Boy, am I glad I waited until after 1:30 to do #TheWeekInTory
1. It seems an age, but only 6 days ago Elizabeth Truss, an anagram of Haziest Bluster, promised parliament she “absolutely” stuck to her leadership promise of “not planning public spending cuts”
2. She then sacked her chancellor for agreeing with her, and appointed demonic pixie Jeremy Hunt, who promised £40 billion of cuts
3. Hunt was immediately undermined by reports Truss had asked feral gonad Sajid Javid to come back as chancellor, but Javid said: no fucking way
Oct 7, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
If you're rich and speak against greed or the right, you're a pampered celeb who doesn't understand the real world.
If you're poor and speak against greed or the right, it's the politics of envy. 1/5
If you're a charity and speak against greed or the right, you should stick to addressing real problems, like something in Africa or sick animals.
If you're a union and speak against greed or the right, you're an old fashioned socialist wielding too much power.
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Fisheries worldwide used "drag trawling", nets big enough to hold 6 jumbo jets, weighted so that drag the sea floor. The catch or destroy everything - fish, thatcherites, eggs, the entire environment wiped clean
Oct 2, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We Conservatives want good jobs for British workers. And that's why were allowing skilled migrants to continue take the good jobs, leaving all the low-wage, low-skilled jobs for Britons to do.
#CPC18
And once we have an economy based entirely on British workers picking fruit and serving coffee to wealthy immigrants, we no longer need an education system, so we can cut that, and reduce our tax bill even further at your children's expense #CPC18
Sep 29, 2018 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Tories claim most schools have seen a budget increase.
It's ages since I did any painting, but I'm having a go at Bowie today.
Just blocking out colours #LivePainting
Sep 8, 2018 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
You know what our problem is, in Britain?
It's this little lot. Thread.
1 The unelected House of Lords outnumbers the Commons for the first time in 550 years.
2 Worldwide, only Britain and Iran automatically grant religious leaders a place in parliament.
3 90% of the judiciary come from the same 5% of schools
Aug 29, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In the late 90s/early 2000s I was an exec at the digital agency for WWF during their global Stop Overfishing campaign.
UK fishing restrictions are nothing to do with the EU.
I know, cos I was there. Here's the reality.
Thread 1/6 @Otto_English @mrjamesob
Along with fisheries around the world, UK waters used "drag trawling" - weighted nets big enough to hold several jumbo jets, which are dragged across the ocean floor and catch or destroy everything - fish, sea floor, the lot.
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Aug 12, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Leavers, I have some questions about why you haven't done any preparation for Brexit...
(Thread)
26% of NHS doctors are migrants. It takes 7 years to train a doctor.
We've lost 11,000 EU-born NHS staff since the referendum. Post-brexit there will be little incentive for them to come to UK and work.
So where are the courses to urgently train 23,000 replacement doctors?
May 2, 2018 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
10 simple questions.
Let's forget I oppose Brexit. Let's assume it's happening, and it HAS to work.
If we don’t find answers for these questions, Brexit will fail, and we'll all suffer.
So why is nobody from the Leave campaign asking these?
The questions...
26% of NHS doctors are migrants. It takes 7 years to train a doctor.
We've already lost 10,000 doctors since the referendum. We plan to expel even skilled immigrants after 5 years. So where are the courses to urgently train 23,000 replacement doctors?
Mar 20, 2018 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
James, in the late 90s I was an exec at the web agency for WWF, and was involved in their Campaign To Stop Overfishing. Here are some facts (mini-thread)
Some areas of UK finish waters were "drag trawled" 6x a year.
Drag trawling is placing weights on the net so they scrape the sea floor. It catches everything, even destroys eggs hatcheries. The seas were being made into deserts.
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Jan 5, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I work alongside a lovely Hungarian guy. Super smart, 8 languages, 3 kids born in the UK. He's been in UK 18 years, loves it, says he thought it was perfect... until the referendum. 1/*
First, his cat went missing, then was left dead on his doorstep. That was 2 days after the vote. Unrelated? Maybe. But a pattern formed.
His kids, though born here and with Manchester accents, were attacked in school. 2/*
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