...maybe - just maybe - he's actually the worst president in history

"Is it correct that Mandelson was announced in post by the govt before the vetting process was completed?"

Douglas Alexander says yes its true & the govt could do it so they did.

He then refuses to acknowledge that specifically was a mistake

Faiza Shaheen: "This just sends a message.. that this is a group of elites that support each other, that help each other regardless of the types of behaviour.. this really stinks & I think many people wont understand the particulars but what they will hear is this is corruption"

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

Liz Kendall: "The one thing we must remember.. women who've been trafficked & abused, & for me this is what I'm angry about"

Kendall cares so much about Epsteins victims that when the PM gave a top govt job to Epsteins best pal she said nothing publicly.

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NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

Tice ‘happy to put things right’ after ‘he failed to pay £100k in corporation tax’ Mr Tice said last year Angela Rayner would resign if she had “any moral decency” after admitting to underpaying stamp duty

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.

He's now offering to "put things right".

Go on then Richard - resign.

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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Exposing gap between Scotland and Wales 'crucial' to Plaid strategy, says MP

Highlighting what powers Scotland has and Wales doesn’t is key to Plaid Cymru’s election strategy, their Westminster leader has said, as she argued gaining more powers to improve people’s lives is a priority over any independence push

Good morning all and happy #SocialistSunday
Wales, Scotland and local elections should seal Starmer's fate as a failed experiment in fake labour leadership.
Vote SNP
Vote Plaid
Vote Green!

Central bank bosses enlist for war game to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust Finance chiefs to join exercise in Washington designed to assess how they would handle collapse of significant bank

Central banks meet to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust.

Tests incomplete - shadow banks, including hedge funds & private equity are unregulated.

UK Govt deregulating retail banks.

Major banks will be bailed out by the public purse. No incentive to behave responsibly.

The fun part is: this was loudly denounced as an insane conspiracy theory, right up until those books came out that were filled with McSweeney and Reed bragging about how all of it was true, and they really had suckered the press into repeating all of this awesomely dishonest horseshit.

More than 100 Labour MPs have written to the Home Secretary opposing the governments proposed immigration reforms - that’s a quarter of the parliamentary Labour Party - and that was before new figures which have exposed the government’s £10bn claim as a complete fiscal fantasy

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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This really is the only way to get rid of the stench and stain on our country's government.

It would seem Olly is not taking this well

And <rubs hands gleefully> we have a battle of the Political Correspondents

*Alt text for Neil’s screenshot
Telegraph article by Chief Political Correspondent Nick Gutteridge ‘Starmer wanted Mandelson, We acted on his decision, Robbins said’

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

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Cartoon by Christopher Weyant @christopherweyant1.bsky.social

"Nigel Farage reported to Parliament over alleged ‘undeclared donations’"

“... Nigel Farage [enjoyed] a range of hospitality & logistics support from US PR firm, CapitalHQ, [Feb 2023 to 25]
Mr Farage has not declared any .. on his register of interests"
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Israeli Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir has approved the return to duty of soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, Haaretz reported.
The paper said members of Unit 100 were allowed to resume reserve service.

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future

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Remember this fuck when his name comes on the ballot.

While Farage wants to convince us
the NHS is safe in his hands
he never ever promoted
US-style insurance healthcare

Here's his Reform candidate in
Westminster West End Ward
"Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood."

Starmer on Sept 10th: "Full due process was followed during this appointment"

Starmer on Feb 5th: "There was then security vetting carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave [Mandelson] clearance for the role"

He was lying.

Israel has killed over 750 Palestinians during the Gaza “ceasefire. It’s understandable why Hezbollah doesn’t trust them.

Top Foreign Office official Olly Robbins to leave post after Mandelson vetting row Sir Olly Robbins has effectively been sacked after his department did not inform the prime minister that Lord Mandelson had failed security vetting.

Top Foreign Office official to leave post after Mandelson vetting row.

Human sacrifice to save Starmer.

What did Mandelson do to fail security vetting?

Inconceivable that Starmer didn't ask if Mandelson was cleared by security before appointing him.

Time to go Mr Starmer.

It's a fair question, who are Labour MPs working for? It's not for the constituents who elected them.

Labour has been captured by lobbying firms, private equity companies and foreign governments.

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