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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸

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The Labour right wing in all their glory, from Mandelson to McSweeney. The staffers, the lobbyists, the revolving door. See how they lobby for privateer corporations, cash in via disaster capitalism etc 🥀 ❉ labourrightwatch.wordpress.com ❉

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · Aug 27

Look up any Labour MP and find out who they really are 👇💰
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What are you not being told about your Labour MP?

This is an attempt to collate a searchable list of details about sitting Labour MPs that tell us who they really are. These are the useful facts often omitted from Sunday supplement puff pieces and…

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 1d

2. clients include British American Tobacco, DXC Technology (who surveilled Palestinians for Israel), MIMA (lobbyists for the cladding industry), private health insurance co Sante Group, and the Enforcement Conduct Board (who represent the interests of the UK's bailiffs).
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Lobbyists: The firms that pressure politicians on behalf of the world’s most unethical organisations

30 of the UK’s most active lobbying houses and their links to the Labour party

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 1d

1. Ella Rose was a public affairs officer (ie a lobbyist) for the Israeli Embassy til 2016, then became Chair of JLM and a hostile enemy to the pro-Palestine left within Labour.
Now she's a Labour councillor. She has also worked for lobbying firm Atticus whose
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New Jewish Labour Movement director was Israeli embassy officer

Jewish activists cast doubt on JLM suitability to lead Labour anti-Semitism training.

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 1d

A kiss of death from an Israeli agent

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Jon Mendelsohn has funded the following Labour MPs:
Dan Norris
Wes Streeting
Sarah Sackman
Dan Tomlinson
Alistair Carns
Jon Pearce
David Pinto-Duchinsky
Matthew Patrick

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Jonathan Mendelsohn is one of Labour's most prolific donors. He invests in BlackRock, social care, gambling and private equity; his wife is a top exec at Facebook/Meta for 12 yrs; and he was at the centre of one of Labour’s worst lobbying scandals.
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Lord Mendelsohn connects Labour to the gambling industry, BlackRock, Intel, Meta, Rupert Murdoch, a free market think tank and a major lobbying scandal

Labour peer Lord Jonathan Mendelsohn has investments in BlackRock, social care, gambling and private equity; his wife has been a top executive at Facebook/Meta for twelve years; he’s a patron…

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 2d

get someone who looks at you like
weird aggro centrist female journalists look at woody fuckin allen

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I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 2d

EDIT: Steve Race (not Reed).

Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 2d

Labour MP Steve Reed was Head of Public Affairs (ie a lobbyist) for American drugs firm McKesson.
McKesson was one of three companies that paid out $1.1 billion to settle a lawsuit over their role in the US opioid crisis.
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Photo of Steve Reed and screengrab of news article with the headline "USA: McKesson, Cardinal & Amerisource Bergen settle New York opioid lawsuit for $1.1 billion"

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Kyle with Ivor Caplin

A photo of Ivor caplin and Peter Kyle when they were much younger. Looks like the 1980s. Kyle appaers tp be styling Caplin's hair using a comb and hairspray.

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Karin Smyth, Bristol South.
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Karin Smyth Tweet from 2016, showing a photo of her with Owen smith.

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Luke Akehurst, North Durham.
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photo of Luke Akehurst with an old lady.

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Mike Tapp, Dover.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Lisa Nandy, Wigan.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Sarah Coombes, West Bromwich.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Samantha Niblett, South Derbyshire.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Meg Hillier, Hackney South and Shoreditch.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Julie Minns, Chipping Barnet.
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Pic of Julie Minns who used to work for Bell Pottinger.

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Bayo Alaba, Southend and East Rochford.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
John Slinger, Rugby.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Josh Fenton-Glynn, Calder Valley.
Josh, MacAlister, Whitehaven and Workington.
Melanie Onn, Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes.
Darren Paffey, Southampton Itchen.

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Kier Mather, Selby.
Karl Turner, Kingston upon Hull East.
Kanishka Narayan, Vale of Glamorgan.
Josh Simons, Makerfield.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Torsten Bell, Swansea West.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3d

A thread about Labour MPs.
Joe Powell, Kensigton & Bayswater.
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