Steve Watson – modernity.news Jan 2, 2026
The UK’s Labour government has been hijacked by a shadowy entity – a bloated network of insiders, NGOs, and lobbyists that diverts power from voters to elite agendas, according to a bombshell column from Paul Ovenden, former director of strategy for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Ovenden, recently ousted amid a personal scandal, has hit back by exposing how an unelected ‘blob’ pushes certain agendas, including the repatriation of British Egyptian extremist Alaa Abd el-Fattah – a man with a history of spewing anti-white racism and calls for violence – as a bizarre obsession, wasting time and resources while everyday Brits suffer from open borders and economic woes.
In his piece for The Times, Ovenden describes the UK version of the Deep State as a “stakeholder state” and “a political perma-class that exists within every party and every department, one whose entire focus is on preserving their status within a system that gives them meaning.”
My first article in @thetimes: our political class prioritises stakeholders over voters. Let’s change it.https://t.co/pbj1Irl9E2
— Paul Ovenden (@OvePM) January 2, 2026
He slams the el-Fattah affair for revealing “the sheer weirdness of how Whitehall spends its time,” noting that senior diplomats’ fixation on the case “became a running joke among my colleagues: a totem of the ceaseless sapping of time and energy by people obsessed with fringe issues.”
TIMES EXCLUSIVE: Keir Starmer must take on the “stakeholder state” that is “emasculating” governments with an obsessive approach to “fringe issues”, his former strategy director has said amid continuing controversy over the Abd El-Fattah case https://t.co/mKQJ0Yvhpp
— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) January 1, 2026
Ovenden argues this isn’t some grand conspiracy but a “morbid symptom of a state that has got bigger and bigger while simultaneously and systematically emasculating itself.” Power shifts “away from voters and towards groups with the time, money and institutional access to make themselves too important to ignore.”
“We’re not really properly in control.”
The prime minister’s former director of strategy, Paul Ovenden, says we need to “strip back a lot of powers” in some parts of the governmental framework.@OvePM | @ChloeTilley | #TimesRadio pic.twitter.com/qSsY7S4YRB
— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) January 2, 2026
The government, he says, ends up “rowing with muffled oars in order to appease a complex coalition of campaign groups, regulators, litigators, trade bodies and well-networked organisations.”
‘They are so much more interested in signalling their status by committing themselves to these totemic progressive issues’.
Charlie Downes and Aaron Bastani respond to Keir Starmer’s close ally, Paul Ovenden, blowing the lid off of a ‘weird obsession’ within the Civil Service. pic.twitter.com/2fiEKJOq8r
— GB News (@GBNEWS) January 2, 2026
The Daily Mail highlights how the el-Fattah case became a “running joke” inside No. 10, with Ovenden accusing civil servants of weird priorities that distract from core objectives.
This comes amid backlash over el-Fattah’s inflammatory past, including posts like “fucking hate white people … a blight on the earth they are” and calls for “random shooting of white males.”
Starmer strangely personally celebrated el-Fattah’s arrival in the UK, calling it a “top priority” despite the extremist’s history of praising Osama bin Laden, denying the Holocaust, and urging violence against police and Zionists.
Now we know why.
Critics like Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick blasted it as “an absolute disgrace,” accusing the Foreign Office of acting “against the interests of the British people.” Jewish groups decried the move as “reckless,” warning it endangers British Jews.
Ovenden’s exposé draws parallels to Dominic Cummings’ critiques of the deep state under Conservatives, positioning him as a left-wing whistleblower against the same entrenched forces.
It's fascinating seeing former Downing Street head of strategy Paul Ovenden starting to sound like Dominic Cummings. Ovenden's "Stakeholder State" is a clear analogue for Dom's "the blob." pic.twitter.com/ByEx9zRYvN
— Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost (@ghostofchristo1) January 2, 2026
Ovenden scorches Labour’s policies, from “picking the pockets of the productive parts of our economy” to pay for “unsustainable” welfare, to strangling small businesses with red tape.
“We don’t have to fatten the pockets of wind-turbine operators by paying them not to produce energy. We don’t have to import antisemitic Islamists who wish us harm. And we certainly don’t have to treat British citizenship as a scrap of paper,” Ovenden writes., noting “On all this and more, we can simply choose not to.”
This “stakeholder state” revelation no doubt also ties directly into Labour’s dystopian digital ID scheme. Ministers are secretly plotting to assign lifelong digital identities to newborns, linking them to health records under the guise of tackling illegal immigration.
But as critics like former Tory Cabinet minister Sir David Davis warn, it’s “creeping state surveillance” with no real border control benefits. The same elite network Ovenden describes – NGOs, regulators, and unelected bodies – could weaponize these IDs to track citizens from cradle to grave, enforcing compliance on everything from social media access to job rights.
It’s a perfect storm: import radicals who hate the West, then build a surveillance net to control the natives. This blob thrives on expanding state power, sidelining voter priorities like secure borders and economic freedom.
The el-Fattah fiasco and baby ID plans alone expose Labour’s true face – a government captured by globalist insiders, prioritizing virtue-signaling over sovereignty. Brits must demand accountability before this stakeholder swamp drowns freedom entirely.
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This is nothing new
the last free prime minister we had was Neville Chamberlian
who wanted to keep us out of ww 2 he said why should we fight for russia as since the 1917 revolution they work against is
Rothschild had Chamberliam murdered and his secretary put in prison
hundreds of people were imprisoned under rothschilds regulation 18b
then put churchill into power for another useless war
every prime minister since and including churchill was appointed by rothschild
except liz truss who wanted the countries backing to take on the jew bankers
There is a griwing group who want to be freed from the rothschild octopus
they got big just before ww 2, called the english resistance and based mostly in shropshire and the fens, they were rounded up on churchills orders and nor seen again
Dad said they were murdered by churchill
In diversity is (((our))) strength.
Has a kinda familiar ring…
The phrase “wage war through deception” is central to the operational philosophy of Israel’s Mossad, as reflected in its motto derived from Proverbs 24:6, which translates to “By way of deception you shall engage in war”.
Ordinary British people have had to endure for almost the last one thousand years since 1066 our dreadful class system which in reality is more like a caste system. It is so ruthless that thanks to ‘progeniture’ it ensures it keeps power through passing down a family’s name and wealth through the eldest son and will often bypass a first-born daughter, even though some cultures recognise the matrilineal line as more important than the patrilineal line in our heritage and DNA.
Today many ordinary people are descendants of these daughters and other sons who were more spare than heir. And just as vital to keep the establishment structure just like George Orwell said, it must choose its own successors, which is why no low-born person in Britain will ever become a general or Lord however able he is, unless he clearly sells out his own class like Thatcher did.
Indeed. This has been said over and over again in different ways for multiple governments at different times. UK Column’s analysis of the British Cabinet Office – shades of “Yes Minister” – is good as well.
The problem is that we who see this “imperfection” are forever seeking to persuade the unpersuadable of this or bouncing it round our own echo chamber.
So what’s to be done?
“We” in our general alternative sense forever provide critique of what has gone. We are reactive while TPTB are proactive. TPTB pulled off the Manchester bomb hoax. When Richard Hall shone a light on it TPTB barely blinked in his persecution while very few know, few care, and most haven’t got a clue. TPTB can move seamlessly from one caper to another. They are like stray dogs running around crapping everywhere while the alternative media voice runs around with excrement capture bags.
What is the nature of power?
IMO it is the packaging and monetising of human desires that inherently fends off rebellions and revolutions – “Bread and circuses” and comforts that detach us from the suffering of others…It is not just “they” at the top that are the problem; “they” exist because human nature persists. I have researched the origin of the bankers. They made it big and usurped feudalism because they gave people – including governments – what they wanted. People have never voted for immigration but have acceded to it because of the dynamics of wealth creation and distribution. “Consent” thus works beyond that of the “vote”. That which is immediately gratifying is the domain of puppet politicians AND the public as a whole.
Practically every human being asked would ascribe to world peace and an end to poverty etc. In practice folk just want that “little” extra for ourselves. That pension that allows us to do what we want while asking few questions to how that pension is earnt from investments who most probably care little for comprehending. The world exists as it does because it is a web of fear and compromises that embraces all of us.
“We” know that government is rotten. As it is, government is the distillation of the worst qualities of the people as a whole. There was an insightful episode of “Star Trek The Next Generation” when a civilisation had discovered a means of all their evil inclinations and removed it to give a black blob entity that was exiled on a remote planet. It would be good if we could do this. As it is, nations get the governments we deserve. Politicians are the metaphorical – and often literal – paedophiles of the overall human prison population.
Bwitain: a 3rd-World Kleptocracy masquerading as a 1st Wotld Democracy?
Discuss
Every country in the world is controlled by those that own everything, particularly the land. The difference in the slimepit jew-k is that the land never changes hands, so the same people and their filthy offspring carry on owning and controlling the land forever. Everyone else is allotted a box to “live” in, a box to slave in and concrete paths to get from one to the other. There are no outside spaces that are accessible to anyone but the rich. There is no public land. There is only endless dictatorship by those that own the land and all the “homes”. That is the definition of a facist dictatorship, which is what the jew-k is.
Not one word about ZOG. I wonder why.
So why has an insider like Ovenden suddenly decided to come clean? Is it merely pique it being pushed out, or is it predictive programing, readying the masses for the final reveal?
Must be true. It certainly controls the Canadian federal and provincial governments.
Keir Starmer is a creation of “the blob/stakeholder state” that ousted Corbyn. Don’t expect him to do anything.
we pay the deep state £5000 in interest every second
every £5 you earn, just over £3 goes in taxes visible and invisible
this money goes direct to israel
the central hub of world terrorism
Adolf Hitler put the culprits in special camps where they could do no harm
and how germany prospered
he offered to help the UK many times
and look what we did
Tod dem Juden…Everywhere