Kerry Thomas 🏴 🇬🇧 retweetledi
“I have just been informed that I was prime minister all along. I am furious with my officials for not telling me.”
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Kerry Thomas 🏴 🇬🇧
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Retired, Welshman, LUFC,Ospreys and Swansea City supporter. Brexit has happened time for the country to thrive
West Berkshire Katılım Şubat 2012
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Kerry Thomas 🏴 🇬🇧 retweetledi
The King advised him to not appoint Mandelson
Every man and his dog knew it was a stupid idea
He did it anyway
And it blew up in his face
He needs to go - this is not complicated.
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So today we've literally had three new explanations from inside No.10.
a) Downing Street found out on Tuesday.
b) Downing Street found out last Friday.
c) Downing Street found out in March.
It's complete anarchy.
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
Govt source says the fact Antonia Romeo and Cat Little discovered what had happened, took advice then told Starmer shows it’s possible for civil servants to bring vetting issues to ministers’ attention. Understood that Romeo and Little are highly respected by No10.
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Kerry Thomas 🏴 🇬🇧 retweetledi
This is the circle it's impossible for No.10 to square. If, as they have begun claiming, Robbins was indeed precluded from informing them because of the rules, then there were no grounds to sack him. If the rules did not preclude him, then it's inconceivable he didn't tell them.
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Kerry Thomas 🏴 🇬🇧 retweetledi
THIS IS JUDGE LORD JUSTICE TIMOTHY HOLROYDE
This is the man who REFUSED Lucy Connolly her appeal after she was convicted for a social media post.
Meanwhile this very same judge CUT the sentence of Labour's Lord Ahmed by THREE YEARS after he was convicted of child sex offences. His sentence was reduced from five and half years to just two and a half years!
⛔️⛔️⛔️
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Keir Starmer's Ukrainian rent boy trial is scheduled to begin in 10 days at the Old Bailey.
YET the mainstream media are all silent.
We all know why.
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Kerry Thomas 🏴 🇬🇧 retweetledi
It's been a dodgy, undemocratic circus from start to finish.
From Sue Gray, to winter fuel allowance, to inheritance tax, to Chagos, to sugar daddy, Lord Alli, to assisted suicide, abortion law changes, McSweeney & Mandelson, the Chancellor blubbing in parliament.
The sacrificial pawns are almost all gone.
Please go Prime Minister, you've done so much harm to the country & destroyed your Party in the process. Please just go.
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This morning Starmer was on television saying "No one in Downing Street knew Mandelson failed his vetting". It's now becoming clear literally everyone in Downing Street knew except Keir Starmer himself.
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OK, hang on. This is getting utterly insane. The Guardian is now reporting Antonia Romeo knew in March Mandelson had failed vetting. But again, inexplicably, refused to tell Starmer. What the hell is going on in there.
theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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🚨 BREAKING: Starmer left trapped inside No. 10 for several hours after no one told him he needs to open the door to leave.
"It's staggering. No one told me the operating procedure for the front door. Unforgivable. I've lost confidence in my team and they will have to resign".
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David Maddox is the political editor of The Independent and seven months ago exclusively reported Mandelson had failed his vetting.
As he says, the idea Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is total tosh. Starmer is having trouble remembering who he has lied to about what.
David Maddox@DavidPBMaddox
Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Kerry Thomas 🏴 🇬🇧 retweetledi
The absolute state of this country!
This man warded off and filmed 2 men trying to accoste young girls, and the police came after HIM!
🇬🇧 ‘Far Right’ Scouser 🏴@UKPatriot0
📍CARLISLE UPDATE So nothing happened to the immigrants harassing the young girls, but the lad who stopped them from being potentially r*ped has been banned from Carlisle town centre 🤬 You literally couldn’t make this up!
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This is damning on a number of levels. First it proves that the stories we all put to Downing Street about the vetting were accurate, despite the denials. And it blows out of the water the argument from Martin it was not a "pass/fail" system. It literally was a "pass/fail" system.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
BREAKING: Number 10 has published a summary of the meeting on Tuesday evening when Sir Keir Starmer was told that Mandelson was appointed despite failing to clear security vetting It states that Cat Little, the permanent secretary of the foreign office, reviewed files confirming that 'the recommendatoin from the vetting officer had been that DV should not be granted to Peter Mandelson' 'The PM was not aware of any of this before the meeting, including that it was possible to grant DV against the advice of UKV' It will also publish the template summarising the recommendation not to give Mandelson clearance. It will be published - filled in - with the next tranche of documents. It includes a box for ''clearance denied or withdrawn', which presumably applies to Mandelson
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Ex MI6 boss Sir Richard Dearlove tells @TomSwarbrick1 @LBC "Whatever angle you look at, it’s very bad for the prime minister... Did anyone ever think he would pass a DV?
"The whole of his career reeks of a lack of integrity.
One could have anticipated in advance there would be probably advice from a vetting department not grant him this. I cannot believe the permanent secretary didn’t ring up his minister who he sees every day and say, look, we have a problem. The idea you don’t tell this is quite frankly, rubbish. You don’t tell them the reasons WHY they are being rejected."
He disagrees with Ciaran Martin's claim you don't tell the minister, saying it would be about not telling them the details
"It just does not add up. The choice of Mandelson was flawed, the judgement was flawed, the process was flawed, and the handling looks like a catastrophe."
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'We were given absolute, categoric denials that what we were reporting was untrue!'
Dan Hodges asks how Downing Street can claim they were unaware Peter Madelson had failed his security vetting, if they offered such strong denials to journalists who reported on it.
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Do you think they know how stupid they look or do staffers have to tell them?
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Paris to co-host talks with Emmanuel Macron on reopening the Strait of Hormuz trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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I’ve spoken to one of Robbins’s predecessors as permanent undersecretary at the foreign office, who says he “doesn’t recognise” Ciaran Martin’s account of the vetting process and Robbins’s role in it. He says it is highly unusual for the Foreign Office to reject advice from UK Security Vetting not to appoint someone to a sensitive job and that Robbins could have informed a senior minister - the PM or the foreign secretary, or indeed their senior advisers - of the fact that UK SV advised against the appointment, even if the convention was not to share the reasons or the accompanying analysis. It will be fascinating to hear from Robbins on this
Sam Coates Sky@SamCoatesSky
NEW Friends of sacked Foreign Office boss Olly Robbins are starting to hit back and say sacking baseless. I've been talking to ex National Cyber Security Centre boss Ciaran Martin - who is about to embark on a media round ** He says it is the job the FCDO - so it was ultimately Olly Robbins - to decide whether security clearance is granted or not. Usually the FCDO security department does it and most cases didn't reach his level, but the most senior ones (presumably Mandelson) do. ** It’s ENTIRELY up to them, working with information from his own department and UK Security Vetting. The FCDO / he does not “overturn” the decision of UKSV - he’s they only one that decides. ** He says that Robbins was +prohibited+ from sharing details of what goes into his vetting assessment. Vetting would not work if elements shared confidentially went public. He was on a duty not to relay the position of UKSV. That’s why ministers do on get told - he is under a duty not to pass on any details beyond a pass/fail recommendation. ** So Martin says: the idea that there was a “recommendation” that was the “overriden” is wrong. This is the characterisation of government. The only assessment made is that by Robbins, and he could not have passed on any additional details. ** Therefore he feels the sacking of Robbins has no basis and that Robbins is being treated badly. ** Robbins will go before the FCDO select committee, perhaps as early as next Tuesday Ciaran Martin will be on @skynews shortly
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