357 Responses to Midweek 4th February 2026

  1. MarkyMark says:

    “Rupert Lowe MP
    Testimony has been presented to our inquiry stating that illegal migrants have been involved in the gang-rape of British children.
    The Government will know EXACTLY how many illegals have been convicted. I want that number.
    I have formally requested that the Home Office releases all possible data, information and evidence relating to these rapes.
    That will be the very tip of the iceberg. The ones that have been reported and convicted will be overwhelmingly outnumbered by those who have not faced any kind of justice.
    This is happening in towns and cities right across Britain – do not underestimate the current scale of it all.
    We have allowed these men to break into our country, and an abhorrent number of them have raped British children.
    My position remains consistent.
    When the acts are so very monstrous, and the guilt so undeniable, I support the reintroduction of the death penalty – for both foreign and domestic criminals.”

    …………

    BBC Drama 3 Girls (calling it 1400 girls would be a scandal!)
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rgd5n

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    Michael Fallon ‘apologised for touching journalist’s knee’
    Published 31 October 2017
    On Monday Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom said recent allegations against MPs “risked bringing all our offices into disrepute”.
    Commons Speaker John Bercow said there must be “zero tolerance” of sexual harassment in Parliament.

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    Fire up the Tony Blair shredder ….

    “Noam Chomsky advised Epstein about ‘horrible’ media coverage, files show”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o

    In emails from February 2019, the disgraced financier asked if he should “defend myself” or “try to ignore”. A response that appears to be from Chomsky laments “the horrible way” Epstein was treated and the “hysteria that has developed about abuse of women”. “It’s painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it,” the email said.

    In an undated letter of support included in the trove of emails, Chomsky said the two had held “many long and often in-depth discussions”.

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    BBC says “Man”….ITV says “Lithuanian”

    “Skebas told police he did not know Lilia before the killing and said he was intending to return to Lithuania on the day he was arrested.”
    https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2026-01-29/murder-accused-told-police-he-was-being-controlled-after-stabbing-9-year-old

    “Man guilty of murdering girl, 9, playing in street”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07xlljn595o

    Return to Lithuania? Why? Illegal entry? No answers provided.

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    I entered politics not for personal gain (free glasses), not for status (free Taylor swift concerts and VIP football box) and not to live a life detached from reality that most people face (Rhiannon Whyte was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver)” – Keir Starmer 2026
    Keir Starmer gives speech in Hastings
    45.5k subscribers

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    “Tony Blair famously said that his project would not be complete until the party had learned to love Mandelson”
    Tue 29 Sep 2009

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    Vetting
    I suspect – if papers are released concerning the vetting of Mandelson it will turn out either not done at all – or just rubber stamped .
    I know that higher level vetting is done -normally – very thoroughly – and it takes time – and is not simple – there is a demand for the vettee to be open and honest in declaration – therefore there is no way Mandelson could pass it ….. right 77 brigade ?

    TTK would / should – have known that – but he was – somehow – steamrollered into appointing Mandelson to the top diplomat job –
    And he landed up in the Oval Office sucking up ( ugh) to President Trump .

    I hope Mark Rubio chooses to make a ‘thing ‘ of the whole business but I reckon they have their hands full with Epstein material already ….

    As I’ve said – there will be no prosecution of Mandelson – some might predict he might go the way of Epstein – but he’s a fighter not a quitter ….
    Anyone know a remedy for popcorn overdose ….?

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    The Mandelson excrement is rapidly spreading – the ‘boyfriend of best pal – Wes streeting – took a bung from Epstein …. / Mandelson ( joined at the hip )One wonders if any other British politician turns up in similar pictures

    Wes by the way has gone from ‘best pal ‘ to ‘I didn’t know him that well ….’’’ Popcorn

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Lord Waheed Alli is one of Starmer’s principal donors and benefactors. Starmer’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney is Lord Alli’s protégé. Lord Alli and Peter Mandelson’s close friendship goes back many years. If anyone pushed hard for Mandelson to be appointed US Ambassador then it was Lord Alli – the man who had his own office in No.10 with McSweeney.”

      https://x.com/mjdaly57/status/2018834206193840425

      Despite his close friendship with Mandelson – or perhaps because of it – some in the Labour Party viewed him as an eccentric hybrid of Rasputin and Willy Wonka, writing cheques to secure his way into the company of political superstars with whom he ingratiated himself with lavish hospitality.
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13951483/Lord-Alli-schmoozed-Labour-Party.html

      His sprawling mansion in Kent was where his close friend Lord (Peter) Mandelson drew up Labour’s 1997 election ‘grid’ – the day-to-day timetable for the campaign. And it was also where he hosted an annual summer party with a Ferris wheel, dodgems and hot air balloon rides attended by the likes of Elisabeth Murdoch, influential daughter of the media magnate Rupert.

      Sir Tony Blair, pictured, was a guest of honour at the£18 million London home of Lord Alli to mark the ascent of Sue Gray from civil servant to Sir Keir Starmer’s newly unveiled chief of staff. Mr Blair at Bali International Air Show in Bali, Indonesia, 18 September

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    “In November 2010, Mandelson and Benjamin Wegg-Prosser founded Global Counsel, a London-based lobbying firm with the financial support of WPP, the advertising giant. The firm provides advice for corporate strategists and senior management worldwide. Lord Mandelson has been criticised for not revealing his clientele.”
    …..
    https://www.global-counsel.com/about/our-people/benjamin-wegg-prosser
    …..

    https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/IsdfjGURML-16W9xNVww4qTyNxc/appointments

    Peter Benjamin MANDELSON

    GLOBAL COUNSEL CONSULTING LLP (OC359787)
    WILLBURY LIMITED (07265891)
    DITCHLEY FOUNDATION(THE) (00599389)
    OPLYSE HOLDINGS LIMITED (10511092)
    GLOBAL COUNSEL LTD (10533767)
    THE DESIGN MUSEUM (02325092)
    GLOBAL COUNSEL VENTURES LTD (13858000)
    GLOBAL COUNSEL VENTURES LTD (13858000)
    OPEN BRITAIN LIMITED (09641190)

    ………….
    Peter Mandelson gets £400,000 loan from own company to ease tax burden
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/27/peter-mandelson-400000-pound-tax-free-loan
    ………….

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  9. harry142857 says:

    We ( https://biasedbbc.tv/ ) lead, the others follow.

    Original posted by MarkyMark yesterday.

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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15530423/Keir-Starmer-Peter-Mandelson-ruthlessly-mocked-AI-cover-Barry-Manilows-classic-Mandy-amid-Epstein-furore.html

    Sir Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson have been mocked in a new AI song video by online pranksters amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal threatening the PM’s time in office.

    This time the duo behind the Crewkerne Gazette spoof site have reworked Barry Manilow’s classic piano ballad Mandy, imagining it as performed by Sir Keir while the video shows him with shamed ex-peer Mandelson.

    The Crewkerne Gazette has previously created AI videos parodying pop songs and showing new lyrics performed by the likes of Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, David Lammy and the King – attracting tens of millions of views.

    The spoof comes amid mounting pressure on Sir Keir – and speculation about Labour MP moves to topple him as PM – amid the Mandelson and Epstein scandal.

    New revelations about Mandelson’s ongoing communications following the shamed financier’s conviction and jailing on child prostitution charges have been revealed in the latest release of more than 3million Epstein-related documents.

    Emails in the tranche appear to show Lord Mandelson passing potentially market-sensitive information to the financier in 2009, while he was Business Secretary in Gordon Brown’s government.

    Now a new video was shared to the Crewkerne Gazette’s 24,000 X followers, adding: ‘Is it resignation time yet? Here’s Mandy, Keir Starmer sings the Barry Manilow classic to Peter Mandelson, as the Epstein scandal refuses to fade into the background.’

    The video features a mock-up of Sir Keir sitting at a piano singing a rewrite of the ballad that was a US number one for Manilow in 1974, hitting number 11 in the UK.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Barry is versatile ..”In February 2022, New Zealand authorities used Barry Manilow’s greatest hits as a sonic weapon to disperse anti-vaccine mandate protesters camped outside the Parliament building in Wellington. “

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Seen footage of the repulsive Adam boulton being interviewed about his pal Mandelson – he tried a whataboutery line trying compare Cummings to Mandelson – they both being law breakers …
    Looks like the whole thing is causing ‘mental issues ‘…. Poor Keir talked about Mandy accepting gifts and donations with a straight face this morning …. Using glasses provided by a wealthy friend …

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HAH AHAH AHHA! Why not get Boris Johnson to fund it ….
    received £277,723.89 from Centerview Partners LLP
    received £261,652.34 from Hindustan Times
    eceived £253,880.90 from ParallelChain Lab
    received £215,275.98 from Televisao Independente,

    “Either way, taxpayers will have to pay for the works and pick up a bill that is expected to run into many billions.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgp2pzqr84o
    “Unless an intensive programme of major remedial work is undertaken soon, it is likely that the building will become uninhabitable,” it said.

    IDEA: Move the 650 MPS and 800 LORDS to share Crowborough barracks with the illegal migrants to share diversity – they can let them look after their kids when they are work?! HA HHAH AH AHAH AH AH AAH A HAH AH A!

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  12. Dover Sentry says:

    Not mentioned by our BBC –

    If you still refuse to resign after your 20th scandal, then you’re a dictator.

    Keir Starmer is a dictator.

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    “Sammy Woodhouse
    Reform MP Suella Braverman challenges Keir Starmer to take action against those who have committed or covered up rape gang offences in Britain.
    I met with Suella in Rotherham when she was Home Secretary. I gave her names of the professionals involved, she did NOTHING.
    Don’t let these clowns fool you.”

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  14. Flotsam says:

    I was amused to hear a Starmer fanboy MP suggest that Madelson being an ex EU Commissioner enhanced Mandelson’s CV and further justified Smarmer’s descision to employ him..

    Perhaps his past as EU Commissioner meant he could have been a kind of Trojan horse to influence Politicians and Business people in the USA they should accept Britain rejoining and pave the way for it.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Flotsam – at least one MP has written to the EU sleaze department ( it’s huge ) suggesting an investigation into the Russian aluminium oligarch who got stuff changed and made mucho deniro ….
      Im trying to imagine how this whole thing will be turned into a Netflix drama …. Modelled on the tedious’night manager ‘ with ‘house ‘ doing a menacing stare every five minutes ….and doing a fairly good English accent

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  15. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    When TTK goes there are a few replacements being touted and all of them are both dangerous and scary but one of them stands out as being a total fruitloop zealot who could do immense harm.

    We could survive most of them but Milligram would be fatal for the UK if he gets into number 10
    He is completely barmy.
    Don Quixote tilted at windmills, milligram sings to them (and we know where he should stick his ukelele)
    We would be better off with Dapple as PM never mind Sancho Panza.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      EG
      Farage is saying he doesn’t want TTK to go – and to stay on until the may elections – if held – trouble is though – the longer the Marxists are in power the more damage ….

      From the clips I have seen of The MSM -they are in a sort of collective anguish – mourning – for the state of their approved Party
      – there need to be more ‘revelations ‘ about those associated with Mandelson – who presumably has left Blighty with friend Renaldo in a discreet private jet ….

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      • Scroblene says:

        Conspiracy theory Page 94…

        Where’s Ed Miliband? Is he going to get his brother from ‘over the sea’, to come back, and they can both do a double act as a Marxist cabal with a few hangers-on picked from the shadier side of the wonks in Mohammed St. and Whitehall?

        Both very, very rich people – able to get their mates in a row and actually take over the current communist party in administration here…

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  16. pugnazious says:

    Oddly familiar….

    ‘Lord Mandelson went further: “Yesterday, I did not want to be held responsible for his [Jeffrey Epstein’s] crimes of which I was ignorant, not indifferent, because of the lies he told me and so many others.

    “I was wrong to believe him following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered.”‘

    And then it all went pear shaped asnd Mandelson found himslef out in the cold.

    And then there’s now…

    ‘”I am sorry,” Starmer says to victims. “Sorry for having believed Mandelson’s lies and appointed him… none of us knew the depth and the darkness of that relationship,” he says.”‘

    They’re both such naive schmucks eh? Victims of their own generous hearts and a willingness to give people the benefit of the doubt[unless you’re white person on twitter].

    BBC were very slow to state what every paper and even the Guardian headlined with…that Starmer was on the brink….still now the BBC admit it maybe so but plenty of qualifying and little editorial tearing Starmer a new one as they would with say, Boris…or indeed any Tory.

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    • Guest Who says:

      “Lies, damned Lies, and… Honourable Members..”

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      • Guest Who says:

        Joe of the BBC… er … ‘News’ doing a grand job not digging the corporation out of ongoing Trump, Musk etc holes.

        https://x.com/slyfortheright/status/2019444556673015993?s=61

        Weirdly the twat sounds almost proud.

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        • pugnazious says:

          GW…hilarious that the BBC thought Epstein would bring down Trump and instead it’s the Great W1 Hope ‘Forensic’ Starmer who was going to teach us all a thing or two about probity and good governance.

          Lol…just switched on Times radio and the bloated, bilious blowhard that is Adam Boulton is moaning that there’s not enough media coverage of all the Trump revelations, despite there not being anything of any substance….but…we need to see all his emails and all the photos to show that he liked ‘young women…and maybe underage ones’…despite there being no Trump emails and no photos that show anything in anyway of that nature.

          Shows Boulton’s mindset and that he’s just out to smear Trump. Shame on Jon Pinnaer for not intervening and slapping Boulton down.

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  17. wwfc says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “… and mould the whole of Europe into a copy of Germany …. a good place to start is to ditch the easy historical comparison (ignore history and you will repeat it) … because Angela Merkel is a figure of our here and now and it’s vital to understand her better because she (Merkel) matters more to our future (UK) than, what, 95% of British Politicians.” – BBC’s Andrew Marr 2013

      ……………..

      ‘I hated being the story’: Sky News’s Beth Rigby on her own Covid Partygate scandal
      https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/beth-rigby-sky-news-covid-partygate-kay-burley-boris-johnson-b987059.html
      The Sky News political editor offered her resignation after being caught attending Kay Burley’s 60th birthday party whilst London was under Tier 2 coronavirus restrictions.

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    5pm r4 radio news – 20 minutes on mandygate- followed by- ironically – on the need to rebuild their Palace of Westminster – which will cost billions …..
    Why rebuild it ? Why not sell it off as a museum and move their parliament to Hull or Manchester or wherever …. It’s as much as the occupants deserve …. Their parliament doesn’t represent me ,.,,

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Move them into military barracks with their diverse friends – simple – free baby sitters for all the kids – watch out if they are aged 6.

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    • Pete says:

      Rebuilding Parliament would bankrupt the country alright if it isn’t already
      Big Ben repairs took 5 years
      Budget was 30 million, cost came in at 80 million. !
      Good to know our Governments have a proper handle on numbers.
      Mind you, Plenty of young men hanging around water melon shops I’ve seen, maybe looking for work would
      Reckon they could complete the job for very good price. All cash you understand and you might need an interpreter.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Give the job to the main contractor for the Chinese Embassy, that way, we’ll get a job lot…

        There’s a free house going at Royal Lodge, chuck the ‘honest’ politicians in there – there’s plenty of room for one or two.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Dear Darren Henry,

        13
        Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.

        150
        HS2 £150 billion, original budget £36 billion.

        37
        Track and Trace £37 billion – no tracking or tracing where this money went.

        1.1
        £1.1bn of COVID small business loans identified as fraud

        4
        £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”

        13 + 150 + 37 + 1.1+ 4 = £205 billion

        Nuclear reactor = £6 billion

        ………………..

        Dear Sir,

        Thank you for contacting me and sharing your views.

        The Government has been in negotiations on the Sizewell C project since January 2021 and the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has granted development consent.

        The Government is strongly committed to Sizewell C and securing the UK’s energy security through delivering new nuclear power.

        Thank you again for contacting me.

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  19. Scroblene says:

    Guido said on Order Order, ““While I was there, [Epstein] received a call and said, “Hello, Petey.” And he chatted away and Petey wanted to meet Jamie Dimon, who was then the chairman of JP Morgan. And by the time he put he said, “Yes, I’ll sort it out.””

    Wasn’t Bliar a ‘strategic adviser’ to these guys?

    ‘Follow the money’ – if you can remember where it went…

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  20. wwfc says:

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  21. vlad says:

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    One of the many mandygate things bugging me is the failure of TTK to sniff a load of lies . TTK is a QC – always bragging about his DPP prosecuting blah blah – but never saw a serial criminal in front of him …

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  23. Foscari says:

    The BBC doesn’t present very much top notch
    live sporting events anymore. So it was “interesting ”
    to watch on the 6PM news this evening a major feature
    presented by the BBC’S Sports Editor Dan Roan . A
    preview of the ” Enhanced games” in Abu Dhabi.
    To be fair to Dan. He didn’t show us any of the competitors
    snorting cocaine. Or injecting themselves with Anabolic steroids.
    BUT it’s at least a topic of conversation. If our license fee
    should be paid. So Dan and his camera crew should of
    flown down to Abu Dhabi to enhance our knowledge of
    a DRUGS sporting event !!

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    A couple of days ago the BBC was reciting the usual Hamas propaganda about the nasty IDF bombing a tent in Gaza and killing the usual women and children .

    But now it turns out they hit a ‘Hamas doctor ‘ who was videod murdering a female hostage by injecting her with air . He sent the video to her parents after getting her to speak on camera …
    BBC seems to have missed that ..

    Keep going IDF …

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  25. vlad says:

    In the recent stabbing in Leicester, the BBC didn’t issue a description of the suspect. Although one would have thought it would have helped in finding him, perhaps before he could strike again – whatever happened to Crimewatch, or is that only for white criminals? Usually such silence means one thing: wrong sort of suspect.

    But look who they find to interview: yes, some sort of trans weirdo whom the BBC dutifully, and confusingly, refers to as “they”. What a coincidence, eh? Of all the gin joints in all the world…

    No agenda there, I’m sure.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20wdrwv0lo

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  26. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/catharinehoey/status/2019488246313488421?s=61
    This is the clip I referred to in an earlier tweet. A BBC journalist trying to say that the Chagos islands are not British . Is this the Irish anti Brit coming out in him ? Maybe he just didn’t like @ArleneFosterUK pointing out the need for a look at Mandelsons involvement in the Chagos sell out.

    The expression is ‘drive a coach and horses through…’ but having hitched inseparably to Starmer’s Labour, the whole sorry cabal is following him off a cliff.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Devout Patriot Dame Arlene Foster making it quite clear to a mistaken BBC Newsnight presenter that Chagossians and the island of Chagos are very much “part of the British family.” The Baroness is keen to know what influence disgraced diplomat Peter Mandelson may have had over the decision to give away the Overseas Territory to Mauritius, an ally of China.”

      …..
      Kate Hoey
      @CatharineHoey
      This is the clip I referred to in an earlier tweet. A BBC journalist trying to say that the Chagos islands are not British . Is this the Irish anti Brit coming out in him ? Maybe he just didn’t like
      @ArleneFosterUK
      pointing out the need for a look at Mandelsons involvement in the Chagos sell out

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    “Rupert Lowe MP
    I want to put on the public record my sincere appreciation to those survivors and family members who have come forward through our inquiry and other campaigns.

    It is not easy. I have seen how difficult it is to talk about the pain and the suffering, but their bravery will mean, and has meant, that others will not go through what they did.

    That is a very noble cause indeed.

    I really hope they all understand the good they are doing, and have already done.

    Each and every one of them has done more good individually than all the politicians combined.”

    ……………… MEANWHILE IN PARLIAMENT LAND …………

    John Cooper
    Sharethis specific contribution
    It beggars belief that the inquiry inches along at such a dreadfully slow pace. With the Scottish Government ruling out an inquiry there, will the Home Secretary please commit to fast-tracking a thoroughgoing inquiry into the grooming gang scandal, for the sake of the victims?

    https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-09-15/debates/DC576ED3-B580-43D1-AD5F-99A25179E6F4/GroomingGangsNationalInquiry
    Sarah Bool
    (South Northamptonshire) (Con)
    Sharethis specific contribution
    The Conservatives raised the issue of a national statutory inquiry in January. The Government attempted to block our calls for an inquiry until they were forced into a U-turn in June. On 2 September, the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, the hon. Member for Birmingham Yardley (Jess Phillips), said,

    “this Government will not lose any more time in pursuing truth and justice for victims and survivors,” —[Official Report, 2 September 2025; Vol. 772, c. 160.]

    yet here we stand today—no start date, no chair announced, and no terms of reference agreed.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    David Davis Conservative, Goole and Pocklington 12:38, 4 February 2026
    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Today’s Opposition day debate will focus on Mandelson and his relationship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. However, it will not cover his relationship with another alleged paedophile, murderer, gangster, specialist in bribery and corruption, and Putin favourite: Oleg Deripaska. That relationship may be just as bad as the one he had with Epstein.
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2026-02-04a.269.0&s=Mandelson#g269.1

    ……………..

    Peter Mandelson ‘tried to secure Russian visa for Jeffrey Epstein’
    Emails suggest the Labour peer told Epstein that his friend Oleg Deripaska,
    the Russian billionaire who had hosted him on his yacht, would be able to help him
    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/epstein-complained-mandelson-friendship-one-sided-k9hs0qcjj (PAYWALL)

    …..

    Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin, faces extensive international accusations of corruption, sanctions evasion, and money laundering. Sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018, he has been indicted for using shell companies to maintain U.S. assets and faces charges in Ukraine regarding the funding of military actions.

    ………..

    FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll said: “Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, was sanctioned in April 2018 as part of the U.S. response to the Russian Government’s engagement in worldwide malign activity and its annexation of Crimea, Ukraine. Since that time, Deripaska has continued to circumvent those sanctions through an international network of enablers and facilitators. We will not idly standby while Russian oligarchs brazenly subvert our laws and simultaneously seek benefit from U.S. goods and services for themselves and their families. Today’s actions demonstrate the FBI’s commitment to protecting U.S. national interests through the identification and disruption of Kremlin-linked oligarchs’ criminal networks.”
    https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/russian-oligarch-oleg-vladimirovich-deripaska-and-associates-indicted-sanctions-evasion

    ………….

    Together Deripaska and Rothschild hosted George Osborne and Peter Mandelson on Deripaska’s yacht in Corfu in the summer of 2008.[123] Osborne was then Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom and a friend of Rothschild from school and university. Peter Mandelson has reportedly maintained private contacts over several years with Deripaska.[124]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Deripaska

    In response, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Mandelson’s dealings with Deripaska had been “found to be above board”
    According to Verstka [ru] and iStories, Deripaska was involved in a child sexual abuse ring which was active from 2018 to 2019.

    * note Trump is associated via business links here as well.
    …………….

    The Incident: In February 2025, shortly before his appointment as the British ambassador to Washington was marred by the scandal, Mandelson was asked about his long-standing ties to Epstein.
    The Response: After stating, “I regret ever meeting him or being introduced to him by his partner Ghislaine Maxwell,” and noting he regretted the harm caused, Mandelson added: “I’m not going to go into this. It’s an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off. OK?”.

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  29. JohnC says:

    Despite all the promises for the police to be transparent when immigrants murder people, nothing has changed. Here is another example where they hide the details for 48 hours until the story goes cold then we get the truth.

    Surprise surprise, here is the victim. Khaleed Oladipo from Nigeria via Londonistan. I would be interested in his story of how he ended up a student at this university and whether he was there on public funds.
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    And you can be 100% certain that the murderer is not white – otherwise we would have been told the colour of both of them on day 1.

    I wonder what they call this interim period where the Left bring their fascism in very gradually until the pot starts to boil and Mr+Mrs average Brit – working hard and only seeing the 6 o’clock news – didn’t even realise until it was too late.

    I think the chances of them getting total power again are very small – but they are trying and the wheels of democracy turn so very slowly. It seems to take the general population about 5 years before they get outraged about the same things which made my blood boil on the day they happened.

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  30. pugnazious says:

    Just so we all know who we’re dealing with in his many media appearances…Matthew Parris, rabid anti-Brexiteer Remoaner and wettest of wet Tories……

    ‘Don’t drum Mandelson out of the Lords, says Matthew Parris. In 30 years, the events of the last few months will not wash out a whole career of service…’

    https://x.com/FraserNelson/status/2019464981071204386

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    • JohnC says:

      Typical left-wing scum comment. The man is another lunatic who never faced the real-world in his life.

      I wondered how on Earth he was a Conservative. Here’s what I found:

      ‘He later attributed his embrace of conservatism to an early reading of George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “An admiration for [the pigs’] intelligence and sense of order dawned in me. I never liked them, but their final triumph taught me that idealism is not enough.”‘

      He doesn’t care about the right and wrong of it. What he SHOULD be asking is that if this is the calibre of Mandelson, what else did he get up to for those 30 years ?.

      When these things finally get to be public, it is usually the case that the extreme hypocrite MSM (especially the BBC) knew all about it – but protected these Lefties the same way they protect their own child abusers and nonces.

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  31. digg says:

    Just watched our glorious leader on TV…. the only way to sum it up is to call him out as Sir Kier Squirmer….

    Never seen such a tragic abject apology for a man desperately trying to duck justified criticism.

    What Del Boy would say…. What a plonker!

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    • tomo says:

      tragedy elicits sympathy – that twat and his ilk deserve no sympathy what.so.effin.ever – the assholes simply got caught….

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  34. JohnC says:

    Starmer apologises to Epstein victims for believing Mandelson’s ‘lies’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp37v4kyv3eo

    Goodness me : the BBC sound more like North Korean state news than anything I can recognise as a what we should see in the UK.

    The bottom line here is Starmers gross error of judgement. The BBC are presenting it as if its not his fault at all. IT’S 100% HIS FAULT. HE IS PM.

    I wonder what has gone on behind the scenes to bring this bizarre situation about. I suspect they are helping him head-off a vote of no confidence.

    This apology is absolutely fake. This man will do absolutely anything at all to cling to power. As I have said many times, this communist wannabe-dictator will NEVER resign through honour or ethics. He has none.

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  35. tomo says:

    zut!

    allo-allo

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  36. Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

    This bloke is one of the best commentators on British politics. He has a quiet style of delivery but that’s because he is very thoughtful and open to disagreement.

    I have recently pruned my extensive list of channels. I am sticking with this chap, Cheshire Cat.
    Also, Preston Journalist,
    June Slater,
    Rafe Heydel -Mankoo,
    Darren Grimes on Reasoned,
    and a few others.

    Gone with the wind are Sargon of Akkad, who is considered clever by some, not least by Carl Benjamin.
    Jeff (and Mutt) from Dorset.
    Dan Wooton from Lower Hutt who gets outraged as frequently as a Lefty does.
    Paul Thorpe who sees Reform as the enemy. Likewise the Gobby Cabby.
    As for Nick Buckley #$%^&* speak not his name.

    Hmmm, Mahyar Tousi …I’m hovering over the delete button.

    Well, we are all agreed about the BBC on here, however what are the best You Tube political commentators to follow? I’d welcome your suggestions and thoughts

    Meanwhile here is Cheshire Cat revealing BBC links with Plaid Cymru!

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  37. JohnC says:

    Could this be the beginning of the end for Starmer?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c338g8n334mo

    And once again the parallel between what the BBC did to Boris and what they are doing to Starmer could not be more different.

    I remember the pressure the BBC placed on Boris by quoting many people slagging him down from Labour, the LibDems and also anonymous civil servants. How many times did another headline-article attack on him start with ‘The BBC has learned …’

    So now it’s Starmer up against the ropes and waiting for the BBC to move in for the kill. So whose opinions do they present here ?.

    Other Labour MP’s. That’s it. No quotes from any Tories or from Reform. Just Labour.

    And hence they are much more civilised and friendly than would otherwise be the case.

    And people are still saying he will resign. What terrible judges of character they are. Not a chance. I can’t begin to imagine how nasty this man is behind the scenes when he’s under pressure.

    This is from Octorber last year:
    ‘DAN HODGES: Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to the House of Commons to appease a foreign enemy. He may have no option but to resign’

    He always has an option. And the option is to not resign. He does not give a shit whether the people want him there or not. He’s staying.

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  38. sunny jim says:

    Farage did they same trying to shift the blame from your precious Israel to Russia.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Corruption knows no borders! Stop those borders!
      Working with Putin to get leverage.

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  39. vlad says:

    To the long list of Islamic horrors, we can now add: SLAVERY.
    Will the BBC report this of their favourite religion? Sure, just as soon as pigs learn to fly. Oink oink.

    Islam has long condoned and practised slavery – including sex slaves, starting with their leacherous founder.
    “Muslims are encouraged to live in the way of Muhammad, who was a slave owner and trader. He captured slaves in battle; he had sex with his slaves; and he instructed his men to do the same. The Quran actually devotes more verses to making sure that Muslim men know they can keep women as sex slaves (4) than it does to telling them to pray five times a day (zero).” https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx

    “Afghanistan Officially Reintroduces Slavery Under Islam”

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    • sunny jim says:

      The Old Testament is just as bad, if not worse. It is full of slave-owning protocol (as the Quran is a photocopy of the Old Testament really, where do you think they got the stuff from).

      In fact, slave ownership was so widespread and unregulated in the Old Testament that verses were added to make the system less chaotic.

      Gemmin defines these as the main differences between the two:

      The “Old Testament” approach: Focused heavily on legal rights, like debt-release years (the “Jubilee”) and specific physical protections.

      The “Quran” approach: Focused heavily on the moral “reward” for freeing slaves, treating it as a way to get closer to God.

      and finally

      New Testament: Functions as a Social Leveler. It moved away from legal rules and instead taught that in God’s eyes, there is no difference between a slave and a master, calling them to treat each other as equal “brothers and sisters.”

      And according to Gemini, there are 30 plus references to pray in the Quran. The Quran doesn’t list the prayers “1 to 5,” but it marks the times using the sun’s position. The Quran provides the times (dawn, noon, sunset, etc.), and the Hadith (records of the Prophet Muhammad’s actions) confirmed there are exactly five sessions.

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      • sunny jim says:

        Also in the Old Testament, the following were major slave owners and traders:

        1. Abraham
        Household Size: The Bible notes that Abraham was very wealthy and had “servants bought with money” and “servants born in his house”—including 318 trained men born in his household who could go to war (Genesis 14:14).

        2. Isaac and Jacob

        Abraham’s son and grandson continued the practice of keeping large households with enslaved workers.

        Isaac: He is described as having “many servants” to help manage his vast herds and crops.

        3. King David and King Solomon

        As the Kingdom of Israel grew into an empire, slavery became more institutionalized.

        David: After his various military conquests, David subjected groups like the Moabites to forced labor or slavery (2 Samuel 8:2).

        Solomon: He famously used a massive forced labor force (the mas) to build the First Temple in Jerusalem and his royal palaces. While many were Israelites doing “tribute labor,” he also kept permanent slaves from the surrounding conquered nations (1 Kings 9:20–21).

        4. Job

        In the Book of Job, Job is described as a man of immense wealth. Part of that wealth included a “very great household” with a large number of servants/slaves. Even during his suffering, he discusses how he treated his “manservants and maidservants” (Job 31:13).

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  40. sunny jim says:

    come on now and as Epstein said, be a good goy now and listen. it was the russians behind JE not Israel.

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  41. AsISeeIt says:

    Stop Press…! as they used to say… early February in Britain and the weather is a bit rainy…

    Met Office issues fresh weather warnings of yet more bad weather after 36 days of rain (the formerly purporting to be serious – no trashy populist stories about the Royals for us – Independent)

    36 days of rain? Blimey, even Noah only had to contend with 40. Or was that Saint Swithin – whoever he was?

    Wot, no in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror frontpage in the BBC’s online print press line-up? (the title also absent from the Sky News online press pile)

    Pity, one has to admire the red top tabloid’s rather clever screamer top headline: Keir and present danger

    The left-leaning editorial line of the corporate freebie adsheet Metro catches BBC staffers’ eyes for their top spot: You’re helping Reform, Starmer tells critics… PM battles for survival

    Pride in Place claims Sir Keir’s new slogan – oh dear, Keir goes halfway around the world to China to avoid his domestic woes – and he comes back to this mess.

    In dire streets: Sir Keir during speech in Sussex yesterday (giveaway Metro)

    What, this Sussex: ‘We will NOT stop!’ Thousands of protesters descend on Crowborough as furious locals condemn ‘messy situation’… Today marks the 13th protest taking place against housing asylum seekers in the East Sussex training camp (GB News, 4 days ago)

    Remind me of that new Labour slogan? Pride in Place

    The Pride in Place programme is a UK government initiative, backed by up to £5 billion over 10 years, designed to empower communities to transform local areas. It focuses on improving infrastructure,, high streets, and, green spaces in hundreds of disadvantaged neighbourhoods through, direct, investment and The Pride in Place programme is a UK government initiative, backed by up to £5 billion over 10 years, designed to empower communities to transform local areas. It focuses on improving infrastructure,, high streets, and, green spaces in hundreds of disadvantaged neighbourhoods through, direct, investment and community-led decision-makin – thank you A.I.

    Community-led decision-making? Thousands of furious protesters have descended on Crowborough town centre this afternoon as locals campaign against Labour’s decision to house migrants in a nearby army camp…plans to send in more than 500 male migrants into the disused facility, residents have come out to campaign against the move… The controversial decision, allowing undocumented male migrants to walk freely in the area, has been met with a wave of fury and distrust amongst fearful locals while they raise concerns over the safety of their community, including that of women and girls. (GB News)

    On a lighter note – the formerly serious Times, newspaper of record: Is Peppa Pig the best TV soap opera?

    Meanwhile, at the BBC: Gen Z aren’t lazy – I commute four hours a day to work in the office… Lily-May Edwards loves living in north Wales, but she also loves her job at the University of Liverpool. (Beth Alaw Williams, BBC Wales – presumably on a job creation make work scheme for wannabe journos at the Beeb)

    The feminist junior Guardian that is the left-leaning i paper finds something to be happy about, despite the current Labour implosion: Labour ‘women in grey suits’ may be sent to No 10 to tell PM to resign

    I’m oddly reminded of that song You’re Moving out Today performed by Carole Bayer Sager, back in 1977 (there’s one for the teenagers)

    So pack your toys away
    Your pretty boys away
    Your 45’s away
    Your alibis away
    Your Spanish flies away
    Your one-more-tries away
    Your old tie-dyes away
    You’re moving out today…

    Pack up your fork and spoon
    Please leave my Lorna Doones
    Your map of Mozambique
    Your water bed that leaks

    For map of Mozambique – read Chagos?

    Speaking of Mozambique: Three African countries agree to UK migrant returns after visa penalty threat… Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (BBC) – so that’s immigration sorted then.

    Speaking of Africa – over to BBC Pidgin: Why no woman qualify to run for President for Uganda?

    As Bob Marley would have warned: No Woman, No Cry

    Back to the news…

    NHS recruits nurse specialising in cousin marriage for Bradford (Telegraph) – “Ooh, Matron!” – as they used to say in the Carry On movies.

    The spy who failed me… Desperate PM Sir Keir blamed Britain’s spies… (Daily Star)

    Concentrate now 007… (As “M” used to say) our BBC are going to try to convince you of two hard to believe narratives over the next couple of days.

    One: Epstein was a Russian asset: The Kremlin said on Thursday it did not want to waste time answering questions about unproven suggestions in Western media and by Poland’s premier that late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein may have been some sort of Russian intelligence asset. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that Warsaw would launch an investigation into what it said were possible links between Epstein and Russia’s intelligence services, and into any potential impact on Poland. (Reuters)

    Two: Sports fans actually enjoy and look forward to watching the peculiar pass time semi-sport known as curling: The hotel ice rink producing some of the world’s finest curlers… It was the pioneering vision of a Stranraer businessman in 1970 that would go on to produce some of Scotland’s most successful curlers on the world stage. (Lori Carnochan, Dumfries and Galloway reporter, BBC)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Bradford City of UK Culture 2025.
      “NHS recruits nurse specialising in cousin marriage for Bradford”

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  42. digg says:

    The BBC appear to have come up with a new name for illegal migrants, they are now refugees! Much more cuddly feel to it!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9y3n43192o

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    • MarkyMark says:

      irregulars
      undocumented
      dreamers
      future citizens

      “Control the language, control the thinking”

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  43. sunny jim says:

    this is getting stupid now

    The post connects Tamara Finkelstein, former Permanent Secretary at UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) who led efforts to increase ethnic diversity in rural areas described as “very much a white environment,” to her brother Daniel Finkelstein, a Jewish peer and Times columnist whose parents fled Nazi Germany.

    Accompanying images include Daniel Finkelstein’s photo and Tamara’s professional biography, which notes her sponsorship of the Civil Service Jewish Network and promotion of rainbow lanyards symbolizing LGBTQ+ inclusion.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Looks like number 10 has been on the phone to the BBC to tell them to kill the Mandy story and put out crap in its’ place – NASA or statins or some singer …. Not like the daily cake gate days …
      A real news outfit will have to run the truth ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        #1 BREAKING : Top government figures to be forced to hand over messages with Mandelson

        #2 Russian general shot several times in Moscow

        #3 We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands

        #4 Number of homeless refugees in England soars, BBC finds

        #5 US and Iran talks to begin as fears of direct conflict continue

        #6 US healthcare needs fixing, but there’s no agreement on how to do it

        #7 All you need to know about the 2026 Winter Olympics

        Lower down “How penis injections became a Winter Olympic talking point”

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news#2026-02-06

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    • Scroblene says:

      Perhaps the silly old bat could try and work out why there aren’t that many white people in Bradford or Brum…

      The Taxpayer has funded everything she’s ‘done’, and the pension will be nearly as much as Rachel’s annual income!

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Base all 650 MPS and 800 Lords (with rats as seen in Kemi Video) in the barracks and let the migrants look after the kids of the MPS and mix with then in schools and leisure activities ….. it is that simple .. laws/behaviour will change overnight….

    ” ‘We will NOT stop!’ Thousands of protesters descend on Crowborough as furious locals condemn ‘messy situation’… Today marks the 13th protest taking place against housing asylum seekers in the East Sussex training camp “

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    Hold on, threating is not what Keir wants, we work WITH our partners not threating them – behold the UK’s first Muslim PM …. here we go….

    “Three African countries have agreed to take back foreign offenders and illegal migrants after the UK Home Secretary threatened them with visa penalties.

    A month after the threat from Shabana Mahmood, Namibia and Angola agreed to cooperate on returns. The Home Secretary has now also secured cooperation from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8204g8lejo
    “It is understood that India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Somalia and Gabon are all resistant to returns deals and it is possible that the government could look at sanctions for those countries.”
    ………………………..
    Allah is always watching, and when he is not then Mahmood will step in with Tony Blair …. “In an interview with Tony Blair, Ms Mahmood — who served as the UK’s justice secretary from July 2024 to September 2025 — said her vision in that role was to “achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his panopticon”.”
    https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-home-secretary-dreams-of-ai-powered-panopticon

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    Iran say thank goodness for Epstein files, they can keep killing Islamophobes without BBC Verified breathing down their necks.

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    Reprimands – NO impact on their lives as they star in BBC Traitors – nothing – just a strong letter …. such is the power of Parliament

    Independent Expert Panel reprimands former Speaker John Bercow for being a “serial bully”

    https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/commons/media-relations-group/press-releases/8-march-independent-expert-panel-reprimands-former-speaker-john-bercow-for-being-a-serial-bully/

    “The IEP decided that his conduct was so serious that he should never be allowed a pass to the Parliamentary estate; and that if he were still a MP it would have recommended expelling him from the House.”

    “the respondent [Mr Bercow] has been widely unreliable and repeatedly dishonest in his evidence. He has attempted to defeat these complaints by false accusations of collusion and by advancing lies.”

    Remove pass and slap on hand! HA HAH AH AHAHH A! Lessons learnt. No pension removed?

    A 2022 independent inquiry found that former House of Commons Speaker John Bercow was a “serial bully” who subjected staff to a “genuinely horrible” and undermining work environment. The investigation upheld 21 allegations of bullying and harassment, describing his conduct as a “marked abuse of power and authority”.

    Lisvane, who was then Sir Robert Rogers, was Clerk of the House until August 2014. He made 18 allegations of bullying and/or harassment against Bercow, of which 14 were upheld and two were concluded to be harassment.

    At another meeting, Lisvane said that in front of others Bercow “suddenly launched an attack on his role as chief executive saying that the Commission made a mistake in appointing him and that he wanted to see his roles separated, with the appointment of a BAME woman as chief executive.

    HA HA HAHA HAH HAH AHAH AH HA !

    “After a exhaustive in-depth vetting procedure Sir Keir presents the new Ambassador to Washington.” ORDER-ORDER.COM
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  48. Scroblene says:

    Why does everyone in the frame for Mandy’s disgrace still claim that ‘they didn’t know’ anything!

    For the love of God, everyone else in the UK was aware of what sort of bloke he was, as he was Blair’s right-hand man for ages, and all the stories went back for decades – including the sort of ‘jokes’ that HIGNFY used to tell, before it woked-up!

    As usual, TTKow is faffing about, trying to make out that like the hapless Manuel in Fawlty Towers, ‘I know naaaaaaathing’…

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  49. Fedup2 says:

    The Palestinian terrorists who got a not guilty this week have been over shadowed by mandygate .

    But the jury denial of the overwhelming evidence raises deep concerns . Mainly – was it a Muslim jury ? The court was Woolwich crown court …. Was the jury tampered with ? Was it fixed by the listing office ? Has the judge said anything ?

    Enthusiasts for jury trial may shudder at the complexion of juries now ….. and if jury trials are ended the muppets on the bench – many lefty women or other dodgy DEIs won’t be doling out fair trials either ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, were cleared on Wednesday of aggravated burglary after Elbit Systems building near Bristol was targeted in a raid in the early hours of 6 August 2024.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo
      Prosecutors alleged that as security guards tried to stop the activists, the guards were sworn at and told to leave, had sledgehammers swung at them and were whipped, while one was sprayed with a foam fire extinguisher.

      Rajiv Menon KC, defending, said they had not expected security guards to enter the factory during their action and added the defendants were “completely out of their depth”.
      ……….
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    • Guest Who says:

      Another factor is protection of jurors. Which it seems was lacking.

      Coincidentally just having a debate with an AI on the power of allusion or inference as deployed by the media, and others…

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  50. Althepalerp says:

    The BBC: “Bitcoin falls to the lowest level since Trump too office”

    So its all Trumps fault.

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    • Scroblene says:

      You can blame me, Alt, as I know absolutely naaaaaaathing about Bitcoin, and therefore that lets President Trump off the hook!

      (I think I can hear the Guardian ringing me for an explanation – must be ready to ignore the call)…

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