Epstein files: Mandelson scandal indicts the entire British establishment | Middle East Eye
"Is Prime Minister Keir Starmer finished?
He gave Peter Mandelson one of the most cherished jobs the British state can offer: ambassador to the United States. Now Mandelson is embroiled in the gravest political scandal in more than a century.
We now know that Mandelson was leaking sensitive inside information about British government decisions to his financier friend Jeffrey Epstein, one of the most repulsive criminals of the 21st century - a criminal, moreover, who had recently been convicted in a Florida court for procuring a child for prostitution.
The depravity is beyond belief.
At the time, Mandelson was business secretary (and effective deputy prime minister) in the Gordon Brown government as it weighed up how to confront a financial crisis. On the evidence of the Epstein emails, Mandelson may well be guilty of misconduct in public office - an offence that carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
To make matters worse for Starmer, Mandelson has been celebrated - one might almost say loved - by the political and media classes for nearly half a century.
During this period, more than any other politician, he has shaped the modern Labour Party, exercising hypnotic influence over four leaders: Neil Kinnock, Blair, Brown and Starmer.
The scale of the latest political scandal cannot be understood outside of this background.his decision to despatch Mandelson to Washington breached historic foreign office conventions.
In the US, ambassadors are often political appointments. This is not the case in Britain. Karen Pierce, a career diplomat, preceded Mandelson in Washington, and after Mandelson was sacked, another British diplomat, Christian Turner, succeeded him.
Bear in mind therefore that Starmer was making a personal intervention when he sent Mandelson to the White House. This makes the prime minister directly responsible for the most reprehensible and disastrous appointment in the postwar history of the British diplomatic service - an appointment that blew up in his face, humiliating Britain in the process.
Mandelson has been celebrated - one might almost say loved - by the political and media classes for nearly half a century.
During this period, more than any other politician, he has shaped the modern Labour Party, exercising hypnotic influence over four leaders: Neil Kinnock, Blair, Brown and Starmer.
The scale of the latest political scandal cannot be understood outside of this background.
The party he resigned from on Sunday is a husk. It is no longer a vehicle of the left. It has broken its relations with the trade unions, becoming a vehicle for the billionaires who today own British (and world) politics."
Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/epstein-files-mandelson-scandal-indicts-entire-british-establishment
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"Is Prime Minister Keir Starmer finished?
He gave Peter Mandelson one of the most cherished jobs the British state can offer: ambassador to the United States. Now Mandelson is embroiled in the gravest political scandal in more than a century.
We now know that Mandelson was leaking sensitive inside information about British government decisions to his financier friend Jeffrey Epstein, one of the most repulsive criminals of the 21st century - a criminal, moreover, who had recently been convicted in a Florida court for procuring a child for prostitution.
The depravity is beyond belief.
At the time, Mandelson was business secretary (and effective deputy prime minister) in the Gordon Brown government as it weighed up how to confront a financial crisis. On the evidence of the Epstein emails, Mandelson may well be guilty of misconduct in public office - an offence that carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
To make matters worse for Starmer, Mandelson has been celebrated - one might almost say loved - by the political and media classes for nearly half a century.
During this period, more than any other politician, he has shaped the modern Labour Party, exercising hypnotic influence over four leaders: Neil Kinnock, Blair, Brown and Starmer.
The scale of the latest political scandal cannot be understood outside of this background.his decision to despatch Mandelson to Washington breached historic foreign office conventions.
In the US, ambassadors are often political appointments. This is not the case in Britain. Karen Pierce, a career diplomat, preceded Mandelson in Washington, and after Mandelson was sacked, another British diplomat, Christian Turner, succeeded him.
Bear in mind therefore that Starmer was making a personal intervention when he sent Mandelson to the White House. This makes the prime minister directly responsible for the most reprehensible and disastrous appointment in the postwar history of the British diplomatic service - an appointment that blew up in his face, humiliating Britain in the process.
Mandelson has been celebrated - one might almost say loved - by the political and media classes for nearly half a century.
During this period, more than any other politician, he has shaped the modern Labour Party, exercising hypnotic influence over four leaders: Neil Kinnock, Blair, Brown and Starmer.
The scale of the latest political scandal cannot be understood outside of this background.
The party he resigned from on Sunday is a husk. It is no longer a vehicle of the left. It has broken its relations with the trade unions, becoming a vehicle for the billionaires who today own British (and world) politics."
Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/epstein-files-mandelson-scandal-indicts-entire-british-establishment
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Epstein files: Mandelson scandal indicts the entire British establishment
New revelations shed light on a deeply corrupt system of government that functions in the interests of criminal elites
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