These two points from Burnham’s speech outside Downing Street are crucial in signalling to the establishment that little will change:
“…to meet our fiscal rules and to honour our commitments on defence to our international partners.”
Amid all the pomp and ceremony surrounding the transfer of power from Starmer to Burnham, and the talk of hope and change, there are exactly the same set of struggles on our hands today as there were yesterday.
With every fibre in my body i swear that I have only ever tried to be my dad's voice when it comes to his death.
I have never ever had an agenda, I refute the allegations being made about me by others that I am "earning money off the back of 97 dead" its vile, and I honestly can not take any more of this pile on.
It's relentless, it's libellous, it's nasty and it has tipped me over the edge.
I can not keep saying how grateful I am to all those who fought a battle that I know nothing about.
But I equally can not continue to pretend that this isnt happening to me.
I have only ever wanted to help my mum find out what happened to my dad because she never bad the strength to do it.
Now im accused of making money off the dead, using the 97 to gain a career, and making the campaign all about myself.
Its absolutely devastating and its making me ill.
Ex Labour right MP Ben Bradshaw, who was a minister in Tony Blairs govt & an unrepentant supporter of the Iraq War, who served on the racist Islamophobic Henry Jackson Society & was an enthusiastic backer of Keir Starmer, says Andy Burnham will do a very effective job as PM.
@Kboy12P Presumably the feeling of betrayal felt by party members when Starmer reneged on each of his pledges when running for the leadership is to be discounted. Right?
EXC from @MarkKleinmanSky
Varun Chandra - Sir Keir Starmer's top business adviser - is to stay in Downing Street during the premiership of Andy Burnham, as the incoming prime minister strives for continuity in key policy areas.
Sir Keir's chief business, investment and trade adviser, has agreed to continue in the role when Mr Burnham replaces Sir Keir next week.
Mr Chandra, a former boss of the corporate intelligence firm Hakluyt who came into Number 10 after Sir Keir's appointment, also acts as the PM's special envoy to the US on trade and investment.
He has played a key role in negotiations with Washington over President Trump's shifting tariffs regime over the last year, and is also said by private sector executives to have been heavily involved in key decisions on economic and business policy.
A Downing Street spokesman declined to comment, while Mr Chandra could not be
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I’m told that in cabinet this morning from someone in the room that PM spoke “really movingly” when this he received the carriage clock. Apparently, his Dad loved clocks and had loads of them - they were his biggest love after his family - and that fed back to his tool-making & love of precision. I’m told he got a standing ovation and the mood was emotional
Collins: You've been bombing Iran for months now. Is this just the new normal for the American people?
Trump: Well, you know, we were in Vietnam for 19 years…
"They could not stop you from looking at Palestine, so they bought the screen you were looking through."
How the western ruling class and the Zionist lobby spent $14 billion to take back control of our minds:
UK's Andy Burnham:
The unbearable suffering in Gaza is a scar on our collective conscience.
It's completely unacceptable that innocent Palestinians, including children, continue to be killed.
We've got to do more to put pressure on the Israeli government.
Trump: "Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. I'd like to cut it off. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. Cut off all trade with Spain, please. Including visits. We don't want anything to do. They're hopeless. Bad people."
“They're being killed and you’re staying silent.”
After his team lost to Argentina in the World Cup, Egypt coach Hossam Hassan called out the mainstream media for ignoring the genocide in Gaza.
His comments come after he had told another press conference on Monday that the suffering of Palestinians was a “shame on the world” - and dedicated his win against Australia to the people of Palestine.
A few days ago, Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh said these words to his lawyer: “This is the last time you will see me...they brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end”.
This man is a paediatrician.
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@Clivee1965@paulwellerHQ You clearly didn’t listen to the lyrics in the old Jam songs, did you? You remind me of those Americans who punch the air to Born in the USA, hearing only the chorus & not the verses.
The Green Party surge is in large part down to pro-Palestine movement
If they allow Zionists within the party to exert control, the whole project will go up in flames
We’ve seen this before. It’s suicide
Zionists destroy everything they touch
I left Your Party earlier this year but I’ve never entertained any illusions about the Greens. Polanski was always going to face the same forces that ultimately brought Corbyn down. Perhaps Polanski will win this battle but I’m not optimistic.
My earlier tweet about this interview quoted Caroline Lucas as saying the Greens must find a less “toxic” way of criticising the Israeli government. I’ve deleted it to be more specific and accurate. She was talking about the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion, which she said “caused a lot of concern among people across the party, in the sense that there are many different versions of Zionism”, added that she hoped “if it does come back… we have a much less divisive motion” and went on to say that “it’s up to the party to decide what it’s going to discuss, but I just hope it’s done in a way that’s less toxic than it was before”:
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