Tim Downs

PR directing, Chad gaffering, me. This is my personal account and therefore probably full of nonsense.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@ShippersUnbound Bit of a long winded way of saying has a perception problem, not a policy or capability problem.

You might want to take a good hard look at yourself and your colleagues as part of the reason for this, as opposed to his actual performance.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@JakeBerry Here's the explanation. It was your bill that caused this.

The Children and Families Act 2014 significantly impacted occupational therapy in education in the UK by introducing Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, which replaced the previous Local Authority (LA) assessments.

[Prolific North @ProlificNorth]

.@AberfieldPR picks up hat-trick of wins as it looks to grow https://t.co/qamly9FeRA #Leeds #PR #PublicRelations

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@Dominic2306 I'd almost entirely forgotten about you. How's the eyesight? Myopic I'd say.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@LeeMadgwick I know, moody as.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

Just going to leave this one here @LeeMadgwick No reason. Just an amazing example from New Zealand.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@CharlotteCGill 🤣🤣

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

Funniest attempt at creating a conspiracy theory I've read in ages. Group of people fed up of 14 years of ineptitude and cronyism mobilise to make stuff better e.g. clean water, tackling political grifters etc. Be on your guard for such horrors! 👀

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

Carol Vorderman is not a spontaneous political activist. She is part of a left wing network that all pushes out the same agenda. I’m still trying to work out who’s driving it. Global, Politics Joe, Byline Times, Good Law Project all part of the machine. You heard it here firsttt.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@jules_pearce 🤣🤣

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

I predict that whoever wins between @RobertJenrick and @KemiBadenoch they won't be in charge of the Tory party by the time of the next General Election. #ToryLeadership

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@jules_pearce I think it's another Portillo IDS scenario and has backfired.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@_robindickinson @RobertJenrick @KemiBadenoch Christ on a bike. The cost will be in the millions which means each of them will be beholden to whichever millionaire (russian or otherwise) puts their hand in their pocket.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@LeeAndersonMP_ Are you going to delete this now you know it's false? As a sitting MP that would be the correct thing to do, you know factually and morally.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@alexarmstrong @LeeAndersonMP_ Are you going to delete now you know it's false? That would be a normal reasonable thing to do.

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

I'm very impressed that the Conservatives have managed to lose an election which only had Conservatives running in it.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@SkyNews This is bloody awful, if you click through all you can do is 'like' the broadcast, when @elonmusk is talking absolute nonsense.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@DanielJHannan https://t.co/YPtSzCjwxw

[Robert Peston @Peston]

There seems to be significant faux outrage from Tory leadership candidates Cleverly and Tugendhat about the Starmer government’s transfer of the Chagos islands to Mauritius.

Official sources tell me the transfer would have happened in materially the same
way at roughly the same time if Sunak had somehow won the election.

The point is that the transfer was being negotiated on the recent Tory government’s watch - including by Cleverly as foreign secretary and then by Cameron - and the deadline was in effect set by Washington.

I am told that President Biden wanted the deal done before the 5 November presidential election. Biden wanted certainty about the future of the US military base on the Chagossian island of Diego Garcia, just in case Donald Trump were to win the election.

For confirmation that the deal was clinched on a timetable and in a style to suit the US administration, see Biden’s statement that “it is a clear demonstration that through diplomacy and partnership, countries can overcome longstanding historical challenges to reach peaceful and mutually beneficial outcomes���.

Biden pointed out that the agreement between the UK and Mauritius meant the US had secured “the effective operation of the joint [military] facility on Diego Garcia into the next century.”

It is therefore curious Tugendhat should describe the transfer as “leaving our allies” exposed when the UK’s most important ally, America, has welcomed it.

And Cleverly’s denigration of Starmer as “weak, weak, weak” for formalising it seems eccentric when the negotiations with Mauritius were in full swing when he was in the cabinet.

As for Liz Truss’s assertion that Boris Johnson is to blame, I am told that Johnson was the last PM to wholly oppose giving up sovereignty over Chagos, and that the talks did not start properly till she was PM.

If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, possibly they could ask for an introduction from the former minister Lord Frost - because his spouse Harriet Matthews has been the lead official negotiator for the foreign office on the Chagos treaty with Mauritius.

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@RobertJenrick This you?
https://t.co/gUAtJ2Hton

[Tim Downs @Timmo_D]

@supertanskiii Might as well add god complex and walking poster boy for toxic masculinity to that list, just for completeness.