Les Slee

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Menzies Campbell
Charles Kennedy
Ken Clarke
John Smith
Tony Benn
Jim Wallace
Barbara Castle
Betty Boothroyd
Mo Mowlam
Jimmy Reid
Michael Heseltine
Alex Salmond
Donald Dewar
Willie Whitelaw

Regardless of whether you agreed with them or not, they were politicians with independent thinking, gravitas, intellect and genuine public servants. We don’t have anything like the same standard of politicians today. And that’s a major part of the reason why the public are totally disenfranchised with the political shysters in parliament right now.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS SPENT MILLIONS SILENCING SIX DOCTORS. EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS RIGHT

Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews called them the Super Sextet. Six doctors and executives who saw dangerous things happening in NHS hospitals, raised the alarm, and were systematically destroyed for it. Not one of them was wrong. Every single concern turned out to be valid.

Dr Kim Holt @drkimholt warned Great Ormond Street Hospital that the child protection clinic in Haringey was dangerously understaffed and missing patient records. Management put her on special leave for four years. Baby Peter Connelly died. The trust spent £286,000 on consultants to investigate itself and found no management failings. Then it offered Holt £120,000 to sign a super-gag and disappear. She refused.

Steve Bolsin, cardiac anaesthetist at Bristol Royal Infirmary, spent six years documenting that children were dying at an entirely avoidable rate during heart surgery. He raised it internally. He raised it with the Department of Health. He was told to keep his head down. Between 30 and 35 children died unnecessarily. Bolsin was described at a European surgeons conference as the most hated anaesthetist in Europe. He left the UK in 1995 and never came back.

Ash Pawade turned around a catastrophic children's heart surgery unit in Bristol. When a baby died after an overworked perfusionist made a drug error caused by NHS staffing cuts, Pawade backed his colleague and called management to account. He was ordered to apologise for impugning the trust's legal team. He left the NHS without any recognition.

Dr Raj Mattu, a world-renowned cardiologist in Coventry, watched a patient die because five beds had been crammed into a ward designed for four, leaving three beds with no access to oxygen or suction. He reported it. A senior manager responded by saying he wanted Mattu off the road completely. Mattu was suspended for six years, then sacked. The trust spent over £14 million of public money trying to discredit him. He was eventually awarded £1.22 million. The CEO who oversaw the campaign against him was given a CBE.

Gary Walker was brought in to turn around United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust after seven CEOs in six years. He balanced the books and hit the targets. When a winter surge led clinicians to warn that patient lives were at risk, Walker wrote to his Strategic Health Authority. The SHA's chief executive emailed back: you need to meet targets whatever the demand. Walker was sacked in 2010 for gross misconduct. The gross misconduct was using the f-word nine times in three meetings over two years, not directed at anyone in particular.

Dr Peter Wilmshurst, consultant cardiologist at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, spent 30 years reporting research fraud, confronting pharmaceutical companies, and taking on anyone who put profit above patient safety. He was sued for libel three times by a US medical device company after accurately reporting that their product did not work. The legal battle nearly cost him his home.

The same playbook runs across all of them: suspend the whistleblower, bury them in vexatious complaints, pay management consultants to clear management, offer a gag clause, and wait for the person to break.

@NHS spent millions silencing these six people. Not one manager faced meaningful consequences for any of it.

Source: Shoot the Messenger, Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews Special Report by Dr Phil Hammond @drphilhammond and Andrew Bousfield

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

I agree, but you can believe the evidence of an MP’s voting record and the persuasive and charismatic Dr. Tidball hasn’t exactly distinguished herself:

Initially voted to retain the two-child benefit cap and exacerbate poverty for many families.

Voted to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners.

Voted for the welfare changes that will impact people who are disabled and unwell.

Voted against an inquiry into grooming gangs.

Voted to give more draconian powers to the police to shut down protests and freedom of speech.

Voted to restrict/scrap trials by jury.

Voted to stop Starmer having to appear before the Privileges Committee to explain his appointment of Mandelson as US Ambassador.

Voting record and donors - that’s the narrative that matters.

@UKLabour #StarmerOut @MarieTidball

[Steve Howell @FromSteveHowell]

The arrest of Mountbatten-Windsor doesn't show that "no one is above the law."

It shows that those in power will only act against their own when the evidence is so overwhelming and so public that it is putting the system itself in jeopardy.

[Liverpool Your Party @LPOOLYOURPARTY]

A bit rich for Starmer to call the 2-child benefit cap 'cruel' when he clung to it for 18 months and suspended seven of his MPs for opposing it.

[Jason Reid @JasonReidx]

@Keir_Starmer yeah but you didn’t want to scrap it at first and even removed the whip from some of your mps who did, so perhaps get off your soapbox, luv

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[James Hanson @jhansonradio]

I’m fed up of Labour apologists describing Sir Keir Starmer as a “decent and honourable man”.

He may be in private, but as a politician he has a track record of dishonesty.

He conned Labour members in 2020 by pretending to he a Corbynite, only to kick Jeremy Corbyn out of the party and ditch his policies.

He promised voters he wouldn’t raise taxes, but hiked national insurance within months of taking office.

Worst of all, he promised to improve standards in public life, but was embroiled in scandal within weeks through the Lord Ali saga.

Since then, his corruption minister resigned over allegations of corruption, his housing secretary quit after not paying housing tax, his homelessness minister left after being exposed as a dodgy landlord, his transport secretary was revealed as a convicted fraudster, and his health minister had to go after he wished for the death of a pensioner.

And to cap it all off, he appointed a close friend of the world’s most notorious paedophile as US Ambassador, despite being fully aware that Mandelson had continued his friendship with Epstein long after his conviction for child prostitution.

That is not the record of a “decent and honourable man”.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Child poverty, soaring rents and endless war.

Yes, Keir Starmer should resign, but unless we replace our rotten political system, nothing will change.

We need a new kind of politics. One that takes on the rich and powerful to build a dignified society for all.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

@JennyChapman He smeared his predecessor and a movement of 0.5M with Jew-hate to crawl up the greasy pole. No-one's buying this 'decent man' crap. Stop trying to peddle it.
#ItWasAScam

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

@100glitterstars What a ludicrous remark. You need to look at the saboteurs who worked for that defeat, of which Starmer was one. These vile creatures destroyed the hopes of millions. But their ship is sinking and like rats they're jumping overboard, but they won't be able to swim to safety.

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

@100glitterstars Which seats mostly turned blue in that election and why? You will know that. The Tories gained 55 Brexit voting constituencies in the 2019 election. Sober analysts say it was 'Get Brexit done' that won it for the Tories.
https://t.co/6q8bnzg9EI

[Mani Isna La #IndigenousLivesMatter 🇨🇺🇵🇸🇬🇱 @mikecoulson48]

@100glitterstars Get your facts straight: Labour won with fewer votes than they lost by in 2017 and 2019 and in 2024 Corbyn personally won in Islington North when Starmer came close to losing his seat. Starmeroids refuse to learn - Labour didn’t WIN in 2024, Tories LOST!

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Thank you @chrismullinexmp

I am Jewish and I was a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the Labour Party

The vile campaign of false accusations of antisemitism against Corbyn (& many others including Jews) was in significant part driven by the odious McSweeney

[Jason Reid @JasonReidx]

yes he may go back on every single promise he makes, yes he may be complicit in genocide, yes he may turn a blind eye to eye to noncery, yes he may be completely untrustworthy, yes he may have an historically low approval rating because of these things.

but, you see, he’s ever so ‘forensic’, his father was a toolmaker, and he wears very sensible clothes and lots of navy blue, so fundamentally he’s a ‘decent man’ overall.

[Les Slee @les_slee]

@Lucy_LUFC Yep. Was expecting 3-2 then...

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

None of it will collapse. A few supine "journalists" will feast on the chum (of one or two individuals thrown to them ) for a few weeks while the apparatus of it all remains intact.

We're all too comfy making posts like this one, rather than unifying and overthrowing a system that is taking so much from so many people across the world who just want to crack on and live in peace, have a job and have a laugh or two along the way.

Mandelson is the tip of an iceberg that's a thousand miles high and a million feet wide.

Bread and circuses.