Part 2 is a follow-up on last week's piece, "The Meme I Shared". There are three types of friction, which one are you looking at? https://t.co/jlkYlZyQQN
JULIUS CAESAR IN WESTMINSTER
There is something almost Shakespearean about this moment.
A leader spends years rebuilding a broken party. He endures ridicule, defeats enemies, wins the crown not for himself but for his cause, and inherits a kingdom in disrepair.
Then, just as the difficult work begins, the whispers start.
Not from opponents.
From allies.
Not from the gates.
From within the palace.
The irony is striking.
Keir Starmer is not facing pressure because he lost an election. He won one.
Not because he failed to rebuild Labour. He did.
Not because he abandoned responsibility. He accepted it.
Yet around him gather those who see opportunity in turbulence and advancement in uncertainty.
Shakespeare understood this truth better than most political commentators.
Ambition rarely arrives announcing itself as ambition.
It arrives dressed as concern.
As pragmatism.
As necessity.
As a "dignified handover".
But when the knives appear before the verdict, when succession is discussed before failure is proven, when power is divided before authority is surrendered, we should ask a simple question:
Is this really about the good of the kingdom?
Or the ambitions of those waiting to inherit it?
History is full of challengers.
It is much shorter on those willing to carry the burden of governing.
The tragedy of many Shakespeare plays is not that villains win.
It is that loyal men discover too late that loyalty was not returned.
#KeirStarmer #Labour #UKPolitics
That one of the other 3 is Oleg Deripaska is to state the bleeding obvious. Deripaska’s r’ships at highest echelons of British establishment has been a scandal in plain sight for years when he’s clearly an agent of Kremlin influence.
The other 2 are interesting but it feels like the Brit is the missing story here..
https://t.co/qBkZSI4hAw
The fourth man.
UK’s vetting agency claim Mandelson’s relationship with a British individual posed a national security threat. The Guardian named the other three (foreign nationals) but not the fourth man. Presumably because of defamation fears.
Answers on a postcard please.
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Shh! Don't tell anyone, ok?
He's just returned from the US after Trump pardoned him
And he's given Reform £4M
Shh!
Decent people won't vote for Ex-convicts sh!
Doesn't pay any tax in the UK because he ran away to the Tax Haven Singapore to escape the effects of the Brexit he helped create.
Then he bought up hundred of millions of pounds of farmland to avoid tax, then cried when it was made taxable.
James Dyson is a scumbag.
And THIS man is your patriot?
Trump insults our country
Our capital
Our troops
Tariffs us
Makes all of our lives more expensive
…and this little weasel suggests we “turn the other cheek”?