Mole Valley Politics

This is the Twitter account of a socialist living in Mole Valley. Follow for up-to-date news and information about national and local issues.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

In an interview with the Financial Times, Defence Secretary Wes Streeting says the UK military is providing “defensive” support to Saudi Arabia, insisting Britain does not want to “get embroiled in a war”.

But calling military support “defensive” does not absolve Britain of potential complicity in the killing of civilians in Yemen.

[Mole Valley Politics @MoleValleyLab]

Signed.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Sign the petition to stop the privatisation of the British Library.

At a time when public spaces are being fenced off for corporate interests, any attempt to privatise the British Library represents an attack on the public's right to accessible, free and communal spaces. https://t.co/DBFnezB0ne

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

Not content with killing and maiming countless Palestinian men, women, and children, razing their homes, and starving them to death, Israel is now deliberately flooding the tents in which they're sheltering. Yet Labour still supports Israel.
@skwawkbox

https://t.co/Eh0ckdkdQd

[Justintime @tykestakeonit]

LEST WE FORGET.
This multi millionaire war criminal took us into an illegal war and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.
AND HE'S STILL FREE.

[Mole Valley Politics @MoleValleyLab]

All talk …

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Yesterday, Ed Miliband vowed that the government “will not stand by” and “will not rest” until the suffering in Gaza ends.

Yet not a single arms export licence was revoked or suspended under his latest restrictions on Israel.

https://t.co/TGLZaQVKWo

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Cressida Dick working for Palantir raises the same concerns I’ve expressed about Tom Watson.

What does a company gain when it recruits a former Labour deputy leader or a former Metropolitan Police commissioner? Their experience, yes. But also their contacts, influence and the authority associated with the offices they held.

This ‘revolving door’ corrodes confidence in politics, public service generally and in institutions such as the police.

Read more here: https://t.co/36D0k5QD0R

@TBIJ

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thames Water asks creditors for more time to help repay £20bn debt pile.

Govt dither and delay to public ownership increasing debt, interest payments and customer bills.

Must enforce all laws, revoke TW licence to operate, bankrupt it, buy at low price.
https://t.co/t0FpRL72cx

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

Hey everyone! 👋 Resident doctors from Mersey have launched a *member-led open letter to the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges*, calling on its leadership to sound the alarm over Palantir's involvement in NHS England.

We're sounding the alarm and calling on our Royal Colleges to do the same!

✍️ *Please sign and share:*
https://t.co/v10RyVVTc1

*Open to all healthcare professionals, patients and members of the public!*

⚠️ *Don't forget to confirm your signature via email, otherwise it won't count!*

[Mole Valley Politics @MoleValleyLab]

Open Letter to Andy Burnham https://t.co/ustbBQpce6

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

This is just so, so, so bleak.

The development of big chunks of Burnham's much vaunted Ten Year Plan have been outsourced to the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's three biggest management consultancies.

Most recently, BCG was revealed to be a contractor in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the wretched private organisation that was created to deliver aid to Gaza after the destruction of UNWRA. You may remember the scenes of starving Gazans flooding into gated pens to get food, with civilians repeatedly sniped by the IDF. BCG were paid $1m/ month for their consulting work.

BCG also received $4m for Project Aurora - a plan for a reconstruction plan for Gaza. The plan included costing giving Gazans $9000 to leave the territory.

How is the government even considering contracting BCG considering this?

But BCG also partners with the world's biggest private equity firms. It is a massive, massive AI booster. It closely advises MBS in Saudi Arabia on its economic plans.

It is, in other words, precisely the sort of late-capitalist horror show that should have no role in helping a nominally socialist Party develop a 10-year development plan.

There is already so much worrying briefing on this plan, about how half-baked and thin it threatens to be. Now we know big parts are being outsourced to BCG, the more pressing concern is that it'll be some Tony Blair Institute-style neo-liberal spiel about the potential of tech and the need to liberate the market.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Only 6.4% of stroke survivors receive enough therapy.

Result of slave-like obedience to fiscal rules.

Opens the door to privatisations.

Fiscal rules suspended to rescue banks/businesses but not for saving lives.

People suffer but markets are appeased
https://t.co/ElyQD3LNdY

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Poundland's private equity owners extracted £18.3m in 17 months, bought for £1.

£8.6m interest, £3.8m store closure fees, £2.6m debt arrangement plus other fees.

PE has £22.5m secured loan, will get paid first. HMRC owed £97m. Trade creditors owed £127m.
https://t.co/HIQpNMGNz1

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

When the government first published Palantir’s contract, 417 out of its 586 pages were entirely blacked out. We took legal action and forced them to reveal crucial details about protecting personal data. Now, ministers are at it again.

We were in court this week: https://t.co/sJCDRQdlwh

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in Israeli operations in Gaza

At 100,000 signatures, Parliament will have to debate this petition.

Please SIGN and RETWEET 👇

https://t.co/oRimHqaMqj

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

WATCH: The pro-Israel media exposed

Francesca Albanese spoke to Declassified about how Western media have covered Israel’s genocide in Gaza, singling out the BBC for its dehumanisation of Palestinians and amplification of Israeli narratives.

👉 https://t.co/UdiDzaCWpl

[Stop the War Coalition @STWuk]

Good to see UK ports joining in the International Day of Action Against War and Genocide!

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

Essential work

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Budget continues with the freeze on tax personal allowance, £12570 since 2021.

Fiscal drag increased tax on the less well-off.

In 2026-27, a minimum wage earner would pay extra £980 in income tax & NIC.

£1,137 in 2027-28.

Cost of appeasing the rich.
https://t.co/NTUtsrnpfM

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

I Just Left the West Bank: What Israel is Planning is TERRIFYING @OborneTweets

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

WATCH: Michael Gove had a furious meltdown when we asked about his position on Israel👇

https://t.co/LNzjClZuv2…