Red Yorkshire

FCUM Co-Owner. Left-Wing. Anti-Labour, NOT because I'm on the same side as the Tories, but because THEY are.

[Red Yorkshire @RedYorkshire1]

@SCFCJosh96 Without a doubt, we are about to see the election of The Last Labour Government. Ever.

[Red Yorkshire @RedYorkshire1]

@SocialistAct No, it's a poor and weak argument. It assumes there is a set pot of money and if one sector gets it another must get less. That is both incorrect and dangerous, since eventually you end up supporting benefit cuts in order to spend more on education etc.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

TWO WEAPONS EXPERTS DOUBTED THE DOSSIER. ONE IS DEAD. ONE SPENT YEARS TESTIFYING TO NOBODY

Dr Brian Jones worked for British military intelligence. His job was simple. Know everything about chemical and biological weapons so the government does not get it wrong.

In 2002 the government wrote a dossier claiming Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Jones read it and said the wording was too strong. He put his concerns in writing to his boss, a man called Tony Cragg.

The dossier claimed Iraq could fire chemical weapons within 45 minutes of an order. Jones said that claim needed a serious health warning attached to it.

Nobody listened. The man above Cragg, Air Marshal Sir Joe French, did not act on it. The dossier went out exactly as written on 24 September 2002. Parliament voted for war using that dossier as evidence..

Years before any of this, Jones had worked closely with another weapons expert named David Kelly.

They debriefed a Russian defector together about chemical weapons. They were not strangers. They were colleagues.

In May 2003 Kelly spoke to BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan @mragilligan. He told him the dossier had been changed at the last minute to sound scarier.

The 45 minute claim was his prime example. Once the story broke, the government identified Kelly as the source. He was dragged in front of a parliamentary committee.

Weeks later he was found dead.

An official inquiry, the Hutton Inquiry, was launched to find out what happened. It concluded Kelly took his own life. Some doctors and MPs have questioned that conclusion ever since and have asked for it to be looked at again.

Jones gave evidence to that inquiry, and later to two more inquiries that followed.

No weapons of mass destruction were ever found in Iraq.

So two intelligence experts raised the exact same warning about the exact same dossier.

One ended up dead under circumstances people still argue about. The other spent years repeating himself to inquiry after inquiry while the war went ahead regardless.

Strange how the only two people who actually knew what they were talking about were the two nobody wanted to hear from.

Sources: @mragilligan @guardiannews @Independent @BBCNews

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Its 36 years since one of the most famous deceptions in history.

A deception the US deep state invented to justify the bloody first invasion of Iraq.

"Kuwaiti girl" Naira tearfully testified before the US Congress in October 1990, where she claimed to have witnessed horrific scenes in one of Kuwait's hospitals

"Iraqi soldiers stormed the hospital, threw newborn babies out of incubators, and left them to die on the cold floor!"

The story pushed the country to war. US senators passed a resolution to invade Iraq by a margin of five votes. Seven of them believed the girl's words.

Two months before the testimony, 17% of Americans supported US involvement in the conflict. Two months later, nearly half of Americans believed military intervention was necessary.

After the war ended, it was revealed that Naira was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, and her story was fabricated by the PR agency Hill & Knowlton, hired by the Kuwaiti government. During the first Iraq war over 135,000 Iraqis were killed.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Metro Mayor Rotheram signed off on the Liverpool Freeport. Labour MPs, Lords and Baronesses sit on freeport boards from Teesside to the Firth of Forth.

The pattern is consistent: public opposition, private participation.
Blackstone didn't wait for an invitation.
In 2023 it acquired roughly 7 million sq ft of Greater Manchester industrial space, including major holdings at Trafford Park, for around £480 million.
It became the dominant landlord inside one of the zone's most strategically significant areas.

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

The story of Peter Mandelson and his close friend James Purnell fixing the selection of Labour’s now Chief Whip Jonathan Reynolds for Purnell’s old Stalybridge and Hyde seat when Purnell stood down in 2010 repays some analysis now https://t.co/Y8JZcy64lT

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

And in case there is any confusion between who Blackrock and Blackstone are.
BlackRock came out of Blackstone.
BlackRock is now a formal partner of the Starmer government, with 80% stakes in three UK Freeports. So you have the parent company's spinout embedded in the current government's zone architecture, while the parent company itself owns the land inside Manchester's zone.
Two branches of the same tree, both positioned to benefit from the same public policy framework.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Excoriating analysis of Starmer’s downfall, and the Labour right from @DoubleDownNews
There’s Morgan McSweeney’s stated goal of ‘picking up the Labour Party and smashing it’s head open’
The inevitable continuation of Blair’s schmoozing with corporate donors exemplified by Starmer’s government partnership with Blackrock.
Starmer proved he was a colourless careerist, whose focus was on ratcheting up another deadly round of antisemitism to bolster the sale of UK sovereignty to the far right supremacist Israeli regime.
Beware, Andy Burnham is a shapeshifter, he will continue with the same personnel, the same neoliberal orthodoxy, and the same despicable backing of Zionism.
Britain deserves better.
Must watch video👀
https://t.co/tiX1yjauqy

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Why are there so many Freeports and SEZs being set up across England, Scotland, and Wales?

The Govt wants to do away with centralized powers by handing them over to private small states run under corporate governance to further super-concentrate wealth accumulation.
Big Govt is being hollowed out by both Cons and Labour to facilitate the transfer of powers to those running the zones. Tax exemption is the cherry on top within these privately protected jurisdictions.
Please read, share and subscribe to my Substack where I expose the duopoly’s plans to carve up the UK into corporate governed free zones

https://t.co/KvfbSxIrX7

[The Heartlands Tribune @Labourheartland]

The Darlington Nurses Won: The Unions Should Hang Their Heads

An NHS trust has paid out £187,000, apologised, and torn up its policy. But the real scandal is that the women who forced this victory had to win it alone, abandoned by the very unions that took their dues.

This is not just a payout. It is a warning shot.
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has paid £187,000 in damages, issued a formal apology, withdrawn its “Transitioning in the Workplace” policy, and agreed to provide changing, washing and toilet facilities separated between biological men and biological women. It has also agreed to retrain its managers so the discrimination and harassment the tribunal found can never happen again.

That settlement followed the landmark ruling in January 2026, when Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney found that the Trust had unlawfully harassed and discriminated against its own nurses by forcing them to share a female changing room with a biological male colleague who identifies as a woman. The judge’s words were unsparing: the Trust’s conduct had “the effect of violating the dignity” of the women and creating “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment.”

Seven nurses won this: Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Karen Danson, Tracy Hooper, Annice Grundy, Carly Hoy and Jane Peveller. They stood their ground when they should never have had to. They have been called the Angels of the North, and compared to the Ford Dagenham machinists who struck for equal pay in 1968. The comparison is apt for one reason above all others: like the women of Dagenham, they won despite the labour movement, not because of it.

They asked for dignity, privacy and safety at work. They were ignored…

@DarlingtonUnion
@RosieDuffield1
@Jonathan_Hinder
@Rebecca_SPaul
@LabWomenDec
@AllianceLGB
@SexMattersOrg

Read more...
https://t.co/cFDxZ6ifjz

#Womensrightsmatter

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

The first government in British history to pay NHS trusts to remove patients from waiting lists was Labour under Starmer and Streeting.

They offered a £33 bounty per extra patient. That's an estimated £32.5 million for almost 986,000 extra patients removed in a single year.

Patients were removed if they did not respond to texts or letters— even if they never received them. Deadlines as short as 72 hours. Some were removed for being pregnant, after 'clock resets' of lists, or after 'not attending' appointments that were never sent.

This is the 'fastest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years' Starmer is boasting about.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

❗️ Pro-Israel lobby groups have flown British MPs to Israel at least 67 times since the Gaza genocide started in October 2023.

https://t.co/EvKGwyC7FG

[Workers Party of Britain @WorkersPartyGB]

We hope that Dennis is enjoying life after Labour threw him and his seat under the bus after the party's suicidal "People's Vote" manoeuvrings.

A life long socialist, he served the people of Bolsover with distinction for 49 YEARS as their MP.

A giant of a man compared to the pigmies in British parliament today.

[Socialist Labour Party @soclp_uk]

“Last year it was a prophecy, it was a projection; this year tragically it is a fact. You do not have to listen to me. On television recently it was explained by Ken Livingstone that they did not want to change society but merely ensure that it ran more efficiently under New Labour than it did under the Conservatives. There are those who even now believe in their hearts that after a short period of time the new Labour Government will suddenly change its position, cast off the cloak and begin to operate policies that epitomise what we as a Trade Union Movement want to see. They suggest, for example, there is a third way. There is no third way, but there are only two ways. You can either collaborate, cooperate or be subservient, and that means operating within the confines of the system and with those words I think I am echoing the sentiments of the General Secretary of the Northumberland Miners who spoke so brilliantly just over two weeks ago; or alternatively you resist and you fight back, you do not allow any government, whatever its complexion, to dictate policies that you know in your heart and in your mind are wrong.”
Arthur Scargill July, 1998.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

On the British left ONLY the @WorkersPartyGB has had ANY electoral success since its formation. There are NO communists elected in local government. NO Trotskyists either. Despite thousands of tries. We have 8 elected councillors- doubled in the last few months. We knocked out the leader of Birmingham city council and the deputy leader of Manchester. We won a parliamentary by election and came a close second in three parliamentary seats. Sneering avoidance of these facts is not forgetfulness @LeftFootFwd It is falsification.

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

Ah Workfare Purnell. Created in a laboratory fusing the DNA of Tony Blair and a lanyard. PPE Balliol, former chairman of Labour Friends of Israel, found Brown too left wing, questionable ethics at the BBC, CEO of lobbying firm. Now you know why Burnham has had an easy accession.

[Red Yorkshire @RedYorkshire1]

@Red19902431 @mark_robinson_ Surely it's also key that the proposed stadium is not being built for the benefit of match-going fans but to maximise financial extraction by the owners by any means possible, including at the expense of the fans where necessary.

[Red Yorkshire @RedYorkshire1]

@lyncey_gilbe Go and sit in a typical school classroom for a couple of hours. Fucking moron.

[Red Yorkshire @RedYorkshire1]

@NeilClark66 There is zero doubt that Burnham will be no better than Starmer.
They were both manoeuvred into place by the same actors.
If they wanted a different direction they would have just instructed Starmer to take it.
You'd have to be spectacularly gullible to fall for this theatre.

[Red Yorkshire @RedYorkshire1]

@Jonathan_K_Cook After the breakthrough of the Greens in the 80s, the parasite class shifted responsibility from Govt and businesses to individuals.
The solution was sold as using Ecover washing powder instead of dismantling the culture of imperative consumption.
Defeat of the Left locked that in