100%

(3) The truth is that even the Centrists heroes cannot satisfy them because anyone sticking with the 'Fiscal Headroom/growth by deregulation/ AI and arms spending is the only good spending ' etc agenda will be unpopular and wont actually deliver 'growth'

(2)Plus they like that it makes one technocratic centrist - Robbins- a 'hero' even as they admit their former Centrist hero - Starmer- is a Zero. Really he isn't, he wanted to get Mandelson appointed-but this shows how Starmer has even lost his core Centrist Westminster Bubble fanbase....

(1)'Sensible centrists' like the Olly Robbins story because it moves from principle - dont give key jobs to duplicitous corporate lobbyists whe helped lie the right into power - with process - who filled in what form when ....

Britain's Serco -well known for scandalous privatisation deals- also have contracts to help run training for ICE officers in the USA - when ICE were called violent and poorly trained after killing protestors, Serco removed all ICE references from their website morningstaronline.co.uk/article/serc...

(2) Because actually Starmer's critics said he was dishonestly pretending to be a soft left man-with-a-plan when really he was a vacuous careerist who was too close to Mandelson and his dodgy corporate friends, a perfectly accurate prediction

(1)The first is Jonathan Freedland, who claims Starmer's critics accused him of being a technocratic lawyer, the second, Hannah White more accurately, says he was promoted as a technocratic lawyer - Freedland so hates admitting the left were right about Starmer that he resorts to fakery...

And in the end it turned out ok for Shuker, because he now has a lobbying job for a management consultancy selling AI stuff to the public sector

Your claim that Keir Starmer's opponents said he was "dull and managerial" and were wrong isn't true. Starmer's opponents said Keir was very right wing and close to Peter Mandelson, but dishonestly pretended to be 'soft left' and were 100% right - eg me, in 2021 tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/mand...

Mandelson wasn't a "washed up old spinner", he made millions selling his political contacts to represent firms like Palantir, a career path Team Starmer admire and want to copy ,and he helped design Team Starmer's devious route to leadership. This wasn't a 'mistake', its is who Starmer's group are

He wasn't "washed up " though, he was running a successful ££ business selling his political contacts to corporations like Palantir- many in Team Starmer admired that and wanted to follow his footsteps. Especially as he had advised them on how their faction could sneak into power, deviously

Starmer isn't "staving off" a war, he allowed Trump to send bombers to Iran from UK bases (unlike, say ,Pedro Sanchez) , then misdirected the UK public with a load of double talk about "defensive" bombing - it comes from the same 'Atlanticist' , pro-corporate politics as the Mandelson appointment

Exactly one year ago today:

With all media chasing the Guardian investigative team's scoop on Mandelson failing vetting , only one paper's lobby team is trying to weaken the story with excuses for Starmer - and it's The Guardian

Also: they owed him big time because without his contacts to bajillionaires and cooperative newspaper twunts, they would’ve been nowhere.

The basic wrong is Team Starmer hired Mandelson cos they approved of Mandelson's career -pushing Labour to pro corporate, pro privatisation etc. policies in Govt, then using his govt contracts to get a big £ career from corporations after Govt -and want to have the same career.

They un-modernised the Party , 2019-2024, which is what they said they were doing - they reverted the worst of that (old) "New Labour " Mandelson-friendly, lobbyists aligned Labour that got them here - Corbynism was the chance to modernise , which Labour's top table rejected

Pretty bad that BBC news at 10 went to the Tories and Reform for comment on the Mandelson story but not Lib Dems, Greens or SNP. Either get comment from the official opposition or a spread of parties.

Very striking isn’t it that were immediately at “cut benefits to pay for missiles”; that there is no “jack up taxes to pay for missiles” whatsoever, and there appears to be very little “do anything meaningful to avert the imminent fuel and food shortages that really will be a security threat”.

Yuan Yi Zhu • @yuanyi_z• 2h X Oliver Kamm tried to get me fired by contacting my employers because I called him a twat, which he alleged was sexist against him. Horrible little man. Ross Baglin @ross_baglin • 4h I just had a 10 tweet exchange with Oliver Kamm who writes for the Times and tells me that "should of" is grammatically good English. At some those with their fingers near the levers of cultural power will hav...

This is either the fifth or sixth person I’ve seen saying that this little twerp contacted their employer, introduced himself as a Times writer and demanded that they take action because their employee called him a small, boring tool on Twitter dot com

Mathias Corvinus Collegium -which Orban used to fund Christian Right across Europe - has endowment worth *1% of Hungary’s GDP*

This money has gone to Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi, a Roger Scruton foundation run by Michael Gove + James Orr

Magyar needs 2/3rd of seats to unpick this. Be huge if he can

Vote Green? Meet the councillor who called David Lammy a 'coconut' Hau-Yu Tam, deputy leader of the Greens in Lewisham, south-east London, called Justice Secretary David Lammy and former Home Secretary Priti Patel 'coconuts' in a vile slur.

"Still thinking of voting Green ? Here are a bunch of brave protestors and uncompromising activists standing for the Greens to encourage your vote" says the Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Flagship Freeport Teesside gives up on “customs zone” that behind the policy in the first place as if falls into financial disarray - and more on scandalous shake down of a local company to extract millions for the businessmen controlling it. Details in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

(2)Romeo also enjoyed "roundtable dinners" and the like with Peter Mandelson's Global Counsel , as per previous @privateeyenews.bsky.social

(1)Antonia Romeo, now Cabinet Secretary (the UK's most powerful civil servant), v. much enjoys corporate schmoozing , with lobbyists for dinners + other events. Records show Roland Rudd and his FGS Global (formerly Finsbury) are a Romeo favourite , in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social

That deal on The Apprentice, where one member of Team Velocity accidentally talks over another so they end up agreeing to a price they cant afford, then they realise they've ordered 20 prawns instead of 200 for catering + try cutting them very thin to cover up the error. Thats Trump's "Peace Deal"

Pro-Israel, pro-Iran bombing & regime change group 'United Against Nuclear Iran' is advised by Tory MP and former minister Tom Tugendhat.

Here's its press release on "so-called civilian infrastructure" in Iran.

www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-milit...

Geopolitics update: pleased to announce that after six weeks of furious struggle I have successfully removed my penis from the penis trap which was labelled 'OBVIOUS PENIS TRAP'. This is a major strategic victory for me. No questions from the press

This Government both want us to believe they've played a leadership role here - and that they don't know the terms of the agreement.

It's simply not plausible.

While European Allies banned US use of their airspace, we've let bombers launch from the UK.

(2) 2nd, claiming you only let the US do the 'good' bombing of missile sites etc. from the UK frees up their other planes to do the 'bad' bombing of bridges etc. Its like giving a burglar a leg-up then claiming 'cos you didn't enter the house you didn't help the robbery. Compare with Italy's stance