"I walked into a situation in which there was already a very, very strong expectation, coming from number 10, that [Mandelson] needed to be in post and in America as quickly as humanly possible," Olly Robbins tells MPs.
"There was a generally dismissive attitude to his vetting clearance"
Criminal syndicates
England's water companies have 1,200+ criminal convictions.
Execs rewarded for dumping sewage.
Occasionally fines on companies are announced but then waived or deferred.
No corporate licence to operate revoked.
No exec fined/prosecuted.
One law for us, another for them
One problem is that many articulate, confident people are forbidden by the terms of their employment to speak out. To acquiesce in the power that threatens everything is acceptable and uncontroversial. To contest it brings your employer "into disrepute" and could have you sacked.
Dr Steve Taylor
@DrSteveTaylor
Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson
Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS
Nothing to see or everything to see
Palantir must be removed from the NHS
"The company's ethos is entirely unsuited to working on UK government projects".
How much more evidence does Starmer need before acting to remove Palantir from their dangerous stranglehold on government contracts?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Excellent news.
All the people struggling with their household bills thanks to welfare cuts, fiscal drag, the CoL, food inflation, profiteering and those pesky bills increasing all the time, can now start celebrating because trickledown is surely going to happen this time
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.
Extraordinary testimony from Olly Robbins to foreign affairs committee:
- he was subject to “constant pressure” from No 10 when at foreign office to get Peter Mandelson in post asap.
- fcdo was urged to allow Mandelson’s appointment as ambo *without* usual vetting process - but dept pushed back
The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?
ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary
The govt announced that Mandelson was the new ambassador to the US before security vetting had been done
Olly Robbins explains that at no point did the government stipulate the appointment was subject to vetting.
End rip off Britain
FTSE 100 CEO average pay up 18% to £5.89m, less weight attached to environmental, social, governance targets.
Did your pay rise by 18%?
Workers produce wealth but get crumbs.
Need worker elected directors, worker vote on exec pay to secure equitable distribution.
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Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege.
What is it doing in the UK? Will any regulator even investigate?
Exec pay linked to profits. Every incentive to rig the market, fleece customers.
30 people made the decision to award the Palantir contract.
@unison.org.uk represent 1.3m people and the BMA all doctors.
It's time the Labour government cleared up Tory mess and remove Palantir from NHS.
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 PM says it is "unforgivable" that he was not informed about Mandelson failing vetting.
It is Starmer's clear lack of judgement and disregard for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein which is unforgivable. The PM must take responsibility and resign.
A month on and the Prime Minister is fighting for his survival on a technicality.
But the serious moral failure of appointing Mandelson - despite all that was known back then - was already a resigning issue.
...maybe - just maybe - he's actually the worst president in history
Every authoritarian action Trump is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity.
He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.
Remember this.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Spread awareness
Sam Coates reports "We've got some breaking news"
It turns out that the head of the civil service told Starmer he should get all the security vetting done before he announced who'd be the new ambassador
"Clearly Starmer chose not to do that, [he] chose to ignore formal advice"
Speak Truth....
Donald Trump is the most hated man on Earth!
Retweet if you believe this to be true!
Wait!!
All this time, while being a cunt, you considered yourself a Catholic?
Oh Dude. 😂😂😂😂
As a social democrat who's lived overseas, I fully agree. Americans literally don't know what they are missing. Just watched "Where to Invade Next" by Michael Moore, and it should be required watching. It's 10 years old, but it highlights just how broken we are and how things could work.
Just as the spotlight was set to return to the courtroom, everything suddenly changed. ⚖️
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