Keir Starmer at it again..

[Sniffer]

Mandelson sacked.

Having previously been dismissed twice from Government due to questionable activities he has been relieved of his duties due to more of the same.
Not for the first time it’s terrible judgement from the PM to appoint him in the first place and then to spend a day backing him when his position was obviously untenable.

 

[Stan Hullis]

Starmer and his team have the political nouse of a carrot waiting to be harvested.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Starmer is embarrassing.

 

[visage]

Mandelson sacked.

Having previously been dismissed twice from Government due to questionable activities he has been relieved of his duties due to more of the same.
Not for the first time it’s terrible judgement from the PM to appoint him in the first place and then to spend a day backing him when his position was obviously untenable.

Not really - the first time was a fairly niche point around reporting a loan from a friend, and the second time he was exonerated (post resignation).

By the standards of subsequent administrations these werent resigning matters.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

How long has is been in the public realm that Mandelson and Epstein were chums?

 

[Jack Regan]

The likes of Farage etc must be just laughing their arses off at the mess labour are making of government.

 

[visage]

How long has is been in the public realm that Mandelson and Epstein were chums?

A long time. The pertinent point is were they chums once Epsteins crimes were revealed - which im not 100% sure on. Mandelson seemed to claim that he wasnt sufficiently aware of the severity of Epsteins offences. Which seems unlikely at best.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He was always just a very strange appointment, belongs to a totally different era. It'd be like a Premier League club hiring Kevin Keegan or Joe Royle this season.

 

[Tredman]

There's a few of them around though, Pat McFadden is treated as some guru it seems.

 

[nimrod]

He was always just a very strange appointment, belongs to a totally different era. It'd be like a Premier League club hiring Kevin Keegan or Joe Royle this season.

perhaps he thought he could bond with Trump over their Epstein reminisces!