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Dammit in reply to @

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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in reply to @Dammit

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.

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Dammit in reply to @

In that case, why do it now? They have no election for four and a half years, so the timing makes no sense unless they want to distract from starving children, but even then- we have to accept starving children for another four and a half years if Johnson wanted us to.

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