love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

aiui, there are two potential routes - libel (the information is untrue and defamatory) and data protection (personal identifying information being misused through leaked publication). The former is highly contentious and unlikely, imo, to go anywhere unless the party settles to get it out of the way. The latter is more of a problem - but people are getting very excised about multi-million-Pound payouts when the reality is likely to be a lot less catastrophic.

Is there a link to something that isn't confusing on this. The link above and the twitter thread seem to presume you already know about it all and have opinions to match. Not so good for anyone who's tuned this whole thing out and is none the wiser

probably more chance of a frozen shaft of urine taking Starmer out of the game than Labour going bankrupt, but I will keep praying every day.

Would it also be true to say that the contents of WhatsApp conversations etc are not the private property of the individuals in the chat if the devices they used to have the chat were furnished to them as part of their jobs? Because I cannot imagine Iain McNichol paying for his own phone etc.

I think it’s a moot point if they got caught out by emailing the archive to themselves on their LP email account, by which I assume that archive becomes the party’s property?

But yeah, I assume that anything I do on my work devices can be seen by my employer, it’s their equipment.

I mean, it’s surprising how easy it is to not chat shit about colleagues when you’re busy doing the work you are contracted to do, right?

xps I haven't seen any particularly useful articles.

I would guess that even if it's the property of the organisation, failing to keep it secure is the issue. The stronger case would likely be people who'd registered complaints and had their names shared unredacted.

Yeah, wonder how all of this crosses over with GDPR.

Btw, Lab party in deep shit financially is a story the Telegraph has often run over the years (before twitter it wouldn't have been a thing I'd pay attention to)

I really regret being a member of this party and even giving them an additional donation for their election fighting fund after what has come out in the wash, never again in my life is a political party getting a fucking penny (nor a vote!) off me.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/24/russia-report-uk-intelligence-services-moscow-mi5-mi6

Consider the following highly topical example. The potential break-up of Britain that might have resulted from the 2014 Scottish referendum is axiomatically not in the interest of the UK and is also a major problem for UK national security. It therefore has to be a concern to MI5, not least because breaking up the UK is obviously also in the interest of a hostile power such as Russia. The large political constraint is obvious. A majority in Scotland could have voted for it – and may yet do so. The agencies’ role here is obviously immensely delicate, but it is hard to argue that they should just do nothing.

Martin Kettle having a normal one and seemingly suggesting our secret services need to consider Scottish nationalism as a branch of domestic terrorism that is a threat to the state, maybe that is my bad reading comprehension and I'm on my second beer, but it's sure what it sounds like to me!

CON: 44% (=)
LAB: 36% (-1)
LDM: 8% (=)
GRN: 5% (+1)

Via
@RedfieldWilton
, 22 Jul.
Changes w/ 15 Jul.

even Ed was 3-6 points ahead at this point of his leadership and he isn't even getting trashed in the press on daily basis ... fucking useless.

Kettle is definitely saying that MI5 should 'do something'.

This is anti-democratic.

reminds me of this...

When you're definitely not run by cops https://t.co/s5zdzjJmmI

— t_om_s (@T_om_s) July 23, 2020

I heard the MI5 will at least match or increase what the Graun pay you if you are a useful asset

Deeply saddened by the passing of Paulette Wilson who dedicated her last years to highlight the terrible injustices faced by the #Windrush generation.

Together we must continue on her mission to right the wrongs.

— Priti Patel (@pritipatel) July 23, 2020

oh christ Wiley needs to log off twitter

if you knew anything about either then you'd know that the 2nd KKK of the 1920s strongly targeted Jews across the US with violence, boycotts and the kinds of conspiratorial discourses that you're engaging in right now https://t.co/clPKWOIlkX

— michael (@Sisyphusa) July 24, 2020

"I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere / so it started there" https://t.co/COnqBMbVV9

— John B (@johnb78) July 24, 2020

I don't know if I'm fully appreciating how ridiculous he looks on my small phone screen, but he looks plenty ridic!

Every public figure in a masked photo op looks like they’re sucking gusset.

Corbyn could do social media photo ops with the public without looking like some awkwardly haughty time travelling Tory from the 1950ʼs

True, even the masky ones are OK.

"Excuse me madam, what year is this?"

xyzzzz__ at 11:13 23 Jul 20
"what is right with pop music ppl!"
Only the grime crowd were good not bad

Wiley is a braindead prick, using his influential position to disseminate some good old fashioned elders of zion tropes, great fucking work you weapon.

I shouldn't call him thick because that would a be a form of apologism, his anti-Semiticism game seems like a long term project of his, borne out of hatred more than ignorance.

Innovation is helping us through the crisis and will be crucial to our economic recovery.

We must nurture it to create high quality jobs for the future. pic.twitter.com/xFt4ojXmRK

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 24, 2020

jobs for battery cells w/ processors and profits for billionaires, yeah thanks kier - please die soon.

can't we replace you with Big Trak, Kier?

Dan Hancox, who is Jewish and writes about him a lot, was not on social media to see or react to the Wiley bullshit but I was heartened by the number of black lefties calling him a crackhead hotep arsehole, because that’s who he seems to be now.

Just feel sad about it

I'm not familiar enough with Wiley to be able to tell, but is this a total surprise? It seems unlikely for someone to go from 0-100 with no previous indicators

He usually bubble

I think he has history of going for big twitter numbers by flaming with Stormzy but the AS stuff is new I think

people have found a minor example from 2010, so looks like he's just been keeping it to himself before yesterday.

It seems weird that an outspoken personality (with penachant for stirring things up?) is able to keep something like this under wraps for a long time with no outwards signs whatsoever?

I would assume either he's had a full on breakdown, he's doing it for the notoriety/attention or he's really trying to piss off his manager, who's also Jewish. But also, if it quacks like a duck for hours on end...

Also no one, let alone an account with half a million followers, should be able to go on a ten hour antisemitic rant without Twitter lifting a finger to stop it.

his management dropped him straight away

BIG TRAK

Starmzy finally comes out with something approaching a policy statement: more jobs for Bezos drones!

Labour are angling to get RT taken off air.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53510838

I’d guess the main reason it hasn’t is that getting rid of a channel with, iirc, an average audience of 1300 isn’t worth the inevitable tit-for-tat expulsion of the BBC Russia service but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Interestingly, the government is supposedly mulling over a requirement similar to the US for lobbyists on behalf of foreign interests to register. I can’t see it happening tbh, as I can’t imagine anyone actually wants to lift that rock, but it would be delightful for a certain former Prime Minister to have to come clean about who pays him.

I can't believe a station with Galloway + Salmond has lower viewing figures than Fishing TV

one day later I am here to report that this post really did not age well
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 July 2020 22:59 (yesterday) link

Was Wiley ever in grime4corbyn? :)

I'm guessing Fishing TV has an incredibly loyal fanbase who will watch it for hours on end and they've got the advertising market absolutely nailed.

The only thing I've ever seen from Russia Today is that clip where Simon Danczuk tries to ignore a belly dancer for several minutes.

Corbyn’s deleted an old Tweet thanking Wiley for his support so.. yes?

xpost

There aren't many more pandemic-friendly hobbies than fishing either. Perfect for social distancing.

poor Steve "piano-man" Rosenberg, getting unceremoniously turfed out of Moscow because of senseless Starmzy posturing

Corbyn’s deleted an old Tweet thanking Wiley for his support so.. yes?

xpost

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink

gime4corbyn *shake hands emoji* crank left

It seems unlikely for someone to go from 0-100 with no previous indicators

Going from 0-100 is kind of what he does btw. There was some anti-mask virus truther stuff in there among all the AS as well.

This seems to be connected to some dispute with his manager, who is Jewish I believe.

his manager probably told him to wear a mask

And look at all the publicity Kanye is getting for howling at the moon.