David Marsh

Father of Ol, Dom, Al & Freddie, grandfather of Sophia, Zadie, Robin & Sammy. Green Party councillor, West Berkshire Council. 100% Blade. Edited @guardianstyle

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Labour HQ in London have decided Sheffield council must collapse because of insufficient fealty to Israel.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[David Marsh @davidrmarsh]

@kiranstacey They’ll still stick their hands up when the whips tell them to.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Dear journalists

Palestine isn't simply “flooding” . Israel destroyed the water pumps, stormwater basins, homes, roads and hospitals, then trapped people on a strip of beach with nowhere to go. No tents, no prosthetics, no basic protection from the cold. Children are facing hypothermia with nowhere safe to seek treatment. And somehow the world is still looking the other way. This isn't a natural disaster. It's a Zionists-made catastrophe.

Do better

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

The BBC: Israel Would Say Files.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

IDF forces killed a 14-year-old boy who “intended to throw stones.”

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

I’d like to say ‘I don’t have words’ but I do . Debased , vile , cruel , inhuman , regressive and incalculably selfish . They will stop at nothing in a race to the bottom . https://t.co/QSptpXXLIJ

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

NEW: 260 British Jews – among them British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE and journalist and politician @andrewfeinstein – have accused the @BoardofDeputies of genocide denial in an open letter.

[David Marsh @davidrmarsh]

Vote for @TheGreenParty and take the water industry back into public ownership and out of the hands of thieving kleptocrats.

[London & Valley Water @LondonandValley]

Our checklist for turning Thames Water around. Hold us to it.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Andy Burnham has appointed the US consultancy giant BCG into the heart of Downing Street to draw up his 10 Year Plan for the country.

Last year they worked with Donald Trump on his plan for a 'Gaza riviera' to permanently ethnically cleanse Gaza.

There are no words.

[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.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Listen to this. And then listen again. And again. Until you get it.

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

WE'RE LIVING IN ORWELLIAN TIMES.

WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Three slogans emblazoned on the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984.

I've talked about this in other posts, but I feel it needs reinforcing and pulling together, because the parallels between Orwell's dystopian world and the politics we're witnessing today are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

Under @UKLabour, we're witnessing political doublethink on an extraordinary scale.

We speak of peace while continuing to arm, enable, and defend Israel's genocide in Gaza.

We declare ourselves climate leaders while approving new fossil fuel developments.

And we promise of "doing things differently" while maintaining an economic system that concentrates wealth and power in the hands of the few.

It's the ultimate form of political gaslighting. Not simply failing to deliver on promises, but actively doing the opposite while insisting we're making progress.

And when anyone challenges the contradictions, we're told that the issues are complicated. That there are competing perspectives. That we must be pragmatic.

But here's the problem.

War crimes are being COMMITTED in Gaza.

International law is being VIOLATED.

Our planetary boundaries are being BROKEN by human activity.

Extreme wealth inequality is being PERPETUATED by political and economic choices.

Notice the capitalised words?

These aren't political opinions. They're realities supported by evidence, international legal findings and decades of scientific research.

Yet across our political establishment, from @UKLabour to the @Conservatives and @reformparty_uk , we're expected to treat fundamental truths as though they're simply matters of political disagreement.

And this is a huge part of why I'm backing @TheGreenParty and @ZackPolanski.

I want politicians who are prepared to confront these realities, challenge the contradictions and demand accountability, rather than hide behind carefully manufactured narratives.

Because we desperately need politics grounded in TRUTH.

And if we can't even agree that evidence, international law and fundamental human rights must form the starting point of political debate, what hope do we have of solving any of the crises confronting humanity?

Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning. Not as an instruction manual.

And yet here we are.

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[David Marsh @davidrmarsh]

@VJMPub @historyinmemes If it had not been for the Russians, the Germans would have won the war before the US even got round to entering it. I recommend learning some history.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

When you thought the Labour Government wouldn't privatise anything else....

[Mrs Gee 💚 @earthygirl011]

Any socialist who left the Greens to rejoin Labour for this utter travesty, just know you were *had*, again

Not sure how many times Labour has to show us who it really is before people on the left believe it ffs

#BackZack instead

Vote Green 💚

[David Marsh @davidrmarsh]

@PeoplesMomentum … or they could join @TheGreenParty.

[David Marsh @davidrmarsh]

@Ed_Miliband The government is colluding in this Ed, as you are well aware.

[David Marsh @davidrmarsh]

@g27764629_gray @speakoutsister No men. Just women, including trans women. We get what you’re telling us about what kind of person you are though.

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

Perhaps the most heartless BBC interruption in this compilation is this one:

Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam Policy Lead for Palestine, explains how his family in Gaza have never been allowed to leave Gaza, and how Israel is besieging the Strip and causing mass displacement.

The BBC: "I'm sorry this is obviously very personal, difficult situation for you and your family, and as you would understand as well, Israel would say well, they can't live next door to Hamas."

There is nothing journalistic about this. There is no world where that is a rational, humane response.

The presenters and journalists at the BBC are reading off a strict script where they have to staunchly defend the apartheid entity at all costs.

They have weaponised the term "impartiality", which is what they cite when they launder propaganda. But as we've proven, this "impartiality" has only worked one way.

They interject much less when they platform genocide deniers, and have never volunteered the other things that "Israel says", such as the genocidal statements from Netanyahu, Gallant, Katz, Smotrich and Herzog.