America may feel divided, but laughing at the English always united us as a people. Thanks to the Keystone Kops government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, we should have plenty of entertainment this weekend.
Thursday,Racketreported on asnowballing scandalsurrounding Parliamentary Secretary and House of Commons MPJosh Simons. In 2023, when Simons was at the Labour Together think tank, he hired a private PR firm calledAPCOto investigate a group of journalists that includedSunday TimeswriterGabriel Pogrund, John McEvoy ofDeclassified UK,Kit KlarenbergofThe Grayzone,Shadow World InvestigationsDirector Paul Holden, and me.We’d allpublishedexposésusing internal correspondence to expose financial shenanigans like future Starmer chief of staff Morgan McSweeneyfailing to declare £730,000in donations to Labour Together. In return, they had us investigated and turned over the APCO report toNational Cyber Security Centre(NCSC) — part of GCHQ, the British analog to the NSA.
Source: Racket News