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No.228 - Boris: How the Mighty Fall?
No.228 - Boris: How the Mighty Fall?

Dear James,

How the mighty fall! Last Monday Boris, with his 80 seat majority, needed the Labour Party to push through legislation to contain Omicron. Ninety-nine – or almost a third of his MPs - voted against the motion. Boris is gravely wounded. This puffed up ball of hyperbolic fluff is deflating before our very eyes. There is no way back for him and, in the long-run, the wounds are probably fatal. Confused? Well the other story is that in that vote, the Tory party also revealed its own massive splits.

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No. 169 - Moonshot or Moonshine? Boris is at it Again!
No. 169 - Moonshot or Moonshine? Boris is at it Again!

Dear James,

Your leader is at it again. Last Wednesday he launched ‘Operation Moonshot’, a £100bn plan for mass coronavirus testing. Ten million people would be tested each day and countless millions of a new type of test, saliva based rather than swab based, ‘simple, quick and scalable’ and delivering ’results within 90 minutes’ would be available across the nation by next Spring. Now, while not wishing to be a Cassandra, haven’t we heard all this before?

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