Peter Potts

@WojtusciszynP Paul is known for packing his flute with high grade herb and smoking it until his little remainer brain goes POP ! . #StarmerTheClown

This whole media frenzy instrumented by the Guardian has been done at this time to derail Labour just before the elections at a time when the PM had good approval ratings over his handling of the war with Iran, plus good news with the economy starting to pick up so nothing new!

@afneil The independent told them , as did a statement made by an opposition minister in parliament …

Government comes out swinging making clear there is no law that prevented Oliver Robbins from informing the PM or other relevant ministers from sharing the outcome of Mandelson’s security vetting. Nor should there be.

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🚨Labour MP Tom Hayes is a serial disgrace. The same clown caught stealing election leaflets from voters’ letterboxes is the one gaslighting Camilla Tominey on GB News to defend Keir Starmer. Lying hypocrite exposed. Labour’s rotten to the core.

faiza shaheen on ##bbclaurak "This just sends a message.. that this is a group of elites that support each other, that help each other regardless of the types of behaviour.. this really stinks & I think many people wont understand the particulars but what they will hear is this is corruption"

Labour is delivering for Coventry. Dont put that at risk with Reform on 7 May. 🌹 Great to join the team on the #LabourDoorstep this week!

NEW: Fresh questions for the deputy leader of Reform after investigation reveals he failed to pay almost £100,000 in tax, benefitting his investment firm… …which then gave big donations to Reform UK. This isn’t going away.

@SkyNews @TrevorPTweets

.@TrevorPTweets: Are you happy to be led by Sir Keir Starmer into the next general election? Liz Kendall: "100%, because he is a man of guts and strength and courage." #TrevorPhillips trib.al/aJdjpuD

@PeterStefanovi2 @Loreign83 understatement

Jeez. This is awful

@PippaCrerar My Aunty would be my uncle if she had 🥎 🥎

Full interview: Keir Starmer would have blocked Mandelson role over vetting failure, says Lammy theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

EXCL: Keir Starmer would have blocked Peter Mandelson from serving as the UK’s ambassador to Washington had he known he failed security vetting, David Lammy tells me. The deputy PM also says: - it was “inexplicable” that Oliver Robbins opted to leave Downing Street in dark over outcome. - he was “shocked and surprised” when he first learned on Thursday what had happened. - neither he nor his advisers at time he was foreign sec had known about – or asked for information on – vetting process or its conclusions

@Steve2521279221 #Remainers #EU

Who actually is protecting this cunt ..

@laughnowmonkey @iang_1972

Donald Trump's team unequivocally disapproved of Peter Mandelson's appointment by Keir Starmer as the UK's ambassador to the United States. Starmer nominated Peter Mandelson knowing he had not passed security vetting yet still pushed through a "bad actor" onto US soil. Mandelson is well documented for taking regular visits to China, including meetings with senior CCP & government figures such as Liu Jianchao of the CCP International Department in 2023 (pictured). Labour's obsession with the hammer & sickle isn't a mere flash in the pan, it's full feast of diversion & secrecy. Trump's team expressed strong reservations & actively tried to intervene, senior members of Trump's transition team contacted UK officials multiple times in late 2024 to push back against replacing Dame Karen Pierce, with Mandelson. They preferred keeping the "professional" Pierce in place. Trump himself reportedly communicated reservations directly to Starmer during a November 2024 phone call. His allies & advisers publicly criticized Mandelson. Trump's co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita called him an "absolute moron" who "should stay home" citing Mandelson's past negative comments about Trump - describing Trump as a "danger to the world," "reckless," a "bully," & "little short of a white nationalist." Starmer had to accept major restrictions on Mandelson's activities for his appointment to go forth. Concerns included Mandelson's past criticisms of Trump, his links to China & other baggage. Some Trump sources expressed a preference for blocking the appointment or forcing the UK to withdraw it. Knowing all of the above & Mandelson's failure to pass security vetting in the UK, Starmer pushed through anyway.

@medialens @JoanDevizes @Jonathan_K_Cook

‘Sir Keir Starmer must be the most ignorant man ever to have entered high office. ‘Here are a few highlights….’ @Jonathan_K_Cook substack.com/home/post/p-19…

@JChimirie66677 @SulkyMcSulkFace

Robbins Knew. Romeo Knew. Only One of Them Was Sacked. Keir Starmer has now established a principle of accountability so brazen it deserves to be stated plainly. If you knew about Mandelson's vetting failure and said nothing, your fate depends entirely on how much the Prime Minister needs you. Olly Robbins knew. He was sacked. Antonia Romeo knew. She was backed. The only difference between the two cases is that Starmer cannot afford to lose another Cabinet Secretary. Romeo knew about the vetting failure from late March. She sat on it for a fortnight, consulting lawyers and other officials before informing the Prime Minister. Robbins had known since early 2025 and said nothing, citing legal obligations under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act. Lord McDonald, his predecessor as Foreign Office Permanent Secretary, confirmed on the record that Robbins was observing process according to law, comparing the confidentiality of vetting files to medical records. Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said there was no abuse of process and that there is not merely no duty to disclose vetting details but a positive duty not to. Both officials followed process. One kept his silence for legal reasons. The other kept hers while seeking legal advice on how to break it. Robbins lost his job. Romeo kept hers. The question Robbins's allies are now asking publicly is one the Prime Minister cannot answer: what did Antonia do right that Olly did wrong? The answer, of course, is nothing. The distinction is purely political, not procedural. Then there is the York-Smith memo. Released by Downing Street on Friday evening, it records the meeting at which Starmer was finally informed of the vetting failure on Tuesday 15 April. The memo states that the Prime Minister was not aware of any of this before the meeting, including that it was even possible to grant clearance against the advice of UKSV. Read that sentence carefully. The former Director of Public Prosecutions, the man who spent years assessing evidence and weighing institutional processes, did not know that the security vetting system contained a discretionary override mechanism. He was not merely unaware that Mandelson had failed. He was unaware that the process he had repeatedly told Parliament had been followed correctly contained a provision that had been used to circumvent the security services' recommendation. Set that alongside the letter Robbins wrote to Richard Holden MP on 24 July 2025, six months before he was sacked, in which he confirmed in writing that Mandelson was directly appointed to the role by ministers. One document says ministers drove the appointment. The other says the Prime Minister did not understand the process that governed it. Both are now on the public record. Both cannot be true simultaneously. Meanwhile Starmer's own people were recording in writing that they believed he had inadvertently misled Parliament. That phrase appears in the York-Smith memo itself. Not in an opposition briefing. Not in a hostile newspaper. In a document produced inside Downing Street, by Starmer's own Principal Private Secretary, on the evening the Prime Minister was finally told the truth. One serving Labour minister has already described what is unfolding as an inevitable death, but a very slow one. That is not Kemi Badenoch speaking. That is someone who sits in Starmer's own government, who watches him from the inside, and who has already written his political obituary. Monday's Commons statement will tell us whether the death accelerates. What it cannot do is change what the documents have already established. A Prime Minister who protects the useful and sacrifices the expendable, who claimed ignorance of processes he oversaw, and whose own colleagues have abandoned hope, has not merely lost control of a scandal. He has lost the authority to govern. Olly Robbins and Antonia Romeo

@BBCPM @Loreign83 @DavidPBMaddox

“The claim that No 10 was completely in the dark about this, until this week, is rubbish.” The Independent’s Political Editor, @DavidPBMaddox tells @BBCPM that he told No 10 last September that Lord Mandelson may have failed security vetting.

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The trial of the Ukrainian men (bizarrely) accused of setting fire to Keir Starmer's property is the same day as the much-anticipated King's State Visit to see @POTUS The eyes of the world will be fixed on the usa. 👀

@SaulStaniforth #LizKendall spinning through her teeth about this fantasy character of upmost ‘integrity’ #Starmer. This lot masquerading as #Labour all need clearing out in #May , it’s excruciating and exhausting to watch. #Skynews #TrevorPhilips #SirTrevorPhilips #Mandelson

#trevorphillips: Starmer appointed both Mandelson & Robbins In response Liz Kendall brings up Epsteins victims. Where was her concern for those women when Mandelson was appointed? Why didnt she speak out publicly then? Because she doesn't care & is just using them now to deflect

@nadhimzahawi #LizKendall spinning through her teeth about this fantasy character of upmost ‘integrity’ #Starmer. This lot masquerading as #Labour all need clearing out in #May , it’s excruciating and exhausting to watch. #Skynews #TrevorPhilips #SirTrevorPhilips #Mandelson

Imploding no10 👇🏽