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After 12 years of #ToryCorruption how can anyone still be voting for them in the Local Elections? Partygate Kremlin donors Covid death toll Cronyism Brexit failure Cash for access Second Job scandal Cost of living crisis Cash for honours No Transparency #JohnsonOut78 #TorySleaze

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Priti Patel is charge of the Police, Intelligence Agencies, & National Security. She's so bad at it that she's currently polling at -14% among right-wing 'Conservative Home' members; the Party's base 😬💩 The general public's approval rating for Priti is -39% 💩💩💩 #PritiEvil

Priti Patel

has recently accepted a £100,000 donation from Andurand Ventures Ltd, a fund management company ran by an Oil Trader. What does Andurand get out of this? Why are such large donations allowed? Why is this not bigger news? Source: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem

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⚠️ EXCLUSIVE - Downing Street officially announces their new "Minister of Good Times" Andrew WK, previously of The Party Party. He's been trialling in the role since the start of the pandemic, and secured the new cabinet position after hosting so many legendary shindigs.

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Pippa Crerar

@PippaCrerar

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BREAKING: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak set to receive fines for Covid-19 breaches #Partygate No 10: “The PM and Chancellor have today received notification that the Metropolitan police intend to issue them with fixed penalty notices."

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If First Past The Post (FTTP) is such a fantastic voting system that it gets rolled down to all levels of English local elections, then Scotland & Wales should have the option of using it for electing their devolved governments?

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The biggest hypocrisy in politics is right now: Both Tories & Labour talk like populists: 'Will of the people', 'For the Many', 'The British People want'... Yet neither of them ACTUALLY plans to give power to the people by changing the voting system so that all our votes count.

When your Party's HEAD OF ETHICS Helen MacNamara gets fined for breaking lockdown rules by attending a party in a govt office (with a Karaoke machine!) it might be time to do a bit of soul searching?

#JohnsonOut78 #OneRuleForThem Source: reuters.com/article/britai

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Matt Hancock: "Boris got the big [covid] calls right" ❌ 7th HIGHEST DEATH TOLL IN THE WORLD (170,107 & rising) ❌ Botched Test & Trace system ❌ Late to lockdown multiple times ❌ 1/5th of govt. contracts labelled 'corrupt' ❌ +£4bn fraudulent covid loans ❌ £9bn unusable PPE

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As the *promised* reforms of MP's Second Jobs is quietly dropped, Andrew Mitchell can keep his SIX "consultancy" gigs! 🥳 £180,000 for 34.5 days "work" last year. £650/hr £1.2M/yr pro rata I wonder what these generous companies get in return? SOURCE: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem

During the last election the Tories raised: 💷 30x more donations from businesses than Labour 💳 83x more from individuals 💰~2/3 of all money raised by all parties No wonder their priorities are the wealthy & businesses. #JohnsonOut78 #ToryCorruption commonslibrary.parliament.uk/general-electi

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I'd offer to book any remaining

voters in to get their heads checked; but the next NHS appointment probably isn't until 2025. - 12 years of underfunding - cuts to front-line services - recruitment crisis #JohnsonOut78 Source: nhsfunding.info/nhs-crisis-mak

👇🏼 I think about this tweet literally every time I see or hear Boris Johnson do anything.

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Taj Ali

@Taj_Ali1

· Jan 26

'When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.' -Turkish proverb

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Hey

- can you also request a review of Jacob Rees-Mogg's tax status and his stake in "Somerset Capital Management". That 'company' is run from the tax havens of Cayman Islands & Singapore (which aren't parts of Somerset). Yours, A PAYE taxpayer.

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BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

· Apr 11

Rishi Sunak requests ministerial interests review amid tax row bbc.in/3uqHoP4

Corruption experts warn Boris Johnson’s government is worst since WWII

Apr 11

A Sussex University Study of political corruption branded the current govt as the "most corrupt UK government since the Second World War." "Absolute failure of integrity at No 10, which has consequences for democracy” #ToriesOut #ToryCorruption Source:

independent.co.uk

Researchers say failure of integrity at No 10 could have serious long-term consequences for UK

As the

own slogan says: 'Britain Deserves Better' "0.3% of British taxpayers earning under £100,000 in 2018 had claimed non-dom status at some point in the past 20 years. By contrast, 27% of taxpayers earning £1-2m had done so." Source:

reuters.com

One in five top UK bankers have gained from 'non-dom' tax status - study

More than one in five bankers earning at least 125,000 pounds ($164,000) a year in Britain have benefited from non-domiciled tax status, as have many high-paid workers in other sectors, a study...

Rishi Sunak Chancellor - UK Parody

Apr 11

⚡EXCLUSIVE 📷: leaked photo shows Rishi Sunak's shortlist of names for his American alter ego... #ToryCorruption #SunakOut #OneRuleForThem

Apr 10

There's a "Code of Conduct" on the official Tory website. These seven principals are supposed to apply to all elected & appointed party officials. Every single one has been torn to pieces by this current government. #JohnsonOut77 #ToryCorruption #ToriesUnfitToGovern

Apr 10

Jennifer Arcuri claims to have had a four year affair with married Boris Johnson 2012-2016. Arcuri's company got £126k of public cash. Massive undeclared conflict of interests, public spending issues, expenses scandal, & enormous ethics failing. Source: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/

Apr 10

When you need to mention this stuff 👇🏼 to get your audience frothing, have you possibly lurched a bit *too* far to the right??? White Privilege Social Media Mobs Woke Cancel culture Free Speech Pronouns Maoist Social Justice Warriors Thatcher, Churchill, Reagan.

My favourite part of Oliver Dowden's bonkers "anti-woke" speech to the right wing climate change denying Heritage Foundation is when he talks about other people serving their own interests rather than the public's (he's in this Conservative Govt) Source: conservatives.com/news/2022/stan

These dodgy boards are just a couple of the more "interesting" ways that

Elite Tory donors club holds secret meetings with Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak

party chairman Ben Elliott raises Tory cash Elliott has watched over ~£2m of Russian donations linked to Putin's regime come into the party. Source: thenational.scot/news/19971161.

Conservative party mega donors that kick in +£250,000 join a special "Advisory Board" that get regular calls with Boris & Rishi. If you can only afford £50,000 you still get to meet with Ministers! How is that not Cash for Access!? #JohnsonOut76 Source:

ft.com

Conservative ‘Advisory Board’ is part of co-chair Ben Elliot’s mission to modernise governing party’s fundraising efforts

Priti Patel

has recently accepted a £100,000 donation from Andurand Ventures Ltd, a fund management company ran by an Oil Trader. What does Andurand get out of this? Why are such large donations allowed? Why is this not in the news? Source: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem

Apr 9

PREDICTION: in 10 years time, in Boris Johnson's memoirs, he'll be writing about feeling so politically fucked that he nuked Rishi Sunak's career (his obvious successor) to buy himself more time. The book will be state-mandated reading, along with the Nadine Dorries anthology.

Apr 8

A telling write up of Britain's "Very Favourable Tax Regime For ‘Non-Doms", and how you can "be a tax resident in the UK but potentially pay no tax here at all"

@uk_immigration

also offer some tax-saving tips that would make

@MartinSLewis

proud! Source: gherson.com/blog/favourabl

Remember when Boris "Keep Families out of Politics" Johnson slipped his brother Jo Johnson a peerage? Or how his dad Stanley Johnson is always in the press commenting on his son. Or how his wife Carrie Johnson has so much influence over 10 Downing Street. #BorisJohnsonOut

Apr 8

The CASH FOR HONOURS scandal defined the end of Tony Blair's premiership, & was about THREE controversial appointments TWENTY TWO of the

Want a seat in the House of Lords? Be Tory treasurer and donate £3m

biggest donors have been made lords in eleven years. It'll only be a footnote for #BanditBoris Source:

opendemocracy.net

Exclusive: Senior Tory accuses Boris Johnson of overseeing ‘scandal in plain sight’ as it’s revealed party treasurers who donate £3m are almost always offered peerages

Apr 8

👆🏼 I'm also trying to figure out why new Oil & Gas exploration licenses will be granted, as it completely contradicts the

Scottish Greens and 2 others

own Net Zero strategy...

interesting that

government Energy Strategy leans heavily on Oil, Gas, & Nuclear 🛢️🏭⚛️ Orkney has so much renewable energy (onshore wind & tidal) that they use their excess power to create hydrogen fuel cells - more green energy! 🌊💨🔋

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The Islands With Too Much Power

The Orkney Islands, off the northern tip of Scotland, have so much electricity that it's actually a problem. Here's why: and here's what they're doing about ...

Boris Johnson standing behind

@GregHands

making sure he doesn't call the £200 levy a loan. #bbcqt

Apr 7

Unsurprisingly, these changes all benefit the

Elections bill is ‘a power grab to rig polls in favour of Tories’

👨🏻‍⚖️ Set Electoral Commission's agenda 💳 Voter suppression 🌍 Enfranchise wealthy expats & donors 🗳️ More power with fewer votes These moves are branded "vote rigging" & "a power grab" Source:

theguardian.com

Charities and unions slam move as an attack on fundamental rights

The Government's Election Bill plans to: 👨🏻‍⚖️ Give ministers control of previously independent Electoral Commission 💳 Mandatory voter ID 🌍 End 15 year cap for overseas voters 🗳️ Potential to change local elections from Proportional Representation to FPTP

commonslibrary.parliament.uk

Elections Bill 2021-22: Progress of the Bill - House of Commons Library

The Elections Bill 2021-22, introduced in July 2021, completed its committee stage in the House of Commons on 26 October 2021. Remaining stages in the House of Commons are scheduled to take place on...

Today's Daily Mail & Daily Express front pages - avoiding the government's energy strategy, Russian sanctions, Ukraine War Crimes, Akshata Murty's tax status, Rishi Sunak's tax increase... Expect much more "culture wars" deflection in the run up to the May Local Elections.

Elliott also Founded TAXPAYERS' ALLIANCE - a "think tank" that doesn't publish detailed accounts of donations & donors. It doesn't deny coordinating work with Downing Street (!!) & nine other right-wing / American / Libertarian pressure groups. Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaxPayers

Tory

political strategist Matthew Elliott is an interesting chap. Founded VOTE LEAVE campaign with Dominic Cummings, which broke electoral spending laws, & misrepresented EU spend Founded CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS OF RUSSIA - which mysteriously dissolved on 1st March

Returned Freedom of Information requests at an all time low "doubling down on secrecy gives the overwhelming impression there is something malign to hide. We need a sea change in attitudes towards FOI within Whitehall to avoid it spiralling it into an accountability black hole.”

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Good Law Project

@GoodLawProject

· Apr 7

Last year, openDemocracy revealed that 2020 was the worst on record for freedom of information, with just 41% of requests to the government granted in full. opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-

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Revealed: Rishi Sunak’s millionaire wife ‘avoided tax through non-dom status’

Apr 6

The problem with Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Wife Akshata Murthy potentially saving millions of pounds through non-dom status is that it's optional, and completely legal. Still; terrible timing & terrible optics while most people's tax burden has increased

independent.co.uk

Exclusive: Akshata Murthy could have saved millions of pounds in tax on foreign earnings over several years, sources claim

Things I want to hear Boris Johnson talk about: ✅ Realities of Brexit ✅ Partygate ✅ Cost of living ✅ Russian Money in