Mandy Parry

Morgan McSweeney quits as PM's chief of staff following Mandelson scandal

He did have to go.

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Morgan McSweeney quits as PM's chief of staff following Mandelson scandal - BBC News

Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff — The Guardian Longtime aide departs after seemingly botched No 10 effort to shore up PM’s position against supposed plotters

Yet again weakling Starmer was too spineless to sack:

Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

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🚨 BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney has resigned as Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff over the Mandelson scandal

this would have been a damning statistic before the mandelson shit.

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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The world is rapidly being divided up between free democratic nations that follow international law on one side, and geopolitical bullies with no respect for international law or human rights on the other. The UK needs to decide which side it wants to stand on.

Trump guilty of kidnapping and other international war crimes!!

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.

After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

This exposes the core lie on which the entirety of “gender-critical” transphobia is based.

The transphobes’ entire campaign is based on the false claim that they represent cis-women.

The number of signatories to this, is way higher the number of signatories to their transphobic WDI “declaration”.

I supported & advised a research project by a victim of FGM about FGM.

It was extremely stressful for both of us (much more so than my own research even). From this experience, in my opinion however horrible you have been told FGM is, the reality of it is many times worse.

This is utterly vile…

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I’m running out of words to describe this ugly, vile piece of shit who’s squatting in the people’s house right now. Imagine the uproar if any other president before him had put out this message after Rob Reiner and his wife were brutally murdered.

Fuck all the way off Donald Trump! 🖕

We Are All Belén Belén is both a reminder and a warning: when abortion is criminalized, we risk harming anyone with a uterus, and it’s already happening.

Yes, we are all Belén. 😢
The movie Belén is Argentina’s International Feature Film entry for the upcoming Oscars. The true story follows Belén (a pseudonym), who is falsely imprisoned for having an abortion when she really had a miscarriage.

Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.

#NoWords 🤮

1/ You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but two recent employment tribunal rulings have vindicated those of us who have said from the start that the Supreme Court judgment did not require the automatic exclusion of trans people from single-sex toilets and changing rooms. 🧵

Compassion, honesty, dedication, collaboration, dignity, fairness.

So Stephenson talks about;

"Compassion,
honesty,
dedication,
collaboration,
dignity,
fairness."

So stand by for,

cruelty,
dishonesty,
incompetence,
obsceneness,
&
unfairness.

The "collaboration" bit will remain but only with transphobes.

Sandie Peggie tribunal judgement to be amended in fake quote row On Monday, an employment tribunal outlined four ways in which NHS Fife harassed Ms Peggie after she was suspended from her job.

I see the BBC confronted with the reality of a decision incompatible with both (1) what it told its audience the Tribunal had decided and (2) its strongly transphobic editorial line, is now participating in a highly partial and baseless smearing of the Tribunal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020.

This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers.

The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.

'Lammy Must Ditch Plan To Scrap Jury Trials Or Face Embarrassing Defeat', Warns Senior Labour MP Writing for HuffPost UK, Karl Turner MP says there are other ways to clear the courts backlog.

Labour just seems intent on removing as many human rights from as many people as possible.

Like I have said before it is Reform Beta.

The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project

"This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Update Following Employment Tribunal Rulings. This week two legal judgements, concerning employers based in Scotland, have shown that employers are not obliged to exclude trans people from facilities that align with their gender. Full statement on our website.

This week two legal judgements, concerning employers based in Scotland, have shown that employers are not obliged to exclude trans people from facilities that align with their gender.

Full statement: transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/12...

#Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC

The only person to come out of the SPeggie/NHS tribunal vindicated and with a completely untarnished reputation is Dr Beth Upton.

Not SPeggie,
Not the NHS management,
Not Four Women Scotland,
Not the media,

Just Dr Upton.

You don't get to support Starmer for years then tell other people to engage their brain.

Finally, a foe worthy of her talents.

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.

She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

She won her case like you won the general election.

Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits

I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers.

He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.

Trumpian