Lies Industry UK - Darren Jones: An inquiry is underway into the leaking of confidential information to The Guardian. Tom Whitehead, FCDO Deputy Director of Communications, is the husband of The Guardian political editor Crerar.
Antisemitic attacks targeting London’s Jewish communities are shameful and have no place in our city.
We’re working closely with the Met, Community Security Trust and faith organisations to bring those responsible to justice.
London will always be a city that stands together against hate.
Now "Remoaners" have jumped on the Lego bandwagon.
Good!
I can never send full posts from BBC but here goes!
I’ve never been a lover of Starmer I always wanted a female to lead the Labour Party
But he’s a man of integrity - & now it feels like the MANDELSON appointment was PURPOSELY done as a way of UNDERMINING A LABOUR PM & it seems a REAL STITCH UP now
Boris Johnson on his way back from a party
Kemi Badenoch can't believe Keir Starmer would allow anyone with links to the Kremlin anywhere near government
In the end Labour didn’t get stolen. It got taken because it was there to take. Jeremy Corbyn lost, the space opened, and Keir Starmer walked straight in. Politics doesn’t wait. If you don’t hold on to power, someone else will reshape it in their image. As is happening now in the country.
The uncomfortable bit: 2017 showed what was possible. 2019 showed the limits. Organisation, message discipline, leadership trust, Brexit positioning. None of that disappears because internal actors were hostile. If you want to win next time, you have to face that whole picture.
And Yes, figures like the odious Peter Mandelson fought their corner hard. Politics inside Labour has always been a struggle. But if the project can be undone that way, it wasn’t stable enough yet. Winning power means building something that survives your opponents, internal and external.
Calling it a “stab in the back” edges toward the Stab-in-the-back myth as i have said. Not because there weren’t internal fights, but because it explains defeat as betrayal alone. That avoids the harder question: why didn’t enough people trust Labour to govern?
Its too easy to say Jeremy Corbyn was only brought down from within. There was sabotage. There was hostility. But elections are lost when coalitions don’t hold. Big votes, wrong places. Doubt in the country didn’t come from nowhere. Both things can be true.
Oh Look, Immigration down, NHS waiting lists down, Pensions increased, Minimum wage increased and 2 child benefit cap removed. b...bu....but...That evil Starmer and his evil Labour Party. We definitely need an alternative that Nigel Polanski will do.
The Green Party are an alternative, always were. But not The alternative. Like Labour under Corbyn they have a massive surge in members. A massive surge in votes? Predicted to get about 70 seats. The challenge of the left is no one will work with anyone else.(Purity) Welcome a Tory/Reform government
I still have in my gut the feeling that certain institutions are compromised, what by, or by whom , I dont know. But all of this looks like people on different sides were up to no good. No one comes out of this well, and for Mandelson it doesnt matter. Meanwhile cost of living anyone??
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I have no love for Mandelson, this is classic Dolchstoßlegende. From what I know of the 1st election and HQ they were brought down by their organisational incompetence. An absolutely massive vote that was all in the wrong places. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in.... The problem is this is hard to hear
Who cares about Starmer or Mandelson; we care about the cost of living, family, community …all of which have been ripped off and hollowed out. Defence matters but so does social responsibility, housing, education and health. You CAN have both. Paying all your tax makes it happen. #patriotspaytax
Powerless to change anything, that’s what the powerful need you to feel. I heard it called the defining political emotion of our age, but it isn’t…shame is that emotion, the shame we believed that someone would do it for us because we can’t be arsed to sort it ourselves.
In the 70's the Government owned Energy, it built houses, it owned Public Services and it employed people.
Now billionaires own it all, and they pay you too.
So every year prices go up more than wages.
It's not complicated why things are only getting worse.
It's billionaires
The Press knew. They laughed.
The Tories knew. They didn’t care.
All I see now is hypocrisy.
As I have said before my sense is our institutions are compromised. I can see why they got the dark Lord to deal with the orange king. The vetting thing looks like internal skulduggery. I mean Johnson failed vetting to foreign sec but he was still appointed and there’s a Russian operative in the HOL
Ipsos not Yougov
Latest Ipsos puts Starmer ahead as best person to lead britain. I wonder sometimes whether all these political ups and down as only of interest to geeks, everyone else sees it differently or related to the price of eggs
Stamer retains his March lead ahead of Farage and Badenoch, on who Brits think would be the most capable Prime Minister.
He’s down -1 since March 2026. There’s been no change for Farage, whilst Badenoch is up +4.
All of Farage’s treason and grift will not be mentioned in his Vetting document when he is anointed PM and the Security Service will quietly walk away, happy their pension is safe.
I wonder if the Lib-dems will do better because this is a feeling many have?
Not far enough...The UK has already paused free trade talks with Israel, reviewed parts of the bilateral roadmap, and sanctioned some violent settlers and two ministers, so there is already a baseline showing these tools exist. The question avoided is would they be used at a much harder level.
However a coalition must share leadership with all its elements.
This is what is wrong in purity led socialism it won’t make the strange coalition. When it is willing winning will be easier.
You do not defeat billionaire-fascist gangster politics once. You build a society in which it can't breed. Strong labour. Independent media. Clean funding rules. Real enforcement. Shared prosperity. Thick civic life. Fewer abandoned people. Fewer humiliated places. Fewer institutions for sale.
Once entrenched power is threatened, it does not go quietly. It intimidates, smears, threatens, lies, corrupts and turns violence outward. So any serious democratic response has to expect backlash. Not be surprised by it. Not fold at the first howl.
Decency without stamina loses.
