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So the FCO/DfID merger was supposed to happen in the Autumn (apparently). I wonder if the attacks on Cummings resulted in it being pushed forward? Something seems to be going on. It seems like a weird moment to have found a lot of free time to push forward a rather grand institutional change.
Red meat for the Gammon - cancellation of the International Aid budget having been one of their goals for years. What's left of it will now go to Tory party donors, posing the question how many refugees can James Dyson turn into hoovers?
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If Dyson is going full bodyhorror mutating people into vacuum cleaners then Cronenberg is our god ;)
Serious topic, I know, saw the news and thought: Less accountability, excused with such slogans as "India has a rocket program" "it's just going to corrupt governments" "good riddance" in tomorrow's DM.
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cancellation of the International Aid budget having been one of their goals for years
Yeah, for sure, but Johnson has explicitly said aid will be kept at its current level (for what that's worth). This doesn't feel like a dead cat to me (or at least not entirely). Most people won't give a fuck, I think.
JWestland
So the FCO/DfID merger was supposed to happen in the Autumn (apparently). I wonder if the attacks on Cummings resulted in it being pushed forward? Something seems to be going on. It seems like a weird moment to have found a lot of free time to push forward a rather grand institutional change.