Starmer Blames MI5 and MI6 for Failing to Flag Mandelson’s Well-Known Epstein Ties as He Grovels for His Job

Sir Keir Starmer has frantically tried to blame MI5 and MI6 for failing to flag the “depth and darkness” of Peter Mandelson’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein despite the links between the two being well-known as he grovels for his job. The Mail has more.

Keir Starmer frantically tried to spread the blame for his disastrous decision to make Peter Mandelson US ambassador today as he grovelled for his job.

The PM painted himself as a victim of the New Labour architect’s “lies”, claiming he believed assurances he “barely knew” paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein – despite a litany of reports already having exposed their relationship.

Scrambling to save his own political skin, Sir Keir stressed he “understands the anger and frustration” of MPs, urging them to “remain focused on what we were elected for”.

Sir Keir attempted to throw MI5 and MI6 under the bus, suggesting they had failed to flag the “depth and darkness” of the ties between the two men. 

He also insisted documents about the vetting process will be published “as quickly as possible” – pointing the finger at the police for the delay. 

But the premier has been warned the “clock is ticking” on his leadership after an extraordinary Commons humbling yesterday, which left even loyalists admitting he is effectively finished. 

Kemi Badenoch said it was now a “matter of when'” not if the PM will go, urging restive Labour MPs to talk to the Tories about triggering a vote of no confidence in the government – although that seems unlikely as it could trigger a General Election. 

The meltdown was sparked when Sir Keir admitted at PMQs that he installed Lord Mandelson in the crucial US job despite knowing he stayed friends with Epstein after his conviction for sex offences.

The Government then tried to argue that details of Mandelson’s vetting process would need to be withheld for “national security” and “international relations” reasons. 

But within hours Sir Keir was forced to U-turn by furious Labour MPs – including his former deputy Angela Rayner – threatening to vote for a Tory disclosure motion. 

The cross-party Intelligence and Security Committee will now decide what material is released, with the chair warning “embarrassment” is not enough for evidence to be suppressed.

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Cotfordtags
2 months ago

I don’t understand the portrayal of Badenoch as some kind of hero, because she asked a couple of questions. Was she not pictured at the start of her leadership with senior WEF officials? The best question of the last twenty four hours was the journalist (Express, I think), who asked her why the Tories weren’t attacking the appointment at the time and why her great friend and parliamentary mentor, Gove, praised the appointment as the best man to manage Trump. Let’s face it, whether it’s Morgan McSweeney creating and guiding the political career of Starmer or Give/Hague in charge of Badenoch, they are all answerable to the same clandestine organisations and care nothing for the electorate

JXB
JXB
2 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

The rot is throughout the entire Uniparty establishment.

Badenough isn’t the Tory Party, not even its leader, just a temporary caretaker while the Tory reptiles skulk in the background.

So she does well at PMQs – so did William Hague, another caretaker who was brilliant at the despatch box and trounced Blair nearly every time. What good did that do the Party’s fortunes come election time?

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

Hear, hear! Finally someone with eyes wide open about Olukemi Olufunto, and her accusing all the Tories who want to replace her with, you know, an actual Englishman, for instance, as “Plotting Regicide Against Her”.

Yes, she actually said “Regicide”, no doubt referring to her clan membership of the Nigerian Royal Caste of Adegoke, whose members have mysteriously been installed in several local UK councils and at least one town mayor’s post since she was suddenly thrust into the limelight by her World Economic Forum backers. Like Obama, a “Manchurian Candidate”? Nepotism, anyone?

Gezza England
Gezza England
2 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

You could also look back to her speeches after being elected to Parliament which were all about what she could do for Nigeria and so missing the point about being elected to the British Parliament to represent whatever constituency she haunts in England. Another great example of why immigrants and their offspring have no place being in public office in this country.

BillT
BillT
2 months ago
Reply to  Gezza England

What a bunch of repulsive fecking racists you are. I genuinely hope you all die.

Talltone
Talltone
2 months ago
Reply to  BillT

This is a forum for sceptics to express opinions freely. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!

huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  Talltone

Seconded 👍

Mogwai
2 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Remember when the mod stated they “read everything” on here? Maybe it’s their day off…🤔 Because the fact is: I’ve had posts removed just for fact checking people, certainly never wishing death on fellow posters. So if this doesn’t prove I’m correct and two-tier moderating is occurring I don’t know what does.
How is anyone meant to keep track of where the goal posts are and what constitutes ‘free speech’ around here if they keep moving, presumably depending on who’s on duty and whether they’ve taken a dislike to you or not?🤷‍♀️

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  BillT

I take that as a compliment.

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

As a young American Patriot said last year,

“I always stand with the White Folks, because no one else will.”

NeilParkin
2 months ago
Reply to  BillT

There is nothing racist about honest observations of facts. You might want to interpret it differently, but you show yourself up by wanting to insult, rather than debate.

transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  BillT

Which comments are “racist” and what do you mean by that word?

huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  BillT

Bye, bye.

RTSC
RTSC
2 months ago
Reply to  BillT

You seem to be playing the waycist card when the issue is about her own statements on how beneficial her position in our Parliament could be for Nigeria …. not the UK or British citizens (of any colour).

Covid-1984
Covid-1984
2 months ago
Reply to  BillT

If you say so Kemi. Did you tell people you are an Anchor Baby whose mother scarpered back to Africa when she dumped you on us.

Smudger
2 months ago
Reply to  BillT

Nurse! Nurse!

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  Gezza England

Thanks for that information— I did not know about those speeches, but they illustrate that her priorities are helping her own Ethnic African people in a Third World foreign country, rather than the British constituents who foolishly elected her to represent them in the British Parliament, out of a false sense of “White Guilt”. Someone once said it’s like when you were a kid playing a game in the school playground, and the teacher told you all to “Let the Retard Win”.

It fits right in with other news reports of Third World Ethnics getting elected to local government in Britain, and then giving speeches in their own foreign language, vowing to help their own foreign people during their time in office, completely ignoring their democratic obligation to put the British People first.

I completely agree with you.

RTSC
RTSC
2 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

The Establishment is frantically promoting their alternative Uni-Party Leader …. since Two-Tier is dead meat and the Labour Party is probably holed below the waterline.

JXB
JXB
2 months ago

Wot sir? Me sir? No Sir, not me sir! Them sir! It was them wot did it sir. The last redoubt of the scoundrel and liar – shift the blame, snitch on others. His speech, as much as I could bear to watch, was a study in deflection, distraction, duplicity, in which he highlighted all the problems he/Labour caused, for which he takes no responsibility, blames others, plays the race card, and disingenuously says only he and Labour are the only ones to put it right. Pathological liar: “a persistent, pervasive, and often compulsive pattern of excessive lying behavior that leads to clinically significant impairment of functioning in social, occupational, or other areas; causes marked distress; poses a risk to the self or others; and occurs for longer than 6 months.” Pathological lying is often viewed as a symptom or feature of underlying conditions, such as: • Antisocial personality disorder • Narcissistic personality disorder • Histrionic personality disorder • Borderline personality disorder • Or sometimes associated with other issues like factitious disorder or certain psychopathic traits Some people who lie pathologically may partially believe their own elaborate stories (blending fact and fiction), and the lies frequently portray the liar in a favorable light as a… Read more »

Art Simtotic
2 months ago

Yes Prime Minister, let’s pretend Adswood Ange’s dog must have eaten the security services’ homework while none of the overgrown teenagers serving in the grown-up government were looking.

Free Lemming
2 months ago

As you drive into Stamford, directly outside the George Hotel, there are perfectly preserved gallows. Just saying.

Talltone
Talltone
2 months ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

It’s actually a rare “gallows” pub/inn sign rather than a place of execution & display but I take your point.

Cotfordtags
2 months ago

Please let this be true and pray that it has legs.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Kb2md4YwD/

Brave move, considering the bunch of lawyers targeted.

Tonka Fairy
2 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

Interesting.
He has (as of yet) not provided any evidence, but as you say, he must be confident enough as the corrupt bunch he’s going after are very nasty and powerful.

Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
2 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

Hell’s teeth !

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

Astonishing Andrew Bridgen wheels out the cannon for a mighty broadside … again! He is a truly courageous, heroic patriot, fighting on the side of the angels.

Rupert Lowe would no doubt support him:
“In response to the news, MP Rupert Lowe blasted: “As usual, the British taxpayer suffers. AGAIN.”

Donald Trump approves Keir Starmer’s insane Chagos Islands deal

“Pressure group The Bruges Group added: “The Chagos surrender is now poised to go ahead. The very Ministers tasked with defending Britain’s interests are shrinking our territory and diminishing our global standing in an act of needless ritual humiliation.”

In my own view, there are only two possibilities: Either both Trump and Starmer are Communist Traitors to their own American & British People and Armed Forces, respectively,
or they are both certifiably insane.

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

One commenter asked, “2013? Who was in power then?”
Answer: David Cameron

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
2 months ago

Sad pathetic creature devoid of honour, grace, decency, integrity or intelligence.

EppingBlogger
2 months ago

Hang on a minute. I have never met Mandelson’s but from press reports and his past resignations I would not have given him a job. I doubt I am unique in that matter.

If it was true that the agencies had not reported it would be because they were not asked. Just possibly the governments of the past 30 years have told them to concentrate on wokery instead of their job.

Can I appeal for a criminal law KC to deal with preparations and decisions on the hoped for prosecution. The police and CPS are so devoted to Blairism they cannot be trusted to take decisions objectively.

Meanwhile Ministers comments might make a fair trial impossible. Oh! How inconvenient.

I continue to worry he might do a runner to Brazil.

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I wish we could swap him for Jair Bolsonaro.

I wonder if that’s where Epstein is now, alive & well in Brazil, heavily disguised and gloating, waiting for Grisly Maxwell to slip away to join him there…

PRSY
PRSY
2 months ago

In his concern for the victims, he seems to have forgotten the home-grown victims of the Muslim rape gangs. What a creep.

EppingBlogger
2 months ago

Gosh!! Burnham was lucky not to be Labour candidate.

CircusSpot
CircusSpot
2 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

It was supposed to be a woman for the next Labour leader. Ange is the only candidate the Unions will support and what is a ‘misunderstanding’ about stamp duty compared with the Mandelson allegations.

huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

Well Ranting only stole forty grand from.taxpayers, it’s not as if she sold the country’s gold at the bottom of the market is it?

NeilParkin
2 months ago

There is a phrase, well known, that ‘The buck stops here’. As PM, if MI5 or MI6 didn’t do the job thoroughly (conjecture…) then it is your fault as PM for not making sure they were doing their job right. Wasn’t this guy called ‘forensic’ at one time.?

bertieboy
bertieboy
2 months ago

For an illuminating dive I recommend Labour Heatlands site. Joins some very interesting dots….

https://labourheartlands.com/the-labour-oligarchy/

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  bertieboy

Wow— from the first paragraph, that looks like a fascinating read. I’m going to log off here now and go read it properly…

huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Oh goody.

huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  bertieboy

Thanks for the link. Truly interesting and informative 👍

RTSC
RTSC
2 months ago

I’d be interested to hear Two-Tier’s explanation about the level of personal relationship with a convicted criminal paedophile which he considers is acceptable for the most senior Ambassadorial role there is.

In my opinion, it isn’t the extent of the ongoing relationship which is important …. it’s that there was any kind of ongoing relationship.

Obviously that isn’t the case with Two-Tier since he admitted he knew ….. so come Mr HR Lawyer who yesterday said he was oh so sorry to the victims ….. what level of relationship is acceptable.

Do tell.

shred
shred
2 months ago

To summarise from the link to Labour Heartlands and the already known facts about Mandeson and Epstein. McSweeny was Mandelslime’s protégé and learned his methods. They chose Starmer who was chief of the CPS and had a history as a Marxist to be Labour leader. Starmer joined Epstein and Mandleson in the Trilateral Commission which has security service chiefs and other financial chiefs as members and aims to reduce democratic control. McSweeny founds a Labour non profit and finances Starmers campaign, breaking rules, and gains control of candidate selection, which included his wife. He insists that Mandleson is chosen as US ambassador at the same time as the Chagos giveaway is in need of US support. Trump agrees after Starmer and Mandleson explain the advantages of giving the territory to a Chinese ally which never owned it and paying them £35 billion to use one of the islands, while the Chagossians are condemned to live in Crawley. Starmer has admitted that the security services warned him about Mandleson. They asked him about his relationship but he lied. Despite being a lawyer in charge of prosecution and knowing him since being in the Trilateral Commission together, Starmer believed him. After 6… Read more »

Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  shred

After Andrew Bridgen’s revelations about the Chagos Fraud, thanks to a heroic ex-Scotland Yard Patriot, I wonder what Starmer & his Trilateral Commission chums offered Trump to suddenly do a U-turn on Chagos…
Greenland?