Russell Elliott
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This is desperate end of game stuff from Starmer & his amateur Downing Street operation. A Labour Govt elected with a 174 majority 18 months pressing the self-destruction button? Is that all he & McSweeney have left apart from the line: 'don't worry the bond markets?'
Will Keir Starmer use his nuclear option to try to head off a leadership challenge? www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...
Will Keir Starmer use his nuclear option to try to head off a leadership challenge?
The prime minister’s allies have hinted that he will call a general election, says John Rentoul
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:10 PM
This is desperate end of game stuff from Starmer & his amateur Downing Street operation. A Labour Govt elected with a 174 majority 18 months pressing the self-destruction button? Is that all he & McSweeney have left apart from the line: 'don't worry the bond markets?'
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MARCH TOGETHER AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
LONDON
28th MARCH 2026
togetheralliance.org.uk
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
LONDON
28th MARCH 2026
togetheralliance.org.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:41 PM
MARCH TOGETHER AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
LONDON
28th MARCH 2026
togetheralliance.org.uk
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
LONDON
28th MARCH 2026
togetheralliance.org.uk
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"How we cover corruption in Britain": Mandelson at the height of the scandal around him & The Times.
I had to check the date on this three times
‘At home with Peter Mandelson’ in Times magazine *today*
This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??
‘At home with Peter Mandelson’ in Times magazine *today*
This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??
February 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
"How we cover corruption in Britain": Mandelson at the height of the scandal around him & The Times.
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Isn’t this on of those stories about someone thinking they’d got an amazing deal on eBay only to find they’d bought some things for a doll’s house?
February 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Isn’t this on of those stories about someone thinking they’d got an amazing deal on eBay only to find they’d bought some things for a doll’s house?
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The good Pol Prof is back with another good thread!
I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)
February 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
The good Pol Prof is back with another good thread!
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Totally manipulated into walking around Epstein’s house in his Yfronts!
February 7, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Totally manipulated into walking around Epstein’s house in his Yfronts!
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Next week in The Times: "That Peter Mandelson was a master manipulator, sighs Katy Balls from her fabulous country pad."
February 7, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Next week in The Times: "That Peter Mandelson was a master manipulator, sighs Katy Balls from her fabulous country pad."
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Peter Mandelson trying to present himself as a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. WTF are @thetimes.com & Katy Balls doing colluding in such debased client journalism & at such an inappropriate time?
February 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Peter Mandelson trying to present himself as a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. WTF are @thetimes.com & Katy Balls doing colluding in such debased client journalism & at such an inappropriate time?
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#YourParty #TheMany slate. Seriously #WTF? "Verified evidence seen by the Canary raises serious concerns that #JeremyCorbyn is allowing ally #KarieMurphy to exert undue #control over internal #democraticprocesses."
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Your Party blocks Grassroots Left member from election oversight committee, in latest drama
Insiders have said Karie Murphy blocked someone selected by sortition to sit on the Your Party election committee who was from Sultana's slate
www.thecanary.co
February 7, 2026 at 5:35 PM
#YourParty #TheMany slate. Seriously #WTF? "Verified evidence seen by the Canary raises serious concerns that #JeremyCorbyn is allowing ally #KarieMurphy to exert undue #control over internal #democraticprocesses."
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Which is why the Labour government got the police to do a raid Quaker Friend's Meeting House in London in case people were being too pro Palestinian inside.
Genuinely Democratic FP would be leaps and bounds better if the import of people who work at WINEP, FDD, and AEI was decreased by like even 50% and the Quaker lobby had its import increased by 50%
But the key thing is that Democratic FP could still be immeasurably better even without such democratization, the voter is obviously not always right, but Democrats *could* just not outsource policy to a crank who works at an analyst desk at WINEP
February 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Which is why the Labour government got the police to do a raid Quaker Friend's Meeting House in London in case people were being too pro Palestinian inside.
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If HMRC thinks you owe them a penny it will chase you to the ends of the earth.
If you owe them millions it won't do anything.
If you owe them millions it won't do anything.
February 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If HMRC thinks you owe them a penny it will chase you to the ends of the earth.
If you owe them millions it won't do anything.
If you owe them millions it won't do anything.
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I think we can go broader than this: Britons are relentlessly bullshat about how their country works and how great and smart their betters are, and then every now and then someone e.g. hacks a murdered girl’s phone, then the veil of drivel is lifted and everyone sees what’s actually been happening.
February 7, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I think we can go broader than this: Britons are relentlessly bullshat about how their country works and how great and smart their betters are, and then every now and then someone e.g. hacks a murdered girl’s phone, then the veil of drivel is lifted and everyone sees what’s actually been happening.
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All of which is just a long winded way of saying that the asteroid that will eventually obliterate what we call ‘conventional politics’ and which lots of us kept pointing to is no longer on its way.
It’s already hit. (6/6)
It’s already hit. (6/6)
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
All of which is just a long winded way of saying that the asteroid that will eventually obliterate what we call ‘conventional politics’ and which lots of us kept pointing to is no longer on its way.
It’s already hit. (6/6)
It’s already hit. (6/6)
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It’ll take more than a leadership change for Lab to begin rectifying this. They’d need to remove most of a generation, abandon a whole concept of politics they signed up to 30 years ago & open up an inclusive & pluralist politics that goes beyond parties.
Obviously that that won’t happen (5/)
Obviously that that won’t happen (5/)
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
It’ll take more than a leadership change for Lab to begin rectifying this. They’d need to remove most of a generation, abandon a whole concept of politics they signed up to 30 years ago & open up an inclusive & pluralist politics that goes beyond parties.
Obviously that that won’t happen (5/)
Obviously that that won’t happen (5/)
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And so much ‘right-thinking’ regards acceptance of all that as a ‘grown up’ & ‘sensible’ ‘politics of hard choices’ which only loony lefties question. Again, the complicity of Mandelson stands for a general complicity of the state in privileging politicking over the rest of democratic politics (4/)
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
And so much ‘right-thinking’ regards acceptance of all that as a ‘grown up’ & ‘sensible’ ‘politics of hard choices’ which only loony lefties question. Again, the complicity of Mandelson stands for a general complicity of the state in privileging politicking over the rest of democratic politics (4/)
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Epstein/mandelson encapsulates how UK politicians have abandoned individuals, towns, cities & industries to predatory wolves they invited in to asset strip our economy & to turn our culture into endless online degradation of women which many politicians won’t regulate fully because in hock to (3/)
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Epstein/mandelson encapsulates how UK politicians have abandoned individuals, towns, cities & industries to predatory wolves they invited in to asset strip our economy & to turn our culture into endless online degradation of women which many politicians won’t regulate fully because in hock to (3/)
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The loathing is deeper & more visceral than Westminster-ites can grasp. It’s not party-political or procedural. They worry about the effects of leadership change on bond markets. That’s nothing. But our political class is able to grasp let alone address the scale of the political climate change (2/)
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The loathing is deeper & more visceral than Westminster-ites can grasp. It’s not party-political or procedural. They worry about the effects of leadership change on bond markets. That’s nothing. But our political class is able to grasp let alone address the scale of the political climate change (2/)
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I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)
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One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
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How did Labour Together pay for APCO’s work targetting journalists?
Was it a specific donor?
Was Labour Together’s board aware that Simons had commissioned APCO? What specifically did McSweeney know?
These questions all remain unanswered
Was it a specific donor?
Was Labour Together’s board aware that Simons had commissioned APCO? What specifically did McSweeney know?
These questions all remain unanswered
February 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
How did Labour Together pay for APCO’s work targetting journalists?
Was it a specific donor?
Was Labour Together’s board aware that Simons had commissioned APCO? What specifically did McSweeney know?
These questions all remain unanswered
Was it a specific donor?
Was Labour Together’s board aware that Simons had commissioned APCO? What specifically did McSweeney know?
These questions all remain unanswered
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Labour Together's fantastical narrative about a hack led media outlets to spike stories about how McSweeney failed to declare £730k in funding
That money paid for Starmer's leadership win. This is hugely significant
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
That money paid for Starmer's leadership win. This is hugely significant
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
‘Labour Together broke the law’
The think tank that propelled Starmer to power hired private investigators to shut down scrutiny of its dark money - I speak to one of its targets, journalist Paul Holden
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Labour Together's fantastical narrative about a hack led media outlets to spike stories about how McSweeney failed to declare £730k in funding
That money paid for Starmer's leadership win. This is hugely significant
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
That money paid for Starmer's leadership win. This is hugely significant
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
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Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons commissioned PR firm to investigate journalists and their sources
Why? Because they were digging into the dark money behind Labour Together, and Keir Starmer's rise
Me on D4S, on why our revelations matter so much: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
Why? Because they were digging into the dark money behind Labour Together, and Keir Starmer's rise
Me on D4S, on why our revelations matter so much: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
‘Labour Together broke the law’
The think tank that propelled Starmer to power hired private investigators to shut down scrutiny of its dark money - I speak to one of its targets, journalist Paul Holden
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons commissioned PR firm to investigate journalists and their sources
Why? Because they were digging into the dark money behind Labour Together, and Keir Starmer's rise
Me on D4S, on why our revelations matter so much: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
Why? Because they were digging into the dark money behind Labour Together, and Keir Starmer's rise
Me on D4S, on why our revelations matter so much: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
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In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.
February 7, 2026 at 6:42 AM
In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.