Morgan McSweeney is the man who manoeuvred Keir Starmer into power. At one time, this was something McSweeney could brag about; now it’s like admitting to being the guy who shat in the pool.

Not satisfied with bringing his own party to the point of electoral oblivion, McSweeney is now rumoured to have his sights set on Ukraine:

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Morgan McSweeney will attend a security conference in Ukraine this month as he considers his post-Downing Street career

He is understood to be compelled by the question of how AI will affect the next election in Ukraine, which he believes will be one of…

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Haven’t the people of Ukraine suffered enough?

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He is understood to be compelled by the question of how AI will affect the next election in Ukraine, which he believes will be one of the most consequential in recent European history

Friends believe he is interested in helping Zelensky in any future contest

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Oh, we’re sure McSweeney is interested in how AI will affect the Ukrainian election. And by that, we mean we’re sure the wretched, little weasel will be the one using AI to affect the Ukrainian election.

As the Times have reported:

McSweeney, 48, is particularly interested in the role AI could play in elections in Ukraine. According to the International Panel on the Information Environment, an independent group of Swiss-based scientists, AI was used in more than 80 per cent of elections in 2024, when a record number of countries held contests.

It’s difficult to understand what this means, because there are multiple technologies we now refer to as ‘AI’. The reality is it’s probably closer to 100%, because Western politicians are inherently lazy and feckless people, which means many of them are using ChatGPT to write emails and respond to constituents.

The Times added:

Russia, along with China and Iran, has a well-documented history of using the technology to disrupt elections, particularly using “deepfake” videos and bogus images, which the average voter may find difficult to identify.

Russia, China, and Iran, is it?

Is there another country which has famously leaned into AI?

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— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 3, 2025

The Trump regime have also used AI to present a false impression of its political enemies:

AI is definitely a problem, but let’s be real; that problem isn’t limited to the countries that the newspaper people tell us to be scared of.

Morgan McSweeney’s History

The Times added:

In 2024 a Russian operation used AI and other tools to mount a disinformation campaign in Romania, leading a court to nullify the results of the first round. A Russian campaign also created fake videos in last year’s presidential elections in Poland that suggested Ukrainian refugees were planning to disrupt voting.

Give McSweeney’s record, do you think he’ll be countering disinformation, or do you think he’ll be generating his own?

If you’re unfamiliar with said record, here’s what Paul Holden wrote in The Fraud:

McSweeney joined Labour in the mid-1990s as a receptionist and then a member of the party’s media operations. During the 2001 election he was given the task of feeding data into Peter Mandelson’s famed Excalibur computer that stored information to be used by the party’s rebuttal unit.

He was storing information to use against political enemies, in other words — using cutting edge technology to enact Mandelson’s ‘dark arts‘.

Is this the guy we want to be experimenting with how to use AI in elections?

Holden also wrote:

McSweeney is a long-time protégé of Peter Mandelson, the architect of New Labour who, in February 2017, publicly bragged that he was “working every day” to bring down Corbyn’s elected leadership. That doesn’t sound very unifying. Mandelson has been quoted saying of McSweeney:

“I don’t know who and how and when he was invented, but whoever it was . . . they will find their place in heaven.”

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If Peter Mandelson or Morgan McSweeney make it to heaven, we’re pretty sure that means all known religions are wrong, because clearly righteousness was never the point.

Holden additionally noted:

McSweeney explained that the Labour Together Project had two missions: first, it had to prepare for when Corbyn eventually stepped down, identifying and developing a candidate who could swoop in to take Corbyn’s place. This role would eventually be played by Keir Starmer. …

Second, Labour Together had to “ensure” that Corbyn “lost badly”, according to Maguire and Pogrund. Only Corbyn’s resounding defeat in a general election would remove him from the scene and trigger a new leadership contest.

That’s correct; Labour bigwig McSweeney sought to ensure Labour lost a general election.

How could anyone could trust this rat to help them fight an election campaign?

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I have to be honest here. I couldn’t ever imagine the possibility of the Green Party leading an opinion poll.

Ever.

I would’ve bet my vital organs on Liz Truss returning to Number 10 in a blaze of glory before a load of sensible tree-huggers topped any UK opinion poll.

But the Green Party has quite clearly changed and it looks far closer to the broad church that Labour once claimed to be.

If the Green Party continues to open its doors to people from across the left, its chances of winning some form of power increase tenfold.

The Green Party surge

Labour is now a fully-fledged centre-right government, and it has narrowed its base considerably. This is why the Green surge is happening.

So, where is the ceiling for the Greens? If we use a national projection of the upcoming local elections, could we get an idea of where and how the Greens can make serious inroads into Labour heartlands?

And where does Your Party fit in to all of this? Or are they still electing a steering group to form a committee to vote on the best method of having a vote on something that needs a committee to vote for?

Don’t fucking ask me. I know nothing.

Just for one moment, take a look at where we are, and I will tell you why I think Britain needs the Green Party.

Back in April, last year, YouGov asked Britons where they would place themselves on the political spectrum.

About 29% identify on the left (including “slightly/fairly/very left-wing”), 26% on the right, 22% in the centre, and the rest, amusingly, don’t actually know. That’s nearly a third of the electorate that claim to be a lefty.

For arguments sake, let’s split that 22% that describe themselves as centrists, straight down the middle. This would take the left vote to around 40% and pretty much in-line with Jeremy Corbyn’s 2017 general election vote share.

Reinvigorating the left

Britain needs the Green Party.

With the painfully slow emergence of new left projects, some on the left have already moved to the Greens under its recent “eco-populist” shift. This really shouldn’t be seen as a problem because this pluralism strengthens the broader movement.

The Greens provide an organised, electorally viable home for eco-conscious socialists who want to fight Labour’s shift to the right and the dark forces of capitalism without waiting for the perfect socialist vehicle.

Importantly, the Greens stop the left from being reduced to a single personality or party, and they demonstrate that left ideas can win, quite comfortably, outside of the Labour brand.

Britain needs the Green Party.

I get why some people might view the Greens as insufficiently class-focused or too liberal on certain issues. I have voiced my own concerns in the past.

But the dominant view today — reflected in calls for tactical co-operation — is that Britain’s dire situation requires every left force pulling in the same direction, particularly where policies overlap.

The Greens are not the main engine of socialist transformation, but they are an essential part of the ecosystem that will make it possible. Without them, the left would be narrower, and considerably easier for centrists and the right to dismiss as outdated or unrealistic.

Humiliating Labour

Britain needs the Green Party.

Keir Starmer’s Labour has purged the left, worshipped fiscal rules, ramped up arms spending, and turned foreign policy into whatever Trump demands, but with added ‘principles’.

The Greens continue to humiliate Labour in councils and by-elections, forcing the centrists to pretend they care about Palestine, poor people, or those who aren’t in focus groups.

Jeremy Corbyn’s given them the nod because he knows without that constant pain in the arse on their left flank, Labour would sprint right so fast they’d overtake the Tories and start privatising the NHS for “efficiency savings”.

Britain needs the Green Party.

Let’s be completely honest here. Some corners of the left treat just transition like that awkward relative at Christmas — mentioned once then ignored.

The Greens have been banging on about fracking, airport expansions, and a world without nukes for decades. And right now, they are the reason we can’t just slap a red rosette on endless growth and call it socialism.

Plus, they do actually win on local stuff — cycle lanes, council housing, community energy — while the rest of us are still arguing about manifestos from 2019 and socialist purity.

The Green Party is like that friend who actually brings reusable carrier bags to the revolution.

They’re certainly not perfect and some of their activists do treat lentils as a personality trait, but they’re well organised, they win seats, and they help keep the broader left ecosystem alive.

We need the Green Party

Britain needs the Green Party.

Love him or not, Mr Polanski has become the necessary voice reminding us that when the sea levels rise, it won’t just be the Tories getting wet — we’ll all be in it together, up to our fucking necks in Thames Water sewage.

I believe we need to have some proper Greens in the mix rather than watch Starmer and Farage try, and fail to negotiate with the tide.

In my humble opinion, Britain needs the Green Party.

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On Saturday 11 April, the Independent published what may be an alarming headline to some:

Labour faces a green apocalypse at the local elections

By ‘some‘, we of course mean ‘the Starmer loyalists and councillors who are about to lose their jobs‘. And for them, the following message from the Green Party’s Zack Polanski almost certainly hasn’t helped:

Yes. That’s the plan.https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp pic.twitter.com/TSWfw2AKof

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) April 11, 2026

Starmergeddon coming from Polanski

The piece Polanski was responding to was written by the Independent’s chief political commentator John Rentoul. The Independent was considered left-leaning back in the day, but has never recovered that reputation since it backed the Tory-Lib Dem coalition in the 2015 election.

In his piece, Rentoul wrote:

I suspect that the commentary will overshoot, in that one two-party system, Tory vs Labour, will not be replaced overnight by another, Reform vs Green. As I wrote last week, both Reform and the Greens have ceilings to their support. Farage’s party is not considered respectable and Polanski’s is not considered realistic by enough people to make the total eclipse of the old parties possible yet.

We’ve certainly seen evidence of Reform having a ceiling. The party rose to 30%+ in the polls, but has dipped below that since it accepted a mass exodus of ex-Tories:

The truth about the Greens under Polanski is it’s difficult to say where their ceiling is.

Let’s be real; until about six months ago, we all thought their ceiling was something like 10%. The fact that they’re now leading in some polls means we have to reconsider everything:

‼️BREAKING | Greens surge into LEAD (1st!!)

🟢 Grn: 21.4% (+2.1)
➡️ Ref: 20.9% (-1.4)
🔵 Con: 20.5% (+0.2)
🔴 Lab: 17.0% (-0.4)
🟠 Lib: 9.2% (-1.9)

Poll: @LordAPolls, 26-30 Mar (+/- vs 19-23 Feb) pic.twitter.com/oDVw4cDaFC

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— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 5, 2026

Rentoul also said of Polanski and the Greens’ surge:

How should Labour respond? There are two possible answers that will dominate the discussion on 8 May, which I think are both mistaken. One is to replace Starmer. That will have to be done at some point, but as long as the most likely replacement is Angela Rayner I do not think it would help. The other is to copy the Green Party’s policies.

Rentoul went on to say:

Instead of panicking and indulging in a leadership crisis or lurching to the left, Labour needs strategic patience, dealing with the difficult world situation as best it can, explaining the trade-offs and compromises needed. Reform has already peaked in the opinion polls, and the limits of the promises that won it control of several councils last year are becoming more evident. If the Greens win control of councils with a slate of untried paper candidates, they, too, will come up against the constraints of power.

The Greens are not ready to replace the Labour Party yet.

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Labour and the UK at large are in a moment of crisis, in which it’s become clear to everyone that the longstanding ways of doing things don’t work; that the system we live under exists solely to direct wealth upwards, and that there’s very little wealth left to be lost.

As you’d expect, then, a UK political commentator is advising that the party of government should simply fiddle while Rome burns.

The status quo is dead

Our political leaders and commentators can bury their heads in the sand all they like, but the rest of us don’t have that choice.

We’re forced to confront the world as it is because the world is a confrontational force that demands our attention.

We feel it every time our bills increase; we feel it when our retirement age slips further and further away; we feel it when our loved ones suffer as they wait for hospital appointments which may never come.

At the same time, we do hope Labour listen to Rentoul over Polanski. It’s horrible advice, of course, but it will at least ensure it’s clear to everyone what Labour actually stand for.

Because let’s be real; Labour will never deliver actual change, but there is a risk they’ll offer enough phony to promise to retain what’s left of their dwindling vote share.

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The Met Police have confirmed 523 arrests in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 11 April, where Defend Our Juries protesters staged a silent vigil against the genocide and the unlawful use of terrorism laws to silence opposition to the genocide.

This brings the total number of arrests for defying the Palestine Action ban from 2,779 to over 3,302.

Defend Our Juries out again

In March, the Met announced that the number of arrests for proscription offences relating to Palestine Action since the ban came into effect in July 2025, was 2,779 arrests.

The Met chose to make the arrests on 11 April despite the High Court ruling in February that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful as a violation of the democratic rights to free speech and peaceful assembly. Leading legal figures warned the Met that arrests at this peaceful vigil would be unlawful in light of the High Court ruling, pending the Court of Appeal hearing on 28 and 29 April.

Many of the Defend Our Juries supporters arrested were older or disabled people, with ages ranging from 18 to 87.

Arrestees included Robert Del Naja, the artist and musician from Massive Attack. The arrests took the number of terrorism arrests for quietly holding cardboard signs to over 3,300 since 5 July 2025.

Earlier in the day, a former Met police chief told BBC Radio 4 that arresting these peaceful protestors creates optics which are “very challenging for the police” and that there “will be a huge amount of people who have sympathy with what is going on with the views of Palestine Action”.

Bad optics

The Met Police’s mass arrests of Defend Our Juries protestors come despite their stating publicly in February that they would not arrest people for holding signs, given the illegality of the proscription order. They said at the time that not arresting people, pending the Government’s appeal, was “the most proportionate approach we can take”. On 25 March, for unclear reasons, they announced a U-turn on this policy.

Meanwhile, the Devon and Cornwall Police undermined the Met’s decision by refusing to make arrests under the Terrorism Act in Truro on 11 April. Protesters in Truro held exactly the same sign as protesters in London and police chose not to arrest, whereas the Met arrested 523 people.

Former Met Police chief superintendent, Dal Babu, previously said on BBC Radio 4:

I think the difficulty is, when you’ve got 700 or 800 people who are willing to be arrested, that just isn’t practical. The optics of this will be very challenging for the police.

It will present some significant difficulties for the police in terms of how they manage it and also be aware of the fact there will be a huge amount of people who have sympathy with what is going on with the views of Palestine Action.

“Surreal”

A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said:

It is truly surreal that over 500 people have been arrested for defying a ban the High Court has declared unlawful. An already absurdly authoritarian measure has now descended even further into farce ahead of the Court of Appeal hearing this month.

The Met Police has inexplicably reversed its position that, in light of the High Court ruling and pending the Government’s attempt to appeal, it would not arrest peaceful protesters defying the ban. Leading legal figures warned these arrests could themselves be unlawful, and the Met now seems destined to face legal challenge over what may amount to hundreds, if not thousands of unlawful arrests.

The fact that Devon and Cornwall Police chose not to arrest protesters yesterday for holding the exact same signs only deepens the chaos surrounding the unlawful ban on Palestine Action and underlines a simple truth: this ban is unenforceable.

It’s obvious to every sane observer that the Israeli and US governments are committing war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank, Iran and in Lebanon. Instead of standing up to these atrocities, which are already having dire consequences for the British public, Keir Starmer’s government supports them, including by criminalising peaceful protest against these heinous crimes.

Everyone who cares for democracy and the rule of law should be appalled by what is happening, and should ask themselves what they can do personally to prevent the descent into fascism.

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At approximately 4am on Sunday, 12th April, three people from the direct action group People Against Genocide successfully evaded security and stormed the Keysight Technologies research and development plant in Hampshire:

Once inside, the activists destroyed computers, servers and machinery, directly linked to the murder of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iranian civilians.

All three were arrested inside the factory:

Keysight Technologies: complicit in Israel’s genocide

US-owned Keysight Technologies manufactures radar and electronic warfare systems for military use. They supply UAV Tactical Systems (U-TacS), a drone factory which is now entirely owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons maker.

Amongst other drones, U-TacS are responsible for developing the Watchkeeper drone, based on Elbit’s Hermes 450 drone, which has been central to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and linked to the killing of seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in April 2024. They have been used to surveil and kill innocent citizens across West Asia, on behalf of the Israeli regime, and other genocidal regimes around the world.

As well as supplying Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems, Keysight Technologies works with the US Army, US Air Force and US weapons companies, including Lockheed Martin. Keysight Technologies also specialises in 5G technology for military applications. The firm collaborates with Lockheed Martin on a 5G military solution called ‘5G.MIL Unified Network Solutions’ which provides a high-speed connection for weaponry and military applications used by the US military. Keysight Technologies also has a manufacturing plant in Israel.

In addition to Elbit weapons being used to kill thousands in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, the Israeli weapons firm also made a $2.3billion deal with the UAE, which is accused of arming the Congolese genocide.

Shutting it down

Keysight Technologies has been targeted for some time by anti-genocide activists, with several previous actions at their site at Winnerish in Berkshire, as well as Keysight facilities in Scotland. So far, rather than cutting their ties to Elbit, which supplies the Israeli military with 85% of their killer drone fleet, Keysight has chosen to invest millions in infrastructure and security.

A spokesperson for People Against Genocide said:

Keysight Technologies makes a killing by supplying the necessary components for the weapons used to commit mass murder in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and the Congo. By dismantling Keysight’s research and development site, we are taking necessary direct action against the US and Israeli military industrial complex, responsible for the killing of people across West Asia and in the Congo.

So long as they are directly involved in genocide, we will continue to target this murderous company, exposing their role in supplying the Israeli and US military, and shutting them down.

One action taker said:

Keysight Technologies is a key supplier of Elbit Systems, who are are supplying and supporting the genocidal Israeli army. Wherever there’s genocide, Elbit Systems is involved. They’ll participate in any and every other illegal war. Their tag line is “battle-tested” on the Palestinian people. That is their marketing line.

Recently the UAE who is heavily involved in genocide has signed a billion dollar contract with Elbit Systems. Elbit has been looking to the Congo genocide for business opportunities, and their bombs have been used in the Congo. All of the struggles are absolutely the same struggle, connected by the same genocidal maniacs.

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Elbit Systems uses your tax money to make billions while you can’t afford healthcare, childcare, a holiday, groceries. “I support genocide” is legal. “I oppose genocide” makes you a terrorist. Now tell me who’s the real terrorist?

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