Streeting still a ‘monarchist’ despite Royals’ Epstein links

Wes Streeting has announced he will challenge Andy Burnham for the Labour leadership, should the latter win the Makerfield by-election. Strangely, he announced in the same breath that he remains a “monarchist”. We say ‘strangely’ because this has been a rough year for monarchism, given the newly exposed links between the toyals and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

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Oh, and as if this wasn’t bad enough, Streeting was scabbing when he said it.

Streeting, apparently: God save the nonce

As we’ve covered extensively, the former-prince Andrew Windsor was good pals with dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. This first came to the public’s attention several years ago when accuser Virginia Giuffre went public with allegations against Windsor. In her own words:

Back at the house, [Ghislaine] Maxwell and Epstein said goodnight and headed upstairs, signalling it was time that I take care of the prince. In the years since, I’ve thought a lot about how he behaved. He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright. I drew him a hot bath. We disrobed and got in the tub, but didn’t stay there long because the prince was eager to get to the bed. He was particularly attentive to my feet, caressing my toes and licking my arches. That was a first for me, and it tickled. I was nervous he would want me to do the same to him. But I needn’t have worried. He seemed in a rush to have intercourse. Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour.

The next morning, Maxwell told me: “You did well. The prince had fun.” Epstein would give me $15,000 for servicing the man the tabloids called “Randy Andy”.

My second encounter with Prince Andrew took place about a month later, at Epstein’s townhouse in New York. Epstein greeted Andrew and brought him to the living room, where Maxwell and I were sitting. Another one of their victims, Johanna Sjoberg, arrived soon afterward. Maxwell then announced to the prince that she’d purchased him a joke gift, a puppet that looked just like him. She suggested we pose for a photo with it. The prince and I sat down next to each other on the couch, and Maxwell put the puppet in my lap, positioning one of its hands on one of my breasts. Then she put Sjoberg on the prince’s lap, and the prince put his hand on Sjoberg’s breast. The symbolism was impossible to ignore. Johanna and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings.

By the time the above was published, Giuffre had died by suicide.

Handouts for Andy

Epstein and Maxwell pulled many young women and girls into their orbit, and they trafficked them to wealthy men like Windsor. While some may think Windsor is simply a bad apple, other revelations demonstrate complicity from our current king and former queen.

In 2022, Andrew faced a sex abuse lawsuit from Giuffre. That same year, it emerged that the queen would fund her pervert son’s defence. When that case came to a resolution, she contributed towards the $16m settlement. Our current king chipped in too.

The late Liz didn’t just fund his legal defence; in 2021, she also fought to retain his prestige. According to an unnamed military source in the Sunday Times:

The Queen has let it be known to the regiment that she wants the Duke of York to remain as colonel, and the feeling is that nobody wants to do anything that could cause upset to the colonel-in-chief.

It is a very difficult, unsatisfactory situation.

After more Epstein revelations came out in 2025, the royals eventually stripped Windsor of his titles. This clearly happened because the firm felt a need to save face. And for sycophants like Streeting, the ploy seems to have worked.

It doesn’t end with the handouts, either. As Skwawkbox reported for the Canary on 31 May:

Buckingham Palace had emails six years ago showing the queen’s second son, Andrew, was abusing his position as UK trade envoy. It was a position the late queen had pressured the government into giving the Epstein pal formerly known as Prince Andrew.

So Windsor was running around – seemingly breaking the law and betraying the country – and his family knew.

Yet Streeting remains a “monarchist”.

Wes Scabbing

Streeting was speaking at SXSW London. As we reported, several speakers pulled out of the event after it refused to condemn the UK barring two of its speakers from entering the country (Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur). Streeting clearly doesn’t care about his government’s latest crackdown on civil liberties, it seems, despite arguing at the same event that Starmer has a:

lack of vision, direction and drive.

If there’s a difference between the “vision” or “direction” of Streeting and Starmer, we haven’t found it yet. We’ll admit he’s more “driven”, but the things he’s driving towards are more of what nobody wants – whether it’s privatisation in the NHS, or funding a family of nonce-tolerating secret leakers.

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