Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ

Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’

The Guardian
Labour think tank linked to Morgan McSweeney 'paid firm to investigate journalists' #LabourSleaze www.thenational.scot/news/2583162...

Labour think tank linked to Mo...
Christian Adams @Adamstoon1 @Telegraph on #laboursleaze #AngelaRayner #Resignation #KeirStarmer #Mandelson - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Labour sleaze, Tory sleaze, they’re all the same. What happenes to these people when they get in power. Utter scum all of them - Tine to go Angie ……

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #angelarayner #Rayner #laboursleaze

UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it | Bees | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/uk-may-approve-bee-killing-pesticide-despite-election-promise-to-ban-it

I wonder what "gifts" the companies gave to gvt ministers?

#Capitalism #Pesticides #LabourSleaze

UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it

Exclusive: Environment groups urge government to stick to its promises and refuse pesticide application

The Guardian
The party who seems to have benefited the most from #laboursleaze are #theSNP. Heading up to #ge2024 the spotlight was on their internal issues which have barely been mentioned once in the last month. Instead the press seems to be focussing on #conservatives hypocrisy.
It'll be interesting to see how the polling reflects this.
Notwithstanding that he was a weekly witness in real time to the grotesque excesses of corruption in Government office exhibited by Johnson & Sunak, it is now clearly apparent that #Starmer , the former professional prosecution lawyer, is not the man to do anything about it, even with a dominant majority. He is hobbled by a lack of reforming vision and zeal. Said to have been "cautious" on the campaign trail, he is revealed in office to be, in truth, timid & lacking in principle. #LabourSleaze

Great God above.

Pensioners just above the poverty line don't need Winter Fuel Allowance but well paid Ministers need to have their clothes bought for them on top of the myriad expenses MPs claim for things us common bogs pay for from our incomes.

Lammy is typical of a political class so far up its own backside it can't see its own absurdity.

#UKPolitics
#Labour
#LabourSleaze

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/15/david-lammy-pms-and-partners-rely-on-donors-to-help-them-look-their-best

David Lammy: PMs and partners rely on donors to help them ‘look their best’

Labour leader’s use of donations to pay for wife’s wardrobe is not unusual, suggests foreign secretary

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