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[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

@JewishLabour @politicshome How many 'unlawful acts of harassment', and what were they, Ella?
Do you know?
I do, because I've checked the facts.
It was two (2).
One a correct statement about German history, the other a correct statement about fraudulent claims of 'antisemitism'.
Try again.
#ItWasAScam

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed.

He got a list.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

URGENT! For any country where (from Italy to Thailand or Brazil) possible war criminals go on holiday and R&R. 🇮🇱 soldiers must be investigated, evidence assessed, and responsibility determined through DUE PROCESS.

This is not incitement to commit violence. It is accountability.

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

Nothing to see here……

[Alvaro Berro @alvarofberro]

🚨 #ULTIMAHORA preocupación por el estado de salud mental de Edward Norton. Se le ha visto desorientado hablando solo durante el USA-Turquía en el estadio de los Ángeles.

[Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo]

Unbelievable.
Both men found with child abuse images on their devices.
Both found a patsy to take the blame!

What does @andyburnham think he is doing?

[The National @ScotNational]

History will remember him as the unremarkable former human rights lawyer who offered carte blanche to the gravest crimes of our age – and did so against the expressed wishes of the British people. Good riddance, Sir Keir, writes Coll McCail ✍️

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

Like lots of people, I don't want to pre-judge a Burnham government. But appointing Purnell - the CEO of Flint Global - as his Chief of Staff is dispiriting. It appears no lessons have been learnt.

At the most basic level this is a good governance and conflict-of-interest disaster. Burnham has appointed a CEO of lobbying and advisory firm into the heart of Number 10 - a firm that already acts as a revolving door between business and government.

It effectively means that Burnham's government operation is now conflicted whenever it deals with a matter that touches on the interests of Flint Global's clients. Flint's clients are not publicly listed but have been reported to include Amazon, Meta and Uber.

The government might look to mitigate any conflicts, but that won't cure public perception. I'm not sure anyone will be mollified by undertakings of mitigation following the revelations that Starmer was having unminuted meetings with Palantir in the company of Peter Mandelson. And if mitigations are put in place, it means that Burnham's Chief of Staff can't be involved in all sorts of key aspects of government policy.

Flint Global advises across a whole range of sectors, including on defence. This has has already produced serious questions about good governance. Only last year it was revealed by DeClassified, Democracy For Sale and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism that James Clark, who leads Flint's 'Defence Advisory Practice', was also the secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Defence Technology. That APPG was temporarily shut down after it was revealed its secretariat had been funded by a British subsidiary of Israeli arms firm Rafael. Clark was a Tory candidate in the 2024 election.

His own LinkedIn shows that Clark was a special advisor to Defence Minister Grant Shapps between October 2023 and July 2024 and that he gave 'expert advice' on 'various crisis events including... Gaza.' So he was advising Grant Shapps as the UK was giving near-unstinting support to Israel's 'plausibly genocidal' assault in the Gaza strip.

Is it fair to link Burnham and Purnell to what Shapps did on Gaza via Clark? Maybe not. But that link will be made in the mind of the public anyway, and that is always the cost of appointing figures like Purnell into government.

Can the Labour Party, for once, just appoint people who aren't lobbyists? How bare is the cupboard that this is the best option?

[The Agitator @Agitate4Change]

@DeborahMeaden You can’t find a decent war criminal these days.

Woke gone mad 🙄

Have you done one with “integrity” too, Debs - as per the briefing?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff.

He supported Iraq invasion; ex chair of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants.

Next?
https://t.co/8Cnj0hIu62

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

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"

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

Starmer claiming he inherited a Labour Party that was ‘politically, financially and morally bankrupt’ in his resignation speech is a perfect snapshot of his tenure.

He used the party to settle factional scores, rather than delivering the transformative change people voted for.

[Faiza Shaheen @faizashaheen]

Starmer’s Labour spent its time and energy in the lead up to the 2024 election harassing people like me and destroying the left in the party rather than focusing on policy and a clear vision for change. This is the consequence of that immoral and factional project.

I hope for all of us that whatever comes now finally moves this country - and the Labour Party - in the right direction. Otherwise that Reform/ Reform-Tory coalition gov is inevitable.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Zack Polanski isn't holding back on Starmer.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Absolutely chief. Let’s fucking go…

[Redbridge Independents @RedbridgeIndys]

STARMER: This image perfectly. sum up Keir Starmer and his relationship with the Epstein class. He was their inside man!

A deeply dishonest and fraudulent man. He deserves nothing less than the abject humiliation he suffered today.

[Wheelz @MBWheelz]

@DeborahMeaden @wesstreeting @AndrewMarr9 What's disappointing is your continued support for a labour leader that lied his way to the top, backs a genocide and continues with austerity lite, whilst allowing a friend of the most famous paedo in history to do deals with palantir. Support this, your credibility suffers.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

Paul Ovenden getting the 'antisemitism crisis' fraud in, with, of course, no challenge from @bbclaurak.
Ending the 'antisemitism crisis' will be touted repeatedly in coming weeks as Starmer's 'legacy'.
That it never happened will not trouble our media at all.
#ItWasAScam

[Wheelz @MBWheelz]

@DeborahMeaden @YeomanRuth @johnmcdonnellMP @pete_sinclair Capable at lieing and hiding his donors, not capable of being a democratic socialist. He isn't delivering the change he was voted in to deliver as a leader. He also may have led the party to a win but it was the Tories that collapsed, a gimp wearing a red rosette would have won.