Greg Withers

@clarkaw Simple and cute little uses of opposite wording to be a smart arse

Favourite Tony Blair soundbite of the day is "Britain needs radical change - but too often the sensible people aren’t radical, and the radical people aren’t sensible". I notice he's used it before but still, seems true.

@ryan_wain @InstituteGC You are on the payroll mate

The last 24hrs have seen two powerful interventions from Tony Blair and Alan Milburn. Does Labour have a talent problem? First off, contrary to lazy criticism, both Alan and TB are contemporary figures. They study how the world is changing and respond to it accordingly (this is what new Labour is - not a set of policies). We are not seeing the greatest hits of the 90s - another lazy criticism. TB has set out a national purpose and an economic project, while Milburn has brought a powerful moral mission to that. Together they are compelling and motivating, and show what politics could do if it looks outwards and leads. But there is a legit question: why isn’t it coming from anyone who didn’t serve in the last Labour govt? I can speak first hand about the TB piece. It is built on many conversations with innovators, business leaders, trade unionists, civic society and - as TB mentioned on the newsagents podcast - members of the PLP. There is incredible talent there. The same also rings true with Alan’s project. We don’t have a talent problem in progressive politics. We just need to unlock it and give that talent direction. I think the last two days will prove formative in that and Britain will be better off for it.

@ClaytonMurzello @mid_day White South African grew up as apartheid made all blacks grovel

50 years for Tony Greig’s grovel remark. My piece in today’s @mid_day

@AltMediaWatch @NickRiemer1 There is no bottom

In Senate Estimates, the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal has admitted to having staff in her office who are completely funded by the pro-Israel lobbying group the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ).

@WarPowersReform @RhondaGarad Genocide soooooo much worse than “bad behaviour “ !! Do we really have to point that out?

#auspol Labor MP Ed Husic says Australia has tolerated poor behaviour from the Israeli government for too long, calling for a “red line” from Canberra including tougher sanctions, an end to defence cooperation. theguardian.com/australia-news…

@JohnRentoul Very Mandelsonian of you

Polanski on Sky News, the authentic voice of the know-nothing Corbynites

@JoshBBornstein He is but the most extreme of many Labor folks giddied by power money and fame. The ALP has sadly many who have and are treading this path .

The Labor movement has produced no more powerful advocate for the interests of investment bankers than Tony Blair. theguardian.com/books/2026/may…

@cheryl_kernot @TheLyonsDen He can do both jobs 💪💪

Yes @TheLyonsDen Please apply for Director of News job. We’d miss your commentary, but trade that off for you bringing more professional turn around for@abcnews. Lots of support.

@cheryl_kernot @AdyLady9969 @MikeCarlton01 How can she have such budget delegations outside of formal dept requirements and procurement rules ?

@MikeCarlton01 Segal’s “limited tender” given to “particular business” (Finkelstein’s) because of “an absence of competition for “technical reasons .” Having a “Yes, Minister,” lend of us! 😡 for a mere $198,000

@TimesRadio @CalumAM This man’s neo liberalism shredder blew the welfare budget!!! FFS people have basic needs that his system denied them It’s a direct and causal relationship Plain lies from Blair. Blaming victims of his grotesque corporate barbarism

Tony Blair warns the government it "can’t just hope" problems like rising welfare spending will solve themselves. “Anybody who looks at this triple lock…long term, it’s unaffordable. It's very clear.” @CalumAM

@cheryl_kernot @BelindaJones68 How can the contract be enacted without approval or process? How can the dept pay any money?

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@cheryl_kernot @PollyWi92611992 @DavidShoebridge He’s a a bottler 💪👏

Very productive day’s work today @DavidShoebridge

@MikeCarlton01 @QuentinDempster Sick

Astounding. Without any tender, Jillian Segal quietly hands a plum, 6-figure ‘consultancy’ to Scott Morrison’s former head kicker Yaron Finkelstein…

@TimesRadio @InstituteGC @CalumAM The “reality” is that net zero , especially one that relies on offsets is woefully short of what is needed. Blair held so much power for so long and could have done so much more . He’s bought and sold by corporations and genocidal govs

Keir Starmer should rip up Ed Miliband’s “unnecessary” net zero agenda, Tony Blair tells #TimesRadio. “It’s not that I'm a climate denier, but it's just coming to terms with this reality.” @CalumAM

@yanisvaroufakis @PJDunleavy Perfect 👌

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means. His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide. Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers. Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations. Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@cheryl_kernot They are laughing at us all

“forward leaning = weasel speak.

@DavidShoebridge It’s a disgrace . Thanks for exposing

Many people asked how it was that the Government decided to grant ECAJ $124 million more in funding this budget. Turns out that’s the number ECAJ asked for. Don’t know any other area in Government where this is how it works!

@JohnRentoul x.com/yanisvaroufaki…

He’s only 73 and still got it. Churchill was 76 when he came back

Tony Blair, asked who should be the next PM

@JohnRentoul 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@eatatjoe2 They r bringing in a Segal approved propagandist

"Stevens’ resignation is effective immediately." Must be more to this. The usual procedure would be for him to give reasonable notice so that an appropriate hand over could be made, for such a critical #ABC position. #auspol theguardian.com/media/2026/may…