Exactly, the rest of it is just noise, we've already discussed ad nauseum about Mandelson's appointment and many of the people criticising it now were all in favour at the time. Anyone who didn't publicly criticise it at the time should stfu.
The question was:
Has Starmer lied.
The Answer was:
No
The rest is media outrage that he didn’t lie.
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social any comment?
To the “I hate Starmer for reasons (the media told you to)” mob
THIS is the Party you help every single day.
So you don’t get to pretend you have the moral high ground or want to “defend minorities” when the Party you’re helping would deport minorities to their deaths.
I'm used to Labour getting a raw deal from the media. I expect it.
But what's happening to Starmer is different level. It's more intense, more sustained and more deliberate. Any excuse large or small. Wave after wave.
If they can't pin him with something they want him to quit out of exhaustion.
It won't matter because, like Trump, anything Farage doesn't like will be labelled "fake".
Just look at the Congressional hearing going on with Kennedy.
It's farcical.
But it's good for clicks online and that's all that matters to the media.
If he ever got to be PM, they got him there and it will be a sorry place.
Do the media currently apply the same level of scrutiny to Farage and his gang of thieves as they apply to the rest of the parties and politicians?
I think not!
I can think of 3 occasions of this level of media scrutiny - having that curry, Sue Gray and now Mandelson. I can't think of any relating to BadEnoch or Farage. Johnson also got away with a lot as well.
Nigel Farage Slammed Over Reform UK's 'Cruel' Plan For Mass Deportations
It would see ICE-style officials on the streets of Britain.
t.co/g1pSe0akeq
Despite the media desperate to destabilise a Labour govt they have NOTHING on which to do that .Starmer was NOT told, so now they say yea but he should not have appointed him.. except the very SAME media was praising the appointment and opposition parties had no complaints then ! Don’t let them win!
@lewisgoodall.com That sub stack post was a lot of guff. Robbins basically confirmed what Starmer said, yet you imply there's a difference with the hint that Starmer must be lying. Absolute dross.
@helenebismarck.bsky.social here's one who isn't throwing bananas ( he does sometimes but not this time...)
After my mini outburst earlier, it's actually quite hilarious to see all these different actors (in more ways than one) - media, politicians - attempt to bring Starmer down once again and failing miserably.
There is one simple truth at the heart of this:
They have absolutely nothing on Starmer.
Remember when Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott said Angela Rayner should resign over a £40K stamp duty underpayment — because “integrity and moral decency” made it “morally indefensible”?
Their spectacular U-turn suggests only one thing: their principles were never priceless — just priced.
Keir Starmer, not the plank walking type - my tea leaves say he stays a while longer.
“Mandelson is a very intelligent man” and an “enormously talented bloke,”
“I’ll work with him in Washington”.
Nigel Farage
Ed Miliband has said he'll “double down, not back down” on government’s clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change course
The Energy Sec said "solar panels, heat pumps and EVs are not woke, or a left-wing conspiracy, or even a Marxist plot. They're actually common sense"
Good question from BBC Nugent. Badenoch collapsed to the atomic level. #UKPolitics
This needs to be highlighted to Lisa Nandy & @darrenpjones.bsky.social . The BBC is out of control, & as a government funded organisation they really do have the power to deal with such blatent bias
People filing complaints should let us know the basic gist of the response - sent mine just now. It's worth knowing that these all get ignored (except as statistics) unless a subsequent complaint is made, saying that you are unhappy with the (predictably vanilla) response.
You can watch the moment on iPlayer here. From 6m and 10s into the programme.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
This is such bollocks.
All primaries and over 90% of secondaries already impose bans.
This is policy to placate GB News viewers and completely unnecessary.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Labour Government is doubling down on clean power to deliver energy security for families and businesses.
We’re rolling out renewables on public land, making it easier to own an electric vehicle and install solar panels, and providing more money for social housing upgrades.
This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’.
That’s one of our main problems right there.
You could argue that Keir Starmer should resign for various reasons and be well within your rights to do so, but evidence so far suggests that Keir Starmer has, in fact, told the truth.
Listening to Olly Robbins being questions by Emily Thornberry this morning, a few things stand out:
1) Robbins was the decision maker to give security clearance to Mandelson despite the vetting recommending it not be given. He alone made that decision, discussed with no one more senior.
I am so confused about Robbin's whole testimony. He said that he felt pressure, yet seconds later, he sais that his decision would have been the same without that pressure. Confused.com
