@GordonMurdie @GeorgeFoulkes But the point is Starmer should never have appointed him. Shocking judgment. Bit facile to simply say...oh water under the bridge. And it's 100% not silly.
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There's quite a lot of energy being expended on Mandelson who was sacked 7 months ago. Probably best to give it all a well earned rest as it's getting silly now. Govt needs peace to do Govt stuff.
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I was at the Prime Minister's important statement on the Peter Mandelson scandal. Mistakes were made but the Tory party are all about faux outrage when they presided over scandal after scandal
They even had no anti-corruption tsar after last one resigned following Boris blunders
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@Inevitablewest @peteratcmc I, like millions of others, have a visceral hatred for Starmer but it is interesting to try to understand why. My best efforts are that he's a complete dullard, grey and managerial style, no political conviction, cosplaying PM, sanctimonious, adenoidal and a complete hypocrite.
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The entire nation hates him.
His own MPs hate him.
Yet he's refusing to resign.
This isn't normal.
This man is incredibly dangerous and needs to be removed immediately.
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Davey read his pre-written condemnatory speech but Starmer had just answered all its points, so it fell as flat as Badenoch's. Abbott was pathetic. Archer accused Starmer of ignoring the media frenzy! All clutching at straws. @Keir_Starmer acting with integrity, though.
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@deanbegley1 @GeorgeFoulkes @GMB Hmmm wonder why that was. Maybe because we have a failing Labour govt?
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@JamesMelville @LynnMcD61564763 Yep he's one of the elite...do as I say, not as I do. Complete wankstain.
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“Climate change wreaking havoc on our planet.”
~ Prince Harry.
Hypocrisy: someone who is a regular traveller on private jets saying that climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet.
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@Kevin_Maguire Oh dear Kevin...are there no depths to which you will not stoop? Absolutely pathetic.
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Will Reform deputy leader Richard Tice now resign over fresh allegations about nudging another £100,000 tax after he demanded Angela Rayner quit over £40,000?
Changed his tune.
"A long career with multiple businesses is bound to feature some errors."
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…
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@donmcgowan Two different sets of circumstances but then you know that.
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This is you though, right?
Campaigning against Angela Rayner over a FAR less serious tax 'error'.
Isabel Oakeshott@IsabelOakeshott
🛑 The Sunday Times campaign against @TiceRichard is deeply disappointing. It is also a measure of @reformparty_uk success. @Nigel_Farage and Richard are coming for the Establishment, and they are terrified.
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@DPJHodges @macnahgalla @DPJHodges
Dan, you haven’t yet told us if this allegation that you hosted a party on behalf of the Mail for Mandelson in Washington is true.
I can’t believe a man of your integrity would do this and want to be able to defend you.
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As we report today, DV was actually the lowest level of clearance Mandelson required for his post. He also needed STRAP clearance. In his letter of employment of 4 February it says "you should submit a new STRAP application form for your new position at least 3 months before you are due to start at Post". But he started at post later that month. So what happened to this level of clearance.
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@GeorgeFoulkes George. ..again you're a peer. Try at least to pretend to act like you deserve it. You're coming across like a childish and cantankerous old cvnt.
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Suella passed!!??
DV needs reviewing
Suella Braverman@SuellaBraverman
As someone who has been through and passed Developed Vetting, I can assure you that it is an incredibly rigorous (and expensive) process. The professionals involved in our vetting work to the highest standards. Rightly so. It is absolutely fundamental to our national security. Overrule or ignore it because of cronyism and the whole system comes crashing down.
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@Robbie_Reasons @peteratcmc He'll come to the house on Monday and deliver a bland managerial speech. It will be big on rhetoric and thin on content. Flimsy.
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@WulfrunianChris @GeorgeFoulkes As soon as you mentioned safeguarding I saw you.
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As a teacher it’s a genuinely massive safeguarding concern for Reform to be allowing things like this to be posted.
Having to get full photo permissions as a teacher was a nightmare.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage takes photos with secondary school children in East Sussex
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@JamesKelly Get tae fuck. Scotgov can't regulate food prices. Swinney is having a political wank and everyone is trying to suck up his ejaculation. It's nonsense.
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Roger is correct about one thing: Scotland is a better place than it was a week ago thanks to the SNP manifesto. Food affordability for all is now on the agenda, as it should be.
Roger White@rogerlwhite
A week ago no one in Scottish politics spoke of capping food prices. Now, anyone who voices any doubts about the idea no matter how reasoned must hate poor people, doesn't care about Scotland, is a mad raving yoon etc etc. The SNP do not do serious politics.
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@GeorgeFoulkes @bbclaurak So...Lord Foulkes...peer of the realm. You're suggesting that this is unimportant...nothing to see here. C'mon please act with some dignity and commensurate with your elevated position. Keep the cheap jibes for non Lords.
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@bbclaurak Because you and your colleagues rabbit on about it in an attempt to force him out!
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"He's just never, at any point, gripped the danger"
Why it's so hard for the Prime Minister to move on from the Mandelson mess bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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How do you think people would react to a statue of Kier Starmer?
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@PreetKGillMP @GeorgeFoulkes You have conflated 2 things quite cleverly. First your belief (because that's all it can be) that Keir Starmer is not a liar. Then an assertion that he is not a liar (again unevidenced). If Sir Keir was a liar sweetheart you wouldn't know because well.....he's a liar.
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I do not accept the claim that Keir Starmer is a liar. He is not. I have known him to be serious, measured, and guided by a strong sense of public duty.
We must challenge one another robustly on policy, but do it in a way that strengthens public confidence not erode it
Liz Truss@trussliz
I hope the media is beginning to get it. The British system is dysfunctional. The bureaucrats are in charge and withhold information all the time. I have no sympathy for Starmer - he is an inveterate liar and he and his mates Blair and Brown created the unaccountable albatross we have today.
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@sales_belinda @GeorgeFoulkes Did you post the same sentiment when it was Boris Johnson and his cake. Thought not. And all political parties including Greens, Lib Dems, and Reform are all calling this out because it's important. It's not over. It's not done. And quite rightly.
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Please get over it. It's done. Over with. PM apologised. Mandelson was sacked after a few months. We have wars to deal with. Cost of living crisis. Why don't you journalists take a responsible stance & focus on what matters? Not this storm in a teacup exaggerated by Tories.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
Peter Mandelson’s appointment was a political one and FCDO knew that Keir Starmer/ Morgan McSweeney wanted it to happen even though the due diligence process had raised red flags. Olly Robbins’ response to this question gives, I think, an insight into why he overruled the security vetting decision: “The PM took advice and took a view himself and we then acted on that view”. What it doesn’t explain is why he didn’t flag security concerns over Britain’s top diplomatic appointee with No 10 - or if he told officials why they didn’t share with the political side of operation.
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@GMacdonaldSNP @no202123 On £74 billion sales. So 4% profit. Like all supermarkets, a low margin business. For an accountant to post such a crass comment is doubly worrying. I can only guess that you have abandoned traditional accounting for SNP accounting and economics.
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No mention that France introduced a similar scheme back 2023 to cap essential food items due to high food prices.
The same policy was being considered by the UK gov.
But it’s only a ‘gimmick’ because it is an SNP policy,
Meanwhile, Tesco profits last year were £3.15 billion!
BBC Scotland News@BBCScotlandNews
Retailers criticise SNP's 'gimmick' food price cap promise bbc.in/4csufK3
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