Andy grant

Simply want a fairer world.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Did any journalist ever ask Starmer why he junked the plans he inherited from Corbyn and which he used to win the leadership ? If so, what did Starmer say?

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Wretched self-aggrandising speech by Starmer as he exits. So telling he has to return to and frame the whole thing with the usual garbage about his Labour leadership predecessor. Forgets nothing, learns nothing.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Bills up.

Wages too low.

Record profits for Oil & Gas.

50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population.

Shit in our rivers.

Pensioners jailed for protesting.

Migrants thrown under the bus.

Supporting a Genocide.

That's Starmer's legacy.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Even to the last minute of his pathetic premiership, Starmer resigns by first attacking the left of his own party, insulting the thousands upon thousands of people who campaigned tirelessly for Jeremy Corbyn as "morally bankrupt"

Absolutely awful. Just an awful, awful man.

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

Starmer claiming he inherited a Labour Party that was ‘politically, financially and morally bankrupt’ in his resignation speech is a perfect snapshot of his tenure.

He used the party to settle factional scores, rather than delivering the transformative change people voted for.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Keir Starmer's premiership was a catastrophe engineered by the Labour right.

They got everything they wanted - a candidate without politics of his own, control of selections and internal processes, a monopoly on his advisers - and they fucked it into the sun.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Getting rid of Keir Starmer is not enough. We need to get rid of the politics he represents: corporate greed, anti-migrant rhetoric and endless war.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Explosive new emails detail work Cambridge Analytica did for LeaveEU/UKIP. Brittany Kaiser, woman at centre of Netflix's #TheGreatHack has handed over a whole bunch of new emails to DCMS committee. Oh dear, Arron Banks. Looks like it's all coming home to roost...
🔥 🔥 🔥

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

10 years after the Brexit vote.

UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been.

Trade has suffered.

Business investment and productivity growth have stalled.

Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.
https://t.co/EmqbiCSEvV

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Must read. In one interview Michael Hudson identifies the root of today's grossly unfair, unstable economy and sums up almost everything I've been clumsily trying to get across on this site over the past couple of years. Please share. https://t.co/OfwOG8A7UQ

[Richard @ricwe123]

What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock do not simply acquire these assets on their own.
The ground is prepared for them by politicians who design the policies, oversee the privatisations, and weaken the safeguards that once protected the public interest.

Essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities,is handed over to private investors under the banner of efficiency and modernisation.
The acquisitions are often financed with enormous amounts of debt, much of which is then loaded onto the acquired companies themselves.

The public is told this will deliver better services and greater investment. Instead, consumers end up repaying the debt through higher bills, increased fees, and declining service quality. Infrastructure that exists because society depends upon it is transformed into a mechanism for extracting financial returns.

When the consequences become impossible to ignore, a familiar pattern emerges.
The politicians who championed these policies have often already moved on,frequently into lucrative advisory, consulting, or boardroom roles within the same financial and corporate sectors that benefited from the reforms they helped implement.

The executives collect their bonuses. The investors collect their returns.
The politicians collect their post-office rewards.
Meanwhile, the public is left with deteriorating services, environmental damage, and the bill for cleaning up the mess.

Thames Water's enormous debt burden and repeated sewage scandals are not merely the result of corporate mismanagement.
They are the predictable outcome of a system in which political decisions and financial interests become increasingly intertwined, while accountability becomes increasingly difficult to find.

The gains are privatised.
The losses are socialised.
And the revolving door keeps turning, ensuring that those who create the rules often end up working for those who profit most from them.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

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[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

We should not see imagination as something only for kids.

Adults too need a bit of imagination, and maybe we could imagine alternatives to our current economic system.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

1/ THE TEESSIDE DEAL: Two businessmen got the right to buy public land for £1/acre in 2021. The public body that owns it spent £450m+ cleaning it up.
This month, they sell 222 acres to Anthropic for £222m.
That's a roughly 1,000x markup, captured almost entirely by two men.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

The government is feeling the heat.
We need to keep up the pressure.
Email your local NHS Trust and say no to Palantir 👇
https://t.co/PsCDnjsTBl

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The UK is apparently at such risk from foreign threat tonight that the war that is really most threatening our well-being - Trump’s against Iran - has not been mentioned more than 20 minutes into tonight’s 6pm BBC News.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Santander CEO attacks UK bank taxes.

Can't recall banks refusing bailouts, attacking profiteering.

In the last 3 years UK govt paid £100bn+ to banks as interest on central bank reserves, a policy that began in 2009. EU curtailed in 2023. UK ought to.
https://t.co/iRo2qyIRKE