Karin Smyth blusters, obfuscates, deflects and distracts when asked why Peter Mandelson isn't having his peerage stripped.

Its really difficult to do, apparently.

I'm old enough to remember when Keir Starmer promised to abolish the entire House of Lords. How's that going?

PM: I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links The PM says a due diligence process was gone through before Lord Mandelson was appointed US ambassador.

This is like Sooty saying he shouldn’t have hired Matthew www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mandelson leaked sensitive UK government tax plans to Epstein Former ambassador forwarded memo from special adviser to Gordon Brown to late sex offender in 2009

BREAKING on ft website:

Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans

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via Women For Justice

What a story...just underlines once again what a terrible liability Mandelson is/was/ always will be Jim Pickard O@pickardje.bsky... • 7m I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow

That’s why everyone lined up to say that Mandelson was a terrible choice for US ambassador: because of all the dogged, in-depth reporting on his relations with Epstein that had been done before he was chosen.

Voting turn out is generally bellow 50% in Gorton and Denton. My hope is that people will turn out to stop Farage. 🤞

The private equity firms cashing in on Britain’s special needs crisis Specialist schools are a source of income for investors and a financial burden on cash-strapped councils

Curse of Private Equity.

PE firms cashing in on Britain’s special needs crisis.

Councils paying £90,000 - £104,614 a year for day-pupils with complex needs to Abu Dhabi controlled entities. Council spending £2.2bn a year.

No curbs on profiteering.
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Water bills to rise again: Use our tool to find out by how much The average annual household bill in England and Wales will increase by £33 from April.

Water bills to rise again in England, well above the rate of inflation.

90% of water industry is foreign owned. Shareholders count the returns, have no contact with leaks, water shortages or sewage dumping.

Customers fleeced. Privatisation is a scam.

Former North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll selected by Newcastle Green Party to run for Monument ward Jamie Driscoll will stand for the Greens in next year's all-out election

Former #NorthOfTyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social selected by #Newcastle Green Party @nclgreenparty.bsky.social to run for Monument ward

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Labour Friends of Israel reported to election watchdog Exclusive: Complaint centres around concerns that the pro-Israel ‘lobby group’ should have declared its donors

Lobby group Labour Friends of Israel has been referred to the Electoral Commission over concerns about its opaque funding.

Andrew Feinstein, who filed the complaint, says he's concerned the pro-Israel group “may have breached electoral law”.

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2026: Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to"

2020: That time Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would scrap university tuition fees

Number of people in 'very deep poverty' at highest level in more than 30 years, charity warns Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According to its latest report, 6.8 million people - almost half of all of those in ...

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14.2m Britons live in poverty, highest in 30 yrs.

6.8m in "very deep poverty".

34% of universal credit claimants are in work. No curbs on profiteering.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Eyewitness says she has not even been contacted by federal investigators

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Hundreds of thousands of people have deleted Tiktok because of the new censorship that blocks anybody who posts anything anti-israel.

Israelis protest to Free Gaza Ghetto

Our duty is not only to identify those modern day Nazis, but to actively resist them and fight them

Because as we learned from history - Silence and indifference are the soil on which all injustices grow on

Never Again Is Never Again For Everyone - Free Gaza, Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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@greenjennyjones.bsky.social The horrific shooting of innocent people by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raises big concerns about the security of people from this country visiting the USA especially if they are victims of racial profiling by #ICE agents

#WC26

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Media Lens (@medialens) Craig Murray with a truly mind-blowing report: 'Pretty well everything that I have read by Western journalists which can be immediately checked – checkpoints, armed political gangs, climate of fear, ...

Craig Murray:

I am, so far as I can judge, the only Western journalist in VZ now

The idea you should actually see for yourself what is happening, rather reproduce what Western govts & their agents tell you is happening, appears utterly out of fashion with our MSM

I am sure this is deliberate

Resisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland.

Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.

They can absolutely fuck off with this.

Let’s flood the consultation to ban these poisons! Linked to cancer, fertility issues, and birth defects -- forever chemicals (PFAS) are now found in our food, drinking water, and even our blood. When we reach 100k signatures, 38 Degrees will submit o...

In our blood. In our water. In our babies. 🩸☠️💧Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAs👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

“OUR HUMANITY” is under assault by our own government.

When ICE took Alex Pretti's gun, they shot a round into the ground. This is a common tactic by Cowardly Opportunistic Parasites to justify them murdering their victims by being able to say: "HE SHOT FIRST." They are also corrupting video footage to help remove or reduce the amount of footage out.

The British PM wishing Scots a happy Burns night with some Tunnocks stuff, some manner of fried roll sandwiches and a can of Irn Bru.

I had to check if this was real...

What in the name of Scotch fuck?

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

The snow and cold are not letting up. If you see someone who needs shelter, please call 311.

Latest polling. Only the greens can stop Reform in Gorton and Denton. Reform +12%, Greens +11%, -20% Labour

Labour have blown it. This is it. Time to take on Reform.

Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.

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Andy Burnham has now been blocked from standing as a by-election candidate by Labour.

Civil war would follow as Starmer doubles down on dissent to hang on to power.

Zack Polanski is right about student loan crisis Zack Polanski has pledged to end tuition fees. England's counterparts around the world have free university and so did we until 1998

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the #GreenParty are right: university should be free. It is beneficial for all of society to have citizens educated to a higher level. #WealthTaxes could help rebalance the economy towards education

#StudentLoans

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