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 🏴🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾🐕82Mandy 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.social67Disappointing 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
Peter Geoghegan44Thanks George, that’s really appreciated
Cliff Harris (Cliffski)41When 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?
leigh37this 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
ElizaB19UK 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 🏴 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺21Read 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...
Helen McCarthy6Palantir: a right-wing infiltration into Britain that's not bothering Nige or Posh Tommy or the Burqa Boys one little bit.
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.
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 RobertBob43Perhaps 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 #FBPE23WTF... 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_JoinEU18In indicator that none of them are socialists. In it for whatever riches they can accrue. High on the money drug.
pmf16He’s been in their pocket for some time I believe
Stuart Hemingway15Palantir will be delighted to get a British politician on board gives them so much more power, just like META and Nick Clegg
davidhmck.bsky.social15Remind me which political party founded the NHS. Here's one of its former leading members seeing to kill it off.
Nelly Probin29Watson 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 Caris16This 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 Williams8Well, this is extremely disappointing @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social
Lorna MacGillivray4#YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
Proud Lefty CW💚🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇮🇷🎧3Our 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.
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?).
Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ2Tom Watson, even from before those times he lied and lied about and betrayed Jeremy Corbyn, who for all his faults has always been a person of unimpeachable integrity, was never himself going to earn a reputation for being someone of ethical and moral integrity or conscience. #CorruptPoliticians
NaqviMA2Good morning & Happy #FollowBackFriday Everyone🙏✊🏻☮️ How shamelessly disgusting & treacherous of former Deputy Lab Leader Tom Watson to join Palantir as the Snr. Vice President. Didn’t he know ppl been begging the govt including London Mayor Sadiq Khan to get Palantir out of NHS & UK. #ToriesGone805
Andrew Richards2Tom Watson joining Palantir. Nick Clegg joining Meta. What next? Boris Johnson joining the RNLI?
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.
flyingrodent103As 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.social74Indeed Watson has been working for Palantir since 2024, this is a promotion, but not a new job
Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸11They 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!!
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…
Old Hobbit🐸9What a fucking sleazebag. These people are rotten to the core.
Ghost Coast.99The 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
paul4What 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.
AnthonyF2723You 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.
BelfastCitizen3bsky.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.
Seven of Nine Fan 🌍🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🖖🏼3Palantir should have no place anywhere near our government and the revolving door needs to be locked. Need to get big business and its billions out of politics to restore democracy.
2022: Labour's Tom Watson thanks Epstein's friend former Lord Peter Mandelson in his maiden speech in the Lords 2026: Labour's Tom Watson says he wants Palantir to drive a "paradigm shift in public services in Britain" My view: This looks like the revolving door in action
TensegrityFan🐝🍯8Tom Watson, showing the world his true colours
Westerns UK5Tom Watson is GREEDY and wants MONEY MONEY MONEY FUCK MANDELSON, FUCK WATSON AND FUCK PALANTIR
Amanda B4That's bad, but I cannot get over the AI monologue at the end - what the heck is going on with that tea cup?! 😕
Craig4Just another see you next Tuesday.
Nobodyspecial3The traitors are crawling out of the woodwork. Next step is Reform for Tom.
Lindsay3I’m old enough to remember him being a fairly good guy. Getting stuck in at the Leveson enquiry.
Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ3Tom Watson, even from before those times he lied and lied about and betrayed Jeremy Corbyn, who for all his faults has always been a person of unimpeachable integrity, was never himself going to earn a reputation for being someone of ethical and moral integrity or conscience. #CorruptPoliticians
LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit2They're all at it, whatever political party.
Rachel Extremely Indy 🏴♥️🏴♥️2They're taking the pure piss
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
BladeoftheSun48Not only do they not hide who they are owned by. They brag about it, as if it is something good.
Marko Van Bastard the 93rd12George Monbiot shared this link earlier. An excellent read.
dirtylefty.bsky.social9Oppression and coercion framed as Defence and protection. More doublespeak in a few paragraphs than ten Murdoch tabloids at election time.
Heavyrads 🏴 #FBPE #RejoinEU8I'm sure Louis Moseley, Palantir UK CEO brings a great family atmosphere to their team building events.
researchdoom6I went on Twitter just to unburden myself
Jeswings6'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?
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.
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.
Mark O’Neill 🐻4I think it’s a lack of interiority
Phil McDuff31Same as it ever was: money and anticommunist radicalisation. There are a lot of roads to fascism but they are all paved the same.
BrokenBanker11Alex 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.”
V amusing that Palantir picked Tom Watson as the best person to debunk conspiracy theories...
Kid Charlemagne3Tom Watson means never having to say you're sorry.
Bob White3Wasn’t he supposed to be departing public life to be a personal trainer? Maybe he just found Mountjaro was easier?
niallsmith.bsky.social1Having spent some time in Portcullis House in the 2000s, Tom and his mates always came across as conspiracy made real. Standing around like made men from a Scorsese film. It is odd, this personal story arc.
Not really surprised that Tom Watson has joined Palantir, given his previous role advising them and, as previously reported by me and @iainoverton.bsky.social in 2025, the fact that his firm, Lodestone, had them as a client in '24 bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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...
paulusthewoodgnome19Some 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.
