Adrian Faiers

2: And yet, I still stand by this:

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And I wonder how the figures represented by those averages are distributed across the wealth continuum.

Two things can be true at the same time.

Starmer doesn't have a mandate to 'walk away from'.

His huge majority was not a vote/mandate FOR his policies.

It was a vote AGAINST the Tories, combined with the McSweeney team's understanding of how to pervert and exploit FPTP to the max.

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The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones Peter Mandelson helped Morgan McSweeney privilege Labour’s reactionary forces to sustain the PM, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones

Maybe.
However:
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Prince William deployed to Saudi Arabia as UK eyes Gulf trade deal While the prince is not expected to enter the nitty gritty of negotiations, officials will be hoping he can work his royal magic to unlock the deal after nearly four years of talks.

We’ve sent Prince William to the Gulf to get them to accept an ISDS (corporate court) in our upcoming trade deal 🤦‍♂️

The government, the royal family, no more than lobbyists for anti-democratic interests in the City of London.

www.politico.eu/article/prin...

The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

Indeed.
See Clive Lewis on X:
'A culture forged under Blair and Mandelson that taught the party to be relaxed about extreme wealth, comfortable in the orbit of billionaires, lobbyists and corporate power ..'
And here:
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

If Labour does decide to change the PM, it'll be yet another sign of how they're becoming more like the Tories every day.

#BBCBreakfast #R4Today

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

Peter Mandelson isn't a glitch. He offers a glimpse into how Westminster works. The public already knows it. Now more politicians must face upto it - and act.

Read my 2025 article for @bylinetimes.bsky.social about the integrity gap at the heart of UK politics.

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

Starmer accused of hypocrisy over sharp cuts to World Food Programme UK reduces funding by a third despite pledges to tackle hunger, with critics warning the move will cost lives

Starmer told a G20 summit in Brazil that his administration would prioritise “the fight against hunger”

Yet he’s cut funding to the UN World Food Programme by a third. To spend it on weapons instead.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Absolutely

Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37% NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset Exports of British farm products to the EU have dropped almost 40% in the five years since Brexit, highlighting the trade barriers caused by the UK’s divorce from the EU in 2020. Analysis of HMRC data by the National Farmers’ Union shows the decline in sales of everything from British beef to cheddar cheese has dropped by 37.4% in the five years since 2019, the last full year before Brexit. Continue reading...

Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37%

Some argue that ballooning student loans don't matter because they're eventually written off by the Government.

Apart from the burden until that happens, doesn't it just mean that the only winners are the financial institutions who run the loans ... including being winners at taxpayers' expense?

Here we go…

Meanwhile, the excellent judge of character that is our PM is deciding to trust and appease Trump ....

As I note in my piece, these are ACTUAL questions that NBC News's Tom Llamas asked Donald Trump in his 'extended' interview, while not asking a single question about Epstein, or challenging him on a single lie.
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UK being sued by billionaire Russian oligarch in ‘secret corporate court’ - Global Justice Now THE UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed. Answering a question in Parliament from Labour MP Martin Rhodes […]

Meanwhile, the UK faces its own corporate court cases – raised by the hedge fund behind a condemned coal mine, and a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/uk-bein...

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Or so people thought.

No, Dan Tomlinson, the electorate didn't vote for Labour
because of the great leadership of Keir Starmer.

They voted for Labour because of the bad leadership of the Conservatives.

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f crypto had been like LETS currencies but bigger, it could have been a force for good.
However, it's just become a magnet for gamblers and chancers fantasising about making big bucks without doing productive work that contributes to society.
Most posts on X are pushing the latter.

As well as Epstein, Peter Mandelson has questions to answer about his role in the UK’s trade deals with Donald Trump - on medicines and Big Tech in particular, explains our director @nickdearden.bsky.social 👇🏽

Maybe, but it was the abject failure of the Tories combined with FPTP that got this lamentable version of the party created by Labour's top team back into power.

Mind you, McSweeney's team may well have known how to pervert FPTP to the max.

It wasn't a group of 'testosterone-fuelled men at the top of Labour' who made Labour electable again, Justin Webb.

It was the disastrous Tories.

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Back in Parliament tonight to tell MPs we need to abolish ISDS - the toxic ‘corporate courts’ which allows oligarchs, multinationals and super rich investors to subvert our democracy. #ISDSfree

Great meeting @tradejusticemov.bsky.social

Given the allegations of Mandelson leaking sensitive govt info, advising US banks to 'threaten' the Chancellor, etc, you do start to wonder who else he might have given an inside track - US big pharma as well?

The latest nonsense.
'No wonder it's suddenly so popular.'

Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.

Reform’s plans to push half a million children into poverty to fund a suite of hospitality tax cuts are indefensible.

✒️ @henryippr.bsky.social spoke to the @bigissue.com 👇

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