Truly shocking article on how enmeshed Starmer is with the security state.
The Labour party takeover is complete. It will be interesting to see if any credible alternative arises, or if we are now stuck in the US system, with Joe Biden representing the “far left”.
Two things I had no idea about:
Starmer presided over the destruction of sensitive files on the Assange case during his time as DPP. Those that were released, thanks to dogged Freedom of Information (FoI) requests by investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi, were heavily redacted, with crucial details blotted out. Maurizi’s appeal to publish the correspondence between the CPS and Holder’s office was rejected tout court on the grounds that it “would be prejudicial to international relations”. In 2013, the CPS similarly refused Assange’s request to view the personal information it had stored on him, explaining that his case was still a “live matter”. Yet, contradictorily, when asked to account for its mass deletion of files related to the case, a CPS spokesperson stated it was “not live” after all, having “concluded in 2012”. It is partly on account of these evasions and redactions that Starmer’s personal involvement in the Assange affair remains opaque.
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In 2010 he was asked to rule on the case of Binyam Mohamed, a terror suspect who had been arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and tortured under the supervision of four FBI officers. Mohamed was kept in a 2m by 2.5m cell, beaten frequently with a leather strap and hung from the ceiling for an entire week. During this period, he was visited by MI5 agents who observed his punishment first-hand, and warned that if he did not answer their questions he would be sent to a country whose laws would permit the use of more extreme interrogation tactics. This is precisely what happened three months later. The CIA transferred him to a secret prison in Morocco, where his captors repeatedly slashed his penis and chest with razor blades, burnt him with hot liquid and forced him to stay awake for 48-hour periods while playing loud repetitive music. MI5 continued to oversee the operation from afar, providing Mohamed’s interrogators with specific questions about his contacts in the UK and discussing the timescale of his detention with them. After he was released without charge, Mohamed produced evidence of British involvement in his torture, and it fell to Starmer to decide whether the lead MI5 officer would be prosecuted. Starmer declared he would not. He later made the same ruling in relation to an MI6 officer accused of sanctioning the torture of detainees in Bagram Air Base.
Just atrocious. Back in early 2020 UNISON endorsed Starmer as leader of LP with cursory consultation, and as a Branch Secretary I immediately realised my days were numbered. I left the union in December having at least managed to mitigate some of the worst management excesses: delayed pay increments, zero inflationary increase, threats of redundancies etc. They are a busted flush, hoovering up member subs and giving eff all in exchange, and that is old news, but Keef was the final straw. Utter utter bastard.
Amazing how Starmer got inserted into the boss-job of the ex-Labour party. The delusionality of the PexLP hacks in Paedominster who elected him is comparable with their delusionality around the covid swindle.
Further verification of Chomsky’s assertion that the higher you go up the ‘education’ ladder, the more gullible are the - highly intelligent, but fatally-comfortable - bourgeois found there. (My inflammatory paraphrase of Noam’s more measured language! 
) Note that fatal-comfortableness seems to be an epidemic mind-rot, and certainly activism-rot, on all who are engulfed in it.
The disenfranchised majority of plebs in present-day Britain need a new radical-socialist mass party, to replace the defunct shell that was the Labour party. Corbyn might have begun a small push in that direction, at least. The ferocious unanimity with which the comfortables destroyed his initiative - obviously against the will of the majority of members of ex-Labour - shows how horrified these fatuous parasites are at the thought of egalitarian social democracy; the real thing, according to the dictionary definition of those three words. They loath it like poison; just as the English-raj class loathes it, and their political wing, the official Tory party, who use the comfortables as useful idiots or useful betrayers. Anyone backing Starmer fits that label exactly. Ghastly delusional quislings against the majority of common British citizens!
Hear hear. Personally I have lost all faith in party politics and it’s hard to conclude that this isn’t exactly the desired outcome.
With just the illusion of choice on the menu so many people are diverted into identity politics, tribal warfare essentially, and the overarching agenda is pursued with very few attempts at concealment as the opposition to this has crumbled.
As DPP, Sir Keir Starmer tempered his supposed love of liberty by fast-tracking the extradition of Julian Assange (a process now making its way through the courts). He flouted legal precedents by advising Swedish lawyers not to question Assange in Britain: a decision that prolonged the latter’s legal purgatory denied closure to his accusers in Sweden and sealed his fate before a US show trial. Leaked emails from August 2012 show that, when the Swedish legal team expressed hesitancy about keeping Assange’s case open, Sir Keir’s office replied: ‘Don’t you dare get cold feet’