Nigel Brittain

"Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Not a career. Not wealth. Not intelligence. Certainly not status.” - A Hepburn.

[Nigel Brittain @JustStopAle]

Yeah, ‘cause it’s hilarious when sincere outrage is voiced by a young Labour member, over the government’s complicity in war crimes and the Prime Minister taunts him, to applause, with a glib, puerile put-down. Jokes!

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“[Keir Starmer] is funny, you know he’s got a good sense of humour”

Labour Party Chair Ellie Reeves discusses some of the anecdotes in Keir Starmer’s conference speech.

#Newsnight

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

I'm just trying to understand when does the organised violence against & terrorising of working class black & brown people get a Cobra meeting ? Or are we all supposed to be Far Right now & indulge their expression of ' legitimate concerns ' ?

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The many takes flying around about John Healey, resignation gossip and national security spending miss a fundamental point.

In Finland, where people have a strong social safety net and a real sense of shared national purpose, around 80% say they would be prepared to defend their country. In the UK, that figure is closer to 30%.

That should tell us something.

Until we change the financial architecture of our economy and bring the essentials of life out of the grip of corporate extraction and into public ownership, we will always be told to choose between bombs and butter.

But the reality is we need both.

Modern hybrid warfare means every public service is part of our national resilience. Energy, water, housing, health, transport, food security and social care are not separate from defence. They are defence.

If we want people to defend the country, we have to build a country people believe is worth defending. A thriving state. A fair economy. A society where everyone feels they have a stake.

I spoke about this on Peston on Monday night.

[Nigel Brittain @JustStopAle]

@labourlewis @declan_hoare Sensible and decent stuff, as usual. Still waiting for you to climb out of that cesspit of a party.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

Healey wanted to increase defence spending by £28bn/year from
£61bn to approx £89bn. That's an increase of 40%!

It was an ABSURD ask - UK would be the fourth largest military spender in the world after US, China and Russia.

Vast amounts of that would be siphoned off by rapacious, price-gouging contractors in the most corrupt industry in the world. And none of it would help - in fact, it would mostly worsen - the biggest threat to global security, which is climate change.

The right wing press will try and present Healey's ask as eminently reasonable, but it was a ludicrous cash grab at the same time that were cutting overseas aid, climate change mitigation and welfare spending.

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Ruth Curtice, CEO of this privately-funded think-tank, refuses to disclose her salary and net worth. However, she claims protecting the state pension of £12k - half the living wage - against inflation is too much for the currency-issuing state to afford. The inflation they're worried about is primarily cost-push, which means rising prices are not caused by welfare spending. Basically Curtice wants to freeze pensioners' incomes during a cost-of-living crisis they haven't caused.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Starmer held an emergency COBRA meeting when a mentally ill man stabbed his friend in the morning, then went to Golders Green and attacked Jewish people.

Now there’s been an actual pogrom in Belfast and racist riots in Southampton — where’s the emergency COBRA meeting?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'."

And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense.

https://t.co/ReGvCOqqOm

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Asked about Belfast Mark Rowley talks about people overseas whipping up division to create disorder & he specifically mentions Russian & Iranian state actors

Its not Russia & Iran orchestrating the far right violence we're seeing, but Rowley has a job to do & he's doing it

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This man is a threat to our democracy. He backs violence and extremism.

Blaming a group of people for the awful actions of an individual leads us to a very dark place.

Musk, Lowe, Farage, Robinson - these men don't give a shit about this country, they want to rip us apart.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The judge who will rule on Friday in the case of four Palestine Action activists was previously paid to represent the interests of MI6 and the Ministry of Defence. https://t.co/McT8kxulCM

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Water is too precious and sewage too dangerous to be in private hands.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Where is the COBRA meeting, @Keir_Starmer?

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

I thought that if Israeli soldiers or settlers attacked Christian villages, the Christian world would unite in their millions in condemnation that their sacred sites were being burnt and erased.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

CALL FOR EVIDENCE: THE LABOUR TOGETHER PARLIAMENT

Please share widely and help us expose the hyper-factional remaking of the Parliamentary Labour Party by the Labour Together/Morgan McSweeney project.

Submissions to be made to [email protected]

Shadow World Investigations (SWI) and Paul Holden - author of The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy – are today announcing a new investigative project about the transformation of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) under the Labour Together Project.

This long-germinating project is soliciting evidence about how Labour Party processes were used (and abused) to manipulate the selection of Labour MP candidates who now make up the majority of the PLP.

Sir Keir Starmer was the frontman for a scandalous political project that spent the best part of a decade remaking the Labour Party along rigidly factional and exclusionary lines.

The most consequential transformation was of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Two thirds of the Labour MPs currently sitting in the House of Commons were selected through a process tightly controlled by Morgan McSweeney and his allies, allegedly with direct (albeit informal) input from Peter Mandelson. Labour Together, and its key donors, then spent over £2 million on getting this intake of MPs elected.

The selection process that McSweeney oversaw was beset by allegations of misconduct and irregularities so widespread that veteran journalist Michael Crick warned of potential ‘corruption’. One MP selection has resulted in criminal charges being filed against Labour officials.

These are the MPs that not just determine the future of the country but will play a key role in either making or breaking the political fortunes of whoever next succeeds Starmer.

In a follow up to The Fraud, SWI, Paul Holden and Jessica Murray will be embarking upon ‘The Labour Together Parliament’ project to examine the legitimacy of the process that resulted in the current Parliament, upon which any Labour government will rest.

What we need as a first step is information.

We would like evidence of any wrongdoing or stitch-ups during the selection process. We would like to build a collection of evidence about the ways in which bureaucrats forced through or manipulated the selection process, including in the finalisation of longlists and shortlists, and, where it happened, the decision being removed from local democratic decision making altogether.

We are particularly interested in the vote tallies from every Labour candidate selection between 2022 and 2024. These have not been routinely published.

We are particularly interested in tallies that distinguish between postal/online/and in-person votes. These different vote tallies would have been provided to losing candidates. Sometimes they were only read out in selection meetings. We are not only looking for results that seem ‘dodgy’ – but all vote tallies, including those that are not in the least suspicious. This will allow us to build a holistic database and rigorously test different hypotheses.

We would also like tallies from candidate selections in seats that weren’t Labour targets and didn’t result in any MP. Ideally, it would be great if we could be provided with contemporaneous evidence of these vote tallies – such as a screenshot of a message or email relaying the result.

We would also be interested in narrowing down which CLPs used Anonyvoter for MP selection, even if the vote tallies are not available.

Please send any information you think is relevant to the selection of the current PLP [email protected].

And please share this call for evidence widely!

[Nigel Brittain @JustStopAle]

@triballabour @wesstreeting The decent Labour people have been ejected, or have left in disgust. The empty chancers running this husk of a party, which once had noble principles, brought this on themselves.

[Nigel Brittain @JustStopAle]

@wesstreeting You have been the most depressing and disappointing government of my lifetime. I never thought I’d see a Labour administration backing apartheid, mass murder, torture and piracy.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

These aren't protests. They're racist riots. And it's time for the government to take them seriously.

The PM should be convening COBRA and setting out a real plan to end this horrific violence and bring communities together.

Now is a time for real leadership.

[Nigel Brittain @JustStopAle]

@ZackPolanski @KevinPascoe With the media and government in full cry, you don’t even have to pay some Dutchman to set fire to the Reichstag.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame.

Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Judge Jeremy Johnson who has been paid to represent the interests of MI6 & the MoD will decide whether to sentence the Filton 4 according to Terrorist legislation rather than for the criminal damage they have been convicted. If this happens it will raise serious concerns that the judiciary & legal system are rigged