Starmer entschuldigt sich bei den Epstein-Opfern für die Ernennung Mandelsons zum US-Botschafter | ITV-Nachrichten
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Unpopular opinion, but kicking Starmer out now would plunge the country into chaos. Stability is desperately needed now more than ever.
I’m used to British PMs making awful and stupid decisions.
Acknowledgement of that and apology however is novel.
But if there was rumours why would you not fucking **check**
Is there any level of due diligence? Are we just taking people’s word for it now? Someone who has previously lied, expected to now tell the truth?
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Such a shame. After a long period of heavy criticism he seemed to be turning a corner and improving opinion of himself, even managed a good kicking of Farage and reform. However, this mandelson issue could very well be the end of him.
Can’t see him recovering from this.
>none of us knew the depth of the darkness
The whips absolutely knew about the noncing. Heck starmer will have too after the security services warned him that mcsweenys mentor kept being best pals with Epstein even after he’d been arrested.
He might not have known about ole handy mandy selling state secrets. But the idea he didn’t know of mandelsons relationship to Epstein is laughable.
Elon Musk (@elonmusk). *America should liberate the people of Britain* from their tyrannical government.
who really benefits?
I mean, it was a good speech but once again it is after the horse has bolted. If Starmer is to stay, and it’s an increasingly growing if, he desperately needs to change his comms team. At every turn they always seem to be playing catch up. Yes the written press is mostly right wing so are looking for every angle to attack them but their unclear communication makes it always look like they don’t have a clue what they are doing. I know a lot of people will immediately jump in that statement and scream “that’s cos they don’t!”, but if you can ignore the headlines and look at the work happening that’s not getting any attention another picture emerges. I often feel Starmer suffers the same way Major did. Works hard, is focused on their objectives but is completely void of personality so the public will never connect with them.
Mandelson was passing on secrets to a foreign asset and having people removed from govt jobs who did not put that foreign state interests before The UK’s interests- there Needs to be a deep dive into any MPs that have been funded directly/ indirectly by a foreign state.
Otherwise nothing will change.
I’m no fan of Starmer but I haven’t been as quick as a lot of folks to jump on the anti-wagon given how shitty the Tories were. However, even I think this was spectacularly stupid, and his days in charge are likely double figures at most.
That said, chuck him out now, and Reform will sit back and watch Labour eat itself, installing someone like Rayner or Streeting who likely won’t endure long either.
EDIT: Just found out Mandelson didn’t even pass MI6 vetting… [but Starmer picked him anyway](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mandelson-epstein-starmer-us-ambassador-trump-b2824777.html). Lumme.
„However, there were also worries that his past links to the disgraced financier and convicted paedophile[ Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/peter-mandelson-keir-starmer-jeffrey-epstein-lord-prime-minister-b2824557.html) “would compromise him”.“
*September last year.*
I think he’d actually come across better if he admitted he appointing Mandelson precisely *because* of his links to Epstein and Trump. They’re all paedos of a pod after all. He knew they moved in the same circles and that is undoubtedly why he gave him the role in the first place.
He’s the paedo whisperer and would know exactly how to flatter Trump in the ways we need.
When was the last time a PM was removed this far into their term with a majority like Labour have now?
You’d think Starmer was in the Epstein files the way the press is reacting, I somehow doubt they’d have held Boris to this standard.
Another overblown scandal that literally no one but the political class cares about being used to try and push him out.
And people crying about this are going to let in someone (Farage) who is literally going to sell this country to the world’s most prolific pedophile (Trump).
I’ve been feeling restless lately. With the recent news, I feel as if I’ve been supercharged by how wholesome my day has been. This morning I was taking my morning bath while scrolling and something very unexpected happened. I received a call from my Reform supporting father that I cut off a year ago.
Seeing his name I was filled with a conviction and my trembling finger made impact with the accept call button. „Hello father“ I stated in a defiant tone. It was silent for a moment before he spoke, he sounded sad. Weak. „Hey s-son…“. I knew what this was about. Had he seen the light? Has the undeniable surge of togetherness somehow affected this great Satan of a man? „So I got to lookin‘ at a few old photographs“ he continued „I’ve been feeling real alone lately and I just wanted to say, your mother passed a few months ago. She was obliterated by a train on the overground. Reduced to a pink mist before my very eyes“.
„Why are you calling?!“ I yelled into the phone with such force that my body caused water from the tub to surge outward and spill over the side. More silence…then finally, the revelation. „Well…I watched Starmer’s apology on the TV today, I wanted to reach out to ya. I feel like you might be able to bring me up to speed on things. I’ve been fixin‘ to learn more about the new China deal, Starmer’s flawless record on immigration, stopping Putler and Hamas from world domination, and most of all, defending our greatest and trustworthy ally Israel…anyway“
He continued on „Hows about I take you out tonight for a bite to eat…maybe we can talk about those…whatdyacallem, policies? I’m really interested in how more we can help Israel and stop left wing Antisemitism pushed by the likes of Hitler 2.0, Jeremy Corbyn“
„McShlucks?“ I blurted out excitedly.
„McShlucks it is…“
So the impossible happened. A chorus of reason has sung a carol of hope at my doorstep. If this has happened to me, I imagine it’s happening across all of our nation at breakneck speed. Our future has never looked brighter.
We can all at least agree on one thing – at least there’s still a little bit of accountability and public standards left in this country. Unlike in other places.
What amazes me is that the outcome of the Epstien files being released here has resulted in a senior member of the Royal family and his wife being disappeared from public life, a former minister and Ambessodor has been sacked and looks likely to be prosecuted and the prime minister is fighting for his survival.
Meanwhile in the US, where a lot more powerful people had much closer links to Epstein right up to the white house…
And there is nothing.
No one seems to have lost their job, had to resign or suffer any political backlash whatsoever.
Do they do things differently there?
Starmer was a clown for appointing Mandelson and I think someone should resign over this.
Labour needs a clean-up, and if Starmer shows he’s willing to do that instead of just focusing on damage control, then he might still have a shred of credibility. But said credibility is hanging by a thread. I mean, come on!
There’s also the issue of not having many other viable options for a replacement PM atm though.
Also, if anyone thinks a Reform government isn’t going to have any ties to Epstein, I have a bridge [to sell you](https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/dinner-with-mr-brexit-bannons-european-revolution-planned-with-farage-backed-by-epstein/).
Really, it’s just Kemi Badenoch, Ed Davey and Zack Polanski looking the most innocent in all this. But Kemi wants the Tory Party to be a Reform tribute act, so there’s that.
He knew but the only explanation is that Mandelson has dirt on Trump.
Fair play, as soon as the information came out action was taken and apologies made.
It’s weird having a grown up prime minister for a change, been a while eh.
Unfortunately I think his appointment happened when it did, against advice, because the world was still at “placate the massive orange fascist baby across the pond” mode, and Mandelson was just the greasy Machiavellian shitrag to do that. Rock and a hard place, I wish we’d have had the backbone to get Mandelson to walk into the sea, and for Starmer to tell The Nonceking to fuck off, but sadly we haven’t that kind of juice in the world stage and everybody was really unsure of what stance to take. In fact, people have only started feeling a bit braver since Carney showed he had a pair of bollocks.
Addition: the image of Trump sitting like a toddler wearing a propeller hat and a giant lollipop while he had that shit eating grin as the monarchy bent over backwards to put on a special circus for him at eye watering expense still boils my blood, but that was the geopolitical environment we were in doing the best we could.
Who the fuck wrote this speech. Mandelson was known as the prince of darkness and Starmer goes in front of the media with a straight face to claim “noone knew the depths of the darkness”. They’re asking for piss taking and memes there, which will not help this story go away
As much as we think Starmer is about as relateable as a cyborg with a CPU from the early 90’s, we must remember that apologies are good
We like apologies
Of course he would say the relationship was over he was dead
Starmer is on his last leg. If this review finds he ignored info about Mandelson he is done. If Labour doesnt come first in Wales, he is done. If any other scandal breaks out, he is done. The PLP is clearly fed up with him and all it will take is the final straw to break the camels back
Nigel Farage appears 40+ times in the files, has been pictured with Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon, is clearly a tool in a conspiracy to force neo nazi, white supremacist far-right groups into power in several western countries, has links to Russia and Israel, runs in the same circles as Trump and Elon ‚I’m a nazi‘ musk, but no no, let’s demonise labour for having ONE nonce.
The difference between the left and right is very easily defined;
When a left wing MP is caught doing nefarious shit, they throw him out and the left agrees in hating him.
When a right wing MP is caught doing nefarious shit, they call it fake and claim it’s foreigners faults again.
Fuck right politics, fuck trump, fuck farage, fuck musk, fuck global elite paedophiles.
This world needs to cleanse these people.
I can’t believe we are seemingly hurtling towards a Reform government and no one, even Labour themselves, seem to be aware that it is happening.
I actually do think Starmer has done a decent job given the absolute mess he inherited, plus the onslaught he has faced from the press since day 1.
Also staggering that we could see our Prime Minister resign as a consequence of the Epstein files being released, albeit indirectly, and yet the convicted rapist across the pond is directly named in them tens of thousands of times, with very explicit allegations against him, and somehow this seems to just pass him by with him remaining unscathed. It’s a mad, sad world.
It’s truly baffling people are surprised by this.
Starmer appointed Mandelson BECAUSE of his connections wirh Trump, Gates etc and yes, the likes of Epstein.
It was a political scumbag gamble that misfires spectacularly. Jesus, imagine being ripped a new one by the conservatives for ethics and them actually being right…