Guardian investigation reveals Epstein's friend Peter Mandelson failed vetting process and was denied security clearance. He was still appointed British ambassador to the United States
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision
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newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 120d
Yeah because the pedophile cabal has been protecting each other and empowering each other for decades.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 119d
Pedophilia is only one of the crimes for which they protect each other. It's an elite-impunity cabal. That's what we need to break.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 120d
I'm astonished that both the royal family and Starmer are surviving this. UK politics almost as useless as the US.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 120d
They found the perfect scapegoat in prince Andrew "we didn't know, fuck him. Now move on"
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
From what I’ve heard from politics reporters, Starmer has been a dead man waling since Galton &. Denton. The reasons he’s not yet gone are a) Labour don’t want to go through the messiness of a change of leader just before elections, and b) they need someone they can get rid of after they’re wiped out in the upcoming elections
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 119d
He's such a tosser stuffed into his suits looking like a confused pheasant
redsand@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 119d
Because Israel and the CIA put a lot of time and effort into the wealthy of the UK as well as the US.
yakko@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 120d
You might think that the country that made sure Jimmy Savile died free with a smile on his face would have learned the lesson not to protect and empower sexual predators, but you would be wrong.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 120d
They put him there because they knew tramp would like him and get along over common interests :/ not a good look either, but makes a little bit more sense than simply appointing the worst person you know.
Dotdashdot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 120d
Or he bribed his way into the job knowing he’d make a ton more money with the info he’d feed his mates.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d
It's a big club and you ain't in it.
(Thankfully.)
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 119d
Mandelson was one of the main instigators of the cabal that drove Corbyn out as Labour leader and installed Starmer. McSweeney was a Mandelson protege.