Ian Carmichael

@iancarmichael.bsky.social

[Ian Carmichael @CarmichaelIan]

@Carriegusewize @HughEdw31897368 These rw rags are still bashing Starmer! This is not only rubbish it is rubbish from the political editor of the Times. How low our once respected print media has fallen.

[Spirit Of Attlee @SpiritOfAttlee]

Jason Arday is dead.

They spent weeks stripping him bare. The race realist who started the fire. The Telegraph. The Spectator. Every line of his thesis, every fundraising claim, every mile he said he ran, every threat he described... forensic, relentless, turned into sport. A Black working class autistic man who reached a Cambridge chair became their perfect scalp. “DEI darling.” “Fraud.” The glee was the point.

He resigned under the weight of it. Said the unrelenting scrutiny and personal attack had reached the limits of what any person should endure. Nine days later he was found unresponsive at home in Battersea. Unexpected. Not suspicious. Forty one years old.

This is how the right works. When someone from the estates, the wrong skin, the wrong neurotype climbs into their institutions, they bring the full apparatus. Every error is a national scandal. Every exaggeration is proof the whole project of equality is a lie.

Meanwhile their own misdemeanours and crimes get the soft treatment. Boris Johnson lied to Parliament about parties while the country locked down... process, delay, shrug. The PPE VIP lane handed billions to Tory donors and mates for kit that never worked while NHS staff went without. Michelle Mone and the rest still counting the money. Serial sexual misconduct and bullying by Tory MPs protected until the last possible second. Farage’s endless grifts and contradictions waved through by the same papers that demanded Arday’s head.

They don’t care about integrity. They care about hierarchy. Accountability is a weapon they point downward. The powerful stay protected. The climbers get destroyed.

Jason Arday faced the spotlight they never shine on their own. The rest of us saw it. We remember. The real scandal was never one academic’s record. It was the double standard that keeps the powerful safe while breaking anyone who challenges the order. That is the fight.

[Ian Carmichael @CarmichaelIan]

@bmay @davidyelland Mind numbingly ignorant

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

Darren Jones has now been removed from his Cabinet Office role, which, in my view, comes as no surprise. Andy Burnham will undoubtedly recognise that Jones represents one of the most significant potential challengers to his leadership of the Labour Party. I believe he possesses many of the qualities required to lead the party in the future, continues to enjoy considerable support among many members, and is one of the few figures capable of genuinely uniting and galvanising the party behind a common purpose.

Throughout the events surrounding Sir Keir Starmer's departure, Jones remained steadfast in his support for the Prime Minister. In my opinion, loyalty of that kind deserves recognition and, in time, should be rewarded. I have little doubt that we shall see Darren Jones return to the forefront of British politics before too long.

Finally, I would simply like to say thank you for the work he undertook. In my view, he achieved something that many others within the Labour Party could not: he challenged the prevailing narrative in parts of the mainstream media and stood by his principles throughout.

[Viviane: Holding Burnham to account @LaindonFEMINIST]

As I mourn the departure of our honourable PM I thought it appropriate to share a List of some of his outstanding achievements. In just 2 years. And after the Tories pillaged our Country. PLP what the fuck have you done?

[Brendan May @bmay]

It’s clear watching Starmer’s final PMQs that the Labour Party has just made an absolutely catastrophic error, blinded by panic, afflicted by petty opportunist factionalism, and entirely disengaged from the national interest in a dangerous world.

What a huge, huge
blunder. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Professor Ray Noble @Ray_Noble1]

https://t.co/rniCDq04am

[Professor Ray Noble @Ray_Noble1]

It becomes clear that the plot against Starmer was hatched last year, not as a reaction to poor midterm election results, and that Labour party members are being excluded from any decision. Little wonder then that Starmer has been left undefended by Labour MPs as they stood aside watching the rightwing media tear chunks out of the PM. They did the minimum to put the case for the government, while feeding stories to the media. I have only one thing to say to them: they are a disgrace.

[Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine]

Laura Kuenssberg:

"Why do you think Keir Starmer had to go?"

I don't know Laura, maybe you Chris Mason, Henry Zeffman, Nick Robinson, Robbie Gibb and co could tell us, seeing as you all campaigned for it so relentlessly

#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast

[Ian Carmichael @CarmichaelIan]

@JohnRentoul What puerile nonsense. Grow up and try to be a journalist.

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

When you, Piers Morgan, as one of the most sensationalist and populist journalists, claim that Keir Starmer failed to deliver on his manifesto promises whilst we all know very well that he fulfilled around 70% in just two years it becomes entirely clear to everyone what kind of a journalist you are.

And indeed, what kind of a man you are.

#BBCLurak #BritishPolitics #KeirStarmer #PiersMorgan #MediaEthics #UKPolitics

[ClareT with Ukraine heart and soul 💪 @ClareTa97789912]

I join the #sackchrismason people

[Barry Halverson @barry_halverson]

This is one screenshot from the BBC News app on 3 June.

Not different days. Not cherry-picked.
The same day. The same InDepth page.

Four anti-Starmer stories, all presented together.

But apparently there’s no anti-Starmer bias at the BBC.

[Mark G #SayNoToReform @TheLabourMark]

Keir Starmer is twice the man that Farage will ever hope of being. A good family man with a genuine heart that wants to help people. From his work as DPP and his work as prime minister, he’ll always be remembered in a good way. #Starmer #Keir #Labour

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

For you and Chris especially

The Anatomy of the Downfall of Journalism by Cherry 1/2
Month after month week after week and sometimes day after day you chronicled relentless attacks on the Prime Minister. Yes you Chris Mason.
You did this by finding unnamed sources regularly retailing gossip and writing your own political opinions with the support of right-wing elements who came to the BBC from GB News. They now run a house that was supposed to be a public service to inform the nation but instead they turned it into a machine to destroy Keir Starmer. This was taken on as a mission from day one even before he became Prime Minister.
Only Chris Mason could compare Boris Johnson and Liz Truss with Starmer. Only he could compare clowns without knowledge to a decent honest and moral man. As a voter I am utterly sick of the constant chatter about cutting the winter fuel allowance for pensioners. I know plenty of people who used that money to go on holiday and did not need it at all. The media keeps pushing this narrative because the British public is not ready to admit that people who do not need the money are getting it while those who truly need it miss out. What Chris calls U-turns I call a Prime Minister who listened to the public and his voters before changing his mind to deliver what people actually expected. Forgive me if I do not call that a U-turn but a Prime Minister who listens.
I can easily understand why Chris Mason mentions Mandelson and McSweeney but completely avoids writing openly about Blue Labour. I assume you are simply not allowed to mention them. You talk about all the briefings born in Number 10 where journalists regularly encouraged MPs to plot. Though we cannot force people to be loyal and honest if they are not. All those MPs can walk hand in hand with Chris Mason when it comes to morals ethics and honesty.
We do not need Chris Mason to explain what journalism is. We know very well what journalism means because he does everything that journalism should never be. We understand that sources do not always need to be named. But when you do this 365 days a year with several unnamed sources every single day to build a narrative to bring down a PM then everything becomes perfectly clear. Your explanations are not needed Chris because what you did was not journalism. It was building a narrative to remove a legally elected Prime Minister.
Everything from November until today was about you predicting inventing and encouraging MPs who lack morals ethics and political wisdom to feed you information. You created an atmosphere of chaos that we know all too well from the Tory era. You attribute this to the state of the Labour Party but I openly state this is the consequence of the toxic state of the media disinformation online the impact of the orange clown Trump and the influence of Bannon and Farage. You have always protected Farage and you still do today. Labour MPs are just as much victims of this endless disinformation and manufactured chaos as the citizens of this country.
Naturally you remain completely silent on how the Makerfield by-election was actually staged and who stands behind it. You write very little about Josh Simons and his career in Blue Labour or the thirty thousand pounds paid to smear your fellow journalists. You are very quiet on that front. Now you want to present Makerfield as something that just had to happen rather than a staged coup. You present Andy Burnham as someone the Labour Party desperately needs instead of showing how Blue Labour is sneaking him through the back door to serve their interests because Starmer refused to do it last year. The moment Starmer refused to play their game he sealed his own fate because he could not survive the enemies he made alongside you in the media.
You even go a step further by commenting on Mike Tapp who was loyal to Starmer and Shabana Mahmood who is now punishing him for that loyalty.
#ChrisMason #BBCPolitics #KeirStarmer #UKLabour #MediaIntegrity

[Full Fact @FullFact]

.@UKStatsAuth has written to @KemiBadenoch today, following our fact check of her inaccurate claim that the total welfare bill is now higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”.

We hope she will correct the record soon.
https://t.co/rDJ1Gex5IA

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

“Farage is in real trouble and he knows it. He was rattled on his interviews. If it can be proven his £5 million bung was related to political influence, he could ultimately face criminal bribery and corruption charges, which carry up to 10 years in prison.”

Let’s make this go viral 🚨 https://t.co/aw0h2lBH5Z

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

Well, well, well.
Kemi Bay-denoch shows what a disgusting and ignorant person she is.
A woman who has now proven that she has absolutely no understanding of the crimes of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany.
This moron must never be Prime Minister.
@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives

[Jennifer Robinson @welshroots]

#PMQs KEMI BADENOCH has History of Bullying and vile behaviour
Her disrespect in Parliament #PMQ was utterly embarrassing
She is surely not worthy of her position
Kemi Badenoch accused of ‘bullying and traumatising’ staff | Kemi Badenoch | The Guardian https://t.co/uyoURHQWUL

[Ian Carmichael @CarmichaelIan]

@ATallantyre @implausibleblog I admire and respect this government for its superb achievements. Perhaps Mr Toon could explain how he knows millions of us hate it.