“Red-Tory MP who smeared Corbyn as mate of Putin and Farage deletes libellous post”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox

@UKLabour

“[Plymouth Moor View MP] Fred Thomas meekly deletes post after warning from Corbyn and widespread mockery”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/19/red-tory-mp-who-smeared-corbyn-as-mate-of-putin-and-farage-deletes-libellous-post/

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Thomas #Corbyn #Smears #RedTory #ToryContinuityParty #Hypocrisy #Lies #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Zionism #Autocracy Labour #Austerity #WFA #FreeGearKier #BenefitsHarmer #KidStarver #RachelThieves #FreezeAndStarve

I like to imagine that there is a junior minister at #starmer’s cabinet meetings who just pipes up with ‘so it turns out #Corbyn was right again’ every so often.

Workers kicked owners out of steel plant. Police turned up. Police sided with workers for the first time in #uk history. Now the state discusses expropriating private property in interests of state and workers.

#Corbyn promised to nationalise steel in and 2019 but we said no because we didn't want communism. 7 years later, we've lost port talbot and we're giving the Chinese communist party a billion quid and we've ended up with communism anyway...

#UkPol

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/police-attend-british-steel-plant-after-scunthorpe-workers-prevent-chinese-execu/

I am sure that misogyny is a problem - although ‘insider briefings’ Against prominent politicians are nothing new - Remember #Corbyn.

However comments aimed at these people must surely also have a basis in their positions and their behaviour? #Reeves on her misguided and incompetent approach to cutting benefits to apply a stick, both she and #Rayner (and of course #Starmer) on their blatant acceptance of bribes - whoops gifts.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/29/cabinet-no-longer-feels-safe-labour-mps-criticise-briefings-against-female-ministers

Tominey on tonight's #BBCQuestionTime says MPs could donate their new pay rise to a disability charity.

Famously, #Corbyn once took his pay rise and divided it equally amongst his staff at his Islington offices

"The Labour Party in government is an enormous disappointment. I never thought I'd hear the day when a Chancellor would get up and say they were taking £5 billion out of the income of the very poorest disabled element of our society.

It is a disgrace" Jeremy #Corbyn

Is he right?

#Corbyn asks " Can she say with her hand on her heart that no #disabled person will be worse off after this statement, or will that £5bill be taken from those who live the most difficult lives already in our society?"

She replies, " The predecation of the change is to stop people being written off, denied hope, denied a future, & it's about making the social security system sustainable for the future and when we have a 1,000 new people every day claming pip we have to look at this challenge

Ooooh Jeremy Corbyn!

“Owen Jones changes tune about 'Israel': From Europe’s Holocaust back to the Balfour declaration”

by Nu’man Abd al-Wahid in Al Mayadeen English

@guardian
@palestine
@israel

“Owen Jones has become a vocal opponent of the Zionist genocide in Gaza, but his past defense of Zionism and attacks on Corbyn supporters raise questions about his political consistency”

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/owen-jones-changes-tune-about--israel---from-europe-s-holoca

“Jeremy Corbyn speaks to the Canary about the corporate power grab taking place in politics”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk

“The question about the corporate power grab is the most fundamental question there is. What we have is global corporations, a very small number of them, have massive incredible power, far greater power than almost any national government anywhere”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/05/jeremy-corbyn-interview/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

"From the beginning, I opposed Russia’s invasion and called for an end to the conflict as soon as possible to save human life. Three years on, and hundreds of thousands of grieving mothers later, I renew this call. There is no glory to war — there is only death and destruction. When leaders neglect to use the language of peace, they should remember that it’s those who are sent to die on the battlefield who end up paying the price.

Meanwhile, the government is failing to tackle what is by far the largest threat to global security: climate disaster. As we speak, people are dying from droughts and floods, yet their lives aren’t deemed important for emergency press conferences outside Downing Street. They don’t have a place in a macho political strategy based on beating one’s chest in the name of war.

Instead, the government’s thoughts are reserved for those who profit from destruction. This week, the defense secretary said that military spending can be “a driver of economic growth.” What he really means is that taxpayers’ money will be paid directly to arms companies. If the government was really interested in building a safer world, it would understand that there is no such thing as growth on a dead planet, and spend the £13.4 billion on species-saving resources like renewable energy instead."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/corbyn-starmer-labour-military-spending/
#UK #LabourParty #Corbyn #Starmer #Poverty #Inequality #ClimateChange

Have you seen this covered by any of the establishment media?

#Corbyn urges enquiry into #Britain’s complicity in #Gaza genocide | Morning Star

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corbyn-urges-enquiry-into-britains-complicity-in-gaza-genocide

“Jeremy Corbyn demands 'Chilcot' style inquiry into UK complicity in Israel's war on Gaza”

by Imran Mulla in Middle East Eye

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes

“Corbyn says officials may be implicated in the 'gravest breach of international law over support for devastating siege and bombardment of Palestinians”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jeremy-corbyn-demands-chilcot-style-inquiry-uk-complicity-israels-war-gaza

Sam Fender's working-class rock.

#Music #Tyneside #England #Corbyn

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2025/02/sam-fender-people-watching-review-politicised-rock

#MediaLens | Orange Peace

"It is the influence of this war machine that causes virtually every media organisation to support virtually every US-UK war of aggression in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. It seeks out or stokes lucrative bloodbaths in Ukraine and Gaza. It smears and denounces anyone calling for non-violent alternatives as ‘useful idiots’, de facto ‘traitors’, siding with Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Qaddafi, Assad and Putin."

"Remarkably, given that they stand at opposite ends of the political spectrum, there are parallels between this media treatment of #Corbyn and that afforded to US president Donald #Trump ... This is not a Trumpian echo of Gandhi’s principled, satyagraha ethic of non-violence. Rather, if ‘war is the continuation of politics by other means’, Trump’s anti-war stance is the continuation of #capitalism by other means."

https://medialens.substack.com/p/orange-peace

#Media #Journalists #War

“Jeremy Corbyn set to attend the launch of a NEW political party”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk

Jeremy Corbyn will attend the launch of Southport Community Independents in the seaside Merseyside town on 1 March. [..] This event will be in partnership with the Collective, Peace & Justice Project and Assemble”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/02/03/jeremy-corbyn-southport/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg