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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

2 years

My youngest grandson is just three years of age. He's lived through two monarchs, three Prime Ministers, exit from the EU, a pandemic, a war in Europe and an energy crisis.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

The shame and humiliation of a British Prime Minister - yes, a British Prime Minister - hiring a lawyer to complete a questionnaire under caution as part of a criminal investgation.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Those who voted for Johnson because of Brexit, or because they liked his 'character', or even because they just fancied a bit of a laugh, are going to have the shock of their lives over the next six months.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Will @DurhamPolice tell us when they intend to re-open the investigation into Covid law-breaking by Dominic Cummings in Spring 2020, given story concocted in/corroborated by Downing Street, even he now admits, was fabricated. That constitutes perverting the course of justice.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

#Twitter needs to suspend the account of @NadineDorries for circulating persistent, deliberate and doctored disinformation. Treat this as a formal complaint. Minister for Culture! Encapsulates the corruption now endemic in Johnson's Government.

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2 years

In just one ill-judged speech, to please his tiny band of faithful Party supporters, Johnson has shredded what little credibility he had left on the international stage.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Johnson delayed and dithered during pandemic; Javid ignoring public health responsibilities; Raab lounged on beach as chaos unfolded in Afghanistan; Sunak sitting on sidelines as poverty soars; Rees-Mogg wasting everyone's time searching for non-existent Brexit opportunities.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

The police have no confidence in Patel; the teaching profession regards Willamson with contempt; Javid is a disaster zone for health workers; Dowden has left the highly successful creative industries in a state of despair; and Johnson is an embarrassment to all and sundry.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Reason we're facing higher taxes for poorer, fewer public services is very simple: recurring under-performance of UK economy since 2010. Combination of austerity, Brexit and poorly controlled pandemic. There is no basis for regarding Tories as Party of economic competence.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

To this day I don't believe Boris Johnson has any conception of just how disliked - nay despised - he is by large swathes of the British public!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Slowly dawning on @Conservatives - and their @DailyMailUK cheerleaders - that Durham Police investigation into Starmer could spectacularly backfire on themselves. Further increases intensity of focus on Boris Johnson's own law-breaking; so may prove entirely counter-productive.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Through a foolish decision to make Boris Johnson Leader, the Conservative Party has seriously damaged reputations of itself, Downing Street, the Civil Service, Parliament and the Metroplitan Police, whilst also exposing the Monarch to illegal advice and disrespectful behaviour.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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4 years

The last twelve months has demonstrated just how quickly a country can decline under a poor leader dependent on a bizarre political adviser. The Johnson regime falls short on virtually every conceivable measure of good governance: integrity, honesty, ensuring public safety...

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

"...after twelve years of Conservative government, Britain is rundown, stagnant, expensive, underpaid, unequal, corrupt, socially fractured, backward-looking, hungry, tired and fearful... Dislodging Johnson is just a start." James Butler, London Review of Books, 21 July.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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4 years

Becoming increasingly clear Biden intends to clean up American Government. Means there are likely to be revelations about endemic corruption during years since 2016. That is potentially explosive for Johnson, Gove and Farage too, given networks that linked Brexit and Trump.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

How did we regress from a vibrant creative society, enthusiastically embracing the future during the Blair era - epitomised in the opening ceremony of 2012 London Olympics - to the reactionary, introverted country, clinging onto worn-out myths, that we now appear to have become?

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3 years

UK now in top four countries internationally for covid cases, in the company of Brazil, India and Indonesia. Self-inflicted madness!

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1 year

And not before time! A disgrace that @Ofcom has dragged its feet for so long on this one. These channels have made a mockery of impartiality rules.

Ofcom to investigate GB News and TalkTV over impartiality rules

Rightwing TV channels’ use of politicians as presenters comes under scrutiny following complaints

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Evidence indicates UK policy now driven by three factors (1) Johnson's desperation to save himself by appeasing right-wing backbenchers (2) 'new austerity' being imposed by Sunak (3) influence of rich (not just Russian) Party donors. Public interest doesn't enter into equation.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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4 years

Johnson either knew all along when he signed the EU Withdrawal Agreement that he intended to ditch it after serving its short-term electoral purpose, or he was oblivious to its implications. Either perfidious or clueless. Whichever it is, this man is not fit for public office.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Sajid Javid makes appalling judgement call in first move as new Health Secretary, recklessly proposing to lift covid restrictions on 19 July come what may, just as case numbers driven by Delta variant rising exponentially again. This is the mindset of a market fundamentalist!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Liz Truss has been a Cabinet Minister since 2014. Can anyone recall a single lasting or memorable achievement she has notched up in those eight years of office?

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Kwarteng reduces stamp duty to bring purchase of a home within reach of more people. But his fiscal incontinence results in withdrawal of most affordable mortgage deals because of related instability in financial markets. Pure genius!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Sure everyone has noticed Boris Johnson's tendency to go to ground for days on end when things go wrong; then push his way to the front again once there is any opportunity he thinks he can exploit. Just another aspect of his narcissistic personality.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

This month I begin my third year on Twitter. Hopefully I have made a small contribution, alongside much more significant ones, in raising awareness of Johnson's complete unfitness for public office. He is an on-going risk to this country's security, safety and well-being.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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1 year

How Starmer calmly lit the fuse that was later to bring about Johnson's downfall and disgrace. Journalists played a vital role in exposing what was going on. But the LOTO laid the traps that were to provide an evidence trail for the Privileges Committee.

Week-in-Review: History will remember Keir Starmer’s role in Johnson’s downfall - Politics.co.uk

“The Ministerial Code says — and I quote — ‘ministers who knowingly mislead parliament will be expected to offer their resignation’. … I’ll leave it there, for now.” Even on 28 April 2021, when Keir...

www.politics.co.uk

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

If what we are reading about Johnson's planned resignation honours list and corrupt conditions that are going to be attached to those appointments is borne out, surely this will constitute grounds for triggering yet another police investigation into his abuse of public office.

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2 years

Not only is it all over for Johnson. Not only is Trump now unelectable too. The writing is conceivably on the wall even for Putin.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Johnson has been as feeble in dealing with Kremlin oligarchs and Russian money as was in handling the Afghanistan evacuation - as feeble as he was in controlling the Covid pandemic - as feeble as he had been in agreeing to a Brexit drawing an economic border down the Irish Sea.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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14 days

• Starmer faces down far-right rioters and criminal hangers on • Elon Musk makes a fool of himself on his own platform • Harris overtakes Trump in US presidential race • Ukraine invades Russia A week in politics is a long time!!!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

The sleaze and corruption surrounding Johnson's Government is now of such magnitude it is breaking through to mainstream media. But never forget it was the @BylineTimes and @GoodLawProject who led the way in reporting and contesting this serial abuse of public office.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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8 months

Surely this saga of disappearing WhatsApp messages has reached point where - at very least - there needs to be an independent investigation to establish whether current and former Ministers misled the Covid Inquiry under oath, including Johnson and Sunak.

Penny Mordaunt: Boris Johnson’s messages vanished from my phone

MP tells Covid inquiry that then prime minister’s chief of staff ignored repeated attempts to discuss matter

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Johnson has messed up over covid not once, not twice, not thrice - but now for the fourth time. At what point does idiocy receive it's just reward?!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Johnson lied about the Acuri affair. He sanctioned the lies around the Cummings 'eyesight' saga. He lied about funding for the Number 10 flat refurbishment. He has been caught red-handed lying about 2020 Downing Street Christmas parties. And that's just for starters. Shameful.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Politically the virus did for Trump in the USA, is in the process of destroying Bolsonaro in Brazil - and is now coming after Johnson in the UK.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

UK sanctions will carry little credibility unless the Conservative Party divests itself of all Russian donations and connections with Russian oligarchs.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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12 days

Just think how many lives might have been saved had @Keir_Starmer been in charge at the time of the pandemic instead of the distracted and unserious @BorisJohnson

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

The political stench emanating from Johnson's Downing Street grows more nauseous by the day.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

All we have had since July is an endless succession of political and royal parades, during which the economic and financial situation of the country has deteriorated from poor to dire.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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4 years

Growing demands for @GavinWilliamson to resign. The point is that any Prime Minister worth the name would have dismissed him last summer, during the exams fiasco. The real problem is that @BorisJohnson prioritises his own short-term political interests over the country's needs.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Labour have met the net seat gains from Thursday's elections that many of the pundits said would represent success for them. Conservative net seat losses comfortably exceed what their supporters said would be acceptable damage limitation. Therein lies the true election story!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

That Johnson Premiership would end in disgrace not only predictable. It was predicted by some of us from very outset. It was pre-ordained from moment he set forth in Downing Street. Rarely has this country seen such shambolic leadership and public office so demeaned.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

If invasion of Ukraine goes ahead and sanctions for Russian oligarchs close to the Putin regime possessing assets in the UK then kick in, does that mean the Conservative Party becomes bankrupt?

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

So many Cabinet ministers, put politely, are not the sharpest buttons on the planet: Coffey, Dorries, Eustice, Frost, Kwarteng, Patel, Raab and Truss for starters. It's why they're happy to be in Johnson's Government; no self-respecting PM would rate them even as third choices.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Not a single public policy issue definitively resolved during Johnson's tenure in Number 10. What remains 'world beating' until very end of his Premiership is level of corruption, with lavish parties at other people's expense and plans to install more of his cronies in the Lords.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

"He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody, doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to." My latest article @BylineTimes

Boris Johnson: Nowhere Man

With the Prime Minister at last having faced a moment of reckoning, Professor Chris Painter surveys the wreckage of a Government devoid of meaningful purpose on the key public policy issues of the day

bylinetimes.com

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Are we seeing early signs of a Middle England revolt against Boris Johnson's increasingly tiresome Donald Trump tribute act?!

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

3 months

Why has it taken so long to put the spotlight on Sunak's murky past as a hedge fund manager?

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@PippaCrerar

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EXCL: Rishi Sunak facing questions about fortune he earned at hedge fund which engineered deal at heart of financial crash @jessicaelgot reports

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3 years

A leading campaigner in 1975 EU referendum: 'For Britain to withdraw from Europe would be to retire into an old people's home for fading nations...I do not like the look of some of the wardens." Fast forward nearly 50 years - every word.

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

2 years

Under Cameron political instability took six years to kick in; May and Johnson each took just three years to fall apart; and now Truss implodes in a mere month!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Everything that Matt Hancock claims in his defence is contradicted by one authoritative source or another. Quite extraordinary for the account of a Secretary of State, on a vital matter of life or death, to command so little credibility and respect.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

"The Conservative Party has become so closely entangled with a handful of newspapers, owned by three or four billionaires, that it is unable to see how eccentric and often irrelevant the concerns of these papers really are." William Davies , London Review of Books, 4 August.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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1 year

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story confirms he was clueless about Brexit after 2016 referendum result. Still manoeuvred way into Downing Street. Same source documents how British governance then rapidly descended into chaos. The Tory Party cannot disown this trashing of the country.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Let's be blunt. Johnson's bedrock of support hinges on crude, unscrupulous appeals to precisely the same electoral demographics as Donald Trump: what is known in the psephological trade as low information, emotional voters. Rationality doesn't begin to enter into the equation.

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

3 years

Johnson calculated he could capitalise on England's football success. Now apparently they won't even agree to attend a Downing Street reception because of his squalid political culture wars. So refreshing to see a principled stand - and how it's all horribly backfired on Johnson!

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

2 years

Is anyone in a position to verify whether or not Johnson as an MP holds regular surgeries in his constituency?

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Professor Christopher Painter

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2 years

Budget Statements are often received well on the day, only for the small print to cause concern in the days that follow. Sunak's Spring Statement caused concern on the day and with closer inspection looks more and more disastrous, not least for those who desperately need help.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

This nonsensical hindsight defence from Johnson. At each critical juncture of pandemic he had numerous people literally screaming the right advice - on every one of these occasions he chose to ignore that advice. Lack of focus, poor judgement and toxic values the real issues.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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7 months

How does a political party become so dysfuntional that it produces three successive leaders of such poor quality as Johnson, Truss and Sunak @BylineTimes

Johnson, Truss, Sunak: The Longest Parliament with the Lowest Results

Seemingly lasting an eternity, Professor Chris Painter dissects the failures of governance of the 2019-2024 Parliament, in response to momentous events

bylinetimes.com

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2 years

Conservative Party is at a crossroads. Either it triggers a leadership election, barring anyone proven to have broken Covid laws from putting names forward. Or entire Party becomes an accomplice in destruction of standards in public life - henceforth to be pilloried for so doing.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Extraordinary thing about bungled Paterson affair is that, as a consequence, Johnson has opened Pandora's box. Suddenly it's a field day on corruption allegations - with his troops scattering far and wide. Must be a long while since there's been such a spectacular own goal!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

When a country is misgoverned, to extent now seen in UK, consequences not immediate and precipitous. It is a cumulative process, until disruption to normal life too endemic to avoid. That is the point now being reached, with combined effects of a botched pandemic and hard Brexit.

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3 years

Johnson claimed he would get on top of Covid in just 12 weeks in March 2020. In January 2022 NHS trusts are declaring critical incidents. His cavalier approach undermines painstakingly built public health expertise, whether Covid-specific or acquired through earlier epidemics.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Three examples of egregious behaviour over last 18 months: Cummings, Hancock and Paterson. In each case Johnson got it spectacularly wrong. How much more evidence do people need that he is unfit for public office - let alone to occupy the highest political position in the land?

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3 years

We have discarded the quaint British notion of governments suffering from a whiff of scandal. We now have one presiding over a veritable avalanche of mendacity and corruption.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Reminder of £37bn committed to a privatised test-and-trace system. Yet, here we are, in the exponential growth phase of a third/fourth wave of coronavirus. Has there ever been a more scandalous waste of public money, or more haplessly administered project? It's shortcomings...

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Professor Christopher Painter

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4 years

There is an interesting argument that populist right-wing governments, led by likes of Trump and Johnson, are no longer seriously interested in public policy that improves the well-being of society. Their politics is instead performative. They sustain themselves through...

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2 years

Feeble attempts by @michaelgove and other ministers to justify VIP fast lane for awarding PPE contracts because of exigencies and urgent needs of pandemic crisis: (1) that route has been declared unlawful (2) many established suppliers were ignored, in favour of companies with...

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2 years

Conservative Governments foisted not just one crisis on the country, Brexit; not just two, parliamentary gridlock under May; not just three, a corrupt liar as PM in Johnson: but four crises, as we suffer too the financial and political chaos unleashed by Truss.

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3 years

Johnson craved Number Ten. Thought - like everything else in his life - it would be a breeze. Turned into a nightmare. Only way out is to make a humiliating exit. His narcissistic ego won't allow that. Therefore condemned to carry on in purgatory - until electorate release him.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Let's not beat around the bush. Overidding objective of @Keir_Starmer is ending Conservative political dominance. Everything else secondary to that imperative in 2022 - and thereafter until next election. Country's appalling mis-governance must be terminated at next opportunity.

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4 years

Let's not beat around the bush. Over last 12 months, Boris Johnson is responsible for two worst public policy disasters any of us can recall. Loss of life on an unconscionable scale during the pandemic. And disruption of economy and livelihoods through a hard, last-minute Brexit.

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2 years

As even distressed Ukrainian refugees are discovering, the UK is drowning in infinitely more bureaucracy and red tape than was ever the case when we were a Member State of the European Union.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

So much for 'saving Christmas'. Family members tested positive for Covid on very eve of Christmas. Must now be reality for 100,000s of families every day. Meanwhile, our Government simply stands on the sidelines as this virus becomes ever more rampant. Just pathetic!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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4 years

Johnson made precisely the same mistakes over the second lockdown as he made over the first lockdown. He made exactly the same errors in dealing with Patel as he did in handling Cummings' transgressions back in the spring. Even those prime ministers who struggle initially in...

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3 years

Johnson still in Downing Street this evening, but as a much diminished figure, having angered his own Party and exposed majority of his MPs to public humiliation.

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4 years

The real significance of Johnson's latest lockdow is that everything he told us in the weeks before had no basis in scientific fact. The person who - most of all - is entrusted with people's safety and well-being misled the country. There are few charges more serious than that.

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2 years

What we have seen on our TV screens this last week is a good illustration of how the media doesn't just report the news. It creates the narrative!

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Matt Hancock has woven a web of deception around his handling of the pandemic; had demonstrable conflicts of interest; broken the ministerial code; and been found to have acted unlawfully. He should hang his head in shame; as should Johnson for exactly the same reasons.

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1 year

During six years when Johnson was at the centre of British political life (2016-22) he did incomparable damage to the country's economic and social well-being, its institutional fabric and international standing.

Anthony Seldon on Boris Johnson: ‘At his heart, he is extraordinarily empty’

The distinguished historian and headteacher discusses his latest book about a contemporary prime minister, a devastating – and dispiriting – account of Johnson’s chaotic reign

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

We've seen a collapse of principles of good governance in UK - that in a country formerly regarded as an exemplar of such principles. No need to look far for an explanation. Johnson himself has no commitment to even the most basic ethical standards we shouid expect of a PM.

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3 years

Johnson's inclination at very beginning was to simply let the covid virus run through the population. He was persuaded otherwise in late March 2020 and January 2021 because of human carnage that would otherwise have happened. Now he's reverted to his original stance. There is...

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3 years

The scale of corruption that is being revealed is now straying beyond the remit of any 'independent' inquiry, reaching the point where police investigation is warranted.

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Matt Hancock has omitted to declare his connection to a company owned by his close family, despite it winning a place on a framework to provide services to the English NHS in 2019, as well as contracts with the NHS in Wales.

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At last #Panorama mainstream BBC exposure of gold rush for personal protective equipment contracts when the pandemic began, because of lack of preparedness. Disturbingly, many beneficiaries were not previously in the PPE business, whereas established suppliers were overlooked!

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3 years

Johnson's claim to have 'got all the big calls right'. Paul Taylor, expert on health informatics at UCL, on resisting lockdown in Autumn 2020 in current edition of LRB: "a failure of judgement so catastrophic it should be unimaginable that any political career could survive it."

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To reiterate, Reform is NOT a political party but instead a private company, majority owned by Farage. There are no processes or procedures that have to be followed. Just one person's entitlement to impose his own will and pursue his personal whims. Reform is a political mutant.

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Professor Christopher Painter

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3 years

Don't want anyone ever again to come out with fatuous lament that outcomes of democratic elections make no difference. As Biden reaches first 100 days in office, USA is a country transformed in matter of months. And Americans can sleep soundly in their beds again. Next - the UK!

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2 years

Because of the ideological myopia of Truss and Kwarteng, along with reckless hints unaccompanied by any substantive detail, everything you value in life and depend upon for essential services now shrouded in uncertainty. Their reckless immaturity becomes everyone else's anxiety.

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3 years

Johnson's defence that covid ventilator or personal protective equipment contracts were offered on special terms or with special favours because of the urgent needs of the situation falls apart on the most cursory of examinations. Companies who were in the right line of...

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Professor Christopher Painter

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6 months

It was just a matter of time. Gove has gotten away with far too much, for far too long. BBC News - Michael Gove investigated by Commons standards watchdog

Michael Gove investigated by Commons standards watchdog

The investigation relates to the housing secretary's register of financial interests.

www.bbc.co.uk

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1 year

Reputation of every Conservative MP at stake in today's debate on Privileges Committee Report @RishiSunak @Q66Suzi . Abstention on any vote, or absence, is unacceptable. MPs cannot simultaneously fail to uphold parliamentary standards and still be fit to be elected to Parliament.

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3 years

At very time that Biden wants unity between democracies, Johnson is sowing discord because of his foolish posturing around Brexit. That, above all, is why UK under Johnson cuts no ice internationally. Forget about 'global Britain'. That only exists in Johnson's befuddled mind.

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10 months

Has Sunak as UK Prime Minister shown any interest in those affected by this storm disaster?

Storm Babet: ‘risk to life’ flood warnings issued for parts of England and Scotland

Three severe flood alerts in place around River Derwent in Derbyshire as Environment Agency warns flooding could last until Tuesday

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

1 year

Only credible account of Johnson's downfall. He was victim of his own reprehensible behaviour. No helping hand required from any other quarter. He was sole author - true to character - of his political disgrace. Devastating summary from @andrewrawnsley

Boris Johnson is peddling new lies in a desperate attempt to save his skin | Andrew Rawnsley

Ludicrous claims that he was brought down by a leftwing conspiracy show how frightened he is

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

7 months

The question we have to ask ourselves is no longer whether the Conservative Party is fit for office but whether it's even fit for Opposition.

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

2 years

Fate of a Conservative leaflet spotted by my daughter's dog after being pushed through the letter box!

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

3 years

Johnson is not so much a Prime Minister as the UK's lapse in concentration. No country can countenance this level of embarrassment in the highest political office for very long and maintain it's self respect.

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

2 years

Apparent simplicity of statements from Truss, that she doesn't believe in taxing people then handing money back, conceals something profound. She is denying basic redistributive function of the modern state. And her market fundamentalism will further widen inequalities of wealth.

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

3 years

Those who predicted austerity would do irreparable harm to this country's social fabric have been vindicated; Those who voted Remain in 2016 EU referendum have been vindicated; Those who predicted a UK public health disaster because of lack of preparedness are vindicated...

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Professor Christopher Painter

@PrfChrisPainter

4 years

We cannot get on with our everyday lives for a few hours without discovering yet another piece of crass or destructive behaviour from Trump, Johnson or Cummings. That is what is so mentally exhausting. It is why a re-setting of the political compass must - and will - come.

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