#purnell — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/alarm-among-veteran-activists-as-burnham-appoints-scrounger-rhetoric-purnell-as-no-10-chief-of-staff/. "Disabled #activists have expressed alarm at the decision by prime-minister-in-waiting Andy #Burnham to appoint former work & pensions secretary James #Purnell as his new chief of staff... Purnell leaves grim memories among #disabled activists who were engaged in #campaigning on work & pensions issues in the late 2000s, including his enthusiasm for so-called 'scrounger rhetoric'."

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/alarm-among-veteran-activists-as-burnham-appoints-scrounger-rhetoric-purnell-as-no-10-chief-of-staff/. "Disabled #activists have expressed alarm at the decision by prime-minister-in-waiting Andy #Burnham to appoint former work & pensions secretary James #Purnell as his new chief of staff... Purnell leaves grim memories among #disabled activists who were engaged in #campaigning on work & pensions issues in the late 2000s, including his enthusiasm for so-called 'scrounger rhetoric'."

"Burnham hands cruel ex-DWP Minister the keys to No. 10": https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/06/25/burnham-appoints-dwp-minister/

#validism #corruption #FriendsOfIsrael #Bunrham #Purnell #UKPol #Labour #LabourParty

"Burnham hands cruel ex-DWP Minister the keys to No. 10": https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/06/25/burnham-appoints-dwp-minister/

#validism #corruption #FriendsOfIsrael #Bunrham #Purnell #UKPol #Labour #LabourParty

“Polanski says Burnham must dump Israel, and recognise genocide, for Greens’ help”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@ZackPolanski
@thegreenparty
@thecanaryuk

“Green party leader Zack Polanski has given presumptive new Labour leader and PM Andy Burnham an ultimatum over Israel. Polanski, Britain’s only Jewish party leader, has said that Burnham must dump Israel and recognise the Gaza genocide — anything less is a red line”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/06/26/polanski-tells-burnham-ditch-israel/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #UKPolitics #Labour #Greens #Polanski #Burnham #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #PalestinianGenocide #ZionistLobby #Simons #Purnell #ClimateCrisis

“Polanski says Burnham must dump Israel, and recognise genocide, for Greens’ help”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

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@UKLabour
@ZackPolanski
@thegreenparty
@thecanaryuk

“Green party leader Zack Polanski has given presumptive new Labour leader and PM Andy Burnham an ultimatum over Israel. Polanski, Britain’s only Jewish party leader, has said that Burnham must dump Israel and recognise the Gaza genocide — anything less is a red line”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/06/26/polanski-tells-burnham-ditch-israel/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #UKPolitics #Labour #Greens #Polanski #Burnham #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #PalestinianGenocide #ZionistLobby #Simons #Purnell #ClimateCrisis

A good talk with Peter Oborne looking ahead to Burnham and Purnell

Worth a listen as Oborne normally is.

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/can-andy-burnham-really-clean-up

#UkPol #Labour #Burnham #Purnell

A good talk with Peter Oborne looking ahead to Burnham and Purnell

Worth a listen as Oborne normally is.

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/can-andy-burnham-really-clean-up

#UkPol #Labour #Burnham #Purnell

This may be too early an exposé since no appointments have been made by #Burnham, yet to make it to the top rung himself, but just in case, it is worth knowing what kind of representative James Purnell really is while the UK (presumably a majority of the electorate) awaits better times as a result of Sir Keir’s foibles & imminent demise.

“It has been widely reported that Andy Burnham is planning to appoint James Purnell, with whom Burnham served in Gordon Brown's cabinet, as his chief of staff if he becomes prime minister.

The questions this raises are obvious, apart from who he is and what sort of politics he represents.

Two questions better than that are:

Do we need another Oxford PPE graduate in government, when we know all the harm all these people have already done?
Do we need another former chair of the Labour Friends of Israel in government, perpetuating the Zionist hold on its thinking?
To those we might add:

Do we need another second-generation New Labour politician in government, placing in power yet another person of no apparent substantial achievement except for the fact that they owe most of their loyalty to Blair in power? Haven't we seen that this does not end well enough by now?
And of course this is this one:

Do we need another former corporate lobbyist for neoliberal entities in Downing Street, because that is what Purnell has been of late? Again, haven't we learned by now that this does not tend to end well?
And, whilst mentioning neoliberalism:

Do we need another of this ilk in power, and that is undoubtedly what Purnell is?”

Read more (and Boost more please, for the UK that is)
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/25/the-politics-of-james-purnell/

PS. I ordinarily would pay no mind to what is happening in UK Politics, if it wasn’t for the sins of our governing Labor party here in Australia which are uncomfortably similar to Sir Keir’s lurches to the right and championing of neoliberal nonsense.

#UKPol #AusPol #KeirStarmer #Burnham #Albanese #Purnell #NeoLiberalEconomics #DeregulatedFinancialMarkets #StateCapture #TaxTheRich #TaxReformNow #AntiFa

This may be too early an exposé since no appointments have been made by #Burnham, yet to make it to the top rung himself, but just in case, it is worth knowing what kind of representative James Purnell really is while the UK (presumably a majority of the electorate) awaits better times as a result of Sir Keir’s foibles & imminent demise.

“It has been widely reported that Andy Burnham is planning to appoint James Purnell, with whom Burnham served in Gordon Brown's cabinet, as his chief of staff if he becomes prime minister.

The questions this raises are obvious, apart from who he is and what sort of politics he represents.

Two questions better than that are:

Do we need another Oxford PPE graduate in government, when we know all the harm all these people have already done?
Do we need another former chair of the Labour Friends of Israel in government, perpetuating the Zionist hold on its thinking?
To those we might add:

Do we need another second-generation New Labour politician in government, placing in power yet another person of no apparent substantial achievement except for the fact that they owe most of their loyalty to Blair in power? Haven't we seen that this does not end well enough by now?
And of course this is this one:

Do we need another former corporate lobbyist for neoliberal entities in Downing Street, because that is what Purnell has been of late? Again, haven't we learned by now that this does not tend to end well?
And, whilst mentioning neoliberalism:

Do we need another of this ilk in power, and that is undoubtedly what Purnell is?”

Read more (and Boost more please, for the UK that is)
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/25/the-politics-of-james-purnell/

PS. I ordinarily would pay no mind to what is happening in UK Politics, if it wasn’t for the sins of our governing Labor party here in Australia which are uncomfortably similar to Sir Keir’s lurches to the right and championing of neoliberal nonsense.

#UKPol #AusPol #KeirStarmer #Burnham #Albanese #Purnell #NeoLiberalEconomics #DeregulatedFinancialMarkets #StateCapture #TaxTheRich #TaxReformNow #AntiFa

@strangetown The first bit is I think that #Purnell was not actually chosen for his ideological repulsiveness.

I reckon that ideologically footloose and intellectually lightweight Andy was driven primarily by romance, by misty memories of his old desk-buddy. Burnham could choose any one of scores of highly-skilled people, but instead he went back to sepia tinted memories of long evenings with too many cheap pints,

@strangetown The first bit is I think that #Purnell was not actually chosen for his ideological repulsiveness.

I reckon that ideologically footloose and intellectually lightweight Andy was driven primarily by romance, by misty memories of his old desk-buddy. Burnham could choose any one of scores of highly-skilled people, but instead he went back to sepia tinted memories of long evenings with too many cheap pints,

In 2002, #JamesPurnell was a newbie MP, office-sharing with newbie #AndyBurnham.

James was chair of #LabourFriendsOfIsrael. #LFI took him to #Israel, as he wrote in #TheGuardian.https://archive.is/XP2g5 / https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/dec/12/israelandthepalestinians.jamespurnell

Usual #Israeli #hasbara via LFI. Purnell was on script.

Read it. No hint of a #Palestinian voice. James heard only Israel. 🤮

Now in 2026, #Purnell will be Chief-of-staff to Prime Minister #Burnham.

#Genocide in #Gaza. #Andy's #zionist at the core of #UKgov. 😡

#ukpol

In 2002, #JamesPurnell was a newbie MP, office-sharing with newbie #AndyBurnham.

James was chair of #LabourFriendsOfIsrael. #LFI took him to #Israel, as he wrote in #TheGuardian.https://archive.is/XP2g5 / https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/dec/12/israelandthepalestinians.jamespurnell

Usual #Israeli #hasbara via LFI. Purnell was on script.

Read it. No hint of a #Palestinian voice. James heard only Israel. 🤮

Now in 2026, #Purnell will be Chief-of-staff to Prime Minister #Burnham.

#Genocide in #Gaza. #Andy's #zionist at the core of #UKgov. 😡

#ukpol

by BHPurnell

#illustration #art #portrait #BHPurnell #Purnell #BrianPurnell

slysze Ellę #Purnell = widze #Jinx, no nic nie poradze 😂

#Gamescom2025 #gry #giereczkowo #OpeningNightLive