Johnny Walker
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@parliamoglesca
I have a 'WTF' is wrong with people moment at least 4 times a day.
This is what I mean. This is a conspiracy theory theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This is a textbook example of shifting the frame. The article raises a question about funding, influence and independence. The response pivots to defending Minimum Unit Pricing. Those are not the same thing. No one asked whether SHAAP believes in MUP. Of course it does. It's paid handsomely to believe. The question is whether organisations that are heavily funded by government can operate as genuinely independent voices when they are also reinforcing government policy. x.com/Annemarieward/… That point is simply avoided. And on MUP itself, presenting the evidence as settled is misleading. Much of the case rests on modelling. The real-world evidence is far more mixed than is often claimed, particularly when it comes to the group it was originally meant to help, harmful and dependent drinkers. When those outcomes didn’t materialise as hoped, the framing quietly shifted to a whole-population approach. That matters. Because it moves the goalposts. A policy introduced to target the heaviest drinkers becomes one justified on broader, harder-to-measure population effects. That makes it much easier to defend, and much harder to properly scrutinise. So we end up with this loop. Government funds organisations. Those organisations support the policy. The policy under-delivers for the most vulnerable. The framing changes. And the same organisations are then cited as evidence of success. That’s not conspiracy. It’s structure. And repeating “we are evidence-based” doesn’t resolve that. Evidence is interpreted. Outcomes are contested. Independence has to be demonstrated, especially when public money is involved. That is the question being raised. And it’s the one this response very carefully avoids. x.com/FAVORUK/status…
"On Easter Sunday, the stone was rolled away and the grave was empty. Christians everywhere rejoiced." Erm, I don't think that's how it happened.
Cllr Casey, how dare you accuse your own constituents the very people living with the daily consequences of this political experiment of spreading “disinformation”? Were you even in the room tonight in the Calton? Because I was. And I listened the residents, ordinary hard working-class people, pensioners, mothers, recovering addicts tell us in raw, often tearful detail that they are terrified to walk their own streets. That they are finding human faeces on their steps. That their doors are being rattled by drug dealers. That they’re scared to take their kids out, or even walk to the bingo. Are they all liars? Are they all “gaslighting” themselves? Or is it simply easier for you to ignore them, dismiss them, and defend a project you backed from the start no matter how catastrophic the fallout? You claim reports show “crime is down” which reports? Show them. Because the only thing going down in this community is public trust in elected officials who seem more interested in salvaging political narratives than confronting on the-ground reality. You talk about saving lives and of course, we all want that. But reviving someone from an overdose today only to watch them overdose again tomorrow isn’t saving lives. It’s prolonging suffering. It’s crisis management on repeat, not recovery." What about the young man who stood up tonight and told the room that all he’s being offered is more methadone, or diamorphine when what he wants is freedom from drugs? or the mother who's begging for her son to get rehab ? This isn't harm reduction, it's community abandonment wrapped in a press release. You are not just dismissing complaints. You are silencing people who are living in fear, grief and exhaustion. That is not leadership. That is cowardice. If you had even a shred of humility, you’d stop tweeting and start listening.
President Trump will never waver in protecting and celebrating faith and religious liberty. This Holy Week, the Trump administration honors the Christian faith with several events at the White House leading up to the blessed holiday of Easter. 💛🇺🇸
Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"
I would like to immediately know where this is
Sometimes, a nickname comes along so excellently unkind that you know it’s going to stick. One such is “MattGPT” – which will, I suspect, follow former academic and failed Reform candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election Matt Goodwin to his grave. ✍️ Sam Leith Article | spectator.com/article/the-il…
RFK Jr told CPAC that Trump has "encyclopedic, molecular knowledge across a wide range of interests." He added, "Trump's knowledge is so vast it's invisible to the human eye"
