Keir #Starmer is (nominally) the UK Prime Minister. His chief of staff was Morgan #McSweeney, who had all his key messages with Peter #Mandelson on his phone. He claims that there were no #backups of the phone.

Seriously, the main man in 10 Downing Steeet says that he had no backups. Really. 🙄

And purely coincidentally, just after Mandelson was hacked, the crucial no-backups-phone was stolen by unknown people, when there were no witnesses.

Sure, Keir. Sure. 😂 🤣

If I were the IT department of a government, I would be keen to ensure that if the chief of staff's mobile phone was stolen the contents could be restored from backup.

There might be backups from which a lot of clearance and some work would be needed to restore, but I'm not sure much of that material should be on a mobile phone, which are prone to being stolen.

#McSweeney #Mandelson

(For what it is worth, finding a better ambassador to Trump would have been a non-trivial project)

The police in the UK think they can be trusted with facial recognition data, including destroying all images not relevant to reported crimes.

And yet, they could not be bothered to correctly document the location of the theft of the PM’s righthand man’s phone. The messages and data held on this phone were a matter of utmost national security.

#Met
#Police
#McSweeney

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/24/police-theft-morgan-mcsweeney-phone-sensitive-contents

Act 2 of the Muppet Show, aka #AnyoneButStarmer panic.

Act 1 was a failed return attempt by #AndyBurnham, a reheated #Blairite and twice-failed leadership candidate who quit, to be an okay mayor. Convinced that he'd finally grasped national politics, his return was blocked 'cos the next mayor would be #ReformUK.

Act 2 is open manoeuvres by #AngelaRayner, the loyal deputy to 5½ years of #Starmer / #McSweeney rightwingery.

If the #LabourParty has a future, it's not with these muppets.

#ukpol

Josh Simons MP embodies a surprisingly high number of the worst attributes of the #Starmer / #McSweeney / #Mandelson axis. He was parachuted into a safe seat by the Labour NEC, when he should really have been expelled.

Now he has been allowed to resign as a minister, when he should have been dismissed.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together / https://archive.is/wiqwf

#ukpol #IabourParty #LabourTofether

UK #LabourParty's #triangulation strategy broke in #GortonAndDenton, after 39 years. The idea was to make the left vote for centrist policies as the only viable alternative to the right. But now the Greens have taken that left vote, and won. No Labour seat is safe.

Labour's only hope of survival is to woo the left instead of attacking it. But it's too late.

The govt is loathed.

Labour MPs were mostly chosen by #McSweeney as anti-left. Most left activists have quit, as #Starmer told them to.

And just in case anyone has forgotten about Labour Together’s behaviour this is sliped into the news

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/20/labour-minister-falsely-linked-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network-in-emails-to-gchq

Simons is a minister!

#LabourTogether #JustNotTHEM #Intimidation #Journalism #Labour #McSweeney #UkPol