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@James69382185 @gmhales The tech still doesn't work

@gmhales Well well well... Seems like police were doing their jobs and making the enquiries reasonably expected of them.

"Two people have lost a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police over its use of live facial recognition technology (LFR) in London" #livefacialrecognition bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@gmhales So what? What are you saying: Police facial recognition technology is accurate as long as it's not a member of your immediate family we're after 😜

From the press summary - I don't think I have seen these details reported before - Mr Thompson was mistakenly identified as a match to his brother, who was on the watchlist.

@echetus @sonjajessup @silkiecarlo @Independent @charleshymas @JWhittingdale Sigh. The tech doesn"t work FFS!

@sonjajessup @silkiecarlo @Independent @charleshymas @JWhittingdale - do you think you were misleading parliament when you suggested it was racial bias, rather than a family resemblance, that caused the mix up?

Hey @sonjajessup, @silkiecarlo Do you think it was it good faith and fair reporting to run this story without mentioning the man Shaun Thompson was mistaken for... was Shaun Thompson's brother?

@echetus @sonjajessup @silkiecarlo It still ain't accurate is it?

We have today witnessed one of the most brutal demolition jobs in modern political history. It may have been couched in Whitehall jargon. It may have been done with unflappable politeness and charm. But over the course of two hours, Sir Olly Robbins successfully steamrollered Sir Keir Starmer’s version of events surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson. This is the man who just yesterday was accused by the PM of orchestrating a “deliberate” cover-up over the ex-US ambassador’s failed vetting. We were told Starmer sacked the Foreign Office chief for the “unforgivable” crime of unilaterally overruling the advice of the security services to hand Mandelson his clearance. The PM tried to pin the entire fiasco on Robbins and hoped he would, like so many others, go quietly into the night. It now seems a catastrophic miscalculation. Robbins came armed with the receipts and methodically detonated them like grenades under Starmer’s story. FULL ANALYSIS 👉thesun.co.uk/news/38884581/…

I watched the majority of this. He bounced and batted away so many things despite being told to be transparent, he avoided questions and answered with either blanket statements that came off as false or were bland and didn't even cover the question. He also refused to answer about possible links to russian companies and why he hadn't conducted his own due diligence in asking for further information, when red flags had clearly been raised. He was stammering and was getting repeatedly flustered aswell He needs to go, the trust is gone

4 February: “Did the official security vetting that he received mention Mendelson's ongoing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?” Starmer: “Yes, it did" Today: Starmer: “I had not seen the security vetting file.”

This you, Jon?

Magnificent! 😂

🚨 EMILY THORBERRY THROWS A HAND GRENADE AT STARMER! 'Doesn't this look like that getting Mandelson the job was a priority that overrode everything else and security considerations were second order?' Listen to Starmer's reply at (1:15) he can barely speak. He knows it's over

Southampton have been given an extra 2,400 tickets for their clash in the Fa Cup semi final vs Manchester City 👀 This is partly due to Man City unable to sell their whole allocation 😳

@RupertLowe10 I didn't think bankrupts were allowed to do Jury service

I have recently completed jury service - not ideal timing immediately after launching a national political party, but there we go. Having seen the system from the inside, I can see it needs a fundamental overhaul. The way jurors are treated by the staff and the process is appalling. Decent taxpaying men and women doing their civic duty are not properly compensated and are constantly messed around. Losing time and money. There one day, nothing happens. The next, nothing happens. It’s unclear, confusing and disrespectful to working men and women. I absolutely believe in the jury trial, and voted to defend it in Parliament. But like so much else wrong with the state, the system needs tearing apart and starting again - giving the jurors more respect and compensation. I don’t care, I don’t need the money. It’s the self-employed men and women losing thousands who I worry about. I spoke to several who were going to be significantly out of pocket. That is just wrong. Time wasted, badly planned, and put the accused at the centre of the process. Strong confirmation to me that the law is now half a cut above itself! I will be raising my experience in Parliament in the hope to improve the system. The judge’s name who demanded I attend? Rupert Lowe. You couldn’t make it up.

Me to my teen daughter in 2010: Do you know this person? TD: Well we’ve messaged on BBM Me: So, no then 🤦‍♀️

🚨HUGE: It's just been revealed that Keir Starmer was advised by the cabinet secretary Simon Case to do security clearance *BEFORE* appointing Mandelson, but he IGNORED the advice. This is the smoking gun we've been waiting for. He's finished.

The unraveling continues. On November 11 2024 the Cabinet Secretary advised Starmer: “You should give us the name of the person you would like to appoint and we will develop a plan for them to acquire the necessary security clearances and do due diligence on any potential Conflicts of Interest or other issues of which you should be aware before confirming your choice." Starmer ignored this advice. Appointed Mandelson December 2024, with vetting not done til January 2025. The rest is history

Just remembered the story about a computer scientist who had his bike stolen and tried to explain binary search to a cop

@PippaCrerar @guardian Starmer claims he only found out about about the vetting on Tuesday but failed to come to parliament to explain immediately. He thought he'd get away with it. Great journalism by the Guardian and fair play for putting aside their Labour allegiance to expose Stsrmer.

Official side of the Mandy scandal continues to unravel. Starmer says he only learned about Mandelson flunking his vetting test last Tuesday. Couldn’t tell Parliament til he’d done lots of checking. But we now know his two most senior civil servants — Cabinet Secretary and Secretary to the Cabinet Office — had known for weeks, had the relevant docs and already done the checking. So he could have gone to Parliament late Wednesday or anytime Thursday. The fact he didn’t is the reason, I believe, the story leaked to Guardian on Thursday — whistleblowers feared a cover up to took matters into their own hands.

Yes we can talk about Tice’s taxes when we are talking about Tice’s taxes (as this clip demonstrates) but not when we are discussing whether the PM misled Parliament. Thanks Tom! Maybe get an early night?

Douglas Alexander thinks "absolutely" Starmer can survive and "lessons need to be learnt". The only lesson Labour will learn if Starmer clinge on is they should have got rid of him now when the stench of Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein hangs over the next GE