Off Topic Lord Mandelson sacked

[Blond Bombshell]

Inevitable. Leads more questions about Starmer.

BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czewp16k6k6t
Keir Starmer sacks Peter Mandelson as US ambassador over links to Jeffrey Epstein - BBC News

 

[Moanjam]

Sounds like worse things to come out according to Mandleson himself.

 

[Smug in Boots]

Just shows how difficult it is to keep secrets these days …

… there’ll be loads of these ‘cold case’ episodes now, just as there should be.

Shame for our trade with the US but ‘play with fire’ etc.

 

[Saf]

When the Tories were this bad they done the right thing and changed leadership. Starmer will do anything to cling on to power.

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[flandersmackem]

Starmer had no choice... He had to pull the plug on Mandelson.

 

[Blond Bombshell]

A friendship from 23 year ago, where comments of "best pal" and "yum yum" have come back to bite him on the arse. I'm sure my views have mellowed over time, but I'm not in the media spotlight. Should he have known better, or acted quicker as soon as Epstein was first charged?

 

[Brainy Dose]

I'm a bit puzzled that......if what we've been led to believe about Epstein is correct.....and if what we've been led to believe about Mandleson is correct.....whatever drew the two of them together in such a seemingly intimate friendship?

 

[Montysoptician]

Shame on Starmer, a blind man on a galloping horse could see that this appointment would end in tears. Mandelson really did have something of the night about him.

 

[Blond Bombshell]

I'm a bit puzzled that......if what we've been led to believe about Epstein is correct.....and if what we've been led to believe about Mandleson is correct.....whatever drew the two of them together in such a seemingly intimate friendship?

Did Mandelson say in an interview, aired last night, that he was gay?

 

[Brainy Dose]

Did Mandelson say in an interview, aired last night, that he was gay?

Didn't see it,but I think its widely known he is gay.

 

[Blond Bombshell]

Didn't see it,but I think its widely known he is gay.

Maybe E swung both ways?

 

[Brainy Dose]

Maybe E swung both ways?

Maybe....no doubt the Sun'll dig it out in due course.

 

[rowley]

I shouldn't think it will bother him too much. It's not the first time he has been sacked or"resigned" in disgrace.

 

[rowley]

Did Mandelson say in an interview, aired last night, that he was gay?

Never been a secret since the late nineties. Got into some bother by getting his partner into the country at the time. More noise than substance.

 

[Brainy Dose]

I shouldn't think it will bother him too much. It's not the first time he has been sacked or"resigned" in disgrace.

Agree....he's a Blairite....here today,get some power,make some money,gone tomorrow!

 

[Saf]

He should never have been employed. It was known at the time of his appointment that he was mixing with Epstein before, during and after his conviction. It’s indefensible. Yet Starmer was still standing by him yesterday.

 

[rowley]

Starmer had no choice... He had to pull the plug on Mandelson.

Pretty bad judgement to appoint him in the first place really. Mandelson had highly known form.

A bit odd that Karen Pierce was ditched to make way for him. She had made a very good impression there and elsewhere.

Maybe , as a daughter of one of those " horny handed sons of toil" that appeared to so unsettle Mandelson, she was not quite the right stuff for Starmer.

 

[rowley]

Agree....he's a Blairite....here today,get some power,make some money,gone tomorrow!

Most of them are partial to that mind!

 

[Brainy Dose]

Pretty bad judgement to appoint him in the first place really. Mandelson had highly known form.

A bit odd that Karen Pierce was ditched to make way for him. She had made a very good impression there and elsewhere.

Maybe , as a daughter of one of those " horny handed sons of toil" that appeared to so unsettle Mandelson, she was not quite the right stuff for Starmer.

Agree. Shows how weak is Starmer.

 

[Brainy Dose]

Most of them are partial to that mind!

Yep...could add the treasonous Cameron,...Osborne,Johnson et al into that mix!
Dodgy Dave needs to thank his stars he wasn't born 500 years ago....his head would have been on the spike outside the Tower.