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[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Sir Philip Barton:

"The PM has decided that he wanted Peter Mandelson as Ambassador and he wants it done in that timescale."

Keir Starmer in Parliament: 'No pressure existed whatsoever in relation to this case’.

He misled the House and should resign.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Keir Starmer didn’t just appoint Peter Mandelson to Washington; he then walked into Palantir’s HQ with him – while Palantir was a paying client of Mandelson’s lobbying firm – and somehow “forgot” to log it as a ministerial meeting.

The Ministry of Defence, whose officials were also there, calls it a meeting, Palantir calls it a standard government visit, but Downing Street insists it wasn’t a meeting at all – just enough of a “non‑meeting” for the PM, his ambassador and a spy‑tech contractor to sit in a room together with no minutes, no transparency and, a few months later, a £240m no‑tender contract.

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

Happy St George's day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer, 2019 on proroguing parliament:

“The prime minister was not telling the truth about why he was doing it…get Boris Johnson back in parliament so we can hold him properly to account.”

Starmer has now prorogued parliament to avoid PMQs.

There’s always a clip.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The evidence from Olly Robbins is devastating to Keir Starmer.

It is clear that No10 not only made the appointment before vetting was completed, but that Mandelson was already acting as the Ambassador before the vetting - even seeing highly classified documents.

With this, and the 'constant pressure' No10 applied to the appointment and their 'dismissive attitude' to vetting Mandelson, it is now absolutely clear that 'full due process' was not followed.

Keir Starmer has misled the House.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer, 30th March 2022:

"Either he's trashing the ministerial code or he's claiming he was repeatedly lied to by his own advisers, that he didn't know what was going on in his own house and his own office.”

Keir Starmer, now: I didn’t know, nobody told me.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

A reminder that in 2023, Tom Hayes was caught stealing election flyers.

That was a hint for the incompetent, dishonest, poor standard of an MP he would turn out to be.

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

Feb 4 PMQs
Badenoch:
‘Did the official security vetting that he received mention Mandelson’s ongoing relationship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?’
Starmer:
‘Yes, it did’
But now Starmer claims the failure didn’t even cross his desk?! He has clearly misled Parliament.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

BREAKING NEWS: “Starmer denies knowing he was Prime Minister”

Sir Kier Starmer has revealed that no one told him until last Tuesday he won the 2024 election and had become PM.

He told Beth Rigby “I was totally kept in the dark by my officials. I’m really angry about it.”

[Lord Cruddas of Shoreditch @peteratcmc]

So apart from trying to give away the Chagos islands.
Recognising Palestine.
13 ministerial resignations.
Showing full confidence in Morgan McSweeney, Peter Mandelson, Sue Gray and Lord Ali.
Blaming the far right for an island of strangers.
16 Policy U turns and rising.
Having no operable warships.
Not smashing the gangs.
Approving a huge Chinese embassy in London.
Spending 23 seconds laying a wreath in Southport only to rush back to a drinks party.
Raising income tax.
Raising inheritance tax.
Raising national insurance.
Raising capital gains tax.
Raising council tax.
Raising value added tax.
Raising mansion tax.
Increasing welfare spending and the minimum wage whilst freezing tax allowances.
Scrapping jury trials.
The only boat he has stopped is HMS dragon from crossing the channel.

What has Starmer really achieved apart from breakfast clubs and the decay of our country?

[SOI media 🇬🇧 @MediaSOI]

If we simply rename the English Channel “Keir Starmer’s desk” then nothing will fucking cross it

[martin elson @minidigits]

@MartinDaubney LORD Cryer taking about the wage imbalance since 2008.... is when Gordon Brown's Tax Credits kicked in.

[martin elson @minidigits]

@WG_RumblePants neil fairbrother

[martin elson @minidigits]

@abutch58 @MikeWaltersMGM then its a moan!

[martin elson @minidigits]

@claire_adams694 @ZiaYusufUK @ReformLancaster 100% you know that on the back benches she would have been diluting Brexit and any Immigration plan, in an attempt to be "moderate", surrendering 50% of our negotiating position! And now on GB news doing the same!

[Andrew Snowden MP 🇬🇧 @A_J_Snowden]

So, bets on PMQs this week?

Kemi: When did you find out Morgan McSweeneys phone had been stolen and what did you do to recover and secure the critical data on it?

Starmer: We’ve announced a new breakfast club in Barnsley.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

The Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea could be up and running in just a few months.

Enough gas to heat 1.6 million homes.

Every single drop will go into our pipes.

Ed Miliband is blocking it.

Madness.

[martin elson @minidigits]

@MichelleDewbs if Liz Truss had been PM for longer we would now have North Sea Oil and Fracking.... exactly the same time frame Barry Gardiner quoted -2.5 years!

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

The cost of government borrowing for 30 years has just hit 5.6%, compared to the worst one day spike to 4.8% under Truss. Rachel Reeves said that rate had crashed the economy. Oh dear, what has the Chancellor done?