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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 2h

Keith’s paws are clean here. The request sought panel membership, appointment process, and consultation timetable. The response explains why policy discussions may remain private. It does not explain why those facts must. Reform of accountability has begun with an accountability gap🐾 #No10Keith

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

Sources/Sauces 🐾 MI5’s official espionage alert, 30 September 2026. Includes expected actions and the relevant legal warning. www.mi5.gov.uk/sites/defaul... @unroll.skywriter.blue

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

4/4 Use the Government’s Research Collaboration Advice Team and Trusted Research security guidance. The institution must establish who is commissioning the work. The letterhead is not the answer. Support researchers in reporting concerns. Put responsibility at governing-body level. 🐾 #No10Keith

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

3/4 MI5 advises immediate review of current and planned collaborations with the institute, and tracing ultimate funding in collaborations with Chinese institutions. It warns of potential criminal consequences. It advises independent legal advice before continuing. An alert requires action.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

2/4 MI5 identifies more than 100 UK-linked academics contributing to projects in AI, cybersecurity, covert communications, and steganography. It explicitly acknowledges good-faith participation and concealed funding links. Being deceived does not establish knowing complicity.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

1/4 🚨 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬: 𝗠𝗜𝟱 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 MI5 says the China General Technology Research Institute funds academic research to improve Chinese intelligence’s espionage capability. Its warning concerns the concealed sponsor behind apparently legitimate collaboration.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

5/5 Before each phase: publish who qualifies, what they receive, annual funding, workforce & provider capacity, local delivery duties, and readiness tests. Name who answers when care fails to arrive. The Office supports the ambition. Approval to announce is not assurance to commence.🐾 #No10Keith

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

4/5 Free personal care means help with tasks such as eating, bathing, and using the toilet. Bed and board remain chargeable, with means-tested support. The older-person offer also leaves working-age disabled people’s position to be clarified. “Free” requires a published boundary.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

3/5 The IFS expects uncertain savings, initially small, growing over time. It says these will not fund universal social care next Parliament. Ministers propose phased provision. That needs an annual funding plan, including preparation costs before savings arrive. A forecast is not a care rota.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

2/5 From April 2030, pensions would rise by at least inflation or 2.5%, with an earnings link over time. The IFS welcomes removing the ratchet that permanently compounds whichever measure rises fastest. The Office records approval. Competent reform is also admissible evidence.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

1/5 📑 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗘: 𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: Reforming pension uprating is defensible. The care settlement remains unfinished. Savings must fund a costed entitlement, staff, and providers. A funding formula cannot deliver a care visit.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 30/09/2026

Scotland’s most transferable lesson may be that legal responsibility and operational delivery are different things. If England moves work out of practices, each transfer needs a service specification, an owner, funded capacity, baseline measures and a route back when local delivery fails. 🐾

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 29/09/2026

The pledge needs to distinguish better-off residents from richer arrivals. Publish real household incomes after housing costs, alongside population change and the distribution within each area. A postcode can become wealthier while the people the policy was meant to help are priced out. 🐾

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 29/09/2026

The delivery test should sit across all five: which reforms draw on the same people, systems, and budgets, and in what order? Five defensible policies can still form an undeliverable programme. Cabinet must own the collisions, not leave departments to discover them. 🐾

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

And as if by magic... Source/Sauce 🐾: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Clipping from article:

Later on Monday, Tice shared an X post by his partner Isabel Oakeshott, who said UK law recognised six types of British nationality and that asking for the suspects’ “countries of origin” was among “perfectly reasonable questions”.

The Reform deputy leader added: “Ethnicity? Dual nationals? Asylum seekers? Previous convictions? Known to Prevent / Authorities? Benefits claimants? Living in social housing?”

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

9/9 A recycled campaign ad is powerful evidence of political purpose. Review needs the spending record and staff roles. Refer spending to GAO; refer staff conduct to the Office of Special Counsel. A government seal cannot turn campaign promotion into civic education. 🐾 @unroll.skywriter.blue

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

8/9 AdImpact puts spending on this latest advert above $319,000 already. Publish the paying appropriation, contract, approval record, placement schedule, audiences targeted, and any separation from party or campaign machinery. “Public service” is a purpose to demonstrate, not a box to tick.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

7/9 The Hatch Act exempts Trump himself. It covers federal civilian staff, with rules varying by role. Who commissioned, approved, bought, and placed the ad? What advice was given? The President's exemption does not exempt the payroll. www.osc.gov/services/hat...

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Federal Employee Hatch Act Information | U.S. Office of Special Counsel

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency. OSC's statutory authority comes from four federal laws: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whi...

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

6/9 GAO found Education Department funds unavailable for assessing whether reporting made the Republican Party look committed to education. That was one element of a wider contract. Here, the campaign advert appears to be the product. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

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U.S. GAO - Department of Education--No Child Left Behind Act Video News Release and Media Analysis

Congress requested GAO's opinion on the Department of Education's use of appropriated funds to hire Ketchum, Inc., to conduct a media analysis and to...

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

5/9 GAO tests publicly funded communications for self-aggrandisement and purely partisan activity. Identifying the government as payer does not settle legality. An administration may explain its policies. It may not invoice the public for a campaign. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

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U.S. GAO - Department of Health and Human Services--Use of Appropriated Funds for Technical Assistance and Television Advertisements

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did not violate the statutory prohibition against using appropriated funds for publicity or...

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

4/9 An actual public-service announcement tells people about a service, a risk, a right, a deadline, or something they can do. This one declares a “final battle” against political enemies. The requested civic action appears to be sustained admiration of the incumbent.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

3/9 The White House says this is a public-service announcement: Trump is not on the midterm ballot, and the ad has no call to action. Neither proposition explains why public money is buying airtime for his old campaign material. A missing ballot entry is not a public purpose.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

2/9 The 2024 version ended by asking viewers to join Trump's political fight. The 2026 version ends: “Paid for by the U.S. Government.” The government has supplied the new footer. It has yet to identify the new public purpose.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

1/9 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗚𝗡 𝗔𝗗: 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗬 The US is paying to air a Trump ad virtually identical to a 2024 campaign version. The Office has found a new payer. It is still looking for a public service. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump administration begins airing 2024 Trump campaign ad in latest taxpayer-funded messaging

The Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the president ahead of the ...

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

The minister needs a funded order of work: what happens first, what stops, and which staff will deliver it. Reorganisation must earn its disruption. A new organogram is considerably easier to produce than a care package; this is not a reason to substitute one for the other. #No10Keith

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 28/09/2026

Vučić has resigned as president to seek the premiership. The test is whether voters can change the government, not merely its stationery. Equal media access, clean electoral rolls, independent scrutiny, and freedom from intimidation will matter more than the new letterhead. #No10Keith

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

10/10 The MoJ should publish a baseline separating fraud, error, debt write-offs, project losses, and impairments; then report prevention, detection time, recovery, residual loss, control owners, deadlines, and annual targets. Counter-fraud without measurement is shooting in the dark. #No10Keith

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

9/10 The strategy lists 30+ actions; assessments, dashboards, training, controls, and analytics. But no numerical target, review date, or commitment to publish progress. Its only explicit deadline is a control library by 2028. Activity is not an outcome.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

8/10 Further losses included £3.526m of digital work for the Illegal Migration Act, impaired after policy changed; £3.633m for a video-hearing project stopped over unresolved technical issues; and £684,000 of incorrect staff allowances paid between 2016 and 2022.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

7/10 That £22.136m is not included in the £58.5m headline: the fraudulent expenditure had been charged when it occurred. Other write-offs covered provider debts, unconfirmed legal-aid work, bankrupt debtors, and a £668,000 defence-costs order whose debtor lacked recoverable assets.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

6/10 The actual fraud is different. A legal-aid provider made fraudulent claims in 2012–15. After prosecution and extensive recovery action, £22.136m was finally recognised as lost. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Ministry of Justice annual report and accounts: 2024 to 2025

A report on the Ministry of Justice’s performance, governance arrangements and use of resources for the year ended 31 March 2025.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

5/10 Another £16.8m was the value written off HMP Dartmoor’s leased asset after the vacant prison was classified as surplus. This was an accounting impairment, not £16.8m disappearing from a safe. The future lease obligation nevertheless remains £13.6m.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

4/10 Nearly £48m of the £71m was “constructive loss”: procurement proper when undertaken but later yielding less value. Or none. Nearly £24m came from prison-building schemes abandoned after completion costs rose, asbestos was found, or a supplier failed. More losses were forecast for 2025–26.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

3/10 MoJ reported £71.0m of losses across 22,236 cases in 2024–25. Within that were 17 losses above £300,000, totalling £58.5m; up from £16.5m across six large losses the year before. The strategy mentions none of this. www.nao.org.uk/overviews/mi...

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Ministry of Justice 2024-25 - NAO overview

Our overview of the Ministry of Justice for 2024-25 looks at the Ministry's priorities, and where it spent £14.5 billion last year.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

2/10 First, “loss” does not mean “fraud”. In public accounts, it means resources used without receiving expected value: cash lost, debts written off, unusable assets, abandoned projects, or payments yielding nothing useful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Managing public money

This publication offers guidance on how to handle public funds.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

1/10 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥-𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗨𝗗: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 The MoJ has issued a five-year strategy to prevent fraud. It states no loss baseline or numerical reduction target. A plan to reduce an amount it declines to state. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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MOJ Counter Fraud Strategy 2026 to 2030

MOJ has designed a comprehensive and targeted 5 year strategy to tackle fraud, bribery and corruption, in line with the wider government counter fraud strategy.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 27/09/2026

A 2.5% deposit plus a 20% public equity loan may remove the deposit barrier... or convert it into valuation and repayment risk while inflating new-build prices. The Budget needs cost, caps, interest terms, developer contribution, resale rules, additionality, and price-inflation controls.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 26/09/2026

8/8 Congress authorised the money. The President proposed cancelling it. Congress did not enact that cancellation. The calendar cannot supply the approval that the executive failed to obtain. This is not economy by consent. It is appropriation by attrition. Consent does not arise by expiry. 🐾

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 26/09/2026

7/8 The US Government Accountability Office says the Impoundment Control Act does not authorise pocket rescissions. They would let a president shorten the legal availability of funds and thereby change the law. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...

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What is a “Pocket Rescission” and is It Legal?

You may have heard of a “pocket veto,” but maybe not a “pocket rescission.” In both cases, timing is key. But unlike pocket vetoes, pocket rescissions aren’t allowed. As the end of the fiscal year app...

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 26/09/2026

6/8 The White House describes the programmes as wasteful and harmful. Congress may agree. It may amend them. It may refuse. That policy argument does not confer the constitutional power to decide the result first and arrange for the legislature’s opportunity to decide it to expire.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 26/09/2026

5/8 For a British analogy (not a legal equivalence) imagine ministers withholding money authorised by Parliament on 29 March, allowing it to expire on 31 March, then announcing that Parliament had agreed to cancel it. A deadline was reached. Consent was not.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 26/09/2026

4/8 A “pocket” rescission attempts to defeat that safeguard by timing. Send the request immediately before the funding expires. Withhold the money meanwhile. Congress cannot complete its consideration. The funds lapse. The executive has not won a vote. It has run out the clock.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 26/09/2026

3/8 The President may withhold the money while Congress considers the request. But only for 45 days of continuous congressional session. If Congress does not approve the cancellation, the money must be released. Silence is rejection, not permission.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 26/09/2026

2/8 In plain English, a rescission is a request to cancel spending which Congress has already authorised. Under the normal process, the President proposes the cancellation. Congress then decides whether to enact it. An appropriation is law, not an executive suggestion.

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Keith, the No 10 North Cat | Parody @no-10-north.uk · 26/09/2026

1/8 𝗣𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡: 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗕𝗬 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗬 The White House says Trump is using a “pocket rescission” for nearly $1bn. The term is obscure. The device is not. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

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President Trump Takes Historic Action to Eliminate Wasteful and Harmful Spending

President Trump is committed to utilizing all possible tools to cut wasteful and harmful government spending that does not benefit American citizens. Last

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