Labour Heartlands
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Keir Starmer: "We inherited a really bad #Brexit deal that Boris Johnson had negotiated" A reminder that as shadow Brexit secretary, Starmer rejected *his own proposals*, and he did this to sabotage negotiations over a soft Brexit deal in order to undermine Corbyn, push a vote losing second referendum and run for leader... Yes, we warned he would do that in 2018 Watch the second part of the video talking about how Starmer sabotaged even his own red lines on Brexit. #StarmerLies
Labour Heartlands71,381 görüntüleme • 12 gün önce
Diane Abbott, "I think the round of applause in the committee room just now was staged" "Just as all the endorsements of PM Keir Starmer were staged" "I can't see him lasting beyond the May election" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Why wait till May?" Diane Abbott, "Because they will be catastrophic, and they want him to stay to take responsibility" #StarmerMustResign
Labour Heartlands659,129 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
THE WATER RIP-OFF IS NOT ADDING UP. Barry Gardiner MP has exposed the great trick at the heart of Labour’s position on water. Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds says bringing water back into public ownership would cost an “enormous amount of money”. But when challenged, her department’s own response admitted it has not assessed the cost of continuing with privatisation against the cost of public ownership. Read that again. The Government insists public ownership is too expensive, while refusing to do the maths needed to prove it. Water is a natural monopoly. People cannot shop around for a better pipe to their home. Yet billpayers are trapped in a system where their money must cover not only clean water, functioning infrastructure and sewage treatment, but the financial interests of private owners, creditors and shareholders. Public ownership is not some wild luxury. It is common sense. Remove the need to extract profit from an essential service and put billpayers’ money back into pipes, reservoirs, sewage works and lower bills. The question is no longer whether the privatised water model has failed. We can see and smell that failure in our rivers and on our beaches. The question is why a Labour Government is defending it without even calculating the public alternative. Come clean, Secretary of State. Publish the full comparison. Let the public see who this broken system is really serving. Labour Heartlands #LabourParty #PublicOwnership
Labour Heartlands44,304 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
Was it worth it? In 1970, the BBC interviewed Sidney Williams, a 73-year-old First World War veteran living at the Royal Star and Garter home in Richmond. He’d served in the trenches. A Lewis gunner. The interviewer asked him plainly: “How many people have you killed in the war?” He replied just as plainly: “Couldn’t say. I was in the Lewis Gunners.” A pause. Then the harder question: “Was it worth it?” His answer: “No.” No flourish. No speech. No grand theory of geopolitics. Just a man who had seen what modern war actually looks like - mud, metal and bodies - and who, half a century later, saw no glory in it. Before politicians talk about boots on the ground and historic destiny, they should listen to the men who were there. Sometimes history’s clearest verdict comes in a single word.
Labour Heartlands380,270 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
The head of Ofgem, who earns an annual salary of over £300,000. gives some helpful tips on how people can reduce their bills. "Shop around, change your payment method and try to use less." The head of Ofgem says customers "may" be able to save around £140 a year by switching the way they pay for energy. Then comes the obvious question: what about the energy companies making enormous profits while households are being hammered? His response is telling. Ofgem caps the profits of the suppliers it regulates through the price cap, he says. But the really big profits are being made by the oil and gas companies extracting energy from the ground. And dealing with those profits? That, apparently, is for government and the tax system. So there we have it. The public are told to manage their direct debits and ration their energy use, while the companies making fortunes from a basic necessity, our country's own resources, are treated as a matter for somebody else. The system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was built to do: protect the market first and leave ordinary people to carry the cost. #energyefficiency #Ofgem
Labour Heartlands24,411 görüntüleme • 8 gün önce
Here’s the truth: nobody ever really liked Starmer. It was always there, the insincerity stitched into him like a Lord Alli suit. His lack of vision for the country was matched only by his lack of understanding of what the Labour Party was supposed to be. He never built a route for working people to rise. He built a reception room for corporations to enter. He shook the hands of the profit-makers and ignored the open palms of the poor. Fairly or unfairly, he is now despised by much of the public. Not because people are stupid. Not because they failed to understand him. But because they understood him perfectly well. A man without warmth. A party without roots. A government without a cause. Lewis Goodall says Keir Starmer has no way back as PM following the local election results, adding that former Labour leader "Jeremy Corbyn" didn't experience a similar "wipeout" at his most unpopular point.
Labour Heartlands68,388 görüntüleme • 26 gün önce
The Epstein files just dropped 2 hours of Steve Bannon footage, and it connects straight back to Downing Street. Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just friends with billionaires and royals. He was a card-carrying member of the Trilateral Commission, the same globalist outfit that counts Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson among its ranks. Founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller to spread neoliberal orthodoxy across three continents, this is the organisation that openly states democracy has "too much" public participation. They believe the powerful should decide, not workers, not voters. Epstein sat in those rooms. So did Mandelson, who rang him in jail to arrange banker meetings. So does Starmer, hand-picked from 650 MPs to join. Now Bannon's tapes reveal the extent of elite collusion, political fixers, media rehabilitation, private jets between them all. This isn't conspiracy. It's network mapping. From Rockefeller's vision to Starmer's cabinet, the same club, the same agenda, the same contempt for democratic accountability. Who runs Britain? Well, it's a big club and you're not in it... 👉 Read the full investigation including the Bannon video evidence: #EpsteinFiles #TrilateralCommission #Starmer #Mandelson #EliteCapture #UKPolitics
Labour Heartlands298,916 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
Kwasi Kwarteng says the welfare bill is “unsustainable”. This from the man whose mini-budget sent markets into panic and mortgage bills through the roof. Kevin Maguire points out that welfare spending is forecast at 10.6% of GDP, lower as a proportion than in much of Europe. And over half of it goes on pensioners. But here is the part politicians rarely mention: millions of Universal Credit claimants are already in work. Public finances are not simply supporting people without jobs. We are topping up low wages while companies such as Tesco and Sainsbury’s report billion-pound profits. So spare us the lectures about Britain’s “welfare dependency”. The scandal is an economy where working people cannot afford to live on their wages, while profitable corporations expect the public purse to bridge the gap. #welfare
Labour Heartlands23,598 görüntüleme • 9 gün önce
The former RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch warned people about #KeirStarmer before the election. Most of the media laughed it off. Many in Labour dismissed him. But he understood exactly what Starmer represented. Lynch said Starmer’s Labour was managerial, not political. A party run by lawyers, advisors, and communications professionals rather than people rooted in labour history, trade unions, industry, or working-class communities. A party that believed in management, not representation. Stability, not change. Administration, not politics. He warned that if Starmer won, Labour would not govern as a movement, but as a management team. If anything, Lynch understated it. What we have seen is not a political Prime Minister but an administrative one. Government by briefing note, by focus group, by legal framing rather than political vision. A Labour Party reshaped from a political movement into something closer to a corporate structure with MPs. Under Starmer, Labour has been changed more fundamentally than even under Blair. Blair at least had a political project. Starmer’s project has been control. Centralise the party. Remove internal opposition. Sideline unions. Purge members. Control candidate selection. Control messaging. Control policy. The result is a Labour Party that is now barely recognisable as a working-class party, and barely recognisable even as a democratic political party. It behaves more like an administrative arm of the state than a movement representing the people. Alongside this has come something else that should worry anyone who cares about civil liberties. Expanding surveillance powers. Restrictions on protest. Speech laws framed as safety. Increasing police powers. More powers for the state, fewer rights for the citizen. All passed in the language of responsibility and stability. This is managerial politics. Not leadership, not representation, not democracy in the traditional labour movement sense. Management of the population. Management of expectations. Management of decline. Mick Lynch saw a managerial Labour Party coming. What he didn’t see was a Labour Party rebuilt as a machine: centrally controlled, staffed with loyalists, a government with authoritarian instincts and no roots in the labour movement at all, parachuting in MPs with little to no experience outside political offices, hand-picked acolytes from outfits like Labour Together, selected not for independence or service to their communities, but for loyalty to the leadership. MPs whose first duty is not to their constituents, not to their country, but to the party machine and the people who control it. Labour didn’t win power for the people. Starmer won power for the global oligarchy and that little club he's been a member of since 2019... Paul Knaggs , Labour Heartlands
Labour Heartlands105,332 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
STOP USING PEOPLE WITH DSD AS PROPS FOR GENDER IDEOLOGY This is Nick, better known as That XXY Guy. Nick has a Difference of Sex Development, a medical condition. He is also a man. A male. And he is furious that activists keep dragging people like him into arguments about transgender identity as though their medical conditions prove that human sex is imaginary, fluid, or somehow no longer male and female. His message is blunt because it needs to be: people with DSD are not a mythical “third sex”. They are not political exhibits. They are not a convenient shield to be held up every time someone points out that sex is real. Nick is male. His XXY condition does not make him less male. It does not make him “both sexes”. And it certainly does not exist to prop up an ideology he does not consent to represent. More importantly, this is not Nick standing alone. The UK charity dsdfamilies, which supports children, young people and families living with Differences of Sex Development, has repeatedly warned against conflating DSD with transgender identity. DSD concerns complex physical differences in sex development. Transgender identity is a separate issue entirely. After the Supreme Court ruling, dsdfamilies warned against the “oversimplification, misrepresentation and weaponisation of DSD/Intersex by third parties”, stating that such misuse increases stigma and may discourage people from accessing support. Read that again. The people activists keep using as their biological trump card are telling them to stop. This is what ideological capture looks like: people with real medical conditions are spoken over, misrepresented and reduced to poster children for a political argument they never asked to carry. So listen to Nick. Stop claiming people with DSD abolish the reality of male and female. Stop pretending their conditions are interchangeable with transgender identity. Stop using other people’s bodies, medical needs and lived experience as ammunition for an ideology that does not even respect what they are saying. People with DSD need proper medical support, dignity, understanding and a voice of their own. They do not need activists appropriating their conditions to deny biological reality. #sexisbinary
Labour Heartlands18,892 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
“We have always been at war with Eastasia.” George Orwell wrote that line in his famous novel, 1984, to describe how governments rewrite history in real time. In the novel, yesterday’s ally becomes today’s enemy, and the past is simply edited to match the present. Newspapers are changed, records destroyed, and anything that contradicts the current narrative disappears into what Orwell called the memory hole. The point Orwell was making was simple but chilling. If you control the past, you control how people understand the present. And if you control the present, you control the future. Which brings us to #Ukraine. Here we are showing a video from 2014, when ITV News Europe Editor James Mates reported on a day of violence in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. It is unlikely ITV will be replaying this report anytime soon, because it complicates the very simple story we are now told about Ukraine’s recent history. The war did not suddenly appear in 2022 out of nowhere. It began in 2014, after the overthrow of Ukraine’s government amid Western-backed unrest, with US politicians like John McCain on the ground supporting opposition forces. What followed was eight years of civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Shelling, civilian deaths, and refugees fleeing Donetsk, Luhansk, and Mariupol were reported by Western media at the time. This is not Russian propaganda. It is their footage. These are their reports. The truth is simple. The Ukrainian civil war ran for eight years. It ended on February 24th 2022, when Russia crossed the border and turned it into an international war. This is why old news reports matter. They are pieces of history that cannot easily be rewritten once people have seen them. Orwell understood this perfectly. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” So when certain parts of history quietly disappear from the conversation, when timelines suddenly begin at convenient political moments, it is always worth paying attention. Because the memory hole is not just a device in a novel. It is how propaganda works. Paul Knaggs , Labour Heartlands
Labour Heartlands68,126 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Keir Starmer at #PMQs: "My uncle nearly lost his life when his ship was torpedoed in the #Falklands" Fact check: The only ship torpedoed was the Belgrano Meanwhile, he's cutting the #winterfuelallowance for pensioners and veterans who actually served. No shame. #Starmerlies
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I had a grudging respect for #PlaidCymru. Their leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, always struck me as a serious, grounded figure, someone who looked like he understood the people he claimed to represent and wanted the best for his country. Then the rot set in... Identity politics crept through the door, and like it always does, it started replacing substance with performance. Now I look on and wonder what happened to the party I thought I recognised. Take Kayleigh Unitt, Plaid’s candidate in Flint–Wrexham for the 7 May elections. She says her disabilities prevent her from working a standard job: “I would love to work a 9-to-5, but my health just won't let me.” Yet somehow, those same limitations don’t stop her maintaining an active presence as a dancer on social media. That contradiction matters. Not because people with disabilities shouldn’t be represented, they absolutely should, but because this kind of optics risks undermining those who genuinely struggle and already have to fight to be taken seriously by an ever increasingly dismissive society. And here’s the deeper point: what does any of this have to do with the material concerns of the people of Flint and Wrexham? Jobs. Wages. Infrastructure. Public services. I wonder, what's her policy on fixing potholes? I despair!
Labour Heartlands44,022 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Something unexpected happened at #Davos Jamie Dimon, hardly a socialist firebrand, openly called out the dysfunction at the heart of the global system. Not in activist language. Not in moral rhetoric. But in blunt, managerial terms. Dimon argued that targeted public spending, if directed straight to people who need it, would drive growth rather than drain it. He dismissed the obsession with deficit panic and even accepted that modest tax rises might be justified, if the money actually reached ordinary people instead of disappearing into Washington’s black hole. Then he went further. He described Congress as a “swamp”, dominated by 17,000 lobbying groups. He admitted that banks and corporations are part of the problem, pursuing narrow self-interest over the public good. He pointed to how programmes like the CHIPS Act are bloated, distorted, and ultimately fail because they become vehicles for interest groups rather than real economic strategy. In other words, the system doesn’t fail by accident. It fails by design. And then, right as he reached the core of the problem, the moderator stepped in: “OK. We’re running out of time.” That moment mattered. Because when even a Wall Street CEO starts saying that money should go directly to people, that growth comes from real investment not endless lobbying churn, and that the political system is captured, the limits of acceptable discussion are suddenly revealed. Redistribution is fine, apparently, as long as it’s abstract. Critique is acceptable, as long as it doesn’t question power for too long. And honesty is tolerated, right up until it becomes inconvenient. This wasn’t a radical speech. It was a controlled breach in the narrative. And the speed with which it was shut down tells you everything you need to know about who Davos is really for. When even the beneficiaries of the system can no longer pretend it works, the problem isn’t ideology. It’s legitimacy in a rigged system exposed Paul Knaggs, Labour Heartlands #WEF2026 #WEF
Labour Heartlands119,512 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
“You’re making an extra £20 million a day while businesses go to the wall, and the government’s answer is to tell people to download an app to check petrol prices.” You couldn’t make it up. Labour’s James Murray replies tells you everything about modern government. #FuelPrices #IranWar
Labour Heartlands58,061 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Sir Keir Starmer's advice for voters today. If you don't like the changes we've made, I say, the door is open, and you can leave. I'm taking his advice, are you? What a shame, he ran this once great party into the ground... The Labour Party #Starmer #localelections2026
Labour Heartlands23,469 görüntüleme • 27 gün önce
Sky News confirms what many could already feel on the ground. Labour’s support in London hasn’t just dipped, it’s fallen off a cliff, from 48 percent to 25. That isn’t a swing. It’s a rupture. Keir Starmer built a project on focus groups and managed decline, and now the voters have returned the favour. Prominent MPs are staring at their own obituaries, and the leadership looks less like authority and more like borrowed time. When a party forgets who it’s for, the public reminds it. Brutally. The "Uniparty" isn’t holding. It’s cracking under the weight of its own emptiness. Paul Knaggs, Labour Heartlands
Labour Heartlands31,091 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Clive Lewis MP says Wes Streeting becoming Prime Minister would be “the end of the Labour movement in this country.” The hard truth, Clive, is that the Labour movement inside the Labour Party has already been buried. What remains is a Westminster management brand wearing the old rosette like a stolen medal. Streeting would not be the end. He would be the logical conclusion. A Party of donors, lobbyists, media handlers and careerists does not suddenly become a workers’ Party because it swaps one suit for another. That is not renewal. That is just rearranging the deckchairs on a sinking ship while arguing over who gets the captain’s hat. Here's the awkward truth. The Labour Party did not die because of one man. It died because too many of its MPs chose power over principle, donors over members, and managed decline over working-class politics. Streeting would simply be the gravestone. #starmerout #resign
Labour Heartlands16,353 görüntüleme • 23 gün önce
The “forensic Starmer” myth died a death here. Liz Kendall didn’t defend him. She exposed the problem. In that exchange with Trevor Phillips, she admits the appointment was wrong, admits the facts mattered, admits the seriousness… then still says Starmer isn’t responsible. That’s not a defence. That’s damage control. Because the facts don’t move. He appointed Peter Mandelson, then blamed process when it blew up. Leadership isn’t about what you would have done. It’s about what you did. So here’s the question that killed the whole performance: If it was this serious… why make the appointment in the first place? #StarmerOut Liz Kendall #starmer #mandelson
Labour Heartlands23,654 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce