Boris Johnson will declare he has the “guts” to reshape the British economy and solve major domestic problems on the same day as his administration was criticised for cutting the incomes of millions receiving benefits.https://t.co/thfT9BwDlU
— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) October 6, 2021
“Are you enjoying the British Renaissance? It’s like the Italian Renaissance, only instead of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, there are two guys fighting over petrol on a forecourt in Epping”https://t.co/6BL5NShSDc
— Sam Bright (@WritesBright) October 6, 2021
Boris Johnson denies Britain is in crisis as £6bn benefit cut bites https://t.co/LpyCv6AWkV
— The Independent (@Independent) October 6, 2021
Minette Batters of the National Farmers Unions says Boris Johnson told her a year ago “I would rather die than hurt British farmers” – and now farmers are “beyond distraught” at a welfare cull of potentially upwards of 100k pigs due to a lack of butchers since Brexit#Newsnight
— Ben Chu (@BenChu_) October 5, 2021
40 years to the day since Norman Tebbit's 'on yer bike' speech to Tory conference, it’s now ‘off yer bike’ https://t.co/M74FfrOVWL
— Jon Stone (@joncstone) October 5, 2021
But the cut to Universal Credit is still going ahead https://t.co/p3V85vSdgy
— Liverpool Echo (@LivEchonews) October 6, 2021
And for any of the ‘well there are lots of jobs available’ shouts, another reminder that 40% of these UC claimants are in work
— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) October 6, 2021
Tories always had it in for “big business” CBI but what is shocking about Johnson government’s assault on the alleged low wage economy is failure to acknowledge how flexible labour market helped SMEs, jobs engine wealth creators adored by Mrs T et al.What’s next? #ToryConference
— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) October 5, 2021
Dear @BorisJohnson,
— NHS Million 💙 (@NHSMillion) October 5, 2021
There were 2.5 million people waiting for NHS services when your party took over in 2010.
There are 5.6 million waiting today (up from 4.6 million pre-pandemic).
Actions speak a lot louder than words.
Regards,
NHS Million Team https://t.co/9IdCF2G2FP
Watching Boris Johnson being interviewed on BBC news, I find myself once more asking when this Tory government… elected first in 2010… will take ANY … and I mean ANY responsibility for the shitorama of everything that followed
— Otto English (@Otto_English) October 5, 2021
Spain, Greece, Italy & France have announced:
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) October 5, 2021
• Fuel poverty vouchers
• Windfall taxes on energy corps
• Energy bill freezes & in some cases cuts
Boris Johnson has announced a 12% energy price rise & a £1,049 welfare cut on those worst affected.
🗣 The ‘war on woke’ doesn’t travel. This year’s Conservative conference is obsessed with labelling everything woke, a word that has lost all meaning. It’s an attempt to keep the Brexit identity divide going, but it’s not the same. @FinancialTimes column https://t.co/Y93hLs69hk
— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) October 5, 2021
As reported outside the UK @BorisJohnson is “… the man whose buoyant optimism is actually a front for mismanagement.”
— Barbara J. Cormack 💙 (@BarbaraJCormack) October 6, 2021
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Even by Brexit standards, “You should have been prepared for the stuff we swore would never happen” is a remarkable position to take. Never underestimate the seductive power of a lie that lets people deny that they’ve been duped. However flimsy & transparent the lie may be. https://t.co/GP1uKT9Ojr
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) October 6, 2021
Column, on Tory conference as launch party for a voyage to the Brexit promised land following using maps that don't look anything like the real world. https://t.co/1GYv9fWweG
— Rafael Behr (@rafaelbehr) October 5, 2021
Tory Conference summed up: “If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by nature, have to be changed, and a lying govt must constantly rewrite its own history”
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) October 5, 2021
The Overnight Note 