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Jeremy Corbyn would have killed Mandelson with hammers I can tell you that much.
Love that Ed Miliband is becoming a likely candidate. We just don’t get nearly enough speeches about predistribution these days. Imagine Ed as PM and Torsten Bell as Chancellor. Turn the policy wonkery up to 11!
February 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Love that Ed Miliband is becoming a likely candidate. We just don’t get nearly enough speeches about predistribution these days. Imagine Ed as PM and Torsten Bell as Chancellor. Turn the policy wonkery up to 11!
See when I become PM first thing I’ll do is sack off all the nonces, rapists, friends of nonces and rapists, and tax avoiders in my party. I don’t know why no one else has ever thought of this.
February 6, 2026 at 8:26 PM
See when I become PM first thing I’ll do is sack off all the nonces, rapists, friends of nonces and rapists, and tax avoiders in my party. I don’t know why no one else has ever thought of this.
Haha of course she did. In other news I’m telling my friends that I told Angela Rayner not to dodge her property taxes.
Angela Rayner has told friends that she warned Sir Keir Starmer not to appoint Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US
Angela Rayner ‘told Keir Starmer not to appoint Mandelson’
www.thetimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Haha of course she did. In other news I’m telling my friends that I told Angela Rayner not to dodge her property taxes.
50% of voters wanting Starmer out doesn’t seem that bad to me when only 32% of voters wanted him in in the first place.
February 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
50% of voters wanting Starmer out doesn’t seem that bad to me when only 32% of voters wanted him in in the first place.
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The Times Peter Mandelson interview is published on the cover of Saturday's magazine. He did the interview on January 25th.
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The Times Peter Mandelson interview is published on the cover of Saturday's magazine. He did the interview on January 25th.
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Were broadcast journalists deployed to the the search of Peter Mandelson's home to report on what was happening? Were uniformed police officers deployed, a cordon raised and a body tent raised at its entrance?
No, writes Abbi Garton-Crosbie ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
No, writes Abbi Garton-Crosbie ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Were broadcast journalists deployed to the the search of Peter Mandelson's home to report on what was happening? Were uniformed police officers deployed, a cordon raised and a body tent raised at its entrance?
No, writes Abbi Garton-Crosbie ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
No, writes Abbi Garton-Crosbie ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Keir Starmer spending time with his conscience this weekend
February 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Keir Starmer spending time with his conscience this weekend
Waffle party
What is this? Have I been drugged? Is this what heaven/hell looks like?
February 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Waffle party
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It is genuinely wild to see political journalists running defence for Labour's anti-democratic 2024 candidate selection operation which we know we used to purge left wing progressives.
We know that! It was done openly!
To try and re-write that history now is the job of No.10 PR, not journalists.
We know that! It was done openly!
To try and re-write that history now is the job of No.10 PR, not journalists.
February 6, 2026 at 4:34 PM
It is genuinely wild to see political journalists running defence for Labour's anti-democratic 2024 candidate selection operation which we know we used to purge left wing progressives.
We know that! It was done openly!
To try and re-write that history now is the job of No.10 PR, not journalists.
We know that! It was done openly!
To try and re-write that history now is the job of No.10 PR, not journalists.
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I think one of the most annoying aspects of the slow death of Starmer's premiership is the constant refrain he is a "decent man". He is leading the most anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT government of if not my life, certainly my voting life time! It's really, really horrible! That's not "decent"!
February 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I think one of the most annoying aspects of the slow death of Starmer's premiership is the constant refrain he is a "decent man". He is leading the most anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT government of if not my life, certainly my voting life time! It's really, really horrible! That's not "decent"!
@thomasig.bsky.social knocking it out of the park today
February 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM
@thomasig.bsky.social knocking it out of the park today
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Mandelson's vetting:
February 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Mandelson's vetting:
That stop making mistakes idea that was going around a while back had something going for it in hindsight.
Home Secretary confirms that the UK government did not formally trigger the break clause in the asylum seeker relocation treaty with Rwanda until Dec 2025. (Rwanda says that delay means the UK owes £100m in payments due under the treaty).
February 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
That stop making mistakes idea that was going around a while back had something going for it in hindsight.
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sources close to Keir Starmer tell me when you’re being mean to Keir Starmer this is who you’re being mean to
February 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
sources close to Keir Starmer tell me when you’re being mean to Keir Starmer this is who you’re being mean to
Thoughts and prayers with Keir Starmer and his conscience.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Thoughts and prayers with Keir Starmer and his conscience.
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BREAKING: Starmer is said to be brooding in stoic contemplation while watching the sunset. He looks conflicted but very very cool.
February 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
BREAKING: Starmer is said to be brooding in stoic contemplation while watching the sunset. He looks conflicted but very very cool.
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100%
There's an enormous opportunity for someone to say: "OK, I've got three years to do a series of things that change the country for the better. I'll just get on with that, start being nice to people who might vote for us, and whatever happens at the next election happens."
Yet this is a government with three years left to run and an enormous Commons majority. For all the problems, there is an enormous opportunity there for someone with the political nous to take it and use it.
February 6, 2026 at 1:54 PM
100%
Poor Starmer just can’t catch a break. From punching himself in the face.
It’s tragic that a decent PM will be brought down by Mandelson’s sleaze – but it’s a matter of when, not if | Polly Toynbee
It’s tragic that a decent PM will be brought down by Mandelson’s sleaze – but it’s a matter of when, not if | Polly Toynbee
With three years left and a huge majority, Labour can govern with more humility and deliver real change. But with Starmer at the helm? I can’t see it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Poor Starmer just can’t catch a break. From punching himself in the face.
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Starmer won’t do the right thing though. He’ll wonder what he ought to do, get scared, and ask McSweeney what to do.
February 5, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Starmer won’t do the right thing though. He’ll wonder what he ought to do, get scared, and ask McSweeney what to do.
Media figures making this point as some kind of gotcha are just telling on themselves. We know you (nearly) all thought it was fine to put a nonce defender in to an important government position.
Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
February 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Media figures making this point as some kind of gotcha are just telling on themselves. We know you (nearly) all thought it was fine to put a nonce defender in to an important government position.
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"I had no reason to believe the known liar was lying to me" is at least something Starmer has in common with his core supporters.
February 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM
"I had no reason to believe the known liar was lying to me" is at least something Starmer has in common with his core supporters.
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Anas Sarwar says today of Peter Mandelson: “I'm utterly disgusted and furious about the entire situation … He never should have been the ambassador to the US.”
For context, here’s Sarwar in April 2025 love-bombing his ‘old friend’.
They think we are stupid.
He is an amoral opportunistic chancer.
For context, here’s Sarwar in April 2025 love-bombing his ‘old friend’.
They think we are stupid.
He is an amoral opportunistic chancer.
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Anas Sarwar says today of Peter Mandelson: “I'm utterly disgusted and furious about the entire situation … He never should have been the ambassador to the US.”
For context, here’s Sarwar in April 2025 love-bombing his ‘old friend’.
They think we are stupid.
He is an amoral opportunistic chancer.
For context, here’s Sarwar in April 2025 love-bombing his ‘old friend’.
They think we are stupid.
He is an amoral opportunistic chancer.
It’s weird to me that there are Keir Starmer fans. Like I can see how you could be neutral about him because you’d rather have him than a Tory government and I can see how you’d be against him because he’s a tit. But an actual Starmer fan? How? Why?
February 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
It’s weird to me that there are Keir Starmer fans. Like I can see how you could be neutral about him because you’d rather have him than a Tory government and I can see how you’d be against him because he’s a tit. But an actual Starmer fan? How? Why?