Philip Proudfoot: Labour MPs endlessly said...
Labour MPs endlessly said they wanted Burnham back to have their "best players on the pitch" Interesting, then, that their "best player" is looking to bring back one of the worst.
Philip Proudfoot: The vandalism committed by successive...
The vandalism committed by successive British governments against our universities is just so outrageous. One of our few internationally successfully industries was higher education. And the Tories and Labour have destroyed it all.Philip Proudfoot: Even to the last minute...
Even to the last minute of his pathetic premiership, Starmer resigns by first attacking the left of his own party, insulting the thousands upon thousands of people who campaigned tirelessly for Jeremy Corbyn as "morally bankrupt" Absolutely awful. Just an awful, awful man.Philip Proudfoot: Starmer calling Corbyn's Labour morally...
Starmer calling Corbyn's Labour morally bankrupt in his resignation speech — from a man who defended collective punishment in Gaza, fed intelligence to Israeli génocidaires, and had activists trying to stop it arrested as terrorists. Not a decent man. An indecent sociopath.Philip Proudfoot: You spent your two years...
You spent your two years in office doing everything you could to facilitate the relentless destruction of fathers’ joy in Gaza. Abusing counter-terrorism legislation to protect Israel’s genocide. I will feel joy when you face justice in The Hague.Philip Proudfoot: Political sociologists will need to study...
Political sociologists will need to study how Keir Starmer—a man who echoed Rivers of Blood, supplied military intelligence to a genocide, assaulted civil liberties, demonised migrants, bankrupted universities, and let Palantir into the NHS—is still seen as "a decent man."Philip Proudfoot: They'll call him a "decent man...
They'll call him a "decent man." He is not. He oversaw one of the most aggressive assaults on British civil liberties in generations, all to protect Israel's genocide and Britain's participation in the crime of all crimes. He shouldn't be resigning. He should be in The HaguePhilip Proudfoot: The last remaining Starmer outriders...
The last remaining Starmer outriders are a strange bunch. What’s the argument? “Give him more time! He’s still got nothing to deliver. The nothing so far is tiny in comparison to the nothing he can achieve with a full term in office… You ain’t seen nothing yet!”Philip Proudfoot: Keir Starmer had one of the largest...
"Keir Starmer had one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern British history, won largely because the Conservatives had collapsed. In just two years, he managed to burn through so much political capital that Labour had to bring in an external candidate, engineering an election to do so. Itself not surprising given Starmer spent years purging the party and tightly controlling candidate selections, leaving Parliament packed with MPs chosen for loyalty to his project-of-nothing, rather than any sign of intelligence, imagination, independence or political talent. The result is a governing party with little vision beyond misery. His premiership will be remembered (if at all) for two things: more economic immiseration at home, as living standards stagnated and public services continued to crumble, and unwavering support abroad for Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, despite mounting international condemnation. And remember, accounts on here called things like “LeninBalls6969” told you this would happen for nearly half-a-decade. And establishment journalists tried to convince you Starmer was not a hollow, politically talentless man. But a sensible grown-up. This humiliation is not just on Starmer, but every useless commentator and establishment journalist who banged the drum for two wasted years. "Philip Proudfoot: Iran demonstrated that with enough...
Iran demonstrated that with enough preparedness, and blessings of geography, it is possible to defeat American empire. Sovereignty is possible and the leverage point to achieve it is attacking the foundation of US economic imperialism: trade, oil, and key nodes in global capitalPhilip Proudfoot: If I were not British…
If I were not British, I'd be banned from entering Britain The only thing protecting my civil liberties now is my possession of a passport We have destroyed every last vestige of liberal democracy to protect the impunity of genocidal settler-colony in the Middle East Crazy.Philip Proudfoot: This is such an outrageous assault…
This is such an outrageous assault on free speech. Another key question for @AndyBurnhamGM — will you restore the civil liberties that the little brittle wooden man, Keir Starmer, has systematically eroded over two years? Or are you a coward?Philip Proudfoot: We can’t really move beyond Go…
We can’t really move beyond Go on planning for the future economy after AI if most of our politicians and commentators still think AI is going to produce “new jobs” — what jobs? The entire point — and current course of development — is that it is a labour-replacing technology.Philip Proudfoot: AI has two outcomes...
AI has two outcomes: 1) either we redistribute the value produced, freeing us from labour; 2) we are killed. That could be through war, or it could be through slow structural conditions. Capital doesn’t care if 2 is the consequence. 1 requires a political struggle.Philip Proudfoot: Reform is the party of job-stealing AI slop…
Reform is the party of job-stealing AI slop, but also the party of grafters, apparently.Philip Proudfoot: Entry-level jobs have been replaced…
Entry-level jobs have been replaced by data centres in Virgina. When will our government — or any government — get real about the need to start planning now for what AI is doing to the labour market?Philip Proudfoot: My thoughts on the vaccine remained…
My thoughts on the vaccine remained the same throughout the whole lockdown shit show. Take it or don’t take it. It’s your choice. If the vaccine worked, it meant that the only people an unvaccinated person was putting at risk was another unvaccinated person. If an unvaccinated person was putting a vaccinated person at risk then the vaccine didn’t work and was a waste of time. Andy Burnham here was another politician displaying a complete lack of critical thinking and following the mass hysteria.Philip Proudfoot: 28,000 pa and in London…
28,000 pa and in London. You can only live even moderately comfortably on this with parents supporting you, or if you’re still living at home (if you’re lucky enough to have a family home in London). This is who they are.Philip Proudfoot: Living in Britain is watching the media…
Living in Britain is watching the media smear and vilify good people who want to make positive change, while they celebrate and platform far right goons, funded and backed by almost comically evil tech multimillionaires. It does make you feel a little mad.Philip Proudfoot: Instead of simply taxing wealth...
Instead of simply taxing wealth, re-nationalising water, ending support for genocide, and a tiny bit more wealth redistribution — Keir Starmer has instead destroyed the Labour Party and ushered in fascism.Philip Proudfoot: Starmer got fewer votes in...
Starmer got fewer votes in 2024 than Corbyn did in 2019. And that's WHILE being subjected to the most deranged smearing imaginable (until these last 7 days, at least). Starmer's majority was a quirk of FPTP and Tory collapse. This is WHY it looks so bad. He was NEVER popular.Philip Proudfoot: Keir Starmer wants us to believe…
Keir Starmer wants us to believe an inquiry into why he appointed Mandelson, friend of pedophile Jeffery Epstein, is a “political stunt” But claiming a political opponent is “unfit to lead a party” because he retweeted a post questioning police violence is normal and sane.Philip Proudfoot: “Globalise the intifada” targets the...
“Globalise the intifada” targets the international military-industrial-political system that makes the Gaza genocide possible. Starmer claims it a call to “murder Jews,” in so doing he is conflating Jews with Israel, a core antisemitic trope.Philip Proudfoot: I can’t think of any reason...
I can’t think of any reason why the British government would cut funding to a unit of its own foreign office that’s monitoring violations of IHL by Israel, with whom they sell weapons, provide intelligence, and award diplomatic cover.
21, April
Philip Proudfoot: Whenever heads of state have to comment on…
Whenever heads of state have to comment on, or meet Trump, I think a lot about something @ByYourLogic said about the US president. Trump is the result of all the American stupids finding their ultimate form — the most Stupid of the Stupids — and then making him their king. Then, as king, world leaders are forced into a kind of ritual humiliation, where they must bow before the stupid. Act as if he’s not stupid. Subjugate themselves before the stupid. Share tips on how to placate the stupid. Give the stupid gifts and trinkets. Ensure they avoid his wrath. Anyway, just think that’s very accurate.
18, April
Philip Proudfoot: The Israelis have zero right…
The Israelis have zero right under any article of international law to openly seize a significant band of Lebanese sovereign territory. This is completely illegal and that they feel they can do this is the direct result of months and months of Western-facilitated impunity.
16, April
Philip Proudfoot: Israel has destroyed the final bridge…
Israel has destroyed the final bridge to Southern Lebanon. There is now no way for millions of displaced people to reach their homes. There is no means for essential aid and supplies to reach those who were unable to flee. Another mammoth war crime, another act of barbarity.
15, April
Philip Proudfoot: The problem with Labour claiming Iran…
The problem with Labour claiming Iran is “not our war” is that it separates out the impunity they encouraged, facilitated, and aided when Israel assaulted Palestine and Lebanon, but now try to claim this is disconnected from the world they helped birth. This IS their war.
15, April
Philip Proudfoot: Hardly “a return to the rules based order”…
Hardly “a return to the rules based order” if the new Prime Minister of Hungary is inviting a head of state with an ICC arrest warrant.
15, April