Chris Taylor

IT consultant/developer, engineer, designer, artist, guitarist, traveller, vegan, aikidoka, stargazer, living life with passion.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Journalist Paul Holden tells the astonishing story of a real-life conspiracy: how a tiny group of the super-rich secretly groomed Starmer for power through a law-breaking think tank, Labour Together.

The same actors are now cosying up to Andy Burnham: https://t.co/quFMZbR2J1

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

[Chris Taylor @chris6770]

@xKnowledgeBANK Except that's not what happened, Noah. He sold Tesla stock in three large tranches in 2022, to raise capital for his part of the purchase, at the worst time for interest rates , and paid 53% tax , over eleven billion dollars. I'd say the state got its money on that one.

[Chris Taylor @chris6770]

Even his resignation sounds boring & dishonest. Sadly, his authoritarian streak is not. Will Burnham be more of the same? Forced IDs as part of a digital cage on free speech, protest surpression, economic gatekeeping, even CBDCs. The UK is in a very dangerous position.

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

Sir Keir Starmer has announced he will step down as Prime Minister and Labour leader.

The PM said he will remain in office until a successor is chosen, with a leadership contest expected in the coming weeks. Andy Burnham is among the names being tipped to replace him.

#politics #starmer #labour

[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"

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Io e l’Italia non imploriamo mai.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

⚠️WARNING - Twins of Evil: Free Zones and Data Centres. The devastating components of 'second empire building in post-Brexit UK.
The UK's data centre boom is the largest peacetime seizure of community land and energy resources in modern British history.
Most people living in its path don't know it's happening.
Please read, share and subscribe to my Substack.
Zone Fever is spreading across England, Scotland, and Wales, initiated by the Tories, signed off, and now expanded under Keir Starmer's changed Labour Party
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https://t.co/x4JZPhe43l

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Labour government are trying to create a digital prison for the entire British population with the government as the prison wardens. No one voted for this.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

👁️5 things the Government won't tell you about Starmer's Great British Firewall

If we accept digital ID checkpoints for social media access, we will only be handing the next generation a new fight for liberty.

Join the fight back⤵️
https://t.co/S6SiOa9vRE

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Everyone's sharing the Dialog leak. Thiel, Musk, Cruz, the celebrity guest list, "Build-a-Cult."
Good. Look harder.
Nobody's connecting it to the thing Dialog's members have actually been BUILDING for 20 years: a worldwide network of free zones where elected government doesn't apply.
Read the full piece on my Substack: how a leaked retreat, a Palantir contract, and a worldwide zone rollout are the same project, told through Britain's own freeports, Forest City, and the Gaza "Riviera" plan.
Link below. Please read, share, subscribe, and consider a paid subscription. I'm a volunteer who has exposed the stealth rollout of 91 free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales. This corporate takeover of the commons was hatched by the Tories, and fully backed by Starmer's changed Labour Party, and it has everything to do with Brexit.
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https://t.co/iqVmVgueS4

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

I've now had a chance to read this Bill. It is a genuinely alarming piece of legislation and typical of the draconian, authoritarian politics of the Labour Together Project, in which Mahmood has been a key player.

The Bill gives the Home Secretary nearly untrammelled power to designate any "group" working to advance a "foreign state threat." They are a "threat" if they pursue any objective that is inimical to the "interests" of the UK. Anyone who "supports" a designated group, like endorsing it or sharing its messages online, faces 14 years in prison.

This is so broadly written that it invites - almost guarantees - abuse. In the context of a potential far-right government, it is madness to put such draconian legislation on the books.

We already have two examples of how the state or political actors have effectively fabricated foreign state connections.

First, in manufacturing consent towards the proscription of Palestine Action, it was leaked to the press that there were links between the direct action group and Iran. But this was entirely false, as the government's Counter-Extremism advisor sheepishly admitted months later to Channel Four.

Second, I have personal experience of this. We now know that in response to my investigations into the unlawful conduct of Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney, Labour Together hired APCO Worldwide to investigate me, my colleagues and associates. The end result was a mad dossier alleging that I was a catspaw of foreign intelligence services, working to disrupt British democracy. I've now seen some of the "raw intelligence" on which this was based: literally everything I have seen was fabricated out of whole cloth, the thumb-suck of some swivel-eyed "intelligence" source. We now know that the most senior people in the Labour Party knew about this and didn't seem to bat an eye. Some of them even seemed to believe this web of absurd idiocy.

Anybody who has spent time at the coalface of investigating powerful people or standing up to militarism and forever-wars knows how legislation like this works. Secret intelligence is used to designate groups and people. That intelligence is classified, so the accused can't even see what they're accused of. Judges are given secret briefings where intelligence officials deliver doom-laden analysis, but they can't be cross-examined by the lawyers of the accused. Whispers and innuendo, the lubricant of the sort of "intelligence" that led to war in Iraq, are spun into concrete facts and grave national security threats.

This is not hyperbole - it is literally what has happened when campaigners have tried to challenge the sale of arms to Israel and Saudi Arabia, where campaigners themselves were not able to see, hear or test the evidence of the state at trial. In every instance, judges have then decided that they have no power to gainsay the State.

As this government collapses under the weight of unpopularity and scandal, it is now delivering for the reactionary forces that helped to put it in place through systematic and pre-meditated dishonesty. The result is a lattice-work of legislation and practice designed to criminalise and constrain dissent in the face of genocide, war, environmental degradation and the sort of corruption that turns state murder into money and misconduct into power.

There is every chance that within a week, Andy Burnham will be challenging Starmer for power. It is plausible Burnham could be Prime Minister by September.

His task, amongst many, will be to seek accommodation with progressive voters and movements that have abandoned the Labour Party. There will be plenty of discussion about the wisdom of that move from both sides. But it is likely to fail unless a Burnham government reverses course on the Starmer project's assaults on protest, jury trials, dissent, free speech and basic civil liberties.

And none of that is plausible as long as Mahmood, or any other Labour Together alumni, remains in post.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Starmer is forcing Digital ID in through the back door, while using children as cover to do so — knowing his plan won't save the children!

Via @willem_moore_uk
https://t.co/fNCsbjjiSK

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

English broadcaster Bev Turner argues that Keir Starmer's under-16 social media ban is an effort to impose digital ID via the back door, in accordance with the UN's Agenda 2030.

[Ranty Man @RanTeeThree]

Ok here's my self hosted VPN architecture using Amazon EC2 as the endpoint host in either Virginia USA, or Zurich, Switzerland.

Why self host on Amazon?
* Virtually impossible for the UK government to block payments to it without blocking a huge chunk of UK businesses. They could easily block payments to specialist VPN providers
*Good quality internet infrastructure with low latency
* First Amendment protection in the US and strong privacy protection in Switzerland (which is non five eyes)

Wiregard VPN, with the option of switching to Amnesia WG, Shadowsocks or V2Ray if the government mandates deep packet inspection (works in China).

[Andy @penfold44]

@BBCBreakfast This is a joke. Parents should be parenting their own children and what they can and cannot do. This is a massive over reach by a socialist government. We are now a dictatorship in the UK.

[Pauline M Henderson @paulineh2008]

@BBCBreakfast So the majority of MP’s voted AGAINST the social media ban for under 16’s but hey it’s happening anyway….dictatorship much, every single one pushing this should be ashamed…#parentsparentnotthestate

[Adam Rehor 🇨🇿 @adamrehor01]

@BBCBreakfast When someone asks how it's possible that in some countries a totalitarian regime took over, and why nobody saw and resisted it, you can at this point tell them that they're quite literally living through the answer to that very question in real time.

[Lost in a Dystopian Hell written by AI Monkeys @lsthart]

@BBCBreakfast I don't think young teens are buying VPNs to get around an ID requirement.
This is clearly all BS.
They just want everyone's online activity tied to an ID.

[Jon Belloo @JonJonBelloo]

@BBCBreakfast "Further restrictions that we want to look at" - literally admitting that they fully intend to continue infringing on every aspect of our lives with increasing severity.

[Holly F. @Hollyjeeny]

@BBCBreakfast They are absolutely drunk on power and it’s nothing to do with protecting children