Again, from freebiegate, to Mandleson, to Doyle just a consistent theme of behaviour that would be unacceptable and, frankly, result in a disciplinary in the private sector is just normalised in parliament.

A real, persistent problem for our politics that it is so endemic and normalised.

The thing about all this Mandelson stuff is that actually dealing with it would require basically disestablishing at least 3 major political parties, banning their members from politics, jailing a lot of people and shutting down at least 4 national newspapers. Don't really see that happening soon.

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
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

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

It's also very funny that there are still any Starmtroopers around because you just know if Robbins was saying this stuff about a Tory government they'd be declaring that he should be made PM in a coalition government.

This committee hearing really does expose the fundamental problem with most MPs: they're middle managers.

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

Nobody

Absolutely nobody

Roadrunner:

You understand the utility of having Corbyn in parliament so long as Starmer is PM because he is *fuming* whenever he has to answer a question from him. Properly haunts him that he couldn't oust him last election.

Another thing we can thank Starmer for

The headline "Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes" with the sub header that's not super important, but a picture of Starmer looking like he's just done a little poo in his pants while a tiny union jack is in front of him on a desk.

Anyway I think to summarise today, we only need one image.

The reason this crisis is rumbling on and will continue to do so is that Starmer can't say the basic truth, which is that he appointed Mandelson for services rendered and they thought his association with Epstein was a bonus.

Genuinely this has properly cheered me up, he's eating a massive shit sandwich.

The colour code for a pixel on Starmer's face #ffb7bc, showing rgb (255, 183, 188), aka a very striking pork-like pink.

If you want to know how it's going, this is currently the colour of Starmer's face.

Starmer update: the situation is so dire that the questions have now become "does the Prime Minister have object permanence?" which does feel like it's time to not only resign as PM, but be removed from elected politics all together.

left-wing Labour members in 2020 trying to convince themselves to vote for him during the leadership election:

Poor from Kemi Badenoch to have clearly watched my videos about Starmer and then not shout me out.

Starmer's managed to construct a position so indefensible that it's allowed Kemi Badenoch to string two sentences together that are actually related to the matter at hand. It's over. Get him out.

Starmageddon

Deep cut

Would we say that it's a good sign that the Prime Minister is being openly laughed at in parliament?

I’m not some very forensic politics clever clogs smart boy but I think would have just simply avoided this mess by NOT appointing the serially disgraced best friend of an internationally notorious pedophile

ANGRY STARMER

Keir Starmer wearing an impossibly baggy pair of jeans while smiling at the camera like he's just been told by his friends to "play it cool" around a person he has a crush on and ends up coming off like a creep.

Rolling into the commons like this

This is going to be great because you know it's just going to be Starmer furiously looking for the guy responsible for this as every opposition MP tells him to turn his monitor on.

Especially when the platform Labour got elected on was basically "the Tories can't govern, we can, don't read the manifesto too closely (because you'll figure out that we also can't govern)"

"Britain is ungovernable" is just trying to blame the public for their own mess. I legitimately cannot understand how you can believe this when the voting public under 2 years ago handed Labour an earth shattering majority. This isn't the behaviour of a public refusing to be governed.

What a lore drop out of nowhere lmao