Absolutely fucking incredible that there's *another* nonce related angle to this.

David Cameron got that pig's head pregnant and thats where wes streeting came from

I love that even Starmer's biggest fans start every defense with 'he's not perfect but' because they know deep down he's got nothing

A vote for Labour is a vote for Reform. Labour can’t stop Reform. Especially with these right wing Labour clowns running the show.

Starmer walking round whitehall office to office looking for someone else to fire, everyone hiding like he's an active shooter.

It is IMO important to grasp that what’s happened here is: the revivified corpse of New Labour worked tirelessly offscreen for years to raise up a new generation of hopeless fail-sons, and now the whole lot of them are being sucked into the bottomless pit of their fathers’ corruption.

So now we've established that Mandelson is a corrupting force that sullies everything and everyone in his sphere of influence, what are we going to do about the fact he hand-picked the entirety of Labour's 2024 intake of new MPs?

The *entire Starmer project* needs to be understood as one big Jobs For The Boys operation. That’s why McSweeney - Labour’s squillionaire bungs officer - spent 2017-19 running around telling dejected MPs to hold tight, because he was going to hook them back up with their clout, status and freebies.

Why does Keir Starmer keep wanting to find jobs for the best friends of paedophiles

Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford 4m Olly Robbins' bombshell evidence so far: * The Cabinet Office suggested there was no need to vet Mandelson *at all* * No 10 applied 'constant pressure' on Mandelson to approve Mandelson's appointment and took a 'dismissive' attitude to vetting * Mandelson was given access to the FCDO building, to low classification IT and to 'higher classification briefings' before he was granted security clearance * No 10 showed **no interest** in the actual vetting. The entire focus was on getting Mandelson to Washington as quickly as possible

lol

Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford 1m Sir Keir Starmer tried to make his director of communications - who had publicly supported a paedophile - an ambassador, Olly Robbins revealed This is a problem for Starmer, to put it mildly. He was already under pressure over his eventual decision to elevate Matthew Doyle to the Lords It means that Keir Starmer attempted to appoint two men who had friendships with sex offenders as ambassadors. It comes back to the fundamental question of his judgement The fact that No 10 told Robbins not to inform Yvette Cooper that he was considering an ambassadorship for Doyle is really quite something. Presumably No 10 inferred that Cooper would not appove of Doyle's appointment

Senior Labour figures charged after criminal investigation into alleged vote rigging Exclusive: Four people charged after criminal investigation into irregularities surrounding Labour candidate selection process for Croydon East

Hahahaahhaha
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The thing about Starmer and Mandelson @mrjamesob.bsky.social isn't so much the mistake of the appointment, as Ed Miliband rightly observed this am, even prime ministers make mistakes

It's about setting standards then applying them fairly, which is what Labour suggested they would do after 14 years

Olly Robbins is asked, do you regret granting security clearance for Mandelson?

Robbins says he regrets that the vetting wasn't done before & he regrets that the due diligence process didn't colour the PMs judgement.

Pointing the finger clearly at Starmer.

@sianberry.bsky.social and @zoegarbett.bsky.social joined the National Housing Demo to demand rent controls and outline why voting Green on 7th May is a vote for affordable housing.

Olly Robbins says he faced ‘constant pressure’ to get Mandelson in post Sacked Foreign Office permanent secretary says he was under pressure from Downing Street over appointment of US ambassador

The natural, foreseeable, even inevitable consequence of Starmer's decision to ignore what he and we knew about Mandelson and announce his appointment as Ambassador before he had been vetted. 👇🏻

He literally said today. No.10 pushed the foreign office to cut corners. The fact that you’re still defending Keir Starmer’s government after the damage they’ve done to their own party is mind boggling.

Robbins said no.10 put pressure on the foreign office to give Matthew Doyle a job & not tell the foreign secretary!

Doyle is the man Starmer subsequently gave a peerage to despite the fact he'd campaigned for someone who'd been charged with possessing indecent images of children

Allegation that Morgan McSweeney phoned previous FCDO Perm Sec Sir Phillip Barton, and told him "just fucking approve it" re: Mandelson's vetting ..!

No.10 pushed to cut corners in the vetting process. Starmer should resign. Disgraceful.

Well, this Olly Robinson testimony is... something. At what point do we just accept the PM is toast? No matter what, public trust in him is so severely eroded as to make it untenable for him to remain surely?

“was urged to allow Mandelson’s appointment as ambo *without* usual vetting process - but dept pushed back”

You’re trying to deflect with nonsense like “context of USA election”. You’re wrong, the evidence is right in the original post and you look foolish.

“was urged to allow Mandelson’s appointment as ambo *without* usual vetting process - but dept pushed”

You literally have no argument. Anything else?

Did you not even read down? He claims no.10 pressure him into hiring him without using the usual vetting process, that’s cutting corners.

Are you relying on the most ridiculous semantics to defend No.10? That’s genuinely hilarious.

“was urged to allow Mandelson’s appointment as ambo *without* usual vetting process - but dept pushed back”

That’s literally what he said, it’s right there.

Harriet Williamson on #NovaraLive: "the stench of Labour Together is all over this.. that's what was so important about what John McDonnell said.. Labour Together was the most hollow project from the get go & it was filled with some of the most unscrupulous & mendacious people in British politics"🎯

Excellent news.
All the people struggling with their household bills thanks to welfare cuts, fiscal drag, the CoL, food inflation, profiteering and those pesky bills increasing all the time, can now start celebrating because trickledown is surely going to happen this time

polanski is just holding starmer to the same standards starmer held sunak to. i can't understand why labour thought they'd get a different set of rules.