{"id":34603,"date":"2019-08-16T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34603"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:44:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:44:04","slug":"brexit-has-turned-our-government-into-an-orwellian-ministry-of-truth-polly-toynbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34603","title":{"rendered":"Brexit has turned our government into an Orwellian Ministry of Truth | Polly Toynbee"},"content":{"rendered":"

While jobs struggle with the red tape of no-deal planning, pastors are busy with commemorating coins<\/p>\n

Britain is battle-ready for no-deal Brexit, that’s the content. Downing Street gave every department 72 hours last week to present watertight crash-out designs and woe betide any whose thoughts blow a fuse later, Dominic Cummings menaced. “Task and finish units” will stress-test each one: tremble at the military-style management speak.<\/p>\n

In case anyone dares express a mistrust that the nation is 100% ready, a rapid rebuttal unit was launched yesterday by Michael Gove to kill off any “media myths and half-truths”, reports the Sunday Telegraph<\/a>. It will stamp on such “myths” as the BBC’s report<\/a> that dairy cows will need to be culled if render can’t be exported. Or similar advises that unsalable sheep will be slaughtered when the door to 90% of the<\/a> UK market<\/a> slams shut on 1 November. The Cabinet Office, seeming like a Ministry of Truth, will “ensure the public and business is not being alarmed by scare stories or falsehoods”.<\/p>\n

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Read more: theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While jobs struggle with the red tape of no-deal planning, pastors are busy with commemorating coins Britain is battle-ready for no-deal Brexit, that’s the content. Downing Street gave every department 72 hours last week to present watertight crash-out designs and woe betide any whose thoughts blow a fuse later, Dominic Cummings menaced. “Task and finish …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16222,1021,9911,1041,15607],"class_list":["post-34603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-brexit","tag-business","tag-european-union","tag-politics","tag-uk-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/26651565991844.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}