Loosefish

Bangor, Gwynedd based band. No longer active.

[Maggs @MaggsLondonGirl]

I think this sums up the perfectly the direction of travel our country is heading 😭 or should I say we've already arrived . 😭 #authoritarianregime @BBCNews @SkyNews @itvnews @Channel4News any MSM reporting on the threats to our democracy? That would be a No then?

[Jen Wood - est optimum simpliciter @unojen_wood]

The Govt is obsessed with people being in work so they get forced into a job, come off benefits but do not earn a living wage becuase their employer refuses to pay one, so have to - claim benefits.
The 'benefits bill' will in no way go down, in fact it will probably go up.

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

All of those things are illegal. All of those things have laws which make them illegal. All of those things were put before a jury - in some cases twice. The jury convicted on all of those things.
The sentencing judge, after the jury had convicted under the relevant laws, decided he was going to chuck in "terrorism" for good measure, just cos.
Are you really so stupid as to not see how wrong it is to do that? Or should people be sentenced according to what judges have decided they have done rather than what they have been charged and convicted for?

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Keir Starmer's Labour Party love banging on about 'change' don't they?
Well, now they are trying to change their stories as the tidal wave of truth wipes them out.
The Labour Party's quislings (and there are a lot of them) are trying to revise their complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians.
To each and every one of you, we will never forget what you did, we will remind you of what you did til your dying days, and beyond that, your families will be reminded as well.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Emily Thornberry has today said the government has let down the Palestinian people, and allowed Israel to act with impunity.

The audacity.

Here she is in October 2023 refusing to condemn Israel cutting off power and supplies to Gaza.

Don’t let these people rewrite history.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Tony Blair could have lived a quiet life as a retired war criminal but instead he feels compelled to pop up from time to time to remind everyone how evil he is, just to feel like he’s still relevant.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The establishment refuses to learn anything. Nearly 20 years after the financial crash of 2008, the generation that grew up in its shadow is now being punished by the system that promised them success if they simply followed the rulebook. Meanwhile, the architects of this crisis, like Mandelson, are rewarded with money, power and status. There is something very wrong with this county.
https://t.co/ydUvPsEHkC

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

Absolutely.
To paraphrase Frankie Boyle:
Blair is perfectly entitled to his opinion. I just happen to think he should be giving it from the Dock in The Hague.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

What the information below shows is that Josh Simons lied to the public repeatedly when trying pathetically to defend himself from his appalling activities on behalf of Keir Starmer. If @AndyBurnhamGM utilises Simons in any role whatsoever it will be a clear signal that Burnham is no different to Starmer: mendacious, dishonest & bent. We can but hope!

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

Joint Statement: Paul Holden and Andrew Feinstein Regarding Labour Together, APCO and the Labour Party

On Wednesday last week we received documents from Labour Together following Subject Access Requests that we submitted to Labour Together in February 2026. The documents provided by Labour Together are deeply disturbing.

They show that Labour Together and APCO targeted us, our colleagues, our associates and Paul’s family with utterly false and highly defamatory allegations, and that this was done with the knowledge of the highest levels of the Labour Party. Indeed, we are now of the view that the operation to investigate us, our families and associates was effectively a joint operation run by the Labour Party, Labour Together and APCO.

This highly invasive campaign was launched because of Paul’s factually accurate reporting. This reporting raised serious questions about whether Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney deliberately failed to report £730,000 in donations to the Electoral Commission in violation of the law. It is now plain that Sir Keir Starmer benefited from the work funded by these donations and that they facilitated his rise to power.

We are calling for a full inquiry into Labour Together.

We also call on Sir Keir Starmer to clarify his role in this scandal. Considering the documents that have been disclosed to date, we find it nearly inconceivable that Sir Keir Starmer did not know about this despicable project that included Labour Together reporting us to the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, based on utterly false and highly defamatory allegations. These highly defamatory allegations were then shared with at least one major newspaper outlet.

The newly released documents reveal six important facts.

First, they show that Morgan McSweeney and Paul Ovenden were aware of the APCO and Labour Together investigation into us from at least January 2024. McSweeney was the Labour Party’s head of campaigns and subsequently Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff in Number 10. Paul Ovenden was the Director of Labour Party communications and subsequently Head of Strategy in Number 10.

The emails show Simons arranging a meeting between himself, Ovenden, McSweeney and Tom Harper, a senior APCO employee, to discuss the investigation into us. A third Labour employee was copied into the email, but, because of redactions, we do not know who this is. We ask the Labour Party to confirm who else was copied into this correspondence.

The excellent @PeterKGeoghegan and Democracy for Sale have confirmed with a Labour Party source that the intended meeting did take place.

Second, they show that APCO’s Tom Harper actively coached Josh Simons and Labour Together on how to submit a ‘crime complaint’ about us to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ. Harper provided text for Simons to submit to the NCSC. The decision to complain about us to the NCSC was made only days after Simons had emailed McSweeney, Ovenden and Harper about APCO’s upcoming report into us, asking for a meeting to discuss its contents.

Third, Josh Simons has repeatedly claimed in public that he appointed APCO to investigate a ‘hack’ of Labour Together materials. But the new documents show that Labour Together and Simons did not conduct any meaningful cybersecurity review to establish whether materials had been hacked from Labour Together, or where else they may have been sourced from.

Labour Together did, however, appoint a cybersecurity expert to review a potential hack in late 2025. This review, a summary of which has now been disclosed to us, shows that there was no ‘hack’ of Labour Together. This is obviously true, as we have repeatedly explained that the investigation into Labour Together was based on documents legally leaked from the Labour Party by whistleblowers concerned about misconduct by the Party’s most senior officials, open-source materials, and Freedom of Information requests.

Fourth, they show that Josh Simons and Labour Together told the NCSC that they were reporting us because they were concerned that Paul’s reporting ‘may be a co-ordinated effort to discredit Labour Together in order to undermine Mr McSweeney and by extension, Mr. Starmer in the run-up to next year’s general election.’ It is our view that this joint Labour Together, Labour Party and APCO operation was launched because Paul’s factually accurate reporting would have shed light on the highly problematic and unlawful aspects of Sir Keir Starmer’s rise to power.

Fifth, they show that APCO had sent a ‘case summary’ to Josh Simons of Labour Together on the 20th of November 2020, on the basis of which APCO were contracted by Labour Together two days later. The ‘case summary’, setting out a proposed scope of work, clearly identified us as journalists. From the very beginning, therefore, APCO and Labour Together knew that they were looking to investigate journalists – the very journalists who were reporting accurately on Labour Together, Morgan McSweeney and undeclared donations.

Sixth, they show that Simons wrote to an unknown person at the Labour Party in November 2023 asking for ‘intel’ on us. This shows that Simons’ immediate response to announcement of Paul’s book was to seek the assistance of the Labour Party. At the time, we were both Labour Party members. The reply to Simons’ request has been redacted in our documents. We call on the Labour Party to release all documents to us relevant to this scandal, and to confirm whether Josh Simons, Labour Together or APCO were provided with any of our private, personal information.

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

BREAKING: Man optimistic he can replace hated prime minister and win over the public by doing the exact same policies, but in a Mancunian accent ♥️

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

The case against @JeremyCorbyn was explicitly electoral: poor results, damage to Labour’s standing, diminished prospects in key seats.

That was the principle established by the NEC.

So either the same standard now applies to @Keir_Starmer after the local elections, or it was never really a principle at all. 🧐

@DPJHodges @adamboultonTABB @PippaCrerar @jessicaelgot @bbclaurak @SamCoatesSky @ChrisMasonBBC @ShabanaMahmood @labourwhips

[Laura Pidcock @LauraPidcock]

Who the next Labour leader will be is inconsequential. Why? Because even though the hopefuls will cynically talk ‘left’, appeal for unity and talk about working class communities, none of them will challenge capital-a necessity to make even the most moderate changes we so desperately need.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

My prediction is that, if he does become prime minister, within two years Starmer will have become the most unpopular prime minister in modern British history.

[ian westell 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😃 @ianwestell]

Labour burned the party to the ground to remove Corbyn.
Starmer’s only ever been an illusion of stability built on a quicksand of Labour apparatchik and MSM lies.
The slightest pressure and the whole stinking cabal sink.
The left predicted this.
But we were shut out.

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

The Demise of the Labour Party: Tony Benn’s Warning Fulfilled.

The Betrayal of Socialist Principles: Tony Benn’s Prescient Warning for the Fate of the Labour Party

“If the Labour Party could be bullied or persuaded to denounce its Marxists, the media – having tasted blood – would demand next that it expelled all its Socialist and reunited the remaining Labour Party with the SDP to form a harmless alternative to the Conservatives, which could then be allowed to take office now and then when the Conservatives fell out of favour with the public. Thus British Capitalism, it is argued, will be made safe forever, and socialism would be squeezed off the National agenda. But if such a strategy were to succeed… it would in fact profoundly endanger British society. For it would open up the danger of a swing to the far-right, as we have seen in Europe over the last 50 years.” -Tony Benn

Read more...

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#StarmerOut

[Donahue Rogers @DonahueRogers]

“We don’t do hostile takeovers in the Labour Party, it’s not what we’re about”

Lucy Powell, Labour Deputy Leader, 9th May 2026

The right wing "Chicken coup" against Jeremy Corbyn began on 26th June 2016, with Cabinet ministers resigning hourly according to a pre-arranged timetable leading up to a vote of 'no confidence' on 28th

Lucy Powell, then Shadow Education Secretary, was in the first group, resigning her Cabinet position at 1.01 pm on 26th June 2016

[Shockat Adam MP @ShockatAdam]

After a seismic election defeat, Starmer still says "we got the big political decisions right."

Was it right to mimic Reform's playbook and demonise minorities, dragging Britain into Farage's arms?

Was it right to sell weapons to fuel bloodshed, making us complicit in genocide?

Was it right to balance the books on the backs of the most vulnerable - pensioners, disabled people and children - while protecting the wealthiest?

Those ‘right decisions’ have devastated ordinary lives.

That is Starmer's record. Rejected at the ballot box and won't be forgotten at the next election.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Keir Starmer’s speech in a nutshell:

1. Anyone who criticises me is dangerous and wrong
2. I’m right. You just don’t realise it yet.
3. I will cling on to power. I’ll work even harder doing the same crap things and nothing will change.
4. I have no vision, just empty rhetoric.