@Number10cat Boris Johnson’s leadership cost the UK £37 billion in the failed Test and Trace system alone. Let’s not forget his reckless handling of the pandemic and the millions spent on partygate cover-ups. Idiocy on a grand scale, paid for by our taxes.
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree please RT this FACT CHECK widely
I note that Robert Jenrick is expanding his attack on the Attorney General Richard Hermer alleging he has acted on matters on which he has a conflict of interest.
There is, as matters stand, not a shred of evidence that this has happened.
As a barrister Hermer was under a duty to accept instructions in any matter within his competence. The fact that he may have acted in matters on which Jenrick or anyone,disapproves of the outcome is irrelevant. Jenrick, as a lawyer, ought to know that the rule of law depends on lawyers taking on cases, even for clients who may be unpopular or reviled.
Jenrick then seeks to link Hermer's work to advice he might have given the Government since becoming Attorney General on matters that might be related to the individuals he represented before he became AG. But I know from my time as Attorney General that there are robust systems in place to ensure this does not happen. If there is a potential conflict of interest, the matter can and will be transferred to another law officer and external advice can also be obtained if required.
Jenrick then demands to know if this has happened. In doing this he knows very well as a lawyer and past minister that the Attorney General would be in breach of his professional duty if he identified matters on which he or his office has advised. But that does not stop Jenrick from then alleging that the truth is being wrongly concealed and should be revealed, a position he never adopted when he was a minister.
It would be sensible for the Attorney General's office to explain the systems in place without compromising any individual advice that may have been given.
But what I find much more troubling about all this is what it tells us about Jenrick. As a Conservative I would expect him to be respectful of the role of the Law Officers in ensuring the Government gets professional and impartial legal advice. But he is quite happy to trash the system when he thinks it might score a cheap hit.
It is also linked to a narrative that the law and legal obligations on government should be ignored when inconvenient, an idea that would have appeared outrageous to previous generations in Conservatives such as Margaret Thatcher.
Jenrick is certainly making his mark in his promotion of a dystopian future for the Conservative Party.
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Left: Nadine Dorries criticises Labour for paying billions in debt interest
Right: Nadine Dorries forgets to mention that it was the Conservatives who took our national debt from £759 billion in 2010 to over £2.69 trillion in 2024
Covid cost £400 billion, so when you factor that in, UK national debt went from £759 billion to £2.29 trillion
The Conservatives more than doubled our national debt. They did this while cutting public services with non stop austerity. Where did all the money go?
“I’m proud that, in my four years in the White House, we never dropped a bomb, launched a missile or fired a bullet to kill another person.”
- Jimmy Carter
Guy on #LBC now pays £50,000 a year for his son to go to private school and with the VAT added, will now have to pay £60,000.
Three times some people’s full wages who also work very hard.
#AliMiraj seems to feel sorry for this guy? This is what is wrong with this country!
“The word 'apartheid' is exactly accurate…they are absolutely and totally separated."
I will remember Jimmy Carter as one of the only US Presidents to speak honestly about Palestine.
@BeckettUnite When will we be hearing about the protesting tractor drivers being in court and imprisoned? They caused chaos, held blue light ambulances up and there was footage of them driving into police lines and forcing them back #tractorprotest@JustStop_Oil
BREAKING NEWS: French billionaire Jean-Louis Le Riche and German industrialist Hans-Dietrich Geldmann have agreed to donate 200m Euros to a new campaign to get 🇬🇧 back into the EU after the disaster of Brexit. Happy to announce I will be campaign director. I’m sure @Nigel_Farage@TiceRichard and Co will see absolutely nothing wrong with this at all. Common sense innit? #keepMuskMoneyOutOfOurCountry #TakeBackControl
Big up the man in the red sweater. ❤️
“Migrants, illegal or legal, weren’t responsible for austerity. That was the Conservative government. Migrants and ‘illegals’ were not responsible for Brexit. Migrants were not responsible for Liz Truss’ failure of leadership.”
#bbcqt
This is Jeremy Clarkson, who’s used Clarkson’s Farm to vilify badgers as scapegoats for bTB and has allegedly wiped them out on his own farm.
He’d hate it if people ‘RT'd’ this and signed the petition to end the Badger cull..
https://t.co/cElDJPaQLR