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@afneil Not if you dig up the old notes like Bea has 👇 x.com/i/status/20448…

@bottomley50 Hahahahaha you have to have some seriously rose tinted spectacles to think Starmer is doing a good job.

Boris Johnson will go down as the worse PM ever and Keir Starmer will go down as one of the best.

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

David Lammy Must Also Go. Ministerial responsibility is not a complicated doctrine. It does not require proof of personal involvement. It does not require evidence that a minister gave a direct instruction or attended a specific meeting. It requires only this: that something of consequence happened in a minister's department, on a minister's watch, and that the minister is therefore accountable for it. Something of consequence happened in David Lammy's department. Foreign Office officials used exceptional powers to overrule the security services and grant developed vetting clearance to a man those services had explicitly declined to recommend. That decision was taken inside the Foreign Office. David Lammy was Foreign Secretary. The chain of accountability runs directly to his desk. He has two choices and neither is comfortable. Either he knew the override had taken place, in which case his silence while Keir Starmer told Parliament three times that due process had been followed makes him complicit in that deception. Or he did not know, in which case the most consequential and sensitive decision taken by his department in his tenure was made without his knowledge, which is a failure of ministerial oversight serious enough to warrant resignation on its own terms. There is no third option. No position from which Lammy emerges with his authority intact. Rachel Reeves, speaking in Washington, was careful to distance herself from the affair. Lammy has said nothing. That silence will not protect him. The doctrine that protects ministers from the routine decisions of their officials has never extended to the use of exceptional powers to override the security services on a matter of national sensitivity. This was not routine. Exceptional powers were invoked. Exceptional accountability follows. The Security Services said no. Someone in the Foreign Office said yes. David Lammy was in charge of the Foreign Office. In any serious political culture, that sentence ends his tenure. He should resign.

How ridiculous is this? Starmer’s flying to another country to co-host a Zoom call to escape the Mandelson scandal

Downing Street knew in September that there were questions over Mandelson’s vetting but Starmer still carried on with his untrue process lines to Parliament.

@JohnCrookes7 My god one of the most deluded posts I’ve ever seen. Not sure what is worse, thinking Starmer has been a success or that appointing a known maverick to the most important diplomatic posts and then either lying about it or just being so incompetent to not know any of the facts.

I think most people are now tired of the witch-hunt of our PM over the Mandleson affair which by comparison with other current world events is of no great consequence. They want him out because of his ongoing success in turning the country around after years of Tory corruption.

This is the reason why we can never reform healthcare in the UK — or even have a sensible debate about it. The moment anyone suggests alternative/additional ways of funding health Labour rushes out privatisation smears and claims US private health insurance is being proposed. Labour has been doing it for decades. It explains why the NHS is effectively beyond reform. The two worst health systems in the rich world are in America and the UK. It’s why nobody has ever copied them. It would be mad to go from ours to theirs (or vice versa). But Europe is awash with health systems that can call on several sources of funds, including many with compulsory public health insurance schemes. They have better health outcomes than the NHS. They are free at the point of use (like the NHS). Most of them are better funded. But Labour puts them out of bounds, refuses even to discuss or consider. So patient care suffers. NHS struggles on. Labour is always telling us we need to get closer to Europe. It’s where we belong. But not when it comes to health, where it insists no lessons can be learned. Pretty pathetic, really.

Starmer and Reeves would rather pay people to do nothing than pay to defend the nation - leaving us more vulnerable than at any time in our history

@markofagenius No big surprise to see Starmer breaking another manifesto pledge. If it is so popular why did Labour not run on a platform of rejoining the EU at the last election. Disgusting anti democratic government.

Tories and Reform are shitting themselves as Starmer moves ever closer to rejoining the EU with the support of the majority of UK population.

👴🏻I’m old enough to remember when people were concerned about foreign influence in British politics. 🤷🏻‍♂️Why bother when our own Prime Minister intends to subordinate UK law making to an unaccountable foreign power without a say?

Accurate translation: the govt is signing away Britain's ability to make *any* "sovereign choices" about our food & carbon tax rules. If they want to argue that being in the EU is good, let them. But what they are doing is different: it's putting Britain under EU rules with no choice and no say. That's what the govt signed up to last May. That's what dynamic alignment means.

As Wes Streeting is claiming the Chagos deal is not dead, and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is continuing to implement the treaty as if it has been ratified, it's time to repost the following. 1982,🏝️Project Chagos begins when Mauritius sets up a select committee to look into the potential vast mineral wealth in the Chagos Archipelago's seabed. 2003, leading international lawyer Sir Ian Brownlie is officially appointed advisor by Mauritius for Chagos. 2009, Brownlie leads a Mauritius delegation in bilateral talks at the Foreign Office in London. 2010, Philippe Sands QC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos after Brownlie dies in a motor accident in Egypt. 2O13, Sands' good friend, Keir Starmer QC, visits Mauritius and discusses the future of the Chagos islands with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. 2015, Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year, Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. 2019, Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only, and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. Sands uses the ICJ ruling as leverage in the following years in his efforts to persuade the Conservative government to give Chagos to Mauritius. 2020, Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. 2021, Sands receives Mauritius' top honour, The Most Distinguished Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean. 2022, Sands makes an unauthorized entry into the Chagos Archipelago for a flag-raising ceremony. Sands tweets at the time, “It’s morning on Chagos, where the flag of Mauritius flies." 2023, Sands becomes Mauritius citizen, but retains his British and French citizenships. 🟥In November 2023 David Cameron takes over as Foreign Secretary from James Cleverly, and bins a deal saying, it's not in the national interest, as reported in Hansard. 2024, Starmer becomes UK Prime Minister in July, and overlooks his shadow Attorney General, Emily Thornberry, to appoint his old friend and fellow human-rights lawyer Richard Hermer. But he has to break with tradition by giving Hermer a peerage, so he can sit in the House Of Lords, and be part of the government. In the early months of his premiership, Starmer makes the controversial former Downing Street Chief Of Staff for Tony Blair, Jonathan Powel, his special envoy for Chagos. In early October 2024, just ten weeks after becoming PM, Keir Starmer agrees a deal with Mauritius, despite there having been no mention of Chagos during the election campaign, and the pledge in Labour's manifesto to protect the BOT. Also in October 2024, Powell tells Times Radio in an interview, “These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So I don’t think we should be too worried about losing that bit of territory. We’re probably losing more to tidal erosion in the East Coast than that.” Powell fails to mention the territorial waters and marine protection zone of 64,000 square miles, and Mauritius getting full ownership of all the mineral rights for an area about the size of France In November 2024, Starmer appoints Powell as his National Security Advisor. In December 2024, Starmer makes yet another extremely controversial appointment in Peter "friend of Epstein" Mandelson as his US Ambassador. Powell and Mandelson brief the White House over Chagos, and claim the UK has to give the archipelago to Mauritius because of international law. However, they assure the Americans that their military base on Diego Garcia is unaffected, as the UK has arranged a 99-year lease on the island. Those assurances have now been proven to be worthless. 2025, In January Lord Hermer recuses himself from signing off on the Chagos deal. The AG's office refuse to give details of why. In late February 2025, Mauritius’ former Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, who was in office when Starmer became PM, and was heavily involved in discussions about the Chagos deal before being replaced by Navin Ramgoolam in November, was arrested on money laundering charges after Mauritius' anti-corruption agency said it had seized suitcases of cash and luxury watches in raids on 10 locations, including Jugnauth’s home. In August 2025, Starmer is referred to the statistics' watchdog for misleading claims over the cost of the Chagos deal. Many other claims are made during the year that Starmer had repeatedly "lied" about the true costs of the deal. There are even accusations that Starmer ordered his officials to announce misleadingly low figures.

Behold the utter smallness of Sir Keir Starmer. Scrambling around to save his leadership, he has decided to give his Euro-fanatic backbenchers something symbolic. Britain will automatically download EU rules in the fields of energy and food in return for… well, in return for nothing much beyond feel-good Europhile fluffiness. What is proposed is not that Britain and the EU recognise each other’s standards in certain areas. That is the normal way in which trade agreements happen and, indeed, the normal way in which the EU negotiates deals. Brussels, for example, has a mutual recognition agreement with New Zealand. Nor is it proposed that Britain and the EU should jointly agree in advance to certain standards on, say, animal welfare or food safety. No, what Starmer is offering is something quite different, something almost unprecedented among sovereign nations. What he proposes is write a blank cheque. Whatever standards the EU might adopt in future, Britain will automatically copy them. They might be ludicrously expensive. They might be inappropriate to our conditions. Whatever their content, we would have no option but to copy them. There would be no debate in Parliament, no vote in the House of Commons. Brussels would dictate, and Britain would scramble to obey. Starmer is not interested in practical solutions. His policy is wholly vibes-driven, designed to show how different he is from the awful Tories.

Starmer says in The Times he’s “ fed-up” with Trump for pushing up energy prices with the Iran war. Well how “ fed-up” must he be with himself for making our gas and electricity 6-8 times dearer than in the US due to net zero, failure to frack or to exploit the North Sea?

What a silly, unbalanced woman

How has the government found money for four new larger Border Force vessels to pick up migrants, but no new naval vessels to protect our bases or stop sanctions busting tankers?

Wow. The crown prince of Iran has absolutely slammed Keir Starmer and the UK government. This country is an international laughing stock. There has never been such urgency for a general election.

@ReadNorwich No. I think KMK started him ahead of Mehmeti against Birmingham so as to reverse it against you. Probably partly to take some heat off him. I expect him to come on around 70 minutes depending on the score.

@mbeags661 Serious question: You don’t expect him to start?

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