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Gloom and pessimism for me, sadly

Pierre, I only hope you are right

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

Consider the low key way Starmer and Govt are implementing policy, opening doors to possibilities (EU, Nato, Non Doms, Crypto, methodically exposing short comings of opposition party's and vested interests etc) and it becomes clear that this rather unflappable man of integrity has to be the target.

"A scandal levitating on hot air generated by fake outrage" Matthew Syed of the Times on the Mandelson issue.

🩺 Labour’s investment in 36 new and expanded Community Diagnostic Centres will mean patients get quicker tests closer to home

I'll have that put on a T-shirt

i'm not qualified to talk about the psychology, but the history is deeply dodgy. For that matter I've been told the psychology is not very good either.

Have a nice day

It is terrible. Bad history. Avoid.

You're very welcome.

The title has gone and I hate football

That's certainly a view.

Indeed. But he had an inside track to the Mango Mussolini.

There's a long list of journalists who agreed but would now rather we all forgot about that.

I've never been a Mandelson fan, but it seemed like a shrewd move at the time.

Boris Johnson: PM tried to restrict ex-minister's access to intelligence Boris Johnson says it is

He had restricted security access going back to fears when he was London Mayor, because he was leaky. He had been sacked from multiple jobs for lying. This was all reported in the press, but for some reason, being 'Boris', the scrutiny never mattered. He still became PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

Richard.
Your new profile pic.
Yes it’s all very nice but did you know someone has set fire to your trousers?😳

I see your logic,I think 🤔, but this govt is putting our country back together piece by piece post Tory, & to me that's far more important than right wing point scoring, clickbait & witch hunts.
The Daily Mail was singing Mandelson's praises when he was appointed, now it's PM resignation fodder.

Boris Johnson didn't pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary.

The media must have missed that one.

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Starmer has raised the min wage, removed the 2 child benefit cap, handed out free green energy systems to the poorest, renationalised the railways & nuclear. The Tories did the opposite

🏭 Electricity bills cut for 10,000+ manufacturers, boosting competitiveness and backing British industry

🌊 Communities are being better protected from flooding, with nearly 62k homes and businesses now safer

👩 Labour is putting women’s voices at the heart of the NHS, with a renewed Women’s Health Strategy
💧 Water companies forced to pay for damage, securing a record £8.5m to restore rivers and habitats

8 things Labour’s has delivered this week:

📉 NHS waiting lists down by over 400k
🩺 36 new and expanded Community Diagnostic Centres
🍏 Over 500 new breakfast clubs, saving parents £450 a year
🎒 Labour is giving children the best start, with new support for families to get children school-ready

Peter Mandelson’s vetting and where the blame lies | Letter Letter: It is not Keir Starmer’s resignation that is needed, but a shake-up of Whitehall and our constitution, writes Labour peer David Blunkett

Worth taking a moment to read and consider rather than leap to accuse.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Apart from anything else, he wasn't the US Ambassador. He was the British ambassador to the US. Sigh.