A full inquiry is needed into Peter Mandelson’s involvement with Peter Thiel’s dodgy tech outfit Palantir, specifically into the ex-ambassador’s role in Keir Starmer’s visit to Palantir’s Washington DC showroom and Palantir’s £241m contract with the MoD to “boost military AI and innovation”.

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Pure corruption

Can't stop laughing at Keir Starmer's defence being "I asked the Prince of Darkness 'are you telling me the truth?' and he said 'yes' and now I have discovered that I was LIED to by the Prince of Darkness! The Prince of Darkness LIED to me!"

No.10 trying to block the publication of the Mandelson correspondence has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with fear that it will reveal just how deeply Mandelson was embedded in the running of Downing Street, including ministerial reshuffles.

"By tying security of status to earnings, while failing to account for gender pay gaps, caregiving responsibilities, and structural discrimination, the proposals risk disadvantaging migrant women and their families.

Labour MP calls for a ‘clearout’ of advisers in Downing Street amid Mandelson scandal - UK politics live

I find it so telling whenever a labour shill is espousing all the Good Things labour has done and they present a website or graphic listing them it always includes anti immigrant racism as one of these achievements right next to marginal tax reforms and banning ninja swords

"Just one more fascism, that'll surely save our deposit in Gorton & Denton."

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The last U.K. Prime Minister to complete a full term was David Cameron in 2015.

Appalling as this disaster was, I see that didn’t deter the government from making a political point about too many migrants in its response

Keir Starmer knew that Peter Mandelson continued his close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein's conviction for child sex offences. He brought him into the heart of the Labour government anyway. Starmer cannot continue as Prime Minister. He must go.

It’s interesting who gets private investigators put on them and who just gets appointed ambassador

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

They do nothing but lie to us

Keir Starmer must think we are all stupid 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/starmers-s...

Lucy Powell MP’s post directly contradicts the Labour Home Secretary’s stance on migrant children and the potential impact of the earned settlement proposals on poverty. bsky.app/profile/sund...

Labour is briefing that they know they won't win the Gorton and Denton by election. The Greens are favourites and are the only party that can stop Reform. Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win.

Starmer is just standing up in front of the world saying he believed a known liar when he lied to him and didn't see any reason to look into it further.

Dear Americans: No. You can’t just turn up and live and work in the UK. There’s things like immigration laws and visas and a whole system that hates migrants almost as much as the US government

The great problem for Starmer: the Mandelson scandal is part of a pattern of misjudgments, not an exception. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

"Are you worried that there will be an impact on child poverty?" Home Secretary "This is a system of economic migration ... they chose to bring their families with them" is the underlying principle.

Hansard, 4 February 2026, PMQs:

🚨 NEW: Ed Davey has called for Labour MPs to trigger a no-confidence vote in Keir Starmer over Mandelson

Peter Mandelson Morgan McSweeney Maurice Glasman and no doubt others we don't know of are all Starmer's puppeteers

So, Mandelson’s ties to Epstein were so secret and unknown to anyone that they were, erm… published in the Financial Times in 2003

So, Keir Starmer trying to play us for fools. Mandelson was a known associate of international pedophiles AS REPORTED IN THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS. At the time of his appointment EVERYONE RAISED THIS online, in the press, on podcasts, and with his MPs.

Beyond shameless to criticise “the left” for not defending British values or standing up for integrated communities, whilst actively pushing policies on settlement designed to deter, exclude and “other“ members of our society

"Regularisation makes you feel like a citizen & a person". Go Spain! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Angela Rayner right now.

Starmer won't be PM by next week, and I'm here for it.

If he's 'tolerant, decent and respectful' then he's going to be so pissed off when he finds out what how the current government has been treating immigrants.

Incredible that the government can say all this yet also be pushing through immigration rule reforms that actively prevent migrants from being full or equal members of the community. Pride might well be necessary. So is equality. Labour used to know that.

Home Secretary spoke to Home Affairs Select Committee yesterday. She said settlement reforms were primarily a response to the 2019-23 inflow, saying it was different to "expecations" This creates a clash over the fairness principle of moving the goalposts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes. Like “don’t harass trans people for using the toilet in public”. Or “don’t tell people who immigrated here legally to do jobs we wanted them to do or unite with their family that you’re changing the rules on how they can settle here”. Oh you were just liberal-punching and didn’t mean yourself?

Kemi Badenoch says her favourite member of Keir Starmer's Cabinet is Shabana Mahmood

“We knew he was incompetent, I didn’t know he was this dumb.” @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social and caller Peter disagree on whether Starmer will survive the Epstein-Mandelson scandal.

Tony Vaughan is a good take machine

btw it’s so depressing that the token bit of leadership speculation about a 2024 intake MP is the military guy who looks the part rather than any of the people who have hit the ground running with intelligent scrutiny of government

Keir Starmer saying “none of us knew the depth and darkness” isn’t an excuse, it’s an admission of catastrophic failure of judgement. Either the vetting process was negligent, or his government decided that proximity to a convicted abuser was an acceptable risk.

So he hasn’t read the proposed “Earned Settlement” reforms and has no idea what his Home Secretary is doing.

"core british values"

I was at an event hosted and attended by back bench Labour MPs on the gov. Earned Settlement proposals. We heard from a doctor, lawyer, carer and engineer who face waiting decades for the opportunity to settle in this country because they don't 'contribute' enough. Core British values?

Labour MP Simon Opher: "Once again the poor decision making of those around the Prime Minister is dominating the news agenda.... We promised to put trust back into politics after years of Tory sleaze – not perpetuate it".

I was at an event hosted and attended by back bench Labour MPs on the Earned Settlement proposals. We heard from a doctor, lawyer, carer and engineer who face waiting decades for the opportunity to settle in this country because they don't 'contribute' enough. Tolerant? Decent? Respectful?

Er, hello, yes, sorry, hello, we just wanted to remind you that as well as being soft on child abuse and massively corrupt, we’re also extremely racist

Not only has the Prime Minister confirmed he was aware of Mandelson's ongoing friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein before he was appointed Ambassador, it was actually flagged by official security vetting