Who indeed?

Five key questions: who overruled decision to deny Mandelson security clearance? | Peter Mandelson | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/five-key-questions-decision-peter-mandelson-security-clearance

#PeterMandelson #Starmer #Labout

This cartoon absolutely nails it.

Shame on Starmer, shame on every MP who voted for this bill. Yes, it was diluted by some random concessions, but it still is the most shameful thing the current Labour government has done.

And: respect to those Labour MPs who spoke up against this depravity.

But Labour is dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jul/01/ella-baron-labour-welfare-reform-bill-cartoon

#EllaBaron #WelfareBill #DisabilityCuts #Starmer #Labout #UKpol

BBC News: 'UK to deny citizenship to small boat refugees' That's it, I'm done, more Reform than Reform. I've always been a Labour voter but unless Starmer goes I won't be doing so again.

#LabourVoter #Labout #Starmer #mastodon #fediverse

Please sign this, to discourage new PFI - the funding model that landed our NHS with crippling infrastructure contracts, many still in force, that would never have arisen, had the state funded past NHS improvements directly.

PFI is the very worst of political pazzazz today at the financial expense of tomorrow.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell-wes-streeting-no-new-pfi-our-nhs#

#nhs #streeting #labout #healthcare

Reading the Liaison Committee session with #Starmer and his answers are not just bland, they're reality-denying - "hey, Mr PM, these two things are rather mutually exclusive" "Oh, I don't think they are..."

#UKPol #Labout

Wes Streeting’s decision to interfere in what doctors think is best for young trans patients poses dangers for everyone | Jennie Kermode

https://bylines.scot/rights-and-freedoms/politicians-should-keep-their-hands-off-our-bodies/?feed_id=2478&_unique_id=675f285e22434

#PubertyBlockersBun #Labout #WesStreeting
https://bylines.scot/rights-and-freedoms/politicians-should-keep-their-hands-off-our-bodies/?feed_id=2478&_unique_id=675f285e22434

Over the last few days I’ve been thinking back to this Richard Seymour piece about the strange connections between centrists and the far-right:

Against all this, official liberalism has one move, which is to supplement its growth discourse by triangulating the far-right. Just as Biden had sought to neutralise Trump by appropriating parts of his border agenda, Macron’s government has tried to outflank Le Pen by, for example, calling her soft on Islam and fulminating about “Islamo-gauchisme”.  This is a weird symbiosis, in which both the hard-centre and the far-right thrive on cultivating hopelessness and punitive desires: sado-pessimism. It legitimises the far-right, who take the win and demand more

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/07/the-rise-of-disaster-nationalism

There’s a long history of new Labour doing this, with the right flank of Starmer’s coalition now extending well into traditionally Conservative territory. Yes he’s called it “far-right thuggery” but I can’t help but wonder how the electoral landscape might be shaping tactical responses, with regards to for example recalling Parliament or going after Farage. My concern that Starmerism will lead the UK on a similar path to Macronism in France is growing with each passing day.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/06/the-triangulation-of-centrists-emboldens-the-far-right/

#farRight #labout #liberalism #macron #populism #richardSeymour #riots #Starmer

Germany hit by new wave of airport, train strikes

Germany has again been hit by a double wave of strikes in the transport sector, as train drivers and aeroplane cabin crews stopped work on Tuesday in ongoing wage disputes. Around 80% of long-distance trains were cancelled on Tuesday as train drivers from the state-owned rail company Deutsche Bahn went on strike. At major air... #germany #unions #strike #labor #labout #transport #infrastructure #news #worldnews

https://www.yahoo.com/news/germany-hit-wave-airport-train-181304956.html

Ah #Starmer. Now the path is clear your big plan is to be a Red Tory. What happened? Murdoch get on the phone to you? Representatives of big business? Get in the sea you useless turnip.

#Labout #UK