Tom Watson joins Palantir as senior UK executive
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The Lady Lucy 🏴🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾🐕78Mandy was a predictable bedfellow, but I have to say I thought better of Tom Watson, clearly I was wrong. Makes you wonder who else you could be wrong about, doesnt it?
lukewarm24.bsky.social64Disappointing doesn’t even get close to say how it feels when someone like Watson does this Like Clegg and many others start off with appearing to have the moral high ground Then plunge to depths of moral deprivation few would stoop to By selling their souls
Cliff Harris (Cliffski)37When is peter mandelson being prosecuted for treason? Have the media all silently agreed to make us forget about his crimes AGAIN? Also when is boris jonhnson being imprisoned for corruption with that american pole dancer he was fucking?
leigh34this tom watson ? July 2019, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson faced severe criticism from party figures and affiliates for publicly attacking General Secretary Jennie Formby while she was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer
Peter Geoghegan30Thanks George, that’s really appreciated
ElizaB16UK politics is a revolving door of people who pretend to be interested in public service so they can sell us all out later. Tories, sure. But I hope there is a special place in hell for Labour MPs who do this.
Kim Marshall 🏴 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺16Read it and weep if you're English. If you're a Scottish unionist here's an example of something that Scotgov has done for us. Kept Palantir out of NHS Scotland. www.gov.scot/publications...
Peter Kay5The greatest AI threat to humanity may be one encouraged to believe it possesses human rights: A danger already here is Palantir becoming embedded in NHS data systems and defence. Its co-founder Peter Thiel wrote: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Think about it.
Helen McCarthy4Palantir: a right-wing infiltration into Britain that's not bothering Nige or Posh Tommy or the Burqa Boys one little bit.
Andy Martell 🇯🇪2The centrist reply’s to this are just hilarious… “well, I’m surprised that good old Tom would do such a thing!” Collective amnesia
Revolving doors and political auctions. Labour peer and former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir. Palantir is trying to save its £330m NHS contract, wants more public contracts. Nick Clegg, Rishi Sunak, George Osborne and others have taken similar jobs.
Mr RobertBob38Perhaps we can create a list of politicians that actually work for our benefit, not theirs. Although it’s probably going to be a very short list.
Luc Cuyt Pro-EU European #FBPE17WTF... a former labour MP... now labour peer... there is nothing labour about him. I used to have some respect for hem when he was deputy labout leader... but now that respect is gone completely. Pocket liners... all of them!
Pete Hudson 🇬🇧🇨🇵🇪🇺🏴🇮🇪🇳🇱🏴🇮🇳 #FBPE #BanX #UKPR #UK_JoinEU16In indicator that none of them are socialists. In it for whatever riches they can accrue. High on the money drug.
Stuart Hemingway15Palantir will be delighted to get a British politician on board gives them so much more power, just like META and Nick Clegg
pmf15He’s been in their pocket for some time I believe
The Lady Lucy 🏴🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾🐕13Dear lord in heaven! 🤦♀️ No wonder theyre fucking clueless on how to solve Britain's woes. We're sleepwalking into a Reform lead clusterfuck!
Nelly Probin25Watson may be having a temporary break from the HoL, that won't remove his knowledge of the working of government and any useful contacts he's made. There's a bad smell about this.
Jim Caris15This is the reason Labour's MPs went to war against their own leader between 2015 and 2020. It was to preserve this system. All the reasons they gave publicly were lies: it was, and is, about preserving this system of corporate patronage, which they personally benefit from.
Rob Williams7Well, this is extremely disappointing @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social
Lorna MacGillivray3#YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
aloa53Ach so. Wer wechselt dann bei den Grünen in BaWü?🤔
The Big Meowski3Watson turned out to be such a scumbag, and after he’d been painted such a hero during the Leveson inquiry (I think it was?).
Proud Lefty CW💚🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇮🇷🎧2Our corrupt political private enterprise system. Labour Tories and Reform all receiving money for doing private companies favours. The latest scandal being ex deputy Labour Leader joining the AI magnet Palantir.
Johnny B. Toff2he's a slimebag and he doesn't give a fuck who knows it
Davenumb2Do you know someone who is working for this company? i do and i can tell you they will consider loyalty to this company over the country. It is so disgusting. Unless of course they are plants within???
Johnny Ninefingers2JFC. Anything for the money chaps. Some will do anything. Even supporting Peter Thiel. Tom Watson now joins Peter Mandelson in the list of Labour Lords who can be bought by the most evil people in the Western world. Cash, card or Paypal?
Important to understand: Tom hasn’t *just recently* taken a job promoting and protecting the interests of Labour’s corporate friends, by getting his journo mates to print articles bigging up their business and shitting all over the left. That was always his job.
flyingrodent98As I used to say: it wasn’t Sir Keir’s job to ensure that e.g. water companies act in the public interest. His job was to come *to you*, look sad then explain that nothing can be done. If you sullenly accept it and keep voting for him, then he is doing his job very well.
solomonhughes.bsky.social69Indeed Watson has been working for Palantir since 2024, this is a promotion, but not a new job
Peter Hill11the warmongers are out with their increasing psychological mobilisation for war. BBC news today “war may be coming”. Supposedly in-depth article filled with boys own WW2 propaganda photos no dead bodies and burning tanks. If UK voters don’t wake up we’re doomed to a continuous loop of 1984 war.
Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️11That’ll be Baron Watson of Wyre Forest. An ideal choice…
Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸10They cant help themselves. People like Tom Watson and others from the faux left, consistantly prove exactly who they are, and who they’ve always been!!
Old Hobbit🐸9What a fucking sleazebag. These people are rotten to the core.
Ghost Coast.95The Guardian fired the excellent Dawn Foster, a disabled working class journalist, after Watson (then Labour's Deputy Leader) and his people had a fit at her incisive piece about him being a detriment to the Labour at that time (2019), which I would argue contributed to her death two years later.
Where Seagulls Dare7I try... I fucking *try* to move on from the Corbyn era of British politics, I honestly do, but those years were so formative of what we're experiencing now, that it's impossible not to.
.Heather 🏳️⚧️↙️↙️↙️4They wanted this traitor to be deputy PM btw
i bought spirit airlines4just went on a small journey wherein I thought ‘tom watson… was that speechboy?’ and then jumpscared myself remembering there was a second michael cohen
paul3What is the most Tom Watson thing that Tom Watson could do at this point in time?
L'immortale Moro2Watson is The Definition of Judas
gaizka6.bsky.social2Genuinely laughed out loud seeing this news. Absolutely textbook.
#PalantirOut - and let's close the revolving door between politics and industry while we are at it. "Watson, who was a key political ally and fixer for Gordon Brown, remains close to many senior Labour figures." www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Yrotitna9Another politician I once had some respect for who has sold out.
〓〓 Repoblek Kernow4Never trust Liebour: the party that will sell you out to the highest bidder! (And if this results in lots of people blocking me: GREAT! I will likely get more followers than blockers!)
Cris in Kbh3This is rather revolting isn’t it…. Selling one’s soul for silver is somthing to be reviled.
AnthonyF2722You have to ask exactly what the plan for Palantir is. This government knows and that is why I think Palantir is being allowed to get more embedded.
Sue Caro2Another one who smeared Corbyn reveals exactly who he is and that Labour works for the 1% and against the interests of the UK.
BelfastCitizen2bsky.app/profile/tomw... Yeah well Stalin, Franco, Mao and so far all of the Kims died in office. I don’t want to live in whatever digital dictatorship Tom’s new bosses at Palantir will sell to the highest bidder. Thiel is a man without empathy or respect for the rest of humanity.
I really wonder what the story is of Tom Watson's total moral collapse. Is it really just the money and some narcissistic contrarianism? He used to champion digital rights as <the> key Labour ally for @openrightsgroup.org Then he turned betting industry lobbyist, then crackpot theorist, now this.
Assembled Person22I’d argue he was always just an opportunist; and even his association with digital rights was never about the cause and always about his self promotion.
theangelofhistory.bsky.social13It’s pretty standard “centrist Labour” behaviour Firstly they want money, secondly they don’t have better offers than companies like online gambling or tech deviants, thirdly they sort of feel they’ve “made it” to get an immoral offer because their heroes are Mandelson & Blair
Atrios9Dawn foster was mean to him
Rootless Cosmopolitan8A well worn path for Labour politicians. He'll go down the Tom Harris route and start writing deranged columns for the Mail/Telegraph/Sun before long (if he hasn't started already).
Steve Peers7He was an EU court litigant for digital rights!
Tim LeRoy4I know that this is a cliche but there's a profound truth to "power corrupts"... A friend who worked in both Washington & Hollywood was adamant that the closer your proximity to power / stardom the more likely you are to be corrupted.
Phil McDuff29Same as it ever was: money and anticommunist radicalisation. There are a lot of roads to fascism but they are all paved the same.
BrokenBanker10Alex Karp, its chief executive, said: “This is just the latest chapter of Tom’s forty-year fight for better public services. We are fortunate to have him guide us as we help the British government to deliver for the British public.”
Tom Watson who helped sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is now working for Palantir UK. The same Palantir who have stolen all the English NHS data and been paid to do it Watson even brags about this corrupt appointment to one of the most evil companies on the planet
BladeoftheSun26Not only do they not hide who they are owned by. They brag about it, as if it is something good.
Marko Van Bastard the 93rd2George Monbiot shared this link earlier. An excellent read.
Jeswings1'Part of my role will be to correct false information' Does that mean putting out whatever old shit Palantir pays you for? The painful lies - why bother?
Erbury Old Boy1Correct false information/Make stuff up?
Darkblueboy1In other words you are being paid to trot out the company line. What a shallow man of straw.
The whole country is fortunate. We're so lucky... Palantir CEO, Alex Karp: "This is just the latest chapter of Tom Watson’s 40-year fight for better public services. We're fortunate to have him guide us as we help the government deliver for the British public." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
paulusthewoodgnome16Some people join Médicins Sans Frontières while others join Palantir. What's the difference? "Palantir is here to make the institutions we partner with the best in the world. And, when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies and on occasion, kill them." — Alex Karp Well, if you're going to nitpick...
Mark Hale just wrote a fucking novel!3Fucking hell. A lot of senior civil servants have a hard-on for AI without really understanding it. I guess Mr Watson will find it very easy to sell to them.
oldsputnik.bsky.social1Become a politician, and find yourself a cushy job with benefits!!!
Doire1Just take the "for" out.
'The Labour peer and former deputy leader will operate alongside Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, as the company attempts to fend off pressure on Burnham’s government to axe its £330m NHS contract.'
Christian harrup6So hes basically paid off and completely corrupt.
xianp.bsky.social2Yet another crashing example it seems, that the sort of people attracted to a career in politics shouldn't be within a ten mile radius of all things political. It's the 'Fetid algorithm'
Jannene 💋I’m from 📎Manchester.🥀1He’s always been corrupt do anything for money, he sold his soul.
