The death of Jason Arday is tragic, and makes me so angry.
Even the most casual observer could see he was a vulnerable fantasist.
A number of people at a number of academic institutions have serious questions to answer. They put him into positions he was clearly not qualified for so they could have a black wunderkind to show off, they pushed him into the spotlight for their own benefit.
His exposure was inevitable, a case of when, not if.
His whole world fell apart.
Chris Hope, "You haven't yet seen off the threat of an inquiry into this gift you have from a crypto billionaire"
Nigel Farage, "Who cares, who cares?"
"I've broken no law, I've broken no tax law, I've taken no public money.. Maybe I haven't fill in a piece of paper"
Lee Anderson, "A Farage win tonight is a win for democracy"
GB News reporter, "Your main competition is a guy with a bin on his head, its not much of a victory is it"
"This is the most rightwing seat in the country.. Farage knew he was going to win.. It's cost £250,000.. Can you honestly hand on heart say that is a good use of very scarce taxpayer money?"
Robert Jenrick, "You can't put a price on British democracy"
Hard to even process -- a president selling market-moving information to banks and wealthy investors in advance of everyone else, and personally pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars from it. This alone is more worthy of impeachment than 100 Watergate cover-ups.
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@PolitlcsUK The hiring process is absolutely a nightmare for young people, but this isn’t realistic. How is a a firm like McKinsey possibly meant to sort through 100s of thousands of applications if not through some initial automatic filtering 🤷♂️
boris johnson david cameron he did get a bit testy he said well if you do that I will fuck you up forever I was a bit intimidated by that because forever’s a long time to be fucked up by the instruments of government and all the trained fucker uppers I don’t remember saying that
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In the last few hours alone Andy Burnham’s Government has talked about:
Cutting energy bills
Lifting the personal tax allowance
Nationalising Thames Water
The biggest council house programme since the War
Giving mayors more funding
Creating a new National Care Service
More overseas aid
Cutting student loan repayments
More employment support
Ending homelessness
These are billions of pounds of spending commitments and that's on top of raising defence spending to 3%.
Where’s the money coming from?
There’s been no serious explanation at all of how they will be funded. I am very concerned the Prime Minister is making a lot of promises without giving the country an explanation about how we can afford them.
We cannot borrow even more - we are paying more in debt interest than we do on defence.
The answer can’t be tax rises either. The tax burden is already far too high, and families and businesses shouldn’t face even higher bills.
The only answer is to cut spending. Andy Burnham should be in Parliament explaining what his actual plans are and how he is going to pay for them.
Contemptible tweets that are clearly just an evil view rather than a direct threat should not lead to arrests.
Other liberal democracies do not do this.