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"Starmer on Wednesday told MPs that when he became UK Labour leader, 'we had just lost the 2019 election, which nearly broke my party. It was the worst result since 1935, and we were found to be institutionally antisemitic'" This statement contained a serious falsehood. Many would call it a lie" ✍️ Opinion by Peter Oborne middleeasteye.pulse.ly/cinttcxuic

Corbyn was 'too slow and too weak in tackling antisemitism, said John Healey in 2019. Scammer. #ItWasAScam

Tomorrow, the new Prime Minister should do something very simple: end all arms sales to Israel.

150 billionaires own a quarter of this nation’s wealth. That is totally and utterly obscene.

Peter Oborne - a Tory - has done more to defend Corbyn than any Labour MP. Starmer's lie about 'institutional antisemitism' defiles the parliamentary record. #ItWasAScam

Remember this tweet from Julia Hartley-Brewer?

No.10 revolving door spinning like a whirling dervish again. Starmer leaving having been ousted by the PLP and the media clapping like seals as he goes, Burnham moving in also receiving applause from the PLP and media. Nothing will change. Hope for the best but expect the worst.

TONY BLAIR'S LABOUR SOLD SEATS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS In 2005 four rich men lent Tony Blair's Labour Party millions of pounds. Sir David Garrard, Lord Paul, Barry Townsley and Chai Patel all handed over cash before the election. Weeks later Blair put all four forward for peerages in the House of Lords. The House of Lords Appointments Commission looked at that timing and got suspicious. Turns out UK law forces parties to declare any donation over £5,000. Loans though. Loans didn't count. So a donation you have to tell the country about. A loan you can hide completely. Every party in Britain suddenly discovered a deep love of lending. Labour had secretly borrowed £14m before that election. The Conservatives borrowed £16m. The Lib Dems owed £850,000. None of it declared, because the law forgot loans existed. At the centre of it sat Lord Levy, Blair's chief fundraiser, nicknamed Lord Cashpoint by people who clearly weren't trying to be nice. Levy was accused of telling businessman Sir Gulam Noon to leave a £250,000 loan off his peerage paperwork. The Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk opened Operation Ballantine in March 2006 after MPs Angus MacNeil and Elfyn Llwyd made formal complaints. Then it got properly weird. Tony Blair got questioned by police three times while sitting Prime Minister. First PM grilled by officers in office since the 1920s. He was treated as a witness the whole time and never charged with anything. Levy wasn't so lucky. Arrested twice. Once in July 2006 over the honours claims. Once in January 2007 for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Blair's close aide Ruth Turner got a dawn raid, handcuffed and bailed while photographers waited outside her flat. Then the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith personally banned the BBC @BBCNews from airing part of the story, calling it sub judice. A political appointee gagging the national broadcaster on a story about his own government. Nobody senior seemed bothered by that at all. After 90 people questioned and 16 months of police time, the Crown Prosecution Service announced in July 2007 that nobody would face charges. Not Blair. Not Levy. Not one single person. The loans loophole that made the whole thing legal on paper was never properly closed either. Same trick, still available, whenever the next lot need it. Nineteen years on and UK party funding still runs on donors nobody has to name until somebody leaks it. The scandal ended, the rules basically didn't. Tell me what you think in the comments. SOURCES @BBCNews @Channel4News @guardian

If this happened to Jews in Poland during the war carried out by the Nazis there'd be a 12 part series on BBC1 presented by Simon Schama and it'd be regarded as one of the greatest atrocities in recorded history . As it's Gaza and it's Israel: nothing. Just another day.

@Keir_Starmer Deluded. All you have left behind is a dirty skid mark.

The test of any Prime Minister is: do you leave your country in a better place than you found it? I’m proud that the answer is yes.

AT 93 BETTY BROWN IS STILL FIGHTING Betty Brown just turned 93 and picked up an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle. Lovely photo. Lovely medal on a lovely jacket. What she still does not have, six months after settling her claim, is a single penny of the compensation she was promised. Betty and her late husband Oswall ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham from 1985 to 2003. The Horizon accounting system built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk told them money was missing from their branch. It was not missing. It was never missing. They spent around 100,000 pounds of their own savings covering shortfalls that did not exist, because that is apparently the correct response when a computer accuses you and nobody in charge believes the human standing in front of it. She is thought to be the oldest surviving victim of the Horizon scandal. She was one of the original 555 claimants who backed Alan Bates in the group legal action against the Post Office @PostOffice. She reached a settlement through the government redress scheme at the end of last year. At her OBE investiture in June she said she still had not received a penny. Meanwhile Fujitsu, the company whose faulty software caused this entire catastrophe, has been criticised by a committee of MPs for contributing nothing financially toward the redress bill, which is running toward 2 billion pounds. The company that broke the till keeps its money. The 93 year old it falsely accused of stealing from that till gets a medal instead of a bank transfer. She dedicated her OBE to the sub-postmasters who never lived to see this day. She has said before that at least 13 people are believed to have taken their own lives because of what Horizon did to them. She said she wears the honour for them because she still feels everything they felt. She also had a message for the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer, asking him directly to sort this out as quickly as he can. That is a simple sentence. It appears to be an extremely difficult instruction to follow. Britain does love turning its victims into heroes once the damage is done and the bill has gone unpaid long enough to be embarrassing. Medals are cheap. Redress schemes, it turns out, are somehow still cheaper for the people who actually owe the money.

I just signed the petition calling on Andy Burnham to kick Palantir out of our NHS and police - can you add your name too? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Kick-Out-P…

Left: Conservative Kemi Badenoch, "I'm not going to give Andy Burnham a blank cheque" Right: Then Conservative PM Rishi Sunak explains how he changed the procurement process, removing scrutiny for PPE contracts, effectively a blank cheque which wasted £10 billion

This is insane. Twitter suspended the account of the British consulate in Jerusalem for this tweet! WTF

A French aid worker speaking about a mass grave in Gaza full of 300 bodies, including children, killed by the israelis, with their hands tied

Belgian official exposes hypocrisy in Europe! “You consider expelling Iran’s ambassador, but for two years of genocide, none of you demanded the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador. This is shameful!”

This White Man is in court accused of breaking into a Indian woman's home and stabbing her to death while she slept next to her baby. Imagine how much outrage there would be if it was the opposite way around. Instead we have silence, the usual suspects won't even mention it.

Netanyahu declared a holy war against Gaza. HE INVOKED THE AMALEK.. SAMUEL 15:3 "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." AND THEY HAVE FOLLOWED IT TO THE WORD.