EXC: The chair of the UK's vaccine task force showed “official sensitive” government documents to a $200-a-head event for elite US venture capitalists last week
Kate Bingham, a Boris Johnson appointee, showed guests a list of products which the government is set to invest in 1/
"Responsibility for much of the UK’s emergency response to the #Covid catastrophe appears to rest in the hands of a former telephone saleswoman & a supermarket manager. The #chumocracy has plumbed new lows.” My quote on our legal proceedings vs @GovUK https://t.co/cTGhWCTYlv
Today a primary school headteacher in my constituency shared the letter she’d sent to her MP about Free School Meals. It’s really powerful so I’m sharing an anonymised version with her permission. Heartbreaking and inspiring. Keep going @MarcusRashford, this matters.
I noticed MPs have had 8 pay rises over the last decade. So I’d like to suggest, in the spirit of solidarity, when the next one is due, we give them a few claps, bang a few saucepans, charge them to park at work, and we call it quits.
Agreed?
Spoiler: they were the wrong kind of masks.
The problem with this government isn’t just that it is grossly grossly corrupt. It is also grossly grossly incompetent
@davidschneider So for every £1 that @captaintommoore raised, Robert Jenrick - a MINISTER - denied the country and the NHS an additional £1.50.
What's the opposite of a Knighthood?
Dear UK public,
Following such hilarity as:
▪️The £50m no-ship Brexit ferry
▪️Dyson’s WWII covid ventilators
▪️£108m PPE contract to 16 pest-control people
▪️£1m plane paint job
...we bring you:
▪️Buying the wrong satellites from a bankrupt company https://t.co/uYkcmWVyU1
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