Der Stabschef des britischen Premierministers Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, tritt wegen Mandelsons Streit zurück

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pm-starmers-chief-staff-morgan-mcsweeney-quits-sky-news-reports-2026-02-08/

14 Kommentare

  1. AnwaAnduril on

    Didn’t Boris’ premiership end because he appointed some aide who had an SA allegation?

    So… why does Sir Keir get to stay in office despite *knowingly* appointing an Epstein BFF to *the #1 most important ambassadorship*? Like, he admitted in Parliament that they knew about the Epstein connections *before* the appointment. Why the double standard?

    Edit: The few remaining Labour voters are downvoting me. Stuff like this — being unable to condemn Starmer over this — is one of the many reasons they’re losing so badly to Reform.

    It’s not hard to say Epstein associates and their enablers shouldn’t be in the government.

  2. Tall-Topic-2578 on

    Wow Epstein files toppled one government makes you think what other governments it can destroy

  3. AnwaAnduril on

    You know, I have a long enough memory that I recall when Keir Starmer criticized Boris Johnson over the Chris Pincher scandal.

    It is rare to see such a blatant example of hypocrisy.

  4. Capt_Departure_1625 on

    Starmers done. Its over…..last desperate effort to save his job.

  5. Well thats Labour fucked… Looks like Farrage will take us barrelling down the same moronic road as the States basically unopposed at this point.

  6. I know it’s easy to see McSweeny as a fall guy, but a lot of people in the party explicitly blame him for gettting Mandelson in that role. Is it the PM’s ultimate responsibility for giving him the OK though? I think it probably is. Leadership challenge material for sure.

    Interesting to compare governments approaches to dealing with the fallout from Epstein. Obviously the Americans can’t do anything similar because they’re actually all in the files. The level of open corruption is staggering.

  7. Agressive-toothbrush on

    Epstein`s work on behalf of Russia and China (and probably others) was to compromise as many politicians and powerful men as possible in order to destabilize their countries and weaken those countries.

    Russia and China knew that any scandal involving minors was the „red line“ for the population of most countries, with the notable exception of America where Trump is not being shown the door.

    This is where the populations of those countries must remain rational, to not handicap their country more than necessary in order to prevent foreign adversaries from taking a dominant place, militarily and economically.

    There is a reason why the idiot who ran Qanon knew about powerful men engaged in pedophilia, despite being dead wrong on details, probably because a foreign agent was feeding him that information.

    Remember, Epstein’s money almost certainly came from blackmail and foreign governments buying compromising information about the world’s most powerful men. Those foreign countries did not spend that money for fun or to „save the children“… In fact those foreign governments sacrificed all those children to acquire blackmail materials… They spent it to come after every democratic country out there and your, by extension, you livelihood by weakening your country…

  8. MCRN_Hammurabi on

    In a twisted way, the Mandelson appointment may not have been a mistake. Yes, they appointed a child abuser to be ambassador.. to a country that is being run by child abusers. They chose to deal with scum via scum, a less morally reprehensible person will get along far worse with the US administration.

    At least there is fallout over this though, shows that the UK hasn’t fallen as far into hell as the Americans have.

  9. Fresh_Time2022 on

    It’s fascinating being this early on a thread and seeing what all the bots are trying to make stick (I choose to believe these comments are bots because there’s no sign of human intelligence in them). my fave so far is he guys unironically spouting:

    ‚the UK’s lost a single US ambassador and a staffer, the governments practically collapsed! 100% cooked! Labour’s finished, might as well vote reform now.‘

    also as someone who is very ‚eh‘ about Starmer and doesn’t really have any strong opinion on him, it’s fascinating to see the constant broiling frothing rage some people seem to have for his existence that spills out every time his name is mentioned.

  10. Good to see labour doing something about the mandelson/epstein stuff. I highly doubt any other UK party would act as swiftly or even act at all! Not looking at anyone in particular…

  11. Good, maybe Starmer will get someone who knows what he is doing for a change.

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