-Lorry drivers get their results in 20-30 minutes, they’ll then get a text message, allowing them proceed to France
WEDNESDAY 23rd
UK-FRANCE DEAL
-Last night the government announced the deal agreed with France to reopen the border and allow freight to travel through
-Lorry drivers get their results in 20-30 minutes, they’ll then get a text message, allowing them proceed to France
-A government official says the PM was “full of praise” for how Transport Secretary Grant Shapps handled the crisis 💕
-Rail, air and sea services will resume on Wednesday morning, all those travelling from the UK to France will need to show a negative test taken within the previous 72 hours
-“The government shelved plans to open rapid-turnaround test centres across England amid concerns about the accuracy of their results”
-“Directors of public health had concerns about the potential false reassurance to those testing negative.” 😬
-More areas could be in Tier 4 from the 26th as cases rise, Ministers will meet today to discuss further possible measures after the UK recorded its highest daily increase in coronavirus cases
-Sources warn there is 'high chance' of full national lockdown in New Year
-Health ministers could announce the changes today after review was brought forward from December 30
-Nicola Sturgeon has apologized after the Sun got hold of pics of her chatting to pensioners in a pub without a face mask
-“This was a stupid mistake and I’m really sorry” She says, after she broke laws requiring pub customers to wear masks unless seated at a table
-A UK source said an agreement on a UK/EU trade deal is again possible today, EU sources stressed that they do not have much room for manoeuvre on fisheries
-"UK source now says agreement on a UK/EU trade deal is again possible tomorrow" - ITV's Peston *yawn*
-US President Trump warned he will not sign the stimulus package until Congress amends it
-He called the bill a disgrace and full of wasteful and unnecessary items, He demanded that stimulus checks are increased to $2,000 from $600
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This is a good piece on fissures within the GOP but I think it mischaracterizes the Trump presidency as “populist” & repeats a story about how conservatives & the GOP expelled the far-right in the mid-1960s that is actually far more complicated. /1
I don’t think the sharp opposition between “hard-edge populism” & “conservative orthodoxy” holds. Many of the Trump administration’s achievements were boilerplate conservatism. Its own website trumpets things like “massive deregulation,” tax cuts, etc. /2
https://t.co/N97v85Bb79
The claim that Buckley and “key GOP politicians banded together to marginalize anti-Communist extremism and conspiracy-mongering” of the JBS has been widely repeated lately but the history is more complicated. /3
This tweet by @ThePlumLineGS citing a paper by @sam_rosenfeld and @daschloz on the "porous" boundary between conservatives, the GOP and the far-right is relevant in this context.
This is a separate point but I find it interesting that Gaetz, like Roy Moore did In his failed Senate campaign, disses McConnell. What are their actual policy differences? MM supported taking health care away from millions, a tax cut for the rich, conservative judges, etc. /5
I don’t think the sharp opposition between “hard-edge populism” & “conservative orthodoxy” holds. Many of the Trump administration’s achievements were boilerplate conservatism. Its own website trumpets things like “massive deregulation,” tax cuts, etc. /2
https://t.co/N97v85Bb79
The claim that Buckley and “key GOP politicians banded together to marginalize anti-Communist extremism and conspiracy-mongering” of the JBS has been widely repeated lately but the history is more complicated. /3
This tweet by @ThePlumLineGS citing a paper by @sam_rosenfeld and @daschloz on the "porous" boundary between conservatives, the GOP and the far-right is relevant in this context.
There's a great paper called "The Long New Right" that tells the story of the GOP/conservative movement's failure to police extremists for the last 50 years.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 28, 2021
It's highly relevant to the insurrection and Marjorie Greene's lunacy.
I summed it up here:https://t.co/DTlzGomy5h pic.twitter.com/Dhc38CDuE2
This is a separate point but I find it interesting that Gaetz, like Roy Moore did In his failed Senate campaign, disses McConnell. What are their actual policy differences? MM supported taking health care away from millions, a tax cut for the rich, conservative judges, etc. /5