@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
To invoke the notion of being put under undue pressure to ratify an appointment and then to acquiesce to it without objection would contravene the Civil Service Code. Not to even document the fact in your minutes would seem to add sloppiness to god like arrogance.
Better late than never: the growing consensus that Trump has lost his mind…
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Lies Industry UK - Sopel from News Agents podcast now:
“Starmer must resign because he appointed Mandelson.”
Sopel then:
“Mandelson is a class act.”
Who else agrees Biden was—without a doubt—a better president than Trump could ever be? #VoteYesVirginia
🔥@emilythornberry.bsky.social “But you see this doesn’t stack up does it? Because in the end he lost his job because he was a threat and that should have been revealed with the DV [developed vetting]. He was leaking secrets from the British State to a foreign bank - that’s pretty serious” 🔥
On the leaking of secrets, Robbins says: “that information wasn’t available to me!” Of course it wasn’t - it was however very likely to have been at least one of the reasons Mandelson failed his DV. He should have let the FO minister and/or the PM know. He didn’t - and didn’t minute his reasoning.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
On the leaking of secrets, Robbins says: “that information wasn’t available to me!” Of course it wasn’t - it was however very likely to have been at least one of the reasons Mandelson failed his DV. He should have let the FO minister and/or the PM know. He didn’t - and didn’t minute his reasoning.
🔥@emilythornberry.bsky.social “But you see this doesn’t stack up does it? Because in the end he lost his job because he was a threat and that should have been revealed with the DV [developed vetting]. He was leaking secrets from the British State to a foreign bank - that’s pretty serious” 🔥
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
To invoke the notion of being put under undue pressure to ratify an appointment and then to acquiesce to it without objection would contravene the Civil Service Code. Not to even document the fact in your minutes would seem to add sloppiness to god like arrogance.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
If there is a problem - it’s this:
This was a huge decision for Robbins to hold unto himself.
Just tell your minister “he failed on a red - are you still minded to ratify the appointment?” History has proven this - very quickly.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
@emilythornberry.bsky.social gets to the nub of it “I think you are under an obligation to keep accurate minutes and notes of decisions you make of actions that you take and your reasoning”
“you must not be influenced by improper pressure from others that you must not ignore inconvenient facts..”
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
@emilythornberry.bsky.social gets to the nub of it “I think you are under an obligation to keep accurate minutes and notes of decisions you make of actions that you take and your reasoning”
“you must not be influenced by improper pressure from others that you must not ignore inconvenient facts..”
If anyone can deliver Thiel and Epstein’s disaster capitalist dream to the UK it’s the kleptocrat coat-tailing grifter, Nigel Farage. He delivered Brexit - Epstein’s disaster capitalism test-run.
A chain of mentorship unbroken by death.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
If anyone can deliver Thiel and Epstein’s disaster capitalist dream to the UK it’s the kleptocrat coat-tailing grifter, Nigel Farage. He delivered Brexit - Epstein’s disaster capitalism test-run.
A chain of mentorship unbroken by death.
25 - unlucky for some: Who knew that project 2025 would end up with J.D.Vance operationalising the 25th amendment? Possibly JD Vance and his backer Peter Thiel? Who knows?
“It is time that the government seriously understands the culture and ideology of Palantir, and how it will exit from its contracts at the earliest opportunity.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It’s this👇
The Art of the Steal
The kleptocratic philosophy at home and abroad. Robert Reich reveals how US citizens have now been conned into paying twice over for his tariffs.
The Art of the Steal
The kleptocratic philosophy at home and abroad. Robert Reich reveals how US citizens have now been conned into paying twice over for his tariffs.
Imagine you’re driving your family on the motorway and the suspension collapses. Thank heavens you all survive the resulting crash. You subsequently find out that the car had failed its last MOT but the boss at the MOT center had decided not to tell you.
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It’s this👇
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
Imagine you’re driving your family on the motorway and the suspension collapses. Thank heavens you all survive the resulting crash. You subsequently find out that the car had failed its last MOT but the boss at the MOT center had decided not to tell you.
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