Mandelson and Starmer: one down, one to go…

Back in 1789, when Jacob Rees-Mogg was a teenager, Benjamin Franklin said, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”.

Had Mr Franklin had a bit more of the Nostradamus about him, he would’ve added something about Peter Mandelson being a dead cert for heaping shame and disgrace on himself and Britain whenever a political leader is naive and corruptible enough to promote the permanently disgraced creature of the night to the highest offices of power.

Why do people so easily forget what the narcissistic creep, Mandelson is capable of?

How many other politicians were forced to resign, TWICE, from Tony Blair’s cabinets? We had the home loans scandal in 1998 which led to his resignation as Trade and Industry Secretary, and just three years later the cash for passports controversy cost him his position as Northern Ireland Secretary.

But Mandelson’s sickeningly-supportive emails after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution must put an end to the political career of the vile monster, once and for all, with no possible option of a return to frontline politics.

A sacking for now with the prospect of a return in the future isn’t good enough. This must be the last we ever hear of Peter Benjamin Mandelson.

Mandelson gone – but the revelations continue

Starmer and his advisers were undoubtedly aware of Mandelson’s exceptionally heavy, filthy baggage some time before his Ambassadorial appointment across the pond. If you think this is up for debate, I’ve got a big bucket of unicorn poo to sell to you for just a grand – all enquiries through the Canary website, please.

Where was the most basic of due diligence prior to appointing Mandelson to his Ambassadorial role? There’s only two possibilities here. They either failed to do adequate due diligence on Mandelson, which would be absolutely staggering, or they were already fully aware that  ‘Mandy’ knocked about with a celebrity paedophile and simply didn’t care.

Either way, this leaves Keir Starmer in the deepest pile of shit he has found himself in to date.

It must’ve been so much easier to protect depraved elitists before the internet was invented. But these days you only need to Google “Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Mandelson” to find out why Mandelson would be more suited to a prison cell than the luxury he surrounds himself with.

I really don’t want to hear a word about Mandelson’s commitment to public service, or the work he does for British trade, or any other old nonsense that is essentially designed to protect his legacy.

In 2017, during an event hosted by The Jewish Chronicle in London, Mandelson told the audience: “I work every single day to bring forward the end of [Jeremy Corbyn’s] tenure in office.”

While this was a great little distraction from being the best friend of a nonce, Labour and Jeremy Corbyn went on to deliver Labour’s greatest number of votes since 2001 (when Mandelson was forced to resign following corruption allegations), increasing Labour’s vote by 9.5% and forcing Britain into hung parliament territory.

Appalling lack of judgement – or worse?

Keir Starmer’s lack of judgement is utterly appalling. How did this fraud of a human ever make a living out of prosecuting people? It is no secret he is under immense pressure from both the left and right, so where will the Mandelson scandal leave the Labour Party?

And more importantly, what mechanisms are in place to remove him from the ludicrous House of Lords?

If the raging racists that are so desperately trying to make their little voices heard over this weekend want something to be genuinely angry about, if they really want to “PROTECT ARE GIRLS”, they could do worse than turn their attentions — however short their spans may be — to the former MP for Hartlepool and the establishment institutions that allow the rich and powerful predators to hide within plain sight.

For me, the Labour Party shouldn’t just be looking for a deputy leader when they so obviously need a new party leader to at least keep the party critical, but alive until the next general election.

Of course, the gutless right-wing Labour Party can die on its arse for all I care, but if I was a Labour backbencher I would be questioning how much longer Keir Starmer — whose shocking approval ratings have hit a new low — will survive in his post, because he is making the harrowing prospect of a Reform UK government seem more likely by the day.

Better the devil you don’t know

I know a few of you think it is better to keep Starmer in office until the next general election, and I absolutely hear you. But let’s not pretend the Labour Party will have a snap general election because they have changed their leader, because they won’t.

Starmer’s Labour govern as ‘social conservatives’, not democratic socialists, and right now, in today’s political climate, they will face a beating of disastrous proportions that will take at least a generation to recover from.

And besides, accountability must apply to any Prime Minister, however great their undeserved but likely to be short-lived majority may be.

In a week where Keir Starmer has welcomed the president of Israel to Downing Street, just a day after disgracefully and officially denying the Gaza genocide, while calling out Israel’s negotiation-busting bombing in Qatar that was assisted by… British forces, I believe ultimate accountability needs to come sooner rather than later.

And then we can deal with the next Labour Friend of genocide that the party replace Starmer with.

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