Think about it this way. The government is now effectively buying fuel on our behalf. You'd expect them to buy in such a way as to ensure that the suppliers do not make obscene profits at our expense. Just like, uhm, when they bought PPE.
Johnson’s government was casually corrupt. Truss’s is systematically corrupt. She has chosen a cabinet that listens to the money, not the people. Her advisers come from dark money thinktanks: covertly-funded lobby groups, promoting the interests of oligarchs and corporations.🧵
The leader of the house promised publication of a written ministerial statement outlining details of today’s announcement in plenty of time for debate. It’s still not been published.
So the government gives just three hours to a debate on a massive announcement affecting the whole country today and refuses to give the opposition or other MPs any details before it starts. Pretty poor treatment of parliament yet again. Nothing changes.
Dear @theresecoffey
It is impossible to overstate how calamitous the NHS workforce crisis is.
Please don’t address with platitudes, paring back or ever more private outsourcing.
Please help us help our patients.
The new Prime Minister, Chancellor and Home Secretary have all supported political attacks on independent judges in the past six years.
Each has been happy for judges to be falsely and baselessly accused of bias simply for ruling against the government.
Buckle up.
Congratulations to Suella Braverman on her appointment as Home Secretary.
This is the serious damage to our communities and the devastating Conservative record she needs now urgently to address. /6
- passport delays up (and costs to British families up)
- airport passport control delays up
- work & family visa delays up
- shameful Windrush scandal compensation delays continue
- More young people than ever before exploited by criminal gangs/5
- arrests halved
- prosecution rate down two thirds
- cautions & community penalties down two thirds
- record rate of victims dropping out
- record rate of crimes not charged
- more burglaries unsolved
- drug deaths at a record high
/3
- More rapes recorded than ever before, but just 1.3% charged
- Still no register for serial domestic abusers
- Gun crime increased
- Stabbings up 60%
- 4.5m frauds last year alone
- quarter of the public experience anti-social behaviour
- more young people exploited by gangs /2
Suella Braverman is the 5th Tory Home Secretary in 12yrs. Here’s the Tory record so far👇
- 7000 fewer police officers
- 6000 fewer neighbourhood police
- 1000 detective vacancies
- Double % of people saying they never see police on the streets
- Just 1 in 20 crimes charged/1
Over a third of his own administration resigned in disgust at his character & conduct. He was propelled to power by bare-faced lies & kept there by sycophancy & shameless self-interest. His legacy is a country on its knees. I’m not sure ‘consequential’ is *quite* the right word.
Our privatised water system has utterly failed – during a cost of living scandal, floundering water bosses are still taking home obscene pay packets. Over-paying to shareholders & under-delivering to the public MUST stop – the sooner water is back in public hands, the better
'50,000 nurses by the end of this Parliament', '40 new hospitals by the end of the decade', 'fastest vaccine rollout in Europe', 'biggest majority since 1987', and 'got Brexit done'...
All claims in Boris Johnson's resignation speech, all lies. #StopTheRot