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🔴 KPMG being paid £8million to encourage English hospitals to adopt Palantir tech But government refusing to give us info about KPMG deal Labour MP and campaigners have decried secrecy and called on gov't to "ditch this dirty company” New on DfS: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-governm...

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We're coming down on the side of feeling more grief for the pet than partner, @mrjamesob.bsky.social .

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On the basis of the hot air balloon in the next field we can claim a helicopter. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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I am grateful to those campaigning for the return of that tax free government donation towards my Christmas cocktail cabinet. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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" the Brexiters will never accept any version of Brexit. Nothing will ever satisfy them, partly because what they want is not practically possible but mainly because they don’t want to be satisfied, they want to be outraged". Ain't that the truth.

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Simon says that brexit can be blamed on those who opposed it. 😳 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This caller is slandering the working class. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Fewer people coming to the UK for work also means less tax for the government. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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This is a plainly genocidal statement.

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How did these characters come by these many acres of land in the first place? @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Oddly there actually is a good argument for ditching a tax free handout to every pensioner regardless of income to spend as they wish. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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The Brexit mood music has changed. You can’t wang on about sovereignty and fish any more and expect people to care. Trade deals aren’t massively convincing either. People just don’t want hassle and higher bills. That’s all Brexit actually delivered. We’re very tired of the failure. (Letters, Times)

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Isn't about time that the Israel embassy was told to close down and move out? Certainly block all flights coming out of that racist shit hole called Israel and most definitely stop exporting armaments to what is little more than an apartheid regime.

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The brexit loons will never be satisfied, @Mrjamesob. Not even boasting about their strange fetishes does it for them.

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There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

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The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.

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We have a chance to improve our relationship + trading terms with the EU, give musicians + young people more freedom and make travel easier… And Brexiters are howling about betrayal, fish, ‘holding all the cards’ and immigration. Same lies. Same prejudice. And same failure if we don’t ignore them.

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🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control Must read from Foxglove's Rosa Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...

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🔴The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney Why reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...

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Not dealing with Brexitism. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog, including a look at the UK deals with the US & India, a final preview of the UK-EU Summit, and a discussion of Starmer's failure to challenge Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/not-...

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And this is why Starmer will never out-Reform Reform. He could give the whole Rivers of Blood speech and the Enoch Powell fan clubs would reject him. They’ve picked their man for their uncompromising rhetoric… all Starmer is doing is losing his base by showing he’s unprincipled on any position.

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This caller is a conspiracy theorist himself. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Good thread by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on Palantir in NHS. Read also my newsletter from yesterday which reveals head of Palantir UK in middle of UK-US trade deal talks…of which we still don’t know the details. Why not?? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

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Hardly anyone went to university in the 60s. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Racism is not a "legitimate concern". @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Isn't this just another piece of evidence that Starmer lacks any political nous? A Labour PM with a political radar would have put some red lines through that speech. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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A few days ago we were being invited to celebrate the generation who fought fascism, both overseas and at home. This week the PM gives a speech that listeners might have thought had been made by Enoch Powell. Starmer invites us to agree with the racist Farage. No! @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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I wrote an op-ed for @lbc.co.uk about Labour's immigration white paper today & how chasing Nigel Farage will take them nowhere www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

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Keir Starmer immitates Reform in his divisive speech. Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”. Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs. Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.

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Have spent some time in recent months getting it in the neck for giving Starmer & co the benefit of the doubt while suggesting it's early days yet. Well, it's nearly a year now and the latest descent into Enoch Powell language is too much for me. He has to go and take Blue Labour too.

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'To hear that we risk becoming an “island of strangers”, as Starmer has said, because of foreign-born care workers – well, it’s hard to muster the appropriate outrage because it’s just so patently untrue.'. Starmer echoing the words of Enoch Powell. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This is Labour's core problem here. The right will never allow Starmer a win on immigration because the issue is central to their appeal and therey' daren't lose it. So whatever he does will never be enough.

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Aren't a lot of Reform councillors now angry at electors for electing them and expecting them to give up highly paid jobs in order to work for councils? @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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How can this caller tell the nationality of the people in other cars? @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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The culture of this caller is very different to mine by the sound of it. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Why is migration (or freedom of movement) within the UK "good" while migration into and out of the UK "bad"? @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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I'm looking forward to seeing all those thousands of Reform voters stepping forward to take up those vacant arse-wiping care jobs. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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