The Free Speech Union@SpeechUnion
👀🚨 Starmer's MISINFORMATION MAFIA has been EXPOSED.
We've mapped this shadowy network. And it goes all the way to the top.
Morgan McSweeney. Josh Simons. Kate Forrester. Imran Ahmed. Christopher Steele. Liam Byrne MP. All connected. All pushing the same agenda: silence your critics, smear your enemies, demand new laws to stop your political opponents speaking freely.
Simons, when he ran Labour Together, a Starmerite think tank founded by Morgan McSweeney, paid £36,000 to have journalists secretly investigated and falsely branded Russian assets. Those smears were sent to GCHQ. Starmer's "ethics advisor", tasked with investigating this scandal, never read the evidence submitted to him by one of Simons's journalist victims. The ex-Cabinet Office Minister was exonerated.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate — also founded by McSweeney and run by Ahmed from a shared Labour Together office — spent years trying to get media outlets that criticised Starmer's "extreme centrism" defunded or banned on the grounds they were spreading "hate", and lobbying governments on both sides of the Atlantic for sweeping censorship powers.
Steele, the ex-British spy behind the Trump Russiagate dossier, has been writing smears about British public figures in return for fat fees. Byrne, Mr Clean Up Parliament himself, read one out in the Commons verbatim, hiding behind parliamentary privilege. As a result, an innocent man and business rival of one of Steele's paying clients lost £8 million.
And still Starmer's Tufton St Mafia press for more censorship: more Ofcom powers, more platform regulation, more "emergency" controls over what critics of "technocratic managerialism" are allowed say. (Although Simons continues to insist he did nothing wrong, because he believed — wrongly as it transpired — there had been an illegal hack.)
The people who want to police your speech are the last people you should trust to be custodians of the truth.
Full briefing by former investigative journalist and FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK below ⬇️