So the government Chief Whip knew about the Mark Menzies allegations in January but only withdrew the whip when the Times reported them yesterday, three months later. Right.

Correct. Civil lawsuits not ideal for these purposes. Much better would be a judge led public inquiry. Under instructions from Murdoch, Dacre, the Barcalays etc, this Conservative Govt wriggled out of the legislation that followed Leveson Pt 1. And then cancelled the all

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Trying to find the full text of Sunak’s sicknote speech. Doesn’t seem to be on No 10 website, just the press release. Perhaps they are embarrassed about it too. A billionaire PM whose party has corrupted politics and rewarded cronies and crooks tries to blame the sick and those

It's very revealing that Laura Kuenssberg has posted just 4 tweets in the last 24 hours:

3 are about Peter Murrell (husband of Nicola Sturgeon) and a retweet of an old Liz Truss interview.

Yet absolutely nothing about Mark Menzies or the other Tory scandals.

Why Laura Kuenssberg?

Here is Rishi Sunak setting back the campaign for mental health parity at least a decade.

This is un-evidenced, performative cruelty.

It's disgusting.

News coverage of this speech is really odd - ignoring the real story (theoretically promising to tear up our main disability benefit) and focusing on a talking point on fit notes

PM announces disability benefit curbs to tackle ‘sicknote culture’

You are evil ⁦Rishi Sunak⁩ theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

What a headline. It’s got everything 😳

You don't become an MP without being approved by literally hundreds of officials and members at every level of the party.

I knew about Menzies. And all the others.

So if they didn't know, they're inept.

If they did know, they're corrupt.

So, I'm sorry to keep banging on about this, but the absurdity of the Menzies case is mind-blowing.

I mean, the whole dodgy hostage situation and history of some really bad behaviour in the past is already bad enough, but who, with even the tiniest shred of dignity, calls a 78

My point is: it's the same people over and over again, being quietly pardoned by the same party bigwigs over and over again. And everyone in govt knows.

You can't keep claiming it's a bad apple. It's symptomatic of a party that is morally rotten to its very core.

Not a single one of the many cases brought against The Sun for illegal activity (unlike the defunct News of the World) has come to court, where the full evidence would have been made public. The cost to Rupert Murdoch of keeping the full, sordid details secret is staggering.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg Deregulation = lowering welfare, environmental, consumer standards to reduce costs… ie risking our health
Not doing checks = undercutting our farmers and threatening our food security
Doing checks = red tape and cost

You knew all this.
What a monumental Tory fuck-up Brexit is.

I don’t understand why “new” state pension as of April 2016 will rise to £221.20 a week & people before 2016 will receive £169.50 a week. Surely ALL pensioners should be entitled to the higher amount. Why the difference?

I think we've arrived at the 'stuff your suitcase with cash and flee to Argentina' phase of the government term...

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Rishi Sunak ordered the RAF to send a helicopter 210 miles from Northolt to his home in Yorkshire yesterday, so he could fly 145 miles to Coventry this morning, just to make a seven-minute speech. This is why he's in a spiral; it's the constant refusal to listen, learn or change.

There was some big news this week which should have been top of the news agenda - the fact that it wasn’t and the story that dominated the public space instead tells a worrying story about the priorities of many in this country 🧵