Keir Starmer's Really Bad, Totally Deserved, Terrible Week

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It's no secret what I think of this milquetoast cockroach.

And the prime minister of England has been doing a pretty thorough job of making himself dispensable to the British public all on his own with his authoritarian carrying-ons, his embrace of foreign cultures and peoples over his own, onerous economic burdens, and his unfathomable drive to obliterate whatever respectable standing the United Kingdom still had in the world.

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It's no mistake that there's a new purple-haired, proudly British vixen ruling the social media waves...

...and a new theme song in the streets when Brits get together for a protest - one that they all know the words to.

Keir Starmer's fortunes were wobbling so badly that he cancelled twenty-seven local council elections scheduled for this May in an attempt to keep his Labour majority.

OOPS

Make that 29.

He had to withdraw the deal to pay to give away the strategically essential Chagos Islands to the Chinese-cozy, rapacious Mauritians when the United States blew a gasket over being lied to about the 'why,' and invoked a 1966 treaty he and his toadies had overlooked.

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But it wasn't until this week, when the avalanche of Epstein files dumped by our Department of Justice reached out and touched more than the formerly known as Prince Randy Andy that Starmer's future suddenly looked bleak.

Known as 'The Prince of Darkness,' Lord Peter Mandelson was an intimate of both Starmer's and, as we now know, Jeffrey Epstein's. There had been questions about the relationship between the two of them, especially with Mandelson's position high atop the Labour pyramid, but he denied any close contact.

Or so Starmer says now.

Starmer, however, had always acted a bit impulsively around Mandelson. Like when he reportedly appointed him as the UK's ambassador to the United States without anyone's by-your-leave.

Well, darn it, says Two Tier Keir now after the revelations. I messed up. I believed the scoundrel.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer remains under pressure this evening over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador in 2024 - despite his connections to the late financier Jeffery Epstein.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey and the Conservatives' Kemi Badenoch have pushed for MPs to have votes of confidence in the PM, with Badenoch saying "it’s a question of when, not if he goes".

Reform leader Nigel Farage called it "the biggest scandal for 100 years", and said Starmer's apology was "weak". Green Party leader Zack Polanski, meanwhile, told BBC's Newsnight yesterday that it was “the right thing” for Starmer to step down.

And there is also pressure inside Labour.

Salford MP Rebecca Long-Bailey has called it a "catastrophic misjudgement" for the PM to appoint Mandelson, while Rachael Maskell told the BBC that it's "inevitable" that Starmer has to step down.

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Mandelson was the frontman for massaging the Chagos deal.

The Epstein files have revealed that Lord Mandelson was leaking sensitive government information to the disgraced and convicted millionaire paedophile, something Starmer was specifically quizzed about last September.

..."That enquiry led to a response on November 19 that no departmental record could be found of any information or communication from Lord Mandelson to Mr Epstein on these issues."

And the litany of lies, obfuscations, and prevarications from Starmer regarding Mandelson and his relationship with Epstein is astonishing.

There were years of photographs and evidence, even without the absolutely damning refuse floating up from the DoJ release.

Yet Starmer still forged ahead.

...A Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on Epstein in 2019 revealed that Mandelson had phoned Epstein in prison trying to arrange a meeting with the boss of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon.

Then in January 2024, as the country geared up for the general election, a photograph was published of Mandelson with Epstein in the Caribbean. In a remarkable precursor of the events of the past week, Labour MPs called on Sir Keir to throw Mandelson out of the Labour Party because, as one Labour MP said, he was “closely connected to a proven paedophile”.

It was public knowledge that as well as staying in Epstein’s homes in New York and Paris, he had stayed on Little St James – Epstein’s private sanctuary that the press widely referred to as “paedo island” – and that he had flown on Epstein’s private jet, nicknamed the Lolita Express.

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I KNOW NUZZINK

...No wonder, then, that Labour MPs are now fuming at Sir Keir’s suggestion that it was somehow the fault of the security services that he was blinded to Lord Mandelson’s dodgy past.

Sir Keir announced in December 2024, before any Foreign Office vetting had been done, that Lord Mandelson was his choice to replace the highly capable Dame Karen Pierce as British ambassador to the US.

The Prime Minister wanted George Osborne, the former Tory chancellor, to do the job, but was persuaded by his chief of staff – and Mandelson protégé – Morgan McSweeney that the man who had twice resigned from the Blair government over his ties to wealthy men was the right person for the job.

Sir Keir had been given a two-page report on Mandelson by the Cabinet Office propriety and ethics team, which carried out preliminary due diligence on all of the candidates for the ambassadorial role, and which amounted to a summary of publicly available information.

They're calling for his head.

Starmer's pathetic apology and his even more pathetic collapse while answering the Prime Minister's questions on the floor of Parliament have effectively doomed his career.

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Unbelievable.

Why, indeed.

This creature is a menace.

...Labour thought yes this is our guy who we are going to elevate to the most prestigious diplomatic posting we have and make him our man in Washington

Maybe he'll take Labour with him and do everyone a favour.





 

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Duane Patterson 12:40 PM | February 06, 2026
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