Total bollocks being briefed by Starmer's team.

Angela Rayner's office have said she wasn't consulted on or told any details about a reshuffle.

Rayner herself said on radio this morning she didn't know anything about a reshuffle and Starmer would have told her first.
Keir Starmer's team have a habit of briefing things which are not true.

In this case, they're (once again!) briefing against Starmer's own deputy - essentially accusing her of dishonesty - while she's doing a massive speech on Tory corruption.

It's as nasty as it is shambolic.
Starmer's team's treatment of Angela Rayner:

😡 Scapegoating her for the Hartlepool defeat and sacking her

😡 Briefing against her choice of clothing

😡 Only belatedly defending her when she was subjected to death threats (angering her friends)

😡 Now this.
But of course Starmer's cult like followers on twitter will now blame my tweets for causing infighting, rather than, say, the actual actions of the Labour leadership itself.

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29 Nov
Absolutely baffling to watch liberal journalists shocked at The Spectator doing a gushing interview with a French far right extremist.

They were silent when it published articles defending Greek neo Nazis, praising the Wehrmacht and arguing there wasn’t enough Tory Islamophobia
It’s almost as if they didn’t want to upset people in the same professional and social circles, didn’t want to threaten juicy writing commissions, and wanted invites to Spectator parties.

They hate me for saying this, because they know it’s all true, and it is gruesome stuff.
Even now criticisms of The Spectator from these commentators is muted and restrained - “might be a bit far, old chaps, maybe a bit of an error?” - for the reasons discussed in my previous tweet.
Read 5 tweets
10 Nov
Tzipi Hotovely is a right wing extremist who supports the annexation of all Palestinian land and describes the 'nabka' - the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 - as an "Arab lie".

She's the Ambassador of a state deemed by Human Rights Watch to practice Apartheid.
Just as anti-apartheid protesters were right to protest the South African Embassy - which they did far more aggressively than anything that happened last night at LSE - students are entitled to protest an extremist Israeli Ambassador who freely spoke at their university. Image
For those saying: "What about China!" Please do protest the Chinese Ambassador if he does a talk at your university legitimising the persecution of Uighur Muslims.

The difference is Israel is our ally - armed and backed by our government, and the UK helped cause this whole mess!
Read 16 tweets
6 Nov
It's really striking how anti-trans activists claim women are being silenced, yet women - like Alison Phipps - are so often in their sights?

Stonewall's Ruth Hunt and Nancy Kelley, journalists like Ash Sarkar, politicians like Mhairi Black, Dawn Butler and Angela Rayner...
Solidarity and love with the brilliant Prof. Alison Phipps, who has been driven off Twitter because the anti-trans cult has allied with that well-known champion of women's rights, The Telegraph, to hound her. Image
You might think anti-trans activists who call themselves feminists might have a moment of self-reflection, and ask themselves why right-wing newspapers who for so long so passionately opposed LGBTQ rights and feminism are their most committed champions.

Apparently not!
Read 4 tweets
4 Nov
If you want to make the case for Kathleen Stock, fine, make an honest case.

If you ignore students' actual objections - not least that she signed a Declaration which supports abolishing almost all trans legal rights - that isn't journalism, it's propaganda and lies by omission.
Imagine if a university academic signed a declaration calling for the abolition of almost all legal rights for gay people, and that angered their students.

Would media outlets portray the academic as a mere victim, or would they at least try to understand the anger of students?
What this comes down to, as always, is trans people are not regarded as a legitimate minority according to Britain's media outlets, and therefore the real victims in all of this can never be trans people, but only the privileged people opposed to their fundamental rights.
Read 8 tweets
2 Nov
This is a BBC journalist comparing trans people to Jimmy Saville. Beyond belief, frankly.
Since this BBC journalist is invoking Jimmy Saville to justify the demonisation of trans people, let’s have a look at his past utterances on the BBC cover up shall we.

Oh dear oh dear, @johnmcm1
What an interesting list of tweets from this BBC journalist.
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2 Nov
Imagine the BBC had published an article entitled 'We straight people are being pressured into sex by some gay people.'

Imagine it used as evidence a Twitter poll of 80 people posted by a homophobic group.

Would we regard that as a) impartial journalism or b) bigotry?
I would expect most people would respond to such an article by saying 'While there's undoubtedly examples of gay people trying to pressure straight people into sex, they are not representative, and such an article will only fuel hatred towards a group which suffers bigotry'
The key difference, of course, is that in modern Britain, cis gay and bi people do not face the level of Establishment sanctioned bigotry which trans people suffer.
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