Like rats leaving the sinking ship, another one bites the dust, bye bye Mandy

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The British Ambassador to the United States of America, Labour’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ Peter Mandelson, has been ‘withdrawn’ from his role!


Keir Starmer sacks Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to the US

Mandelson, appointed in December, faced mounting scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Starmer's statement came moments before the government was due to answer an urgent about Mandelson's appointment - watch the Commons live above

An extraordinary end to an extraordinary career in public life. And this time, yes, surely it is the end.

The "third man" with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the creation of New Labour, Mandelson resigned from Blair's cabinet twice, spent four years in Brussels as Britain’s European Commissioner, and in the final stretch of Brown’s premiership he was essentially the deputy prime minister.

He has generally been seen to have done a very good job in those roles, just as - by common consensus in Whitehall and Washington - he had performed very well as ambassador.

But performance in the job has never been Mandelson’s problem.

And yet again it is something else which has brought him down.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czewp16k6k6t

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No Brexit, no Covid, just clueless, and sleaze what a feckin mess


Cheerio cheerio cheerio



'Revulsion' in Labour at Mandelson links with Epstein, says MP


Labour MP Andy McDonald has said there is "widespread revulsion" in the party over Lord Mandelson's links with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, amid growing calls for him to be sacked.

McDonald called for Lord Mandelson to stand down "immediately" as the UK's ambassador to Washington, following fresh revelations in emails about his relationship with Epstein.

The Conservatives are stepping up pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to sack Lord Mandelson, with an urgent question from MP Neil O'Brien due in Parliament shortly.

Home Office Minister Mike Tapp said the PM continues to have "confidence in Mandelson" and his abilities as ambassador, adding the "disturbing" emails made him "shudder".

Lord Mandelson is reported by Bloomberg to have told Epstein to "fight for early release" shortly before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and told him, "I think the world of you" the day before he began his sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor in June 2008.

McDonald told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm afraid if he [Mandelson] doesn't do the right thing and resign today then the prime minister should sack him."

The PM will face "inescapable" questions about his own judgement in appointing Lord Mandelson, said McDonald, who suggested the vetting process may have failed.

Asked how Labour MPs were feeling about Lord Mandelson, McDonald said: "It is widespread revulsion that we, by association, being in the same party, are being brought under the microscope for something that he has done.

"There isn't anybody in the Labour Party who is supporting Peter Mandelson today and the prime minister's got to hear that and understand that he'll weaken his position if he continues to support him."

The MP for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East dismissed concerns sacking Lord Mandelson could damage to relations with US President Donald Trump and urged Sir Keir to show he had a "moral compass" to honour Epstein's victims.

Asked what he thought of Lord Mandelson's emails to Epstein on BBC Breakfast, Home Office Minister Mike Tapp said the emails made him physically "shudder", adding: "I find it disturbing, those sorts of emails in honesty."

Tapp, who has worked for the National Crime Agency, said: "I have arrested these vile paedophiles and had to meet many of the victims of these crimes, so it's really important that's clear."

However, asked whether the government was reviewing Lord Mandelson's future as ambassador, Tapp said "the prime minister has confidence in his ability"

He added that that "the work he is doing in America is very important", stressing the recent UK-US trade deal, as well as their defence relationship around the threat from Russia.

The timing of the revelations about Lord Mandelson is particularly difficult for Sir Keir, ahead of President Trump's state visit to the UK next week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lkzjr8gwwo

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No Brexit, no Covid, just clueless, and sleaze what a feckin mess


Cheerio cheerio cheerio



'Revulsion' in Labour at Mandelson links with Epstein, says MP


Labour MP Andy McDonald has said there is "widespread revulsion" in the party over Lord Mandelson's links with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, amid growing calls for him to be sacked.

McDonald called for Lord Mandelson to stand down "immediately" as the UK's ambassador to Washington, following fresh revelations in emails about his relationship with Epstein.

The Conservatives are stepping up pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to sack Lord Mandelson, with an urgent question from MP Neil O'Brien due in Parliament shortly.

Home Office Minister Mike Tapp said the PM continues to have "confidence in Mandelson" and his abilities as ambassador, adding the "disturbing" emails made him "shudder".

Lord Mandelson is reported by Bloomberg to have told Epstein to "fight for early release" shortly before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and told him, "I think the world of you" the day before he began his sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor in June 2008.

McDonald told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm afraid if he [Mandelson] doesn't do the right thing and resign today then the prime minister should sack him."

The PM will face "inescapable" questions about his own judgement in appointing Lord Mandelson, said McDonald, who suggested the vetting process may have failed.

Asked how Labour MPs were feeling about Lord Mandelson, McDonald said: "It is widespread revulsion that we, by association, being in the same party, are being brought under the microscope for something that he has done.

"There isn't anybody in the Labour Party who is supporting Peter Mandelson today and the prime minister's got to hear that and understand that he'll weaken his position if he continues to support him."

The MP for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East dismissed concerns sacking Lord Mandelson could damage to relations with US President Donald Trump and urged Sir Keir to show he had a "moral compass" to honour Epstein's victims.

Asked what he thought of Lord Mandelson's emails to Epstein on BBC Breakfast, Home Office Minister Mike Tapp said the emails made him physically "shudder", adding: "I find it disturbing, those sorts of emails in honesty."

Tapp, who has worked for the National Crime Agency, said: "I have arrested these vile paedophiles and had to meet many of the victims of these crimes, so it's really important that's clear."

However, asked whether the government was reviewing Lord Mandelson's future as ambassador, Tapp said "the prime minister has confidence in his ability"

He added that that "the work he is doing in America is very important", stressing the recent UK-US trade deal, as well as their defence relationship around the threat from Russia.

The timing of the revelations about Lord Mandelson is particularly difficult for Sir Keir, ahead of President Trump's state visit to the UK next week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lkzjr8gwwo

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[the other bob wilson]

I almost felt sorry for Starmer watching PMQs yesterday, but then I remembered he was allowing Badenoch to run rings around him and that he had shown his usual extremely dodgy judgment in appointing Mandelson in the first place. The best thing about this is that surely the odious Peter Mandelson is finally finished in politics now - he should have been twenty years ago, but those who want to make the Labour Party indistinguishable from the Tories insist on bringing him back every five years or so.

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I almost felt sorry for Starmer watching PMQs yesterday, but then I remembered he was allowing Badenoch to run rings around him and that he had shown his usual extremely dodgy judgment in appointing Mandelson in the first place. The best thing about this is that surely the odious Peter Mandelson is finally finished in politics now - he should have been twenty years ago, but those who want to make the Labour Party indistinguishable from the Tories insist on bringing him back every five years or so.

Starmer is utterly hopeless

[Dorcus]

Starmer has been totally inept and abysmal since his anointing as PM. However one spectacularly clear example of his lack of good judgement was his calamitous folly in recruiting Peter Mandelson as a Government representative.

Anyone with even a modicum of sense would instinctively know Mandelson is unfit for public office and should be kept away from Government influence sine die

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Starmer has been totally inept and abysmal since his anointing as PM. However one spectacularly clear example of his lack of good judgement was his calamitous folly in recruiting Peter Mandelson as a Government representative.

Anyone with even a modicum of sense would instinctively know Mandelson is unfit for public office and should be kept away from Government influence sine die

I genuinely hope the labour party grow some gonads and start the process of giving starmer the elbow

Even dyed in the wool hard-core members canvassing for a local by election say people are just saying no chance will they be voting labour with starmer in charge

Hes 100 percent toxic and needs to be removed

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Oh, Mandy
Well, you came
But I sent you away

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I genuinely hope the labour party grow some gonads and start the process of giving starmer the elbow

Even dyed in the wool hard-core members canvassing for a local by election say people are just saying no chance will they be voting labour with starmer in charge

Hes 100 percent a WEF puppet and needs to be removed