Palestine Solidarity Campaign officer Lewis Backon: ‘Unelected Lord Watson describes it as ‘mob rule.’ It’s democracy.’
FORMER deputy leader of the Labour Party Lord Tom Watson sparked fresh outrage today as he dismissed critics of his new boss US spy tech Palantir’s controversial government contracts as “mob rule.”
Co-founded by Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel, the firm provides AI-powered software to the Israeli military and the White House’s Ice immigration crackdown and recently appointed Lord Watson as its senior vice-president.
Labour MPs, medical unions and NHS campaigners have been urging PM Andy Burnham to ditch Palantir from government contracts, including a £330 million software deal with the health service.
Lord Watson told the BBC: “One of the things I’d say to my former colleagues is: do you want to let the rule of law lead procurement practice, or do you want mob rule to lead procurement practices? Because you get yourself in a lot of trouble if you go down on the latter one.”
He added he would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns if the situation arose.
Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAUK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.
dizzy: It’s far more appropriate to accuse Tom Watson of being part of mob rule, of mobsters subverting democracy to enrich themselves. Watson in taking Palantir’s filthy lucre is joining Donald Trump’s gang. Trump has a history of failed casinos, a traditional route for mobster money-laundering. Like Watson, Trump subverts democracy whoring himself to the highest bidders – often fossil fuel industries – not caring anything for human rights or destroying the climate and environment. Watson is similarly happy to take the money from the immoral filthy rich and powerful.
We shouldn’t tolerate this shit of politicians subverting democracy any longer. Palestine Action supporters accused and sentenced as terrorists? FO, we should instead be jailing Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell as the war criminals they undoubtedly are, holding this Fascist Labour government to account for complicity and actively supporting Israel’s Gaza genocide. These politician cnuts are the real terrorists, criminals and mobsters.
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Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
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Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon at RAF Fairford on July 9, 2016 in Fairford, England [Steve Thorne/Getty Images]
Iran summoned the British Ambassador to Tehran Hugo Shorter on Thursday to protest accusations linking the country to an alleged sabotage plot targeting RAF Fairford, a British military base used by US forces, state broadcaster IRIB reported, Anadolu reports.
Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi conveyed Tehran’s “strong protest” at the “destructive approach” by the British government following remarks by Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
Takht-Ravanchi rejected the “false and ridiculous claims” by British officials linking Iran to the alleged plot targeting the military base.
He demanded the British government officially clarify the matter and “correct its inappropriate approach” toward Iran, according to IRIB.
Burnham said Wednesday there was a “strong indication” that Iran had played a role in the suspected plot near RAF Fairford, while stressing that the case remained a “complex and very serious police investigation.”
Iran rejected suggestions Monday that it was linked to the arrests at the airbase.
“The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in London categorically rejects and strongly condemns the recent unfounded and malicious speculations published by some British individuals and media outlets attempting to link Iran to the arrest of five suspects in the vicinity of RAF Fairford base,” it said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that the suspected plot involved “the hands of a foreign actor,” without identifying the country he believed was responsible.
The Royal Air Force installation, which hosts US Air Force operations, has supported missions against Iran since February amid the wider Middle East war.
The arrests follow heightened protection measures around the facility after Britain affirmed in July that its armed forces stood ready to defend against potential retaliation following warnings from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps concerning American bombers operating from Fairford.
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Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
dizzy: Shouldn’t the RAF Fairford ridiculous nonsense be dismissed as totally implausible? Essentially three vans were driving past RAF Fairford. Burnham & Co are promoting that as terrorism …
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks during a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the courtyard of the Pentagon on September 11, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“What haunts me,” said one anti-war activist, “is how little accountability there has been for those who lied us into war—and how those same lies are now recycled to justify the attack on Iran.”
Twenty-five years later, Republican politicians are still using 9/11 to justify war in the Middle East. And they’re still lying shamelessly.
During remarks outside the Pentagon on Friday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth portrayed their deeply unpopular war in Iran as part of the lineage of the global War on Terror, which was marked by a pair of lengthy military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost well over $2 trillion and millions of lives.
Trump declared that he was prosecuting his new war with Iran to fulfill the “sacred oath” sworn in the names of the nearly 3,000 people whose lives were lost that day, that “we will never, ever forget.”
Hegseth seems to have forgotten quite a lot. Attempting to draw a link between the ideology of the al-Qaeda hijackers who committed the attack and the current Iranian government, the defense secretary said, “Our warriors have fought an Islamic theocracy that has wished us death for nearly half a century, that cheered on 9/11.”
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Our warriors have fought an Islamic theocracy that has wished us death for nearly half a century, that cheered on 9/11. pic.twitter.com/8jh8y1SMjn
Despite two decades of official hostility, the people and government of Iran have offered vivid messages of sympathy and condemnations of terrorism in the aftermath of last week’s attacks on New York and Washington…
Hard-line conservative Iranians and moderate reformers, top government and religious officials, Friday prayer leaders, and citizens on the street have uniformly denounced the plane hijackings and suicide crashes of September 11. Some, including President Mohammad Khatami, have offered to join an international campaign against terrorism under certain circumstances, including United Nations sponsorship.
On the day of the attacks in 2001, Khatami issued a swift condemnation over Iranian state TV of what he called “the terrorist operations of hijacking and attacking public places in American cities, which have resulted in the death of a large number of defenseless American people.”
Khatami later decried the attacks as “the ugliest form of terrorism ever seen.” According to later congressional testimony by a State Department official, he also asked to visit ground zero to light a candle out of respect for the victims, a request that was denied by the administration of then-US President George W. Bush.
Days after the attacks, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—who was killed this past February during the opening salvo of the joint US-Israeli war against Iran—agreed at the time that “mass murder of human beings is condemned,” though he also suggested that “expansionist” US foreign policy had played a role in provoking the attacks.
The US-funded Radio Free Europe reported that, far from celebrating in the streets, around 2,000 Iranians had gathered in Tehran for a candlelight vigil a week after the attacks, at which participants “chanted against terrorism and expressed their sympathy with America.” Days earlier, the Post reported that about 50,000 spectators at a World Cup qualifying match in Tehran observed a minute of silence in recognition of the attacks.
Iran’s support for the US following the attack also went beyond words. While still describing Iran as the world’s leading “state sponsor of terrorism,” a May 2002 State Department report emphasized Iran’s cooperation with US operations against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
This included offering search-and-rescue assistance for downed US air crews, diplomatic cooperation at the 2001 Bonn Conference to build Afghanistan’s post-Taliban government, and promising border controls to prevent fleeing Taliban and al-Qaeda members from escaping.
Though Trump promised at the outset that it would last only a matter of weeks, his war with Iran has now lumbered into its sixth month with no sign of stopping. It has spilled out into a wider Middle Eastern conflict that has taken the lives of about 8,000 people, displaced millions, and wreaked financial chaos.
The war has included US attacks on civilians that have had a similar resonance with Iranians that 9/11 has for Americans, most infamously the bombing of an elementary school that killed at least 150 people, most of them children.
According to one economist’s recent estimate, the war has conservatively cost the average American household about $1,200 over six months, combining the direct cost to taxpayers with the knock-on effects of spiking oil prices and broader inflation.
Though around two-thirds of Americans say they oppose the war and Congress has ordered Trump to bring it to an end, recent reports indicate that the administration is considering expanding it following this November’s midterm elections.
Trump described the war as a grim necessity on Friday, in part to honor those who perished on September 11, 25 years earlier.
“That’s why we fight today,” Trump said. “We don’t have a choice. There can only be victory. We fight hard. We fight to win.”
Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the anti-war group CodePink, reflected earlier this week on how the tragedy is still being used to this day to justify endless wars overseas.
“What haunts me today is not only the devastation of the invasion, but how little accountability there has been for those who lied us into war—and how those same lies are now recycled to justify the attack on Iran,” Benjamin said. “The War on Terror did not end.”
“The same impunity that has shielded the architects of the global War on Terror,” she added, “now emboldens the war criminals behind the genocide in Gaza and the Minab school massacre in Iran.”
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Steel Across America event at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 8, 2026. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)
“He created a fictitious event featuring himself, who did nothing, as the hero of 9/11.”
While Republicans express “offense” at plans for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to attend September 11 remembrances this week due to his Muslim faith, President Donald Trump provoked outrage on Tuesday when he told what seems to be a fabricated story about his heroism following the terrorist attack.
Before a crowd that included over 100 first responders, Trump described being at ground zero with a construction crew he said he’d deployed to help with the aftermath of the attack. He described walking beneath the US Steel building, now known as One Liberty Plaza, which was believed to be at risk of collapsing.
“The United States Steel Building was creaking, really creaking, and we thought it was going to fall down. The truth is, it creaked a lot. It creaked. It still creaks, but it never came down,” Trump recalled. “And I’ll never forget two firemen. We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big, strong guys—and I’m not the smallest guy in the world—they grabbed me under the arm, said, ‘Got to get out of here!’ And they literally lifted me up.”
“This is not easy to do. I’m big,” Trump continued. “They lifted me up, and they started running with me. I said, ‘Fellas, I can run myself,’ but they were amazing. But they thought it was coming down. It didn’t come down.”
Trump on 9/11: I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened., Wasn't too much we could do. We had other buildings, the United States steel building was creaking. I'll never forget two firemen. We thought it was coming… pic.twitter.com/kEt6IO71qR
Trump has claimed on multiple occasions to have been present in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and has told a version of the same story before, including on the 2016 campaign trail.
But many aspects of the tale are in doubt or contradicted by both the public record and others known to be involved in the recovery.
Trump said he saw the attacks happen from his office in Trump Tower, about four miles away from the World Trade Center. In an interview with WWOR-TV that day, he infamously boasted (incorrectly) that he now had the tallest building in downtown Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center.
While Trump himself was documented on September 13 to have been a few blocks from ground zero and said he’d visited the site, his claim to have sent over 100 of his construction workers in the immediate aftermath of the attack and to have “helped a little” himself has been disputed.
In 2019, Richard Alles, a New York City Fire Department battalion chief on the day of the attack, who said he was on the scene about 20 minutes after the second tower collapsed, told PolitiFact that he had no knowledge of Trump sending a crew of men to help with the wreckage.
“I was there for several months—I have no knowledge of his being down there,” Alles said, adding that if Trump had sent a crew of 100 workers, “there would be a record of it. Everybody worked under the direct supervision of the police and fire department and the joint commander for emergency services. Is there a chance he was ever down there by himself and I didn’t know it? It’s possible, but I know of no one who ever witnessed him there.”
Other outlets, including The Associated Press and The Washington Post, said they contacted Trump’s 2016 campaign to ask for details about his activity following the attacks, but received no response.
Neither of the two firefighters who supposedly carried Trump to safety has ever publicly come forward to discuss their run-in with the famous New York developer, and Trump did not mention the incident during interviews at the time.
Reminder: Donald Trump’s immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks was to brag that his building was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan after the Twin Towers collapsed. pic.twitter.com/iAkUeGafG9
Trump has a history of lies surrounding 9/11, including that he saw “thousands” of Muslims “cheering” in Jersey City as the towers fell and that he personally “predicted” the attacks in one of his books.
He has also been found to have misled the public about his philanthropy related to the tragedy: In 2001, he pledged to donate $10,000 to a recovery fund for victims and first responders, which the city comptroller’s office ultimately found was never delivered. More than 15 years later, his foundation gave $100,000 to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
His business empire also received $150,000 from a post-9/11 recovery program meant for businesses affected by the attacks, which Trump has claimed was reimbursement for allowing victims to use his building at 40 Wall Street to take shelter. But the application made no mention of shelter and instead stated that the request was for compensation for lost rent, cleanup, and repairs following the attacks, according to a 2016 investigation by the New York Daily News.
Journalist Ron Filipkowski described Trump’s tale about the firefighters as yet another instance of what he’s called “stolen valor,” but was astonished by its specificity.
“I know he’s lied about his non-role in 9/11 rescue and recovery before, but never this level of detail,” he said. “Trump could have made the ceremony with 9/11 first responders today about the many heroes who died attempting to rescue people and others who risked their lives and long-term health. But instead, he created a fictitious event featuring himself, who did nothing, as the hero of 9/11.”
Making it more offensive, other commentators said, was the double standard from Republicans, like former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who have claimed “offense” at the fact that Mamdani, as a Muslim, was planning to attend 9/11 memorials on Friday.
“The people mad about the Mayor of New York attending the 9/11 event must be ENRAGED that Trump just lied about being at ground zero on 9/11,” wrote Tim Fullerton, a former digital strategist for the Obama administration, on X. “This is all about honoring the victims and not just to score points. Right???”
Mamdani on Tuesday released around 170,000 pages of records indicating that Giuliani’s administration had misled New Yorkers about the severity of air quality risks near ground zero after the attacks.
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign officer Lewis Backon: ‘Unelected Lord Watson describes it as ‘mob rule.’ It’s democracy.’
