Stanisław W. K.

[Stanisław W. K. @StanKrakow]

Good riddance to Labour’s worst leader/Morning Star.

https://t.co/8FI5Cdt4Er

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Abolish the House of Lords.

[Peter Shearer @shearernorthern]

The treatment of Greta Thunberg is yet another example of how anyone posing a real threat to the Establishment gets treated. She was the apple of their eye until she challenged power. Contrast that with Burnham and you have your answer!

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

Starmer is gone. Good riddance, and close the door behind you. But what followed should trouble anyone who still cares about democracy.

After Labour’s disastrous local elections, we were told there would be a leadership contest. Contenders began jockeying for position. Then Labour manufactured a by-election to parachute Andy Burnham into Westminster.

Even then, we were told it was merely the route into a proper contest. Funny how the other contenders stood down the moment Burnham was elected.

Now he walks into No 10 uncontested. No hustings. No public debate. No detailed plan for change. More than 400 Labour MPs sit in Parliament, yet the party had to bring in the Mayor of Manchester because none of them had the confidence or support to lead the country. That is an indictment in itself.

Burnham keeps promising change, but change from what, and towards what? A politician cannot be held to promises he has never clearly made.

This is a coronation without scrutiny. Why are we simply standing back and watching it happen?

More than 400 Labour MPs, yet the party had to manufacture a by-election and bring in Andy Burnham. What does that say about the parliamentary Labour Party?

#AndyBurnham

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“Five minutes after birth, they decide your name, religion, nationality and sect. And you spend the rest of your life defending what you did not choose.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[Peter Shearer @shearernorthern]

The left were right about Corbyn, right about Starmer and now are telling the world Burnham is not the answer. Why not just put the left in charge and save us all the wasted time!

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

It was Shabana Mahmood, the UK's home secretary, who incautiously gave clearest expression to the British state’s vision of our future.

In a speech in January she laid out her ambition to harness new developments in AI to create an all-powerful, all-seeing “Big Brother” surveillance state of the kind foretold by George Orwell in his dystopian novel 1984.

Mahmood even compared this future to the “panopticon” – a reference to 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s perfect prison: a central watchtower (the state) surrounded by a circle of windowed cells where the inmates (the public) would be visible at all times.

Bentham understood that this was not just about physical control. As he observed, the sense of being constantly observed would be a “new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind”. The inmates would police their own behaviour to avoid punishment.

Starmer’s successor, Andy Burnham, is reportedly keen to keep Mahmood a key figure in his government. But this isn’t about a single government minister.

Mahmood is the symptom of a deeper malaise, not its cause. The architecture of the new systems of control, as well as the erosion of freedoms and the cultural traditions that supported them, were already well advanced when she was appointed to the Home Office.

Whoever holds the reins of power in the months and years to come will be able to exploit these existing powers to the maximum, and then extend them further.

Once the spirit of authoritarianism takes hold, it becomes ever harder to stuff it back into the box. Only concerted mass protest can remind the state where ultimate power resides. And it is precisely this kind of protest that is being demonised and criminalised one step at a time.

This is an extract from my latest article Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[Briefcase Michael @BriefcaseMike]

Spectator's Noa Hoffman said 'no party can claim the moral mantelpiece'.
I think she meant 'moral mantle'.
To be fair, she did used to work for The Sun. #PoliticsLive

[Peter Shearer @shearernorthern]

So Starmer lied his way into Labour, into Prime Minister, and now lies his way out! What a charlatan. What a coward. And the supine MPs give him a round of applause for squandering a massive majority!

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Voters firmly rejected The Labour Party in the May local elections - which caused Starmer to be shafted by his Party.

Since then - are you more or less likely to vote for a candidate whose Labour Party still supports GENOCIDE?

[Deep philosophy @DeepPhilo_HQ]

"He who sees too much, end up not fitting in anywhere."

- Nietzsche

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Has Yvette Cooper been 'too slow' to resign?

Please RT after voting - thank you.

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

"The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.”

— Chinese proverb

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

"Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them."

— Jean Cocteau

[Ben Jamal @BenJamal48]

The first Prime Minister in UK history to resign because his Premiership was a rip roaring success.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

ICYMI, failed UK Prime Minister and charisma vacuum Sir Keir Starmer in his last days in office:

‘I’m proud to leave this country in a better place than I found it.’

In other news, the Captain of the Titanic says he’s proud of how smoothly the voyage went.

[Naila Ayad🇵🇸 @Naila_Ayad]

Do you agree?

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"One of the gravest defects of religion is the fact that it can be used to keep the poor contented with their lot, which is very convenient for the rich."

— Bertrand Russell