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THIS is the root of the problem.
Not what he knew or didn't know about vetting.
He should never have gone near Mandelson for ANY job, never mind this one.
No. They'll wait till he can take the blame for the May elections before they dump him.
A confidence vote won't bring down the government, just Starmer.
Ah. You shouldn't criticise Starmer unless you want a block. Got it.
She should just fuck off and join Reform then.
The fact that Starmer is keeping her in the role is reason enough to despise the man, regardless of the Mandelson affair.
#UKPol Does anyone seriously believe that firing Olly Robbins is anything other than a scapegoat to save Starmer's job?
Whether Robbins knew about the fail or not, we all know Starmer forced this through, anyone paying the slightest bit of attention knew for 15 years that Mandelson was dodgy as fuck
Also better than ebola. I want better than that too.
But then, I'm one of those that helped cause incalculable damage to the island of strangers, so I don't count.
I don't care who supported him. Mandelson is a vile excuse of a human and appointing him was disgraceful.
Though I don't expect any better from Starmer.
Did he "openly and honestly" employ a man well known to be a terrible person to one of the most important jobs in diplomacy?
Great judgement that.
Zionism is to Jews what Nazism was to Germans . Two separate and distinct identities that are only combined by choice- not so hard to understand.
There was another one made out of soil. Cassius Clay.
Or Labour could have tried making the country noticeably better and not pandered to the racist tw@s
Quiet competence?????
I presume said person also believes Starmer played a blinder.
Can't wait for him to go.
He did do wrong.
He chose Mandeson. A man well known to be a prime shit.
I've wiped shit off my shoe that would make a better President than Trump.
Hardly needed.
Starmer has generated enough anger against him all by himself.
I don't know what kind of tool Srarmers dad was trying for.
But he ended up with something closer to a square than a flange-spreader.
Thus story shows not just Statmers incompetence, but also his support for a really nasty person.
Starmer deserves a kicking over it.
A few of them would fit right in to One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
Who's in charge?
With Trump in charge, the answer to most multiple choice questions like that is "yes"
That's the real issue, not whether Starmer knew about the vetting or not*. It's the very fact he chose Mandelson in the first place.
*Of course he did.
So.
A British immigrant who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is flying into the UK, to support a British immigrant, who has an Irish passport, and lives in Spain, while he tells British people who actually live in the UK and are immigrants by descent, that immigration is the problemโฆ.๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
It really is a shame.
But that shouldn't stop us holding the current government to account.
In 1948/49, Israel destroyed over 400 Palestinian villages, driving populations that had lived there for millennia into exile and refugee hood. An act of ethnic cleansing that is being repeated today. Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon. This is obscene and cruel and wicked. End of.
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Magic is real.
I just made a large bar of chocolate disappear.
Obviously, as I'm trying to lose weight, I couldn't have eaten it.
Mandleson failing vetting is not the big issue in my mind. Maybe there was enough incompetence that Starmer didn't know.
What Starmer DID know was that Mandleson was a nasty man and not suited to any job in public office. But chose him anyway.
