Mandelson was given secret spreadsheet to vet left-wing MPs in Labour power struggle
Mandelson was given secret spreadsheet to vet left-wing MPs in Labour power struggle
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Mandelson was given secret spreadsheet to vet left-wing MPs in Labour power struggle
Mandelson was given secret spreadsheet to vet left-wing MPs in Labour power struggle
Posted by Necessary-Product361
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Why the fuck did Starmer permit this. Why the fuck did he open the door for Reform. Why. Just why?
More interested in fighting factional internal battles than serving the interests of the country. Moronic and self sabotaging.
A secret spreadsheet so secret it probably doesn’t exist. The Mandelson dumpster fire has as expected spread rather than be contained. The knives are out for McSweeny who to be fair does look like he has made a total hash of the entire thing.
Some MP’s are trying to force the issue with stuff like this whether it works we will see soon enough, whether Starmer himself can survive this mess is another question altogether.
Mandelson was clearly very closely linked to Stamer and his whole project through Morgan McSweeney. This is more than just poor vetting of an ambasador, but a long lasting political alliance between Starmer and Mandelson in gaining power and reshaping the Labour party. Starmer knew Mandelson was buddies with Epstein and he knew that he had resigned from cabinet twice for being corrupt. Yet he didnt care. It is now clear Mandelson traded insider information to the convicted sex offender and worked to undermine the Brown government at the request of JPMorgan.
“Disgraced peer Peter Mandelson was directly involved in helping Morgan McSweeney select Labour’s parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2024 general election, a party whistleblower told The i Paper.
The Labour source revealed how Mandelson helped to identify potential candidates who were seen as too left-wing to run for the party.
He was given access to a secret Google spreadsheet of potential candidates McSweeney and his allies used, the source said.
A Labour Party spokesperson said Mandelson had “no role” in official candidate selection, but The i Paper understands the spreadsheet was an ‘off the books’ exercise conducted amid the power struggles within the party.”
Oh look that thing the left said was happening was actually happening.
One of my favourite details from the Labour leaks was they rang a “Trot hunting bell” every time they purged a left winger. Normal leftwing party guys.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/19/key-takeaways-forde-report-labour-factionalism
Us crazy lefties fucking warned about the rotten state of the Starmer polit buro. Nobody listened.
Ah, another way to try and take down the democratically elected government by the unelected newspaper barons. And let’s completely forget that Farage was specifically spoken about by Bannon /Epstein as well as Brexit.
Oh, and the actual charges and found guilty of treason ex-Reform/UKIP.
Honestly at this point it’s pretty clear that current Labour leadership don’t have any political skill whatsoever. The only reason they got in was because of how much people wanted the Tories out, and I don’t know if they’ve taken that as an ego boost and think it was actually on their merit.
Not sure why this a big news? It was shown that a left wing government (Corbyn) was not electable. Vetting candidates so they’re more likely to help win an election is surely a sensible thing to do?
mandelson has a such a massive hate boner for he left. the way he spoke about the labour left when he was on the BBCs coverage of last election was deranged. Labour won 400+ seats and he spent every second he was on screen talking about how shit the left were and how no one liked them
It’s genuinely baffling how much energy gets poured into these internal purges. You’d think the priority would be presenting a united front against the actual opposition, not creating one. This kind of thing just makes the whole party look utterly out of touch.
We need to dismantle the two party system completely. The entire thing is rotten.
Did anyone search for Corbyn in the Epstein files? Did Mandelson email about him?
I loath this man. When he wormed/ or was invited back into meddling with Labour policy I wrote to my mp to ask why someone who had links with Epstein was allowed to do so. This was two years ago. How someone like me, older with no political experience could see it was a very bad idea when others couldn’t still baffles me.
remember when labour actively worked against the interest of their members because they’re a bunch of cunts who would rather the right wing get in than the left
i remember
I don’t understand, can someone explain why this is outrageous?
When Starmer considered Mandelson for a senior role, did he consider him to be a man of good character?
At what do journalists say it out loud: the Labour leader was installed by BritIntel to suppress the Left of the party.
Wyhay the fuck is Mi5 doing ..they’re supposed to protect us from this.
The tragedy of Peter Mandelson is not that he lacked intelligence or competence. He had both in abundance. His undoing lay elsewhere, in a recurring character flaw that surfaced whenever wealth, access and powerful men came calling. This was not a one-off lapse but a recognisable pattern.
There was the undisclosed loan from Geoffrey Robinson, followed by the Hinduja passport affair, each time explained away as carelessness rather than corruption. Then came the Corfu yacht with Oleg Deripaska, a Labour grandee marooned among oligarchs and intrigue, a scene so emblematic it should have ended matters for good. Instead, Mandelson was repeatedly rehabilitated, his judgment treated as an unfortunate quirk rather than a structural weakness. Each scandal was framed as technical. None was allowed to speak plainly about temperament.
…There has always been something courtierish about Mandelson, a gossipy relish for access, influence and being in the know. Proximity to power was mistaken for power itself. Add the flattery of billionaires, the glamour of dinners and foundations, and a weak grip on discretion, and what resulted was not just poor judgment but moral erosion. Political talent slowly gave way to a kind of ethical fog.
Into this groove stepped Jeffrey Epstein, a social predator rather than a crude one. He hid behind philanthropy, elite approval and cultivated respectability, disguising serious crimes in plain sight. American prosecutors
“Negotiated”, collapsing overwhelming evidence into a farcical plea deal to a more trivial misdemeanour charge that grotesquely obfuscated and significantly underplayed the scale of his abuse and enabled him to continue operating in plain sight until the truth finally forced itself into view.
Did Mandelson grasp the full horror of Epstein? No evidence has emerged to imply he did. But ignorance is not innocence when sensitive information is passed around like gossip and money from a man like Epstein is accepted at all. Given Mandelson’s history, the alarms should have been deafening.
In the end, he was not destroyed by malice but by reverence. A lifelong deference to wealth. A readiness to believe that rich men confer legitimacy rather than risk. After Robinson, the Hindujas and Deripaska, Epstein was not an aberration but the endpoint. Not tragedy, exactly. Something smaller, sadder, and distinctly more embarrassing….
Cringe, really.
It’s so refreshing to have a party in charge that are a change from the usual breed
Sticking on my tinfoil hat here but never in my life have I felt so strongly that a deep state is clearly making some serious moves here. Everything on both sides of any political party just feels so manufactured in literally every single country don’t have hope in a single politician anywhere in the world right now they all just seem completely delusional and pushing out so much garbage I don’t believe any normal person actually believes (or so I hope).
You’re telling me Labour have shifted to the right despite what online weirdos have insisted for a decade!? Shocker.
Honestly I don’t get how anyone hired this guy for anything after about 2005. He’s always been a slimy, greasy, machiavellian shyster his whole career. He’s somehow flown under the radar for decades like Russel Brand and you just wonder how, like him, it took so long to realise for some people.
Where’s my centrists? How’s grown up poliitics going?
Starmer admitting that vetting confirmed Mandelson had an ongoing relationship with Epstein is jaw dropping. Surely he has to go now?!
Fucking hell. I hope when Reform get in and wreck the country that Kier Starmer never has a restful night’s sleep again.
Labour had *one chance* to prove the doubters wrong and show that the state can still work for people and make things better and he’s spent the entire span of his time as PM showing either incredible incompetence or wilful malice.
Just a useless, bumbling government full of out-of-touch idiots who aren’t serious-minded enough to run a country. Everything that happens next is entirely on them. I’m so disappointed and angry.