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[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

@YvetteCooperMP Now do Israel

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

An uncharacteristically non-sensational headline from the Daily Mail.

How about:

"Have Raise The Flag racked up their first murder?"

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Man appears in court charged with murder of village pub owner outside Lichfield cocktail bar https://t.co/h4vvn6T8xT

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

Are these pervs and weirdos really the best Farage can come up with?

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

@McivorJaymey @RobKenyonReform @SarahForRuncorn

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

Good work exposing absurd extreme-right lies.

Spoiler: They've been outsourcing creation of their lies to AI!

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Chris (#Scandal still NO Justice PO GF WR) @Chrisviews43]

I am just a voter looking for the truth. Nigel told Beth Rigby the £5 million was for security, then when asked why he did not declare it he said it was a gift. Beth then said the rules say even if it is a gift, if in doubt declare it anyway. Nigel replied he knew that and he was not in doubt so he did not declare it. But then in the Harry Cole interview he said it was not a gift, it was a reward for 27 years of Brexit campaigning and delivering. So my question is simple, if you are changing what the money was for, from security, to gift, to reward, then surely that shows doubt. And if there is doubt, the rules say declare it. I am not the Commissioner, but even a child could work that one out. This is not hard to investigate because the evidence is coming from the person under investigation. What you say matters, and I really cannot see how the Commissioner can come to any other conclusion.

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

Far-right content from a Sri Lanka AI slop farm designed to promote the far-right Faragists, almost entirely bankrolled by a crypto billionaire out of Thailand, and supported by GB News (Reform TV) operated by a UAE based investment fund.

And Reform claim to be British patriots!

[Claire Hughes @clairehughesBA]

This what we’re up against:

AI videos being made in Sri Lanka, shared here in Britain to stoke fear and division.

The next time someone tells you something MUST be true because they’ve seen it on Facebook…send them this video.

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

A lot of online “patriots” seem to hate:

* London
* young people
* universities
* artists
* immigrants
* journalists
* modern culture

At some point you have to ask what part of Britain they actually like.

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

Starmer promised to abolish the unelected House of Lords and replace it with a democratic upper legislature

Here he is stuffing 26 unelected hereditary peers back into the Lords as peers for life

Possibly one of his final acts as PM, and it's another stinging betrayal

[Aubrey Allegretti @breeallegretti]

Confirmed: 26 hereditary peers will return to the Lords as lifers.

Labour Party
Stephen Benn, The Viscount Stansgate
Christopher John Suenson-Taylor, The Lord Grantchester

Crossbenchers
Charles Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington OBE DL
Nicholas le Poer Trench, The Earl of Clancarty
Charles Colville, The Viscount Colville of Culross
Richard Denison, The Lord Londesborough
Simon Russell, The Lord Russell of Liverpool
Daniel Mosley, The Lord Ravensdale
Godfrey Bewicke-Copley, The Lord Cromwell
Richard Gilbey, The Lord Vaux of Harrowden
John Pakington, The Lord Hampton

Conservative Party
Sebastian Grigg, The Lord Altrincham
Mark Cubitt, The Lord Ashcombe
William Stonor, The Lord Camoys
Jonathan Berry, The Viscount Camrose
Patrick Courtown, The Earl of Courtown
Rupert Ponsonby, The Lord de Mauley KCVO TD FCA
Edward Effingham, The Earl of Effingham
Giles Goschen, The Viscount Goschen
Jasset Ormsby-Gore, The Lord Harlech
The Rt Hon Frederick Penn, The Earl Howe GBE PC
Timothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, The Earl of Minto
Colin Moynihan, The Lord Moynihan
Aeneas Mackay, The Lord Reay
Massey Lopes, The Lord Roborough
The Rt Hon Thomas Galbraith, The Lord Strathclyde CH PC

https://t.co/Um3UM2mqbN

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

This is an extraordinary allegation, and the guy making it (Ben Habib) has openly goaded Farage and Harborne to sue him if it's not true.

https://t.co/x27aCxie7G

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

@mrsDugskullery @SteveReedMP Don't recall you saying this when you lot attempted your spectacularly failed Anyone But Corbyn coup in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum

Instead of pinning the blame on the Tories, where it belonged, you pinned it on your own party for factional reasons

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

Brown's 331 losses were a drop in the ocean compared to what Starmer is delivering here.

Plus, of the just three of these ailing PMs who managed to staggered on to face a general election ... how did those general elections turn out for them?

[Anita 💙 @Neets21]

Just for clarity. List of PM’s that had huge losses in local elections and didn’t resign..

Thatcher 1066
Major 2018
Blair 818
Brown 331
Cameron 405
May 1134
Johnson 485
Sunak 474

#Labour
#KeirStarmer
#LocalElections

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

Stone cold facts

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

Labour losing 80%+ of the seats they're defending!

40% to 50% of their voters doing what Starmer told them to, and leaving if they don't like it

All time historic pummelling

Starmtroopers already insisting that one more push towards the far-right will fix it!

Total insanity

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

I love this guy I love the way he doorsteps people with Power. And they never answer because they know what he’s asking is uncomfortable for them. https://t.co/Gz6ESE3v6q

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

PAUL HOLDEN STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO INTERVIEW WITH JOSH SIMONS ON BBC NEWSCAST

Yesterday, BBC Newscast published a lengthy, forty-minute interview with former Cabinet Minister Josh Simons MP. The interview addressed how Simons, as a director of @LabourTogether, had appointed a firm called APCO Worldwide to investigate me and my colleagues.

I was not told by the BBC ahead of the broadcast that the episode was being recorded or aired. I was not approached to respond to the lengthy comments made about me or the small anti-corruption organisation, @ShadowWorldInv1 , that I run with my colleague @andrewfeinstein. Andrew, who is also repeatedly mentioned, was also not approached for comment.

I only found out last night, when a friend texted me, that the person who hired a major multinational reputation management firm that produced a despicable and defamatory report on me and my colleagues, and who reported me on the basis of these false and defamatory reports to the UK’s security services, was being given forty minutes to give his version of events on a major podcast published by our national broadcaster.

To be clear, the BBC has NEVER - not once - approached me to comment on a story that is, ultimately, about me, my investigations, my family and my colleagues. They did not approach me when the story first broke, and they did not approach me for this episode.

If the BBC had done so, I would have raised several issues with the way in which matters related to me were discussed. For example, Simons repeatedly stated in the interview that he instructed APCO to investigate whether my reporting or sourcing derived from a ‘hack’ of the Electoral Commission. The word ‘hack’ is used eight times in the interview.

At no time was it acknowledged in this discussion that this allegation – that I might have received hacked materials – is entirely false, and I have repeatedly proven it to be false.

Following the broadcast, I contacted the BBC to complain and to raise serious issues with the broadcast. I was contacted by the Newscast editor, Sam Bonham, to say the BBC would update the Newscast episode and further reporting to reflect some of my concerns. This has not yet happened with regards to the podcast, although I note some online reporting finally reflects a very small and limited sampling of my comments. I will wait to see if amendments and updates will follow. If they do not, I will be escalating this matter to OFCOM.

In the interim, I have decided to share the full statement I provided to the BBC, which is produced below:

I would like to put certain things on the record.

First, my reporting on Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney was entirely factually accurate and based on impeccable, legal sourcing. My sourcing has been reviewed by multiple media outlets, who confirmed the authenticity and legal provenance of my sources. Revelations based on my book, The Fraud, has subsequently been covered widely across the mainstream media, including in multiple front-page scoops, in outlets such as The Times, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The National and ITV.

The stories I produced in 2023 and 2024, and which prompted Labour Together's investigation into me, were subject to extensive editorial and legal checks. They were, I believe, entirely accurate reporting on matters of profound public interest, which included raising concerns about the character of powerful individuals like Morgan McSweeney. Considering the recent Mandelson affair, I believe I have been entirely vindicated in attempting to alert the public about McSweeney's past, including how McSweeney made use of £700,000 in funding that he unlawfully failed to declare to the Electoral Commission to procure power and influence for himself and Sir Keir Starmer.

Second, Josh Simons states that he never intended for APCO Worldwide to investigate me or my journalistic colleagues. However, a copy of the contract between APCO Worldwide and Labour Together, addressed to Simons, has now been published. The contract sets out a scope of work written in plain English.

It states that APCO will 'investigate the sourcing, funding, origins of a Sunday Times article as well as upcoming works by authors Paul Holden and Matt Taibbi.' The contract then states that the aim of the APCO investigation will be to 'provide a body of evidence that could be packaged up in the media in order to create narratives that would proactively undermine any future attacks on Labour Together.' The contract then sets out a range of potentially invasive investigative methods that will be used to generate this 'package', including 'financial investigations' and 'human intelligence investigations.' I provide the full text of this contract below.

This contract is clear. APCO were hired to investigate me to produce materials that would 'proactively undermine' my factually accurate, public interest reporting. They would use a range of investigative techniques to do so. APCO then did exactly as was suggested in the contract, using these investigative methods to "investigate" me. This investigation has caused me and my family significant anxiety and distress.

Third, Josh Simons was provided with a report called Operation Cannon. It is the result of a lengthy investigation into me and my colleagues by APCO Worldwide. I have seen a copy of this report. It makes a series of extremely defamatory and utterly false allegations against me. It identifies my home address and sets out private information about my family. I cannot express how profoundly shocking, outrageous and defamatory this report truly is.

Simons may claim he never intended for APCO to investigate me, but on receipt of this despicable report, he then chose to use it. He submitted sections of the report to the National Cyber Security Centre to convince them to investigate me. The Guardian has published the email correspondence in which Simons repeated some of the substance of the allegations in the APCO reports.

Fourth, multiple media freedom advocacy organisations, including the NUJ, have strongly criticised the APCO investigation and these related matters. They have all, to my mind correctly, strongly criticised Labour Together and APCO for investigating journalists producing factually accurate reporting in the public interest.

Finally, I am still reviewing the Newscast interview. I will be responding in due course and I hope that the BBC will, this time, give me the platform to set out what really happened and why.

Text of Contract Between Labour Together and APCO Worldwide, addressed to Josh Simons

Dear Mr Simons

We are pleased that you have selected APCO Worldwide Limited (“APCO”) to provide the following scope of work (“services”) during Term:

APCO will devise a concise strategy to aid Labour Together. APCO will investigate the sourcing, funding and origins of a Sunday Times article about Labour Together, as well as upcoming works by authors Paul Holden and Matt Taibbi – to establish who and what are behind the coordinated attacks on Labour Together. The approach should provide a body of evidence that could be packaged up for use in the media in order to create narratives that would proactively undermine any future attacks on Labour Together. The material can also inform any future legal strategy that Labour Together might wish to pursue against any of these parties.

The work will include:

• Open Source Investigations (OSINT): Recovery and Preservation of Evidence
• Human Intelligence Investigation (HUMINT): Recovery and Preservation of Evidence
• Financial Investigation: Forensic Accounting Focus
• Digital Forensics Investigation: Recovery and Preservation of Evidence
• Stakeholder Outreach
• Media Packaging and Dissemination

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

This aged well

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic and we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election.

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

@PeterStefanovi2 "Allowed to happen" assumes this was a mistake, rather than calculated class warfare

[Another Angry Voice @Angry_Voice]

Establishment elitists are desperate to use culture war tactics to divide us, and distract us from the class war they're beating us at.

https://t.co/ViTngkIkZK