to stop the PM getting pissed and fucking up

42. Other news: Michael Gove’s forthcoming epoch-making “Levelling Up” policy promises less money than Tories have cut *just since 2020*

43. His other main idea - and I use that word quite wrongly - is that people from poor areas should not to move to London to find better jobs

44.You have to get 200 pages into the Dept of Health annual report before you find where they hid the fact they’d wasted £8.7 bn of their £12 bn PPE orders

45.That’s the same as a stack of £10 notes 60 miles high, maths fans

46. And they published a 100-page booklet on the benefits of Brexit

47. It says we can now create freeports, which we could before Brexit

48. It says we can now cut plastic bags, which we could before Brexit

49. It says we can now add crown marks to pint glasses, which we could before Brexit

50. And it says we can have blue passports, which we could before Brexit

51. And that’s it. For £800 million a week.

https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1488560827569475592

#SueGrey is imminent, so I'll do a quick #TheWeekInTory for the stuff that will be drowned out

1. The Tories celebrated 2nd anniversary of Brexit, which costs us £800m a week

2. The Tories then celebrated a huge new trade deal with Greenland, which makes us £6m a year

3. Startled haddock Michael Gove asked for "Christian forgiveness" over Johnson running a frat-house in 10 Downing Street

4. This was the latest in a series of excuses, which I will now remind you of in a sub-thread

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a. No party happened

b. It happened but wasn’t a party

c. It was a party but wasn’t organised

d. It was organised by nobody told me it broke rules

e. It broke rules but I didn’t know the rules

f. OK fine, I wrote those rules, but I thought it was a business meeting

g. After 25 minutes watching people drink from a suitcase, play on swings, and do a DJ did a set, I worked out it might not be a business meeting

h. I didn’t kill the stripper [OK, I made that up, but would it shock you?]

i. I’ve done nothing wrong

j. I have apologised to the Queen for "doing nothing wrong"

k. I have also apologised to parliament for "doing nothing wrong"

l. This is disproportionate

m. I am a big dog who dominates his party

n. Quick, everybody shout a stupid policy, cos I need saving

o. My child was poorly with Covid, now take your fucking mask off in school, it’s safe

p. My wife made me do it

q. WAR WAR WAR

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5. Anyway, Brave Sir Boris is NOT running away, simply flying to Ukraine so he can [checks notes] make a phone call to Putin

6. Liz Truss, Maggie Thatcher from Elizabeth Duke, announced sanctions hitting Kremlin money in UK companies

7. Sanctions will not hit Kremlin money in the Tory Party

8. US officials expressed "dismay and frustration" at Russian money still "entrenched" in our governing party

9. So that’s this year's (first) embarrassing foreign disaster dealt with – now onto last year’s embarrassing foreign disaster: Afghanistan

10. A report found the PM's chief of staff skipped tackling the withdrawal from Kabul cos he wanted to go and watch the cricket

11. Johnson insisted he hadn’t authorised saving pets instead of humans from Kabul

12. Emails showed he had

13. So now the govt says officials often write the PMs instructions for him, while the PM has no idea what’s going on

14. Is it bad that I find that slightly reassuring?

15. Stoned halibut Michael Gove announced a new £1.5 bn "levelling up" fund, which amounts to £3 per person per week. We're rich!

16. Except it’s not new money, so actually amounts to £0

17. 2m "red wall" households expecting to level up will be the worst hit by Tory tax rises

18. Tories announced a multimillion £ cut of all the "Brexit red tape" they had promised would never happen

19. 4 months ago they spent £335 million to fund red tape Brexit caused in Northern Ireland, which they are now cancelling

20. But they can't cancel it, cos it's EU rules

21. Tories wasted £2.7 billion ordering PPE that didn’t work and got a warning for "extreme negligence on an industrial scale"

22. 20% of govt Covid contracts in 2020/21 raised a "red flag" for corruption using internationally recognized standards

23. Bewitched trellis Theresa May said "nobody is above the law". Sure

24. The Met dropped corruption charges against Johnson, a one-man game of shag, marry, avoid, for lack of evidence over Jennifer Arcuri

25. Arcuri then released 100 pages of evidence police didn’t look for

26. The Met division where Sajid Javid’s brother is a senior officer told Sue Gray her report into parties could **not mention parties**

27. Rishi Sunak told the UK’s National Crime Agency to “butt out” of investigating Covid fraud

28. And researchers found the Johnson administration "more corrupt than any UK govt" since the study began in 1945

29. So that’s nobody being above the law, is it?

30. Plague update: last week the govt cancelled masks in schools to get Johnson out of trouble for 15 minutes

31. Infections soared, and now 415,000 kids are off sick with Covid

32. So a week later, masks are back in schools and Johnson is still in trouble

33. Only 3 months after its vaccine policy drove 40,000 workers out of care homes, the govt did a U-turn on vaccines

34. It then changed Universal Credit rules to force people to go and work, ideally in care homes

35. And MI5 were asked to investigate "security risk" Boris Johnson after it was found he often left top secret papers "lying around his flat" during his illegal parties

https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1488114841571278848

good lord. worth listening to this for a second. this is like something you hear from a stoned sophomore one night in college and everyone’s mind is blown because they’re also stoned

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https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1486132592193806339

“It’s a giant convoy of trucks . Some insane amount of people..like 50 thousand"

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https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1486835181034123267

Did 50,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Trucks Set Guinness World Record?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/freedom-convoy-guinness/

Right on time.

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https://twitter.com/thebennatan/status/1487437872722591748