A bit wonky, but a great thread which seems to me to get to the very heart of why Starmer's Blue Labour govt has been flailing.
#PaulOvenden
#PaulOvenden
Still trying to justify himself...
'After ITV News approached Mr Ovenden, he responded saying: "I am accused of 8 years ago as a jnr press officer sharing with a female colleague the details of a silly conversation that I was party to with other female staff members'.
That's OK then...
#MarsHillBlog Post On one of Starmer's aides quitting over eight year old offensive texts about Diane Abbott #PaulOvenden #DianeAbbott #Labour #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2025/09/star...
Blue Labour are racist as fuck.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/1...
#DianeAbbott #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #BlackMastodon #Labour #BlueLabour #Whiteness #PaulOvenden
According to a Labour source, Sir Keir hasn't so far bothered to make contact with Abbott about the sexually explicit messages, sent by his friend and close colleague!?
#LabourMisogyny #PaulOvenden #PrimeMiniste #KeirStarmer #TextMessages #DianeAbbott
Dear God. The arrogance.
They have learned literally nothing.
Indefensible conduct, and incomprehensible stupidity.
'...but the Prime Minister accepting a resignation over something so minor from someone so major...'.
From today's i newspaper, in the UK.
#Labour
#Starmer
#PaulOvenden
#DianeAbbot
#OwenJones ( @owenjones.bsky.social ):
Today's revelations about #Starmer's aide #PaulOvenden are from a devastating upcoming book.
Theres going to be a lot more damning revelations to come.
So I really recommend pre-ordering #PaulHolden's 'FRAUD'
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orbooks.com/catalog/the-... #Corbyn4PM #CORBYN
Hereโs #PaulOvenden lamenting that โgood staffersโ were driven out of #Southside after 2017โ while, in private, treating #DianeAbbott like this.
#LabourLeaks only scratched the surface of the contempt and bile these people showed Diane.
#CorbynWasRight #JezWeCan #UK #UKpol #Corbyn4PM #BLM #Racism
๐จ EXCLUSIVE: These are the messages sent by #PaulOvenden, one of #KeirStarmerโs most senior #DowningStreet advisers, where he repeats sexually explicit and offensive comments about #DianeAbbott - ultimately leading to his resignation:
#UK #UKpol #CorbynWasRight #Corbyn4PM #SirKidStarver #CORBYN
"STARMER HIT BY STRATEGY CHIEF'S ABBOTT SEX JIBE"
#SamCourtneyGuy for @metro.co.uk
#PaulOvenden has resigned over leaked #GroupChat messages about a game of 'Shag, Marry, Kill' featuring #DianeAbbott.
FULL STORY: t.ly/IB-YfsLK
#Metro
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#IBPAPERS
In those messages, which are revealed in a forthcoming book about Starmer called The Fraud, Ovenden talked about how those at the party had played a game of โshag, marry, killโ involving Abbott, before describing how they might have sex with her. Abbott called the messages โvery unpleasantโ, likening them to messages revealed by the Martin Forde inquiry into bullying, racism and sexism in the Labour party.
White People are not ok....and I'm a white person so I've seen it. jfc....we need to sort our shit out.
When a forthcoming book about you is called 'The Fraud', it's not going to be good news, is it? lol!
#DianeAbbot #BlueLabour #Whiteness #KeirStarmer #Starmer #PaulOvenden
Hahaha aye #PaulOvenden
#Labour is currently doing what it does best - tearing itself apart
Each your heart out Tom Watson
The messages show Ovenden and a friend joking about a party that Ovenden had attended the night before at which attenders had joked about having sex with Abbott, 71, the Labour MP who is the longest-serving woman in the Commons.
Blue Labour really telling us who they are today...
#BlueLabour #Whiteness #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #DianeAbbott #PaulOvenden
Starmer is shedding allies like he's shedding voters...
#Starmer #KeirStarmer #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Labour #PaulOvenden