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    #26
    Originally posted by sw2borshch View Post

    As an aside, it's corruption. Sleaze is when it's a sex scandal. The papers started to conflate the two in the dog days of the Major government, possibly to make corruption seem less bad.

    Sorry Eggy, it's a minor hobbyhorse of mine, like the conflation of scepticism with cynicism.
    And it seems to be that sleaze does for Tory politicians whereas it's graft that does for Labour

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      #27
      Robert Jenrick admits Israeli billionaire in donor row is family friend

      https://www.theguardian.com/politics...droidApp_Gmail

      Shock, horror.

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        #28
        Originally posted by ChrisJ View Post
        Nef, from the POV of changing the system, I'm pessimistic about the wider media or indeed most of the country giving a flying fuck about these things. From my perspective, however, threads like this are a great resource, even if I don't post or respond much, you're not howling into the void. I'd suspect that's the case for a few others too.
        Thanks ChrisJ I will continue to post. As much as anything this is about memory. It’s important to list what we know, since the media is so good at forgetting or ignoring.

        i guess this belongs here since the failed app was ultimately developed by a couple of vote Leave mates of Cummings

        https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1276751308108763137?s=21

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          #29
          https://skwawkbox.org/2020/06/26/ehr...to-tory-party/

          The director of the Equality and Human Rights Commission is a Tory donor who didn't declare this.

          This is huge but won't be picked up by the mainstream media.

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            #30
            Only reported by Newsweek

            https://twitter.com/dsquareddigest/status/1276475379834916867?s=21

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              #31
              Chris J speaks for me Nef.

              I feel utterly demoralised about the causal acceptance of the bunch of shithouses in government (and now Starmer's dog whistling).

              Demoralised about how willing people are to accept the narrative.

              Demoralised about how willing people are to swallow the rank hypocrisy of the MSM.

              The whole RLB story and the debate about is anti-Semitic and what isn't.

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                #32
                let's keep recording

                https://twitter.com/henrymance/status/1276866578248851456?s=20

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                  #33
                  The quid pro quo here is as yet unclear, though Cummings is deeply involved

                  https://twitter.com/jmpsimor/status/1276590825674280960

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                    #34
                    This guy does a weekly thread as well.

                    https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1276512600398925824

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                      #35
                      https://twitter.com/henrymance/status/1276991339041873920?s=20

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                        #36
                        https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/und...eals-big-tech/

                        There's a big element of corruption in this.

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                          #37
                          This thread is very interesting

                          https://twitter.com/WhoTargetsMe/status/1277962354219552774?s=20

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                            #38
                            they are killing us it

                            https://twitter.com/premnsikka/status/1278317547906043907?s=20

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                              #39
                              Doubt this is the right thread, but after a long career spent lobbying on behalf of the water industry, Angela "funny tinge" Smith ex-MP is newly appointed to the board of Portsmouth Water.

                              Meanwhile, Jo Swinson has been appointment a visiting professor at a management school. Jo Swinson, teaching management. Truly, these fuckers fail upwards.

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                                #40
                                https://twitter.com/openDemocracy/status/1279078855425380358?s=20


                                probably could add opening the pubs for Wetherspoon breakfast, too, I suspect.

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                                  #41
                                  Not corruption per se, although I can guess the type of person that will be the lucky recipient of public money I see Supreme Intelligence Cummings has decided to piss away, spaffing ?100m on research into sucking CO2 out of the air as a way to combat climate change.

                                  He's a fucking lunatic, and he has our country in his hands. We'll, one hand, the other has a big knife in it.

                                  Edit: Does anyone know why the pound sign turns into a question mark when I post?

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                                    #42
                                    The pound's pretty uncertain these days.

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                                      #43
                                      Earlier today I read a couple of interesting Twitter threads produced by someone called Gunther Bett that make quite a few links between Tufton St and those in power at the moment. Sadly I can't find the precise tweet that contained links to two or three of the threads.

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                                        #44
                                        The pound sign was borked along with all diacritical marks and other "special characters" when the board was hacked.

                                        Getting them back is not a simple process, as Snake has noted on the relevant thread.

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                                          #45
                                          https://twitter.com/davekanemusic/status/1279141268254269443?s=21

                                          the difference Is that the music industry expands the economy. Wetherspoons helps piss it away.

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                                            #46
                                            Originally posted by Kowalski View Post
                                            Earlier today I read a couple of interesting Twitter threads produced by someone called Gunther Bett that make quite a few links between Tufton St and those in power at the moment. Sadly I can't find the precise tweet that contained links to two or three of the threads.
                                            Is this the one you’re looking for, K?
                                            (thanks for the heads up)

                                            https://twitter.com/bettgunther/status/1264820968540770309?s=21

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                                              #47
                                              https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1279312466665779200?s=21

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                                                #48
                                                https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1279314345642598400?s=21

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                                                  #49
                                                  Is there any part of the government that the former pornographer and front National supporter doesn’t own?

                                                  https://twitter.com/nicktorfaen/status/1279377864115261443?s=21

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                                                    #50
                                                    Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post

                                                    Is this the one you’re looking for, K?
                                                    (thanks for the heads up)

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                                                    That's the one, thanks for finding it.

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