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Arthur Snell

2 months

How many seats can the Lib Dems win? Some prediction models have them at little over 20 seats, others at over 60. I tried to unpick what lies behind these variations here:

20 - 29 seats

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@SnellArthur

3 years

This is gold.

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2 years

Private eye always nails it. But this was spectacular

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Am on a train and a table of Polish & Ukrainians are speaking in (of course perfect) English about the situation, about Putin, about what it means for Europe and UK. And I find myself thinking how immeasurably enriched this country has been by Eastern European immigrants.

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2 years

This is huge. There is no excuse for the UK media not to cover it.

Anneliese Dodds

@AnnelieseDodds

2 years

The Conservatives have serious questions to answer ⬇️

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3 years

How it How it’s started going

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3 years

Reaping the benefits of Brexit.

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2 years

This @ByDonkeys video is excellent

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My son has a temperature so now my doctor wife, who has no symptoms and was running an incident management unit at a busy hospital, has to stay at home. #testtesttest

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Look at this list and ask yourself what proportion of 18-25 year olds will now be unable to vote. This is *extreme* voter suppression.

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2 years

I live down a narrow lane at the bottom of a steep hill that doesn't get gritted. When it snows, getting down is slippery. Leaving (uphill) is impossible unless you have a 4x4. So people get stuck. Yesterday this delivered a lesson in the social costs of Neo-liberalism. 1/7

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2 years

It’s very simple: as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson went from a NATO summit to discuss Russia to an orgy hosted by a (believed to be) former KGB agent in an Italian palazzo. I think that most UK politicians wouldn’t be allowed to get away with that and I’m amazed he has.

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@SnellArthur

3 years

There are always tweets, @afneil

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3 years

Am I the only one who finds it odd that the PM keeps citing the 'ventilator challenge' as the justification for helping Dyson, when it is widely known that Dyson made no ventilators and the whole operation was a costly fiasco?

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

4 years

For the avoidance of doubt (on basis of 16+ years in FCO), it is NOT normal for a PM to chair *every* COBRA but IS normal for PM to chair COBRA when the matter *is* a national emergency. The PM’s presence is a good yardstick of how seriously the PM takes the issue.

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Neo-liberalism isn't about making things more efficient, it's about getting other parts of society to cover the costs of profiteering by shareholders who often avoid taxes. Now, time to order those last minute presents, on Amazon, because all the shops have closed down. 7/7

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2 years

Right now, the London Stock Exchange is trading shares in Rosneft and Gazprom, which directly finances Putin’s wars. There are powers to suspend these. There are powers to impose emergency punitive regulation on our offshore financial sectors. If not now, then when? 2/2

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@SnellArthur

4 years

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

"We have seen a small minority behave in extreme thuggery and violent behaviour today" Home Secretary Priti Patel condemns protests in London after some demonstrators clashed with police

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Arthur Snell

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2 years

I hope that London lawyers, advisers and consultants are thinking hard about how they’ve enabled the Kremlin in recent years. Some of this was unwitting. Much was not. The idea that trade is good for democracy doesn’t work when your trade is helping kleptocracy. 1/2

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

2 years

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Britain’s original and best language.

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Imagine if the same law enforcement resources were put into preventing money laundering.

Harrison Jones

@HarrisonJones7

2 years

This is the scene now - a policeman laughed when it was pointed out that there are quite a few officers here

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Shitfaced

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2 years

That’s fair, because as a Remainer I clearly remember the bit where we drove into Leave-voting areas and flattened them with our tanks.

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1 year

In 2002 I became painfully aware of a journalist called Boris Johnson writing racist articles. His subsequent career added 'liar' to the racism. He was a disgrace as foreign sec. I wrote about this 5 years ago. Not that it made a difference.

Former senior foreign office official: Boris Johnson “is a noted clown”

Johnson’s shameful stint as Foreign Secretary will cast a shadow over British diplomacy for years to come

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Lord Frost right now on @BBCRadio4 “I don’t think anything’s gone wrong actually.” 🤣🤷‍♂️😬😳

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Steve Baker issued a direct call to Cabinet ministers: “It’s time for the great statesmen in the Cabinet to rise to the moment.” Great statesmen???

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Because he was driving a regular car I was able to tow him up the lane. But it was dicey - only possible with a powerful 4x4 vehicle. Just like with food banks, Amazon is relying on public generosity to subsidise its business model. 4/7

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@SnellArthur

2 years

But all this really does is push the costs somewhere else. I didn't mind at all helping the Amazon guy (if I hadn't, he'd have been staying at our house anyway!). But society is picking up the costs of zero hours contracts in many ways. 6/7

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@SnellArthur

3 years

I find it disgraceful that major media outlets ever reported this as remotely a serious idea. Clearly the PM was talking shit from the outset- his default option - and it behoves the media to cover it as such.

Northern Ireland to Scotland bridge plans scrapped

Building a fixed link would be too expensive, a feasibility study is expected to conclude.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@SnellArthur

2 years

When a real crisis occurs, what does 🇬🇧 do? It attends an EU meeting as a guest, knowing that’s where the decisions are being made.

Liz Truss

@trussliz

2 years

We need ironclad unity among allies in support of Ukraine. I joined 🇪🇺 FAC today where we agreed with 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 that Putin must fail in Ukraine and that we will continue to use sanctions to debilitate the Russia economy and war machine. We all stand with @dmytrokuleba and Ukraine.

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

10 months

This for me is the point - you can't run a country where an individual MP who is currently leader of his party can make a decision without any consultation based on short-term political gain, which will have impacts for decades to come for millions of people. Not a democracy.

Robert Saunders

@redhistorian

10 months

So the Cabinet wasn't consulted, Parliament wasn't consulted, local government wasn't consulted and Network Rail wasn't consulted. Just a personal decision by this year's prime minister. Whatever the merits of HS2, this is a lamentable way for a democracy to be governed.

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3 years

Person who campaigned for Brexit doesn’t like what Brexit actually entails, Chapter 4725.

ISABEL OAKESHOTT: The idea of this Australian mega farm appals me

ISABEL OAKESHOTT: Grassdale Feedlot is the largest beef farm Down Under and if the UK signs a controversial trade deal with Australia, meat from here could soon be on Britain's dinner plates.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Nadine, love, you might be DCMS SoS but I can *assure* you that no one from the security services is going to be mentioning anything at all to you.

Rt Hon Nadine Dorries

@NadineDorries

2 years

As DCMS SoS, no one from the security services has ever mentioned Lord Lebedev to me. All I see is him using the front pages of ⁦ @standardnews ⁩ to publish the most heart wrenching images and to decry Putins evil war. Tonight is no exception and carries his signature.

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

7 months

One of the most succinct and accurate explanations of the UK media ever written.

Frédéric Moreau 🚎

@goodclimate

7 months

I watched the Jacques Delors obit on BBC news and it turns out his life was about Margaret Thatcher and The Sun. If only he could have made his mark in his native Continental Europe.

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Arthur Snell

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4 years

In Brexit/divorce we’ve reached the stage where the deadbeat dad, having been cleaned out by his ex’s lawyers, moves to a pokey flat and buys a massive TV. In his increasingly regular trips alone to the pub he insists to the barmaid that he’s “never been happier.”

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

5 years

As a remainer, am very happy to share. Unlike you, @Nigel_Farage , I served my country.

Nigel Farage MP

@Nigel_Farage

5 years

Share this photo to wind a Remainer up. 🇬🇧

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“Today, I’m introducing a new illegal migration bill.” Say what you like about @SuellaBraverman , but at least she’s telling the truth. The new bill is illegal under international law and will almost certainly be thrown out by the courts.

Home Office

@ukhomeoffice

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🗣️ “Enough is enough. We must stop the boats.” @SuellaBraverman , The Home Secretary.

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3 years

Gotta say I never realised this sovereignty thing would be so dependent on the EU for it to work.

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

11 months

I still find it hard to believe that Britain’s first high speed rail system connecting any of our major cities will be a bizarrely pointless branch line to a depot in the middle of nowhere. As a monument to a country that’s given up you couldn’t ask for something clearer.

Chaminda Jayanetti

@cjayanetti

11 months

@JamesBowes5705 yeah I think there's a fundamental inability to realise that it's better to spend £100bn on something that works than spend £80bn on something that doesn't

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2 years

It would be great if “those responsible” had a name. And a leader. So you could hold the leader of “those responsible” responsible.

Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn

2 years

The horrific discovery of mass graves in Bucha must be investigated and those responsible held accountable. There must be an urgent and immediate ceasefire in Ukraine to end the bloodshed that has already taken so many lives.

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1 year

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Metropolitan Police

@metpoliceuk

1 year

Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low. We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration. 🧵🔽

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2 years

I spoke to 2 senior lawyers today who're all over this topic. They say there's nothing in the post-Brexit regs that makes it substantively harder. This is a bit of govt spin attempting to blame a "lefty lawyer" for something far simpler - the influence of Russian ££ on this govt.

Liz Webster

@LizWebsterSBF

2 years

#Brexit is stalling sanctioning of 🇷🇺 oligarchs. Govt accepted amendments by Lord Pannick to beef up laws so they “provided for procedural fairness” on those being sanctioned and made sure they accorded with “human rights principles.” 1/3

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2 years

The other guy is an @amazon driver. He works for himself. He doesn't have a recovery service or someone he can call for help. If he fails to make deliveries, he doesn't earn anything. He told me that he's relying on food banks a lot at the moment. 3/7

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2 years

All the economists, consultants and investors who like Amazon's business model probably admire the leanness, the efficiency, home delivery all outsourced. I imagine there are people telling Tesco to go down that route. "Lay off your driver fleet - that's the old economy..." 5/7

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

4 years

300,000 dead. Phony pandemic.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Holy shit. Congressman-elect Bob Good of Virginia starts speaking and immediately proclaims, "this looks like a group of people that gets it. This is a phony pandemic."

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3 years

People trying to get their heads around the Russian ruling elite’s attitude to Ukraine might want to consider the British elite’s approach to Ireland.

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@SnellArthur

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“five families”, “Star Chamber”, “Spartans”. It’s middle-aged men who’ve led empty lives living out their little fantasies. Like when people come up with project names like ‘Ajax’ or ‘Hercules’. JUST. GROW. UP!

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@imageplotter

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#MarkFrancois , Chairman of the ERG, updates press outside Portcullis House on the meeting of the so called "five families" of Conservative Party right wing groups (c. 100 MPs) today re. the upcoming Rwanda Bill tomorrow. Separate pic sets at @avalondotred and Alamy Live News.

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1 year

The Tories have figured out that there are a lot of votes in running over children. Amazing they didn’t think of this before.

Sunak orders review of low traffic neighbourhoods in pro-motorist message

Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister says he wants to support people to use their cars.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Arthur Snell

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2 years

I’m amazed that people talk about @Conservatives as if it’s a regular party having a bad few days. It’s proven a threat to the rule of law, our legislature and constitution. The institution *and its representatives* are unpatriotically destroying this country.

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This will be seen as a dull procedural issue. But it’s massive. The HoL Speaker is having to resort to social media to get the word out that the government is trying to circumvent parliament. British people are so complacent about the weakness of their democracy.

Lord Speaker

@LordSpeaker

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Secondary legislation doesn’t often grab the headlines, but it matters. The @UKHouseofLords scrutinises every scrap of it to flag concerns. Here, eagle-eyed peers highlight the use of regulations to bring in measures previously rejected by Lords in a vote.

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Just in case anyone doesn’t know: this guy never made a penny himself. All his money comes from his dad who was a KGB officer and is sanctioned (but not in this country) for his actions in occupied Crimea, among other things.

Evgeny Lebedev

@mrevgenylebedev

1 year

The hilariously miscalculated closure of @Nigel_Farage ’s account tells a wider story: one of corporate virtue signalling which, since last February, has weaponised Russophobia for the sake of moral posturing.

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Beginner’s guide to the #UkraineConflict . 5 things that’re important. 1 HISTORY No point arguing about Kievan Rus (Google it). 🇺🇦 has been an independent state since USSR ended. As has Russia, Estonia, Azerbaijan etc. So, if you accept existence of any, you accept them all.

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Lord Lebedev is lesson in the failures of HoL. He's a leading press baron (literally) & "philanthropist". His advocates say he's smart & interesting. He sits as a cross bencher. And yet he's never showed up or voted. So it's just a gong. For a KGB-billionaire's son. Oh 🇬🇧, why?

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Arthur Snell

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3 years

Public school Oxbridge graduate from landowner family married to castle-dwelling aristocrat calls out the elite. Someone had to.

Dominic Cummings

@Dominic2306

3 years

Elite Remain are 100% sure Brexit = the risky option. I think Remain = the risky option & getting riskier as €zone stagnates/fails. VL failed to communicate this & what to do after Brexit cos of ERG 🤡 disrupting campaign. This difference partly why so much misunderstanding now

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I have spent too much of the past few days thinking about #KwasiKwarteng . We're of similar age and when I started at university in 1994 someone said he was "the cleverest person of his generation". What this actually meant was that he was the cleverest Etonian that year. 1/4

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Arthur Snell

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2 years

All discussions of #Channel4 ‘s future should start with the fact that the person making the decision is ignorant and moronic.

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2 years

That's what the political people call cut-through. I'm not sure if it's what Boris Johnson was looking for.

ITV News Politics

@ITVNewsPolitics

2 years

'How many Britons died because of Brexit? Zero' Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko tells ITV News that @BorisJohnson should 'please' avoid comparing the Ukrainian resistance to Brexit

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Arthur Snell

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Two delivery drivers got stuck at the same time by my house yesterday. One from @Tesco - a bit stressed as he had a tight schedule of deliveries. But he was okay - he's an employee of a large company which has paid for a recovery service. They sent a truck which got him out. 2/7

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Arthur Snell

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I have literally spent the past 18 months working on a book on how, in subtle and insidious ways, Britain has undermined international norms and laws and then it just goes and does it blatantly. Thanks guys

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2 years

Around the world, there are certain assets which are held on Putin’s behalf by pliant oligarchs. Houses, yachts, businesses. Western agencies know exactly what these are. Bad things need to start happening, deniably, to these assets.

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2 years

So it seems that today Turkey blocked Russian military ships from the Black Sea and Germany changed a decades-old policy on arms exports. This is very bad for Putin.

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2 months

“And that is why I have decided to call a general election.”

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Arthur Snell

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11 months

I don’t like anti @bbclaurak stuff but this line really jars: “if you had been listening, at all, the result was not a surprise. But the civil service had not expected or prepared for it.” The result was even a surprise to the Brexists, ffs. Civil service ordered not to prepare.

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

3 years

The Member for Baghdad Central.

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

3 years

Well, one policy the Prime Minister didn’t lie about was “f*ck business”.

Giles Wilkes

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This graph is very telling

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2 years

@azjasat This is the sort of creative problem solving I come to Twitter for

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@SnellArthur

2 years

er, no, liberated cities in Eastern Ukraine will see horrible stories of suffering. The queue will see wet bored people.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

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⚡️Five-mile queue to view Queen Elizabeth II's coffin will 'see horrible stories of suffering'

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Arthur Snell

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4 years

This is the plan: get a crap deal and rely on an uncritical media to present it as a victory over pesky foreigners. Worked last year and will work again. When in 2021 we find that prices have gone up and businesses are folding we will blame those same pesky foreigners. Populism

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2 years

“This is a problem all across Europe” Well yes, but…

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Arthur Snell

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1 year

Rishi Sunak does things that piss off his headbanger colleagues (on immigration, on REUL, on deals with Europe). But if you analyse his actions as someone who knows he's lost the 2024 gen elex and is seeking a big international job (IMF, World Bank) they make perfect sense.

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

4 years

From the people who brought you the field worth “up to” £10m.

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3 years

I genuinely believe that most British people, if told about a developing country where wealthy individuals can purchase lifelong membership of a legislature, would react with disdainful dismay. But because it happens here we think it’s fine.

A disgraced Lord gave the Conservatives £500,000 days after his peerage was forced through by Boris...

A businessman involved in a cash-for-access scandal has donated more than £500,000 to the Conservative party after being made a peer by Boris Johnson.

www.businessinsider.com

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

1 year

Britain will have completed its transition to emerging market economy when the CEO of one of its largest banks has to resign for a very minor commercially sound decision that offended the hard right populist movement that controls government and the media.

Andrew Levi

@AndrewPRLevi

1 year

From @CouttsandCo ’s “dossier” on @Nigel_Farage , 10 March at 2.46 pm: “I wanted to make you aware of a commercial exit decision we have made on the account of Nigel Farage. The relationship has been below commercial criteria for some time …” And what does Mr Farage say? /1.

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Arthur Snell

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It’s now clear that there’s been yet another lie from Johnson: he didn’t “lose” his old WhatsApp messages. He deleted them. That was always the likeliest outcome but now it’s certain.

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

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

2 years

The problem with the satirists at @Telegraph is they keep doing the same jokes.

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“Heart attack”

AlexandruC4

@AlexandruC4

2 years

BREAKING: ⚡️ Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had a heart attack. Therefore, he has not appeared at official events since mid-March,” writes Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

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Me talking to my 15yo: “How was school today?” “Nightmare. We had double Wokeness first thing.”

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1 year

“Wokeness is causing a lack of hope and anxiety in our young people.” Conservative MP Miriam Cates tells #TimesRadio that teaching “critical justice theories” in schools is contributing to hopelessness about the future in young people.

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Misleading headline which *should* read “first failed asylum seeker chooses to travel to Rwanda in return for taxpayer funded £3k inducement”

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

3 months

First failed asylum seeker sent to Rwanda under voluntary scheme

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Arthur Snell

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You have to assume his unhinged behaviour relates to the realisation that his only lasting legacy will be winning a battle and losing, utterly, the war that followed, showing his essential frivolity and mediocrity. Living with your own record can be hard.

Dominic Cummings

@Dominic2306

9 months

all of you fuckers who whine about Vote Leave face this fact - on 12 March the DHSC Permanent Secretary was pushing chickenpox parties on the Cabinet Secretary who tried to get the PM to say this to the country that day - AND VOTE LEAVE SPADS STOPPED THE INSANE FUCKING PLAN

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Arthur Snell

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Frost will be remembered for flying to Lisbon to deliver a speech (whose content won’t be remembered) to an empty room at the British Embassy. This was because as Europe minister he had lost the respect of Europeans. Hard to find a clearer expression of exquisite failure.

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Wouldn’t it be simpler to impound Abramovich’s ycht and use that?

Christopher Hope📝

@christopherhope

2 years

EXCLUSIVE 🛳 Plans for new £250m 'jewel in the crown' national flagship to be unveiled ahead of Platinum Jubilee

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

10 months

If only there was some sort of way to elect local representatives who could meet in a sort of “council” to decide policies for local communities. I guess you could call them “councillors” and the system could be known as “local democracy”. Just a blue sky idea I guess.

UK Prime Minister

@10DowningStreet

10 months

People should decide what happens to their towns. Each town will receive a new Town Board as part of PM @RishiSunak ’s long-term plan for towns. Bringing together community groups, businesses and local authorities to make sure the decisions are the right ones for local people.

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

3 months

Every time you’re told you must wait months for an NHS referral or that there’s no mental health support available for your child, remember they found hundreds of millions to spend on this pointlessly stupid policy.

Sophy Ridge

@SophyRidgeSky

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Sending the first 300 migrants to Rwanda costs £1.8m each. To put that in context, school funding is around £7,600 per child per year. So the cost of sending one migrant to Rwanda would get 234 children education for a year. Is that a good use of money?

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The government is right to insist on security checks before letting in Ukrainian refugees. After all, their detailed checks meant they didn’t let in a whole load of Russian oligarchs who were then able to interfere in our politics and national life. Right?

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@SnellArthur

2 years

So he's obviously not dumb. He might be corruptly helping hedge-fund mates coin it, but I suspect that's simplistic. I wonder if this is what happens if someone has been told, since childhood, that they are the cleverest person of all. They might not end up a good listener. 4/4

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@SnellArthur

4 years

On @BBCRadio4 I hear @bbclaurak explaining that the reason the #BrexitShambles is unfolding is because the EU isn’t united, and we know this because unnamed members of the Cabinet told her. How is this news? It’s unsourced agitprop from govt trying to get the blame in early.

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@SnellArthur

3 months

So, they had a fully prepared negotiating team staffed with the most experienced people in the EU. We had a minister “as thick as mince” who believed German car makers were going to fix things and whose idea of incisive was to take a f*cking saw to Barnier’s chair.

Mujtaba Rahman

@Mij_Europe

3 months

"On one occasion when he was Brexit secretary, David Davis’s aides sawed off part of the legs of a chair to make it shorter so Barnier was at a disadvantage in a news conference."

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@SnellArthur

2 years

@ianinnorway About a mile to the main road - but that isn't the point. The point is about the Amazon business model.

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@SnellArthur

3 months

Putting aside the distasteful politics, it’s a disgrace that @MatthewRycroft1 let this through. Blatant electioneering with HMG resources on the eve of an election. Banana republic stuff and Rycroft should be better than this.

Jack Elsom

@JackElsom

3 months

BREAK: The Home Office has released a video of the first detentions of migrants bound for Rwanda

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@SnellArthur

2 years

Incredible. It was always obvious they stood down the OBR because they wanted to avoid scrutiny, rather that there being a real point about time. But now it's clear they lied about it.

Best for Britain

@BestForBritain

2 years

🔥Wow. OBR writing to Blackford totally torpedoes govt’s there-was-no-time defence. Says they gave forecasts to Kwarteng on his first day and offered to update them with any measures to be published alongside mini-budget but “were not commissioned”. ~AA

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@SnellArthur

2 years

But if you buy here it supports independent bookshops.

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@SnellArthur

2 years

“Now that the horse has bolted we’re getting serious about that stable door, let me tell you.”

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@SnellArthur

5 years

The bbc at its best. Thank you @maitlis

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

5 years

Emily Maitlis: "You didn't say well I'm not quite sure - you said it would turn the UK into a slave state and then you consider voting for it!" Emily Matilis grills Jacob Rees-Mogg on the language he has used around the Govts withdrawal agreement. #newsnight | @Jacob_Rees_Mogg

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@SnellArthur

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Have to say I’m completely amazed that Tories think they can get away with this “National Conservatism” nonsense whilst still pretending they’re not a far right party. Braverman, Gove, Rees-Mogg all speaking at the conference. 1/2

David Clark

@David_K_Clark

1 year

‘National Conservatism’ is a euphemism for far right ideology, embraced by authoritarian demagogues like Viktor Orban. It’s time sensible people stated to understand the extent to which formerly mainstream conservative parties have become radicalised. Before it’s too late.

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@SnellArthur

2 years

They're not "humanitarian corridors" if the corridor leads you to the territory of the aggressor state.

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@SnellArthur

2 years

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is genuinely one of the most important Twitter threads I’ve ever seen. Anyone who cares about 🇬🇧 national security needs to read it. @samdunningo is a dogged, serious and brilliant investigator. Please read and RT widely.

Sam Dunning

@samdunningo

2 years

Much scrutiny lately of 'Chinese police stations' operating on the streets of Britain… What links the 'stations' to British politics, the Chinese Communist Party, an assault in the heart of London, & serious organised crime? This is big. 1/54

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@SnellArthur

2 years

What would be worse for Russia than a “brother nation” with a huge land border with Russia joining NATO? A not-brother nation with a huge land border, an immense army and the history of fighting a war against Russia In the 20th century, joining NATO.

Finland is hurtling towards NATO membership

The NATO-Russia border would double at a stroke

www.economist.com

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

4 years

Bunch of billionaire oligarchs tried to bankrupt my employer. They lost.

Orbis Business Intelligence

@OrbisBIOfficial

4 years

Our statement on our resounding legal victory in the DC Court of Appeals.

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

2 months

Tories have normalised 2 particularly dangerous political strategies: 1 is pure dishonesty. Don’t be expected to tell the truth or to act on your promises. 2 is creating a taboo around personal tax rates. They must *never* rise. 1/4

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@SnellArthur

2 months

He should be asked about this in *every* interview. Easy, tight question: "Mr Sunak, when you told the Martyn's law families that the law *would* be passed, were you lying?" Also this should be asked of *every* Tory candidate: "When your party leader told... was he lying?"

Cllr Pete Roberts 🔶 #FBPE (He/Him)

@petedroberts

2 months

Sunak had already seen the King, he knew what his plans were and he knowingly misled the family. He didn't fudge or equivocate he gave a commitment he knew he could never deliver. Is this really some who is fit to be the PM?

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Arthur Snell

@SnellArthur

2 years

Whilst @camillatominey ’s limited critical skills are legendary, this is a real classic.

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