Thread 22. Sunak: Taxes, Truth and Tories

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The previous thread filled up fast, so here's another one with a reasonably topical title!

Against a backdrop of MPs scrabbling around for £10000 side jobs...

Thread 🧵 from Shaun Lintern about the pressures on hospices. The failure to tackle social care has a vast knock on impact in so many areas.
So many of our key systems function on staff goodwill & local fundraising. We should be outraged.

Exclusive: Hospices are warning more people could die alone, without pain relief, as soaring costs and flat NHS funding means hospices are closing beds and making staff redundnant to fill a £186m blackhole 1/n
thetimes.co.uk/article/e801b5… @hospiceuk #PalliativeCare

twitter.com/shaunlintern/status/1639883692419031042?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Also via Shaun Lintern

NHS will be told to send more patients private, as Sunak plans new patient choice legislation this summer:

https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1639879096833396738?s=20

It's heartbreaking

Where is the capacity for this?

Who financially benefits? Private healthcare companies like the ones donating to the Conservatives.

Once again the public purse is handing out £££ to friends of the Conservatives.

Have you spotted the rumours on Twitter about the Abba party and the Dancing Queen - now that is going to be very interesting, I hope people digging to find out exactly why and for who that party is being kept of the radar.

It has always had me wondering. Sue Grey did not report on it because it was passed over to the Met. Who then did nothing with it. I wonder why.......

Interesting

Whatever it is, it will be a cover up. We know that.

First installment

MPs FOR HIRE: Kwasi Kwarteng MP, today at 2pm / 14.00 BST

Do tell ...

I've seen the Twitter rumours. Seems unlikely but then so many things have seemed unlikely. I was genuinely surprised by Partygate & Pincher & Johnson's financial shenanigans etc etc so maybe I'm very naive!

Yes - please share the rumours!

The party of the 13th November (ABBA night) wasn't investigated by Grey or the Met because it had a VIP royal guest.

Yes I just read speculation it may have had one.

But I thought that it was purely that? Surely there's no way a) she did attend and b) if she did it went un noticed by the press?

Tell you what though - I'd rumour turns out to be true that'll open a whole other can of worms!

Nothing, but nothing, wouldd surprise me.

The thing is... it has always been very odd that this party wasn't investigated. Reported on. Fines etc.

Just seen that on Twitter. My first instinct is that I just don’t believe it. Do we know that it wasn’t included in the Sue Grey report or was it redacted? Isn’t it time we all saw that report, given that we paid for it?

Bwahahaha

“I would say [in] my generation in the UK, there are very few people who had the breadth of experience I’ve had across business and politics at this level,” he said.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/kwasi-kwarteng-told-fake-foreign-29553402

Didn’t it have something to do with the Met investigating it at the same time., Javid's brother was leading the probe?

It did but it’s months since the Met’s investigation was completed and the report is still under wraps. I want to see it. Unredacted.

According to the report, Gray “concluded it was not appropriate or proportionate” to re-open her inquiry into the flat event following the conclusion of the Met’s Operation Hillman, despite having learned that a number of special advisers attended the gathering where alcohol was available, and that it “carried on later into the evening”.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/mps-puzzled-at-abba-party-abandoned-sue-gray-boris-johnson-dominic-cummings

Agreed, we should see the unredacted report

Here is the Kwarteng interview, he seems very fidgety.

https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1639982033681149962?t=f5rN57pUAcBh1oaXrqoZXg&s=19

Keep losing you all, just placemarking for now.

Incredible isn't it. it's greed, pure greed.

What I don't understand is... did the likes of Kwarteng actually look into this 'Company' in any depth?
It sounds like not.

I don't even book a builder without checking them out in every way possible!

And thinking about it.... isn't the failure of him (or them) to carry out due diligence investigations about a South Korean co, a threat to national security?

He seemed very open talking about what it is he has done within the Government, very worrying.