I may be an old cynic but I reckon at some point in the not too distant future all the no doubt murky and grubby dealings that are getting Burnham into number 10 will be revealed.
Like Starmer he is just another stooge. His appointments will be interesting.
Excoriating analysis of Starmer’s downfall, and the Labour right from @DoubleDownNews
There’s Morgan McSweeney’s stated goal of ‘picking up the Labour Party and smashing it’s head open’
The inevitable continuation of Blair’s schmoozing with corporate donors exemplified by Starmer’s government partnership with Blackrock.
Starmer proved he was a colourless careerist, whose focus was on ratcheting up another deadly round of antisemitism to bolster the sale of UK sovereignty to the far right supremacist Israeli regime.
Beware, Andy Burnham is a shapeshifter, he will continue with the same personnel, the same neoliberal orthodoxy, and the same despicable backing of Zionism.
Britain deserves better.
Must watch video👀
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Andy Burnham is now the frontrunner to be Britain's next Prime Minister.
Nobody is asking what he actually built in Manchester, which has everything to do with Zone Fever, which is quietly extracting massive amounts of State aid (public money) to privatise the entire UK without any mention in the MSM whatsoever.
Let me explain why that matters.
Please read, share and subscribe to my Substack. No one else in the UK is focusing on the stealth nationwide rollout of free zones, initiated by the Tories, and fully backed and continued under the Labour Party.
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Labour Together has been forced to disclose internal documents to Jeremy Corbyn in response to a Subject Access Request.
The 583-page disclosure exposes new details about how Labour Together worked to dismantle the Corbyn project and undermine the British left.
"What is revealed makes the call for an independent inquiry into Labour Together overwhelming", says John McDonnell MP.
My latest with Paul Holden & Jessica Murray in @declassifiedUK:
👉NEW -- Inside Labour Together’s secret battle against Jeremy Corbyn
by Paul Holden (@StarmertheFraud), Jessica Murray & @jmcevoy_2
Documents disclosed to Corbyn expose covert efforts by Starmer’s former chief of staff to combat the British left
https://t.co/OQ1LLWfcXH
How the BBC & Guardian manufactured the worst PM in history
And the sordid reality of dark money & Gaza complicity they’re still trying to cover up:
The US military recruited neo-Nazis, gang members and criminals to fight the empire’s wars
They terrorised the occupied populations of Iraq and Afghanistan - and are now a threat to Americans back home
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How the BBC & Guardian manufactured the worst PM in history
And the sordid reality of dark money & Gaza complicity they’re still trying to cover up:
https://t.co/3iaT8ZLV6g
BREAKING: Keir Starmer Resigns
Media sold Starmer as 'forensic, decent & capable' PM. He was NEVER that as we made clear yrs ago:
"Starmer is a LIAR in charge of a brutal, authoritarian, inhuman political machine but you wouldn't know about that if you read or watched UK media"
This is an amazing article about how the Israeli lobby took over the Labour Party and imposed Starmer on the UK - full well-knowing he wasn't going to do any of his promises, but was going to serve Israel and the powerful donors instead. https://t.co/VXIkcNYTbi
"The network around 55 Tufton Street that built the infrastructure of Thatcherism is now platforming open advocates of far-right remigration"
✍️ @NafeezAhmed
https://t.co/aagOMljjbY
I've now had a chance to read this Bill. It is a genuinely alarming piece of legislation and typical of the draconian, authoritarian politics of the Labour Together Project, in which Mahmood has been a key player.
The Bill gives the Home Secretary nearly untrammelled power to designate any "group" working to advance a "foreign state threat." They are a "threat" if they pursue any objective that is inimical to the "interests" of the UK. Anyone who "supports" a designated group, like endorsing it or sharing its messages online, faces 14 years in prison.
This is so broadly written that it invites - almost guarantees - abuse. In the context of a potential far-right government, it is madness to put such draconian legislation on the books.
We already have two examples of how the state or political actors have effectively fabricated foreign state connections.
First, in manufacturing consent towards the proscription of Palestine Action, it was leaked to the press that there were links between the direct action group and Iran. But this was entirely false, as the government's Counter-Extremism advisor sheepishly admitted months later to Channel Four.
Second, I have personal experience of this. We now know that in response to my investigations into the unlawful conduct of Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney, Labour Together hired APCO Worldwide to investigate me, my colleagues and associates. The end result was a mad dossier alleging that I was a catspaw of foreign intelligence services, working to disrupt British democracy. I've now seen some of the "raw intelligence" on which this was based: literally everything I have seen was fabricated out of whole cloth, the thumb-suck of some swivel-eyed "intelligence" source. We now know that the most senior people in the Labour Party knew about this and didn't seem to bat an eye. Some of them even seemed to believe this web of absurd idiocy.
Anybody who has spent time at the coalface of investigating powerful people or standing up to militarism and forever-wars knows how legislation like this works. Secret intelligence is used to designate groups and people. That intelligence is classified, so the accused can't even see what they're accused of. Judges are given secret briefings where intelligence officials deliver doom-laden analysis, but they can't be cross-examined by the lawyers of the accused. Whispers and innuendo, the lubricant of the sort of "intelligence" that led to war in Iraq, are spun into concrete facts and grave national security threats.
This is not hyperbole - it is literally what has happened when campaigners have tried to challenge the sale of arms to Israel and Saudi Arabia, where campaigners themselves were not able to see, hear or test the evidence of the state at trial. In every instance, judges have then decided that they have no power to gainsay the State.
As this government collapses under the weight of unpopularity and scandal, it is now delivering for the reactionary forces that helped to put it in place through systematic and pre-meditated dishonesty. The result is a lattice-work of legislation and practice designed to criminalise and constrain dissent in the face of genocide, war, environmental degradation and the sort of corruption that turns state murder into money and misconduct into power.
There is every chance that within a week, Andy Burnham will be challenging Starmer for power. It is plausible Burnham could be Prime Minister by September.
His task, amongst many, will be to seek accommodation with progressive voters and movements that have abandoned the Labour Party. There will be plenty of discussion about the wisdom of that move from both sides. But it is likely to fail unless a Burnham government reverses course on the Starmer project's assaults on protest, jury trials, dissent, free speech and basic civil liberties.
And none of that is plausible as long as Mahmood, or any other Labour Together alumni, remains in post.