Party at centre of storm yesterday after false claims in local election campaign on social media platform The Labour party’s ‘blue tick’ marking it as an authentic account has disappeared from its Twitter account. The party was at the centre of a storm yesterday when the social media platform had to attach warnings and ‘context’ […]
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Local elections have no bearing on NHS funding or waiting times – yet Starmer repeats claim that was tagged as dishonest Keir Starmer has again claimed that votes for Labour in next month’s local elections will mean shorter NHS waiting lists – just two days after the same claim was tagged by Twitter with ‘context’ […]
Not for the first time, Starmer and Labour claim local elections will affect national policies Keir Starmer has suffered the indignity of corrective action by Twitter after he posted a claim that votes in the local elections next month will affect the NHS. Starmer claimed that voting for Labour would lead to ‘an NHS that […]
Labour leader’s managed follower numbers raise suspicions and complaints Keir Starmer’s Twitter account has been reported to the social media platform because of the massive number of fake identities following it. Starmer’s account has for years shown clear signs of managed followers numbers, with an already-high high number of fake accounts growing further as every […]
SEC accepts US$3m settlement over charges Blackbaud failed to disclose full extent of data loss Blackbaud, the company at the centre of the first of two major Labour party data breaches in consecutive years, has agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) three million US dollars to settle the SEC’s charges that it […]
Newly-minted right-wing peer has long history of attacks on left The BBC has – belatedly and inadequately – ‘corrected’ its abject failure to challenge a smear by Baroness Anderson, known to many as Ruth Smeeth, against left-wing Jews. Anderson claimed last week on a live BBC News programme that Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) – […]
This is a Skwawkbox edit of a guest post submitted by a Labour figure who asked to remain anonymous. Asked by journalists last week whether he would proscribe – outlaw – Momentum, Keir Starmer responded equivocally: That one is not for me. Of course, that is neither a denial nor an indicator that it’s not […]
Milburn’s ‘Mozart Group’ said to have disbanded shortly after interview that discussed Ukrainian war crimes Retired US Marine Colonel Andy Milburn has reportedly claimed that a video in which he chatted about the ‘sick’, ‘fucked up’ acts he had seen in Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, including the murder of prisoners of war. Milburn’s […]
Simon Thompson recalled by parliamentary committee to answer for alleged false claims The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has spoken out about the decision of a committee of MPs to recall Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson to Parliament to answer for allegedly misleading in his answers to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee alongside […]
Vice-president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine Ian Higgingson doesn’t expect to be trampled in the rush of politicians coming to experience appalling situation they’ve created Ian Higginson, Vice-President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, has challenged politicians to come and experience for themselves the horrors faced by NHS staff and patients, in an […]