Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament.
But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer
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One of the things we learned during our High Court case against Reform is its propensity, nakedly and without embarassment, to lie. Only the blissfully naive would take its explanation for this at face value.
That @petergeoghegan.bsky.social is onto something here and he's not letting go of it open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Why Nigel Farage’s reaction to the Epstein and Mandelson scandal has been deeply hypocritical, and how his own connections to the story are much closer than he now admits
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
🏴 Compare the 6am raid by 20 uniformed police, multiple police vans & vehicles, and blue tents all over the front & rear garden for 3 days, with a polite ring of the bell by a couple plain clothed officers at a social time of day 🇬🇧
🇬🇧 Also thanks to Sky News for helicopter footage of Nicola’s house
History repeating itself?
UKIP under Nigel Farage controlled Thanet Council and nearly bankrupt it.
Reform UK under Nigel Farage controls Worcestershire Council and it’s on the verge of bankruptcy.
Never trust Reform UK
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One Whitehall official said there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently.
That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.
Police are investigating claims Reform UK broke electoral law in campaign material for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election
Scotland was a priority target for Morgan McSweeney, and Labour moved from one to 37 seats in 2024.
However, eight Labour MPs received £10k cash donations from Labour Together NOT registered on the Electoral Commission website.
revealing the names…
I deleted my post from before…
I thought it was fake
So I went to WH Smith and here it is
An unbelievable attempt to sanitise this man and normalise what’s he’s done.
Lord Bamford owes the HMRC half a BILLION quid.
We DEFINITELY need Scottish Independence.
I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
It could be better if we had full control of our budget.
The SNP is scrapping the two-child cap and lifting children out of poverty.
The UK Labour government wants to impose cruel cuts that will push 50,000 more children into poverty.
And Anas Sarwar is supporting the UK Labour Government in punishing the vulnerable.
In light of Labour's new plans to deny Personal Independence Payments to new claimants:
SNP are not failing.
While child poverty rose in the UK, in Scotland it fell by 12% since 2017.
We must go even further. To give every child the best start in life, we’re taking real action:
✅ Delivering the Scottish Child Payment
✅ Expanding free school meals
✅ Ending the two-child cap
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He doesn’t want anyone to see this, you can’t hide your true colours Nigel.
The government bent over backward to hand Thames Water over to KKR.
Now they've pulled out and Thames only has cash to operate until the end of the month.
Water for 16 million people is now at risk all over a £27,000 donation?
"Openly bigoted hate network operates within UK police"
There, fixed the headline.
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Proof that @uklabour.bsky.social really are a shadow of what they once were.
This happened because the author of the post @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social was witch hunted by the establishment & stabbed in the back by the PLP because he was deemed 'Too left wing' for Britain.
#NeoliberalismNotSocialism
