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We are being lied to. This is NOT the same bloke. Who killed Ann? I still think it was the deep state.

@RhonddaBryant @petedjackson Sitting MP doesn't know the difference between sarcasm and irony smh.

@petedjackson Let me introduce you to the concept of irony

Listen mate you’re not even an MP

@UKLabour When will people learn that none of the parties are on their side.

Boldly, confidently, authentically Labour.

People think they know what they saw, because they were told to see a "collapse", but in actual fact, it was a disintegration on a molecular level.

This will stick. Andy Burnham is the David Brent of politics.

A timely reminder that Andy Burnham used to refer to Theresa May as an "unelected PM" after she was crowned leader. We should refer to Andy as an unelected PM from next Monday

What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock do not operate in a vacuum. Their business model depends on governments creating the legal, regulatory, and political conditions that make it possible. Through privatisation programmes and permissive regulation, governments allow essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities,to be transferred into the hands of financial institutions. These assets are often purchased using vast amounts of borrowed money, at prices ordinary market participants cannot hope to match. Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is frequently loaded onto the acquired company itself. The government permits it, regulators oversee it, and the public is left to live with the consequences. The result is predictable: consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and deteriorating service quality. Infrastructure that was once intended to serve the public becomes a vehicle for financial extraction. Wealth flows upward to investors and executives, while costs and risks are pushed onto households. When the model inevitably begins to fail, governments that enabled it step in to shield the system from collapse. Communities are left with neglected infrastructure, polluted rivers, and failing services. Thames Water's £14 billion debt burden and repeated sewage scandals stand as a warning of what happens when governments prioritise financial engineering over long-term public stewardship. The executives who loaded the company with debt have already received their bonuses. The investors have already taken their returns. Yet when the consequences can no longer be ignored, it is the taxpayer who is expected to absorb the losses. The pattern is not accidental. Government policy creates the opportunity, regulators permit the extraction, private investors collect the rewards, and the public inherits the risks. -Privatise the gains. -Socialise the losses. -Facilitate the process through government. That is the business model....

The fact we have so many people in power who are absolute traitors to the country shows why Tony Blair changed the treason act. Bring it back, I want to see people held accountable for their actions.

They are so desperate to maintain their inversion of reality they now want to use the word "denialism" and make it a crime to call it out. This all seems so familiar for some reason.

I listened on GB news as it was declared that the “duly elected” leader of the labour party Andy Burnham He wasn’t “elected” in any way shape of form by the British public - he was installed by the criminals in Westminster . There is no democracy whatsoever

I’m not defending billionaires. I’m defending the economic system that protects the freedom to own property and to compete in the market. I’m not worried about billionaires, I’m worried about big government destroying the economy. Billionaires make money through voluntary trade and achieve wealth through voluntary investment. Governments get their money through forced extraction and spend it through box-ticking bureaucrats. A billionaire must create a win-win to get money and we know this creates an economically richer society - albeit unevenly distributed. Government can extract from the productive and do unproductive things with the money - which creates an economically poorer society. Neither is ideal but I’d chose an unequal wealthy society over an equal impoverished one any day.

If your boss cut your pay 7% every year, you’d quit on the spot. The central bank does exactly that to your savings.

@Gail_McDade @UKLabour @andyburnham Vibes-based governance. What could go wrong?

Lots of people have joined @UKLabour since @andyburnham became Leader yesterday. If you aren’t a member yet, we would love to have you. join.labour.org.uk

FFS folic acid is in ready made pastry now too. Going to have to make that from scratch as well 🙄 Hey @AngelaRayner I hear you're going to be the next Health Secretary. Getting folic acid out of flour would be a great start to your new job. Show you care about the health of cancer patients, people with kidney and liver disease, people with undiagnosed B12 deficiency, people with stents, men, and everyone else who doesn't want medicines in everyday food. That's millions and millions of people! Focus supplements on the people who actually need them. Show you're not just a puppet doing whatever Big Pharma and Big Food tells you. There's a petition running, I'll post the link in the comments. Great to have your support!

Much will be said about Angela Rayner in the coming days, and rightly so. A former care worker with no health administration experience, tasked with overseeing an £18.7bn overhaul of social care, is a legitimate story. It deserves scrutiny, and it will get it. But that scrutiny, however justified, is aimed at the wrong target if the goal is understanding who actually governs the country. Governments set policy. Whether that policy survives contact with the departments meant to deliver it is a separate question, and increasingly the answer depends on the permanent state, the officials who remain in post while ministers rotate through. Ministers like Rayner are not the ones actually running the country. They are the visible layer, replaced every reshuffle, while the people who administer, interpret and often quietly resist their policy stay exactly where they were. That permanent layer is not a neutral machine simply executing whatever instruction it receives. Over three decades, the same progressive assumptions that reshaped universities, HR departments and NGOs, DEI training, unconscious bias frameworks, equity treated as more important than equality, have been absorbed into a civil service that recruits, trains and promotes from the same graduate pipeline as every other captured institution. Institutional capture and the permanent state are not two separate stories. They are one story told from two angles. Capture explains what the permanent state believes. The permanent state explains why what it believes matters more than who nominally sits above it. Rayner's own department illustrates the second half of that story precisely. The health brief she may inherit is actually run day to day by Samantha Jones, DHSC's permanent secretary, the accounting officer legally responsible for how the budget is spent and the policy delivered. Jones was not elected. She was not selected by any minister accountable to a constituency. She moved directly from interim permanent secretary and chief operating officer at 10 Downing Street into running the department, appointed by the Cabinet Secretary "with the approval of the Prime Minister," entirely within Whitehall's own machinery. Nobody scrutinises that appointment, because no manifesto and no vote was ever attached to it. The pattern holds wherever the permanent state meets an elected minister determined to act. At the Home Office in 2022, Sir Matthew Rycroft, the department's permanent secretary, objected in writing to the Rwanda deportation scheme on value for money grounds. Parliament had legislated it and an elected Home Secretary had announced it. Suella Braverman could only proceed by publicly overruling her own most senior official through a formal "ministerial direction," forced into open confrontation just to implement what her government had already decided. She won that particular fight. That she had to have it in public is the point. Above Whitehall, the permanent state doesn't need to negotiate at all. On 14 June 2022, a deportation flight sat on the tarmac at Boscombe Down, passengers aboard, after Parliament had legislated and British courts, at every level, had already rejected every challenge against it. Hours before departure, a single duty judge at the European Court of Human Rights issued an interim order grounding the flight, no hearing, no published reasoning, no appeal available. One unelected official stopped what an elected Parliament, elected government and domestic courts had already cleared. So yes, much will be said about whether Angela Rayner is qualified to run the NHS. She probably isn't, and neither were several of her predecessors. But the more revealing question is the one nobody asks about Samantha Jones, or Sir Matthew Rycroft, or the duty judge in Strasbourg: not whether they're qualified, but who put them there, and what happens to a policy that survives every election only to meet people nobody elected at all. Angela Rayner and Samantha Jones

@andyburnham Bro still thinks the world runs on Obamarisms

My mission as Leader of the Labour Party is to bring back hope.

Why does no one ever sense-check the numbers in government reports? This report on folic acid dosing worked on the basis of 59g of flour consumed per person per day. That works out at 1.5 million tonnes a year for UK. UK mills produce close to 5M tonnes. Exports = imports. Roughly 4M left once you take out wholemeal and wastage. If we are generous they have still only estimated half of the consumed flour. Why are "reasonable worst case scenarios" reserved for viruses and not for government interventions? Sign the petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7695…

Burnham is about to take charge of 67 million people, control the nuclear deterrent, decide immigration and welfare policy, and appoint the entire cabinet – on the basis of a signature‑collection exercise among Labour MPs. No manifesto pitched to the public as leader. No televised debates. No national campaign where his programme is tested and rejected or endorsed. We are being governed by a man who has never won the argument with the country, only with the whip’s office.

@Jenny_1884 Never did.

Does anyone else believe the fact that not one single MP put their name in the hat to become PM only goes to show it was the plan all along for Andy Burnham to become PM. We are being gas-lighted. He has been placed not chosen. We no longer have democracy in this country.

They had to destroy the Odyssey because they didn’t want European men identifying with a man who gets lost then overcomes adversity and slaughters the raping tricksters and parasites who took over his home.