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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. By any standard of political judgment, Keir Starmer's
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decision to bring Peter Mandelson back into the corridors of
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power is unforgivable. We're not talking about a small misstep.
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It's not a minor lapse in judgment. It's a flashing
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neon sign that the Prime Minister is unfit for the
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office that he holds. By appointing Mandelson, Starmer hasn't just
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shown poor taste, he's demonstrated an alarming disregard for integrity, accountability,
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and the very people he is supposed to serve. Peter
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Mandelson is not a neutral figure. He's not some benign
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statesman brought in for his wisdom. He's the embodiment of
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the backroom politics and corrosive cronyism that helped shatter the
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public's faith in Westminster in the first place. His name
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is synonymous with sleaze, triangulation, and the kind of deal-making
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that puts the interest of insiders above those of ordinary citizens.
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To elevate him is to send a message that nothing
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has been learned, nothing has been changed, and the political
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class is still determined to recycle its most tainted operatives
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while the country cries out for something new. Now for
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Starmer to open the doors of government to Mandelson is
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not only tone deaf, it's politically suicidal. At a time
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when trust in institutions is scraping the floor, when millions
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of people are disillusioned with politics as usual, he's chosen
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to embrace the very symbol of the rot. The timing
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is as offensive as the act itself. Britain is staring
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down crisis on every front. Economic uncertainty, social fracture, international instability.
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and the Prime Minister's answer is to summon a relic
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of the worst kind of politics back into the fold?
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Now this appointment lays bare Starmer's character, or rather, his
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lack of it. It shows him for what he is.
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Not a leader of conviction, not a man of principle,
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but a political operator more interested in stitching together alliances
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with discredited power brokers than in offering real change. The
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appointment is not a mistake born of ignorance. It's a
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choice born of calculation. And that calculation reveals a hollowness
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at the heart of his leadership. And let us be blunt,
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the public sees it too. The fury this has unleashed
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is no mystery. People are sick of it. They're tired
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of watching their leaders wrap themselves in the same stained
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cloak of insider politics as if the failures of the
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past never happened. Mandelson is not some brilliant strategist waiting
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to be rediscovered. He's a warning sign. He's a living
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reminder of why faith... in Westminster, collapsed in the first place.
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By appointing Mandelson, Starmer has taken ownership of that legacy
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of Sleaze. It's his now. Every word that drips from
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Mandelson's mouth, every whisper of scandal that follows him, will
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cling not only to Mandelson himself, but to the Prime Minister,
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who legitimized him. It's a self-inflicted wound, and it might
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be politically mortal. So, what now? The answer is simple.
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Starmer must resign. Not tomorrow, not next week, Now, he
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cannot continue as Prime Minister after making such a reckless,
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insulting choice. Britain needs leadership that inspires confidence, not disgust.
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The English need a government that signals renewal, not regression.
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Starmer has proven that he is incapable of providing it.
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If the Prime Minister truly cares about the country, and
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not just about clinging to power, he will accept that
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his decision has destroyed his credibility beyond repair. The public
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does not want Mandelson anywhere near power, and they certainly
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don't want a prime minister who thought bringing back Mandelson
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was acceptable. Keir Starmer's time is up. He walked into
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Downing Street promising to be different. By bringing Mandelson back,
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he has proven he is anything but. The betrayal is complete,
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the mask is slipped, and the damage is irreversible. The
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honorable thing left for him to do is step down,
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before the people do it for him. Today's article is
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from The Independent, and the headline, Starmer Breaks Silence Over
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Mandelson Sacking. Had I known what I know now, I'd
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have never appointed him. Bro, you knew. What are you
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even talking about right now? All these people with the, oh,
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I didn't knows. You knew. You didn't care. You just
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happened to get caught. This article was authored by David
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Maddox and Millie Cook. Sir Keir Starmer insisted he would
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never have appointed Peter Mandelson as U.S. Ambassador to if
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he had known the full extent of his ties to
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Jeffrey Epstein in his first public comment since the sacking
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of the Labour peer. As he sought to get back
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on the front foot after his phase two plan for
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government got off to a chaotic start, the prime minister
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attempted to move on from the fiasco hours before Donald
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Trump's historic second state visit. So there's all kinds of
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stuff going on right now, right? Over in the UK,
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they're fired up. They just had a big ass rally
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on Saturday. And of course, the media said there was
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only 110,000 people there. But some of the videos I
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saw seem like a lot more people than that. So
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I'm guessing it's somewhere in the middle, right? You had
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one side, the people that put the rally together. They
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were talking about 3 million people. And maybe it was.
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I don't know. I'm not locked into British politics that way.
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But I will tell you this. It was more than 110,000 people.
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And people are pissed off. People are fired up. And
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people have had enough. And then you add this on
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top of it? This kind of decision making? Starmer's in
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for it. But even as he tried to bolster his position,
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he was rocked by yet another resignation when key aide
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Paul Ovendin quit his head of strategy in a fresh
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scandal over obscene emails about veteran MP Diane Abbott. So listen, Americans,
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if you thought we were the only ones that were
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being hampered by ineffective leadership, by people who didn't give
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a fuck, you're crazy. Happening everywhere. There's too many people
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that are in politics that care about themselves and not
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about anybody else. And we have a situation where these
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people get into politics and they become rich. That was
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never supposed to be the way it worked. It was
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supposed to be your neighbor who runs for Congress or
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somebody in your district. Now you have lawyers and doctors
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and that's pretty much it. And of course, none of
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these people have any idea what the rest of us
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are going through. So they live in their bubble. And
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then when some shit like this happens, they act all surprised. Well,
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breaking news, bro. Spending time with Jeffrey Epstein and accepting
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money from him and calling him your bestie, it's not
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going to get it done anymore. And when that kind
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of stuff comes out, people are going to demand accountability.
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And they should. On Monday night, amid calls from some
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backbenchers for Sir Keir to resign... The prime minister insisted
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he would not quit, adding, I'm absolutely clear what the
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task is in front of me. The dramatic developments came
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as Nigel Farage pressed home his poll advantage by unveiling
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the first affection of a sitting MP to reform. Now,
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all of this is English politics, and I'm not going
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to get too deep into it because I don't know
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enough about it, but I'll give you the bullet points.
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Questions were raised about Lord Mandelson's dynamite Epstein emails landed
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on the PM's desk. Labour MPs publicly and privately suggested
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Sir Keir could be out in months with one minister
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calling him screwed. Tory MP David Davis secured a parliamentary
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debate on Lord Mandelson's appointment as ambassador to the US.
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The three-hour emergency debate will take place on Tuesday afternoon
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and see Keir's government grilled over precisely who knew what
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about Lord Mandelson's relationship with Epstein and when. it will
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see further pressure piled on the already struggling PM. Well,
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guess what? You put him in that position, right? You
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made that decision. Now you got to answer for it. Meanwhile,
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two of Britain's leading pollsters, Warren Labor, is facing even
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worse problems with voters, with one suggesting the party is
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yet to hit rock bottom. With the crisis over Lord
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Mandelson throwing serious questions on his judgment as Prime Minister,
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Sir Keir held a morning meeting with his junior ministers
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in Downing Street, to rally the troops. Well, here's an idea.
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Just be truthful. I know, it's very difficult for these people.
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But if you're just truthful, and you tell us what's
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going on, then you're going to be a lot better
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off later on down the road. It might suck at first,
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but people are going to realize, look, at least this
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motherfucker was transparent, came out and told us right away
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what the deal was, But no, it's always obfuscation, it's
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always kicking the can down the road, and it's always deny, deny, deny.
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In the afternoon, he came out to address the concerns
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which had been raised about the Lord Mandelson debacle, and
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what he knew before appointing him as ambassador to the US,
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and then standing by him at PMQs last Wednesday, before
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ultimately sacking the Labour peer on Thursday. And that's the problem,
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he doubled down on the support, right? You can't trot
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this dude out and be like, oh yeah, I support him.
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and then flip the script a few weeks later, and
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act like you didn't know what was going on, you knew,
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you didn't care. You care now, because you're getting your
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ass whipped in the polls, but besides that, you didn't
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give one single shit. Maybe you guys should stop focusing
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on what people are typing on the internet over in
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the UK, and start focusing on the shit that matters.
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He insisted he would have never appointed Lord Mandelson, had
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I known, then what I know now, in his first
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comments and sacking, him over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
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We all knew previously about Mandelson. We've been talking about
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Mandelson for years. so don't act like you didn't know
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it's such bullshit and it's disrespectful to the British people
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he said the nature and extent of the relationship between
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the convicted pedophile and Lord Mandelson is far different to
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what I understood to be the position at the point
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of the appointment what a bunch of googly gawk huh See,
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what had happened was, shut your mouth, bro. You're BSing.
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You're lying. You're not telling the people of England the truth.
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And at some point, they're going to have enough. And
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I think that point is approaching very quickly. Asked why
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he'd been appointed in the first place, Sir Keir said,
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Peter Mandelson, before he was appointed, went through a due
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diligence process. That's the propriety and ethics team. He went
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through the process, and therefore I knew of his association
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with Epstein. But you hired him anyway. You appointed him anyway. Because,
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you know, it wasn't that bad. Breaking news, okay? Whenever
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somebody's outed as Jeffrey Epstein's friend, what you're hearing is
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only the tip of the iceberg. And inevitably, we always
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hear more news about how close they were or about
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a business deal or whatever. It's never what it seems.
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But had I known that then what I know now,
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I'd have never appointed him. Because what emerged last week
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were emails, Bloomberg emails, which showed that the nature and
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extent of the relationship that Peter Mandelson had with Epstein
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was far different to what I had understood to be
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the position when I appointed him. Which is such BS.
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We all knew. If my dumb ass knew, how didn't
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you know, Mr. Starmer? On top of that, the email
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showed that he was not only questioning but wanting to
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challenge the conviction of Epstein at the time. For me,
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went and cut across the whole approach that I've taken
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on violence against women and girls for many years. And
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this government's approach. Yeah? What about those grooming gangs? Any
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comment on that, Mr. Starmer? How about the little girl
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that had the axe and the knife defending herself up
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in Scotland. I mean, come on, we got problems over
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here in the UK. It's not just America, folks, believe it.
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There's something going on. There is something in the air,
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and it's worldwide. There's a lot of upheaval, and if
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these governments aren't careful, shit can go south real quick.
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Keep in mind that when people have nothing left to lose,
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they lose it. But as he tried to address the
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Mandelson crisis, Mr. Ovenden, a long-standing member of his staff,
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was leaving Downing Street over revelations he had sent emails
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that used explicit sexual language about Ms. Abbott. Number 10
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spokesperson said these messages are appalling and unacceptable. As the
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first black woman to be elected to parliament, Diane Abbott
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is a trailblazer who has faced horrendous abuse throughout her
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political career. These kinds of comments have no place in
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our politics. I have no idea about any of that,
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so I'm not going to comment. With Labour losing seats
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to reform in three council by elections last week, there
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was a feeling that the wheels are in danger of
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coming off. Pollster Robert Hayward noted that postal voting means
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last week's council by elections would not have fully reflected
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the scandals which led to the resignation of Angela Rayner
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as Deputy Prime Minister over her tax affairs, and Lord
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Mandelson sacking. A whole ass scandal going on over here,
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and there's no way that Starmer is going to survive it.
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He told the Independent, those two events will have a
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significant impact on the polls going forward. Last week's results
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were bad, but labor has not hit rock bottom yet.
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And I think that is going to be very, very,
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very difficult for some people to swallow, right? You have
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a bunch of people that are out here pushing a
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narrative for how long? And now the people are rejecting
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that narrative and they're doing it wholesale. And it's not
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just in the UK, it's in America too. And that's
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why I'm talking about this feeling of change on the wind.
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And I know a lot of you out there feel
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it too. From the emails I've had with you folks,
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something's coming. Meanwhile, Professor John Curtis noted all three reform
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gains were on around 30% of the vote. That's often
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enough to win in our fractured politics. So they don't
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have just two parties over there, right? They have other
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things going on. And things are different with the way
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that they go about their elections. Meanwhile, Mr. Farage, with
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a 10-point poll, lead for reform over labor, unveiled the
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first sitting Tory MP to defect to him with Danny
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Krueger switching his party. But even with Kemi Badenoch's leadership
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of the Tories in freefall, Labour MPs were more concerned
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about their own leader and whether he could survive. Some
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suggested Sir Keir could be gone, while others said he
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has until next May's elections in English councils and the
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Scottish and Welsh parliaments to turn it around. Labour Norwich
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South MP Clive Lewis warned on Friday that Sir Keir
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doesn't seem up to the job, which fellow MP Graham
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Stringer said the Prime Minister is sipping in the Last
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Chance Saloon. I agree with that. Not about this other stuff,
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because I don't know, but the Epstein stuff, bringing Mandelson in,
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one of the worst decisions ever. There was speculation that Mr.
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Stringer may step down to allow Greater Manchester Mayor Andy
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Burnham to replace him so he could replace Sir Keir.
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Speaking to Channel 4 News on Monday night, Sir Keir
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was asked whether he would quit if the party felt
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it was necessary. The Prime Minister responded, no, because I'm
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absolutely clear what the task is in front of me.
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We have a crossroads, really, in terms of the future
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of this country. We go forward with labor for national renewal,
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a patriotic call about this country, and taking this country forward,
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true patriotism, or we have division and decline under reform. Oh,
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I'm sure it's that easy. I'm sure one side bad,
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other side good. Same kind of framing they try here
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in America, but we all know that shit's nuanced. It's
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the uniparty, really. At the end of the day, does
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anyone really care about us? We all know the answer.
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Sir Akir also told the broadcaster he was angry to
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have been put in the position to sack Mandelson, adding
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it would have been better if the detailed allegations had
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been put before him before PMQs last Wednesday. Here's an idea,
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do your due diligence, Mr. Prime Minister. Have the MI5
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take a look, that's what they're there for, right? Meanwhile,
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latest polling by Servation on Labour's deputy leader found Lucy
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Powell had the support of almost 47% of members, ahead
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of Bridget Philipson, who is seen as Keir's favored candidate,
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backed by 30%. So look, I don't think he's going
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to be able to survive this. With how volatile English
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politics are right now, they're looking for any reason to
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get rid of Starmer, and this presents the perfect reason. So,
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like usual, we'll see where it all goes as the
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radioactive fallout moves across the pond. All of the information
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that goes with this episode can be found in the
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description box. What's up everyone and welcome to another episode
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of the Epstein Chronicles. Joe Exotic of the Windsor family
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is being pressed from all sides. And at this point,
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this buffoon has absolutely nowhere left to crawl. The walls
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aren't just closing in, they're collapsing like cheap scaffolding at
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a discount construction site. Every escape route he thought he
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had has turned into a brick wall. and even the
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usual lifelines he's relied on since birth are snapping one
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by one. And the spotlight is roasting his bitch ass
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like a rotisserie chicken. And for the first time in
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his over-pampered, under-functioning life, he doesn't have anyone to hide behind.
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Not only is the royal family finally done pretending his
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idiocy is quirky or charming instead of predatory and pathetic,
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but now the UK government has tossed their own top
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hat onto the pile, announcing to the world... that maybe,
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just maybe, it's time old Andy sits down for a
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thoughtful little chat with the authorities in the United States.
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You can practically hear the panic rattling around in that
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hollow skull like loose change in a dryer. And of course, Mr.
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Bean's stunt double wants nothing to do with it, because
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what exactly is he supposed to say? What's the plan here?
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Flash that awkward, constipated half-smile and repeat? Actually, you see,
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I don't sweat. Throw out another, I was at Pizza
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Express in Woking, like it's the nuclear launch code. That
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shit might have worked on the soft BBC interviewer, but
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good luck running that routine when the G-men show up
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ready to give you a metaphorical colonoscopy with all the
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lights turned on and the cameras rolling. And what absolutely
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destroys me, the comedy gold at the center of this circus,
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is the way all these stiff upper lip high society
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doucheburgers are suddenly acting like any of this is shocking.
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Like it's breaking news. Like it's some shocking twist in
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a series finale none of us saw coming. These fools
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are performing outrage like they're auditioning for Shakespeare. Hand on chest,
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eyes wide, gasping like someone just told them the earth
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is round. In the words of Sebastian Maniscalco, these people
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are out here pretending they just discovered fire. When the
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rest of us have been watching this bonfire blaze for
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damn near two decades... They're acting like the Epstein connection
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fell out of the sky last week when every single
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person with a functioning frontal lobe has known that this
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guy was radioactive long before the BBC interview. This ignoramus
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has always been the questionable relative nobody wanted to leave
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their kids alone with. He's always radiated that Uncle Tom.
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energy like a malfunctioning neon sign buzzing in a dark
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alley on 40 deuce in the old days. If you
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needed a headline to tell you that, you weren't paying
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attention or you were choosing not to. And now here
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comes the freshly discovered moral outrage arriving 20 years late
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like a drunk uncle stumbling into Christmas and drunker than
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Cooter Brown. Suddenly everyone's a crusader. Suddenly everybody who sat
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quiet for years is sprinting to microphones to declare how
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appalled they are, how disappointed they feel, how they could
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never have imagined. Come on. These are the same hypocrites
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that were laughing off accusations, defending them, covering for them,
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and hugging them in photo ops five minutes ago. They knew.
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They all knew. They just didn't care until the wind
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changed direction and and the public started to refuse to
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play along. And the second that they felt the temperature shift, boom, outrage,
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instant morality, fully microwaved and served steaming hot. If there
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were awards for performative indignation, they'd sweep the category. But
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for the handful of us who have been screaming this
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truth from the rooftops for years, while getting told to
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shut up, calm down, and stop being dramatic, the vindication
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is hitting like a cold beer after a brutal day.
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Because this stank-ass, goofy-ass, poorly-tailored, brain-cell-optional degenerate has looked guilty
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from day one, in my opinion. He hasn't changed. The
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only thing that changed is that people finally ran out
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of places to stash the truth. And watching the world
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finally catch up, watching the rug get yanked out from
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under the people who thought they were untouchable, well, that
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part feels like justice warming up in the bullpen. This
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article was published by Fox News and the headline, UK
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Prime Minister suggests former Prince Andrew should testify an Epstein investigation. Well,
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that's a good suggestion. Probably one he should listen to.
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One he's definitely not going to listen to, though. Prince
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Andrew is not the kind of guy that takes good advice.
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Come on. He's too honorable for that. He'd much rather
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stay over at Jeffrey Epstein's pad than take good advice.
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This article was authored by Anders Nagstrom. UK Prime Minister
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Keir Starmer suggested Monday that former Prince Andrew should testify
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in the US investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Imagine having to
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be told to do that? Imagine being a grown-ass adult
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and knowing you were around this dude this much? Knowing
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you went over there and had a nice little hangout
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where you guys watched the King's speech? You remember the time, Andrew,
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don't you? And imagine not speaking to the authorities? and
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acting like you have no idea what's happening, like you
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have never been around this dude, like you weren't in
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the picture with Virginia, like your dumbass fingers are too
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fat to be your actual fingers in that picture. I mean,
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come on. So if anybody thought that this dude was
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ever going to speak with anyone in authority about what
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went down, you're crazy. That was never in the cards.
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I mean, if Alfred the Great was resurrected tomorrow and
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ordered Prince Andrew to speak to the FBI... Andrew would
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rather face the consequences than speak to the FBI. That's
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how bad it is for this dude, and he knows it.
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Starmer made the comment to reporters while traveling to a
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G20 summit in Johannesburg on Monday, though he declined to
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comment on the former prince's case directly. Well, he has
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to split the baby, right? He can't get, you know,
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the aristocracy too mad at him. So he has to
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kind of measure his words. I don't comment on his
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particular case, Starmer said. But as a general principle, I've
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held for a very long time is that anybody who
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has got relevant information in relation to these kinds of
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cases should give that evidence to those that need it.
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And that's just a basic outlook on life. I mean,
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I'm not somebody that likes to speak to the police,
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let me tell you. Where I'm from, last thing you
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want to do, that usually ends bad for everybody involved.
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But if you're hanging out with somebody who's a human
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trafficker and you have nothing to hide and they're outed
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as that kind of scumbag, you don't go run into
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the police and say, hey, look, I knew so-and-so from
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a business arrangement. I was never around him for his escapades,
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but maybe I saw something. Is there somebody I can
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talk to? Like what sort of decent human being doesn't
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do that? And look, I'm not talking about getting involved
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in every altercation you see or every beef you see,
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but this is something different. This is something much different
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than your usual issue, right? You know, calling your neighbors
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playing the music too loud or your neighbor smoking some pot.
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That makes you a snitch. That makes you, you know,
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somebody who is, let me speak to the manager type, right?
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But if you're around this shit and you're seeing what's
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going on, as a decent human, don't you say to yourself,
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hey man, I have daughters and if anyone did this
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to my daughter, I'd go fucking bananas. But no. We
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don't get that from Andrew. Just more lies. And then now,
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just silence. Starmer's comments come after the U.S. House Oversight
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Committee requested that the royal, who is now known as
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, submit to a transcribed interview regarding his long
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relationship with Epstein. He has so far ignored the request.
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Does he get service out in the middle of the
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wilderness or wherever he's at? That might be his next excuse.
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I didn't have phone service out here. You banished me
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too far away. Prince Andrew, fucking Pluto isn't far enough away.
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If we banished this dude to Pluto at 8, by
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9 o'clock the Plutonians would be on Earth, pissed off
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that we sent this dude there. There is literally nowhere
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in the universe where somebody like Prince Andrew is going
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to be accepted. Well, maybe the UAE. Representative Robert Garcia
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of California, the committee's ranking Democrat, and Representative Suhas Submaranian
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accused the disgraced royal of trying to hide from the investigation. Well,
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what about Stacey Plaskett, your own colleague? Any comments about that,
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tough guys? Oh yeah, let's go after Prince Andrew, the
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low-hanging fruit, and believe me when I tell you I
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enjoy it. If anyone deserves it, it's his bitch ass.
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But you got people like Robert Garcia and Suhas Submaranian
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And they're out here playing this performative bullshit. How about
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you hold your own colleague accountable for her nonsense? Anyone
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who acts like what she was up to wasn't bad
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is crazy. What Stacey Plaskett was engaging in, that should
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be a fireable offense. And if she was in the
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private sector, it would be. The only reason that she's
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not packing her shit right now is because she's in government.
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And we all know how they rally around their people, right?
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If you're wearing the right jersey, well, you can do
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no wrong. That goes for both sides, by the way.
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The work will move forward with or without him, and
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we will hold anyone who is involved in these crimes accountable,
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no matter their wealth, status, or political party, they said
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in a statement released on Friday. We'll get justice for
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the survivors. Well, start with Stacey Plaskett. She's already been
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sued by the survivors. And she was saved by the court.
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Jurisdictional nonsense. You know, the usual loopholes and technicalities that
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these people rely on. But I'm not going to let
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up on the whole Stacey Plaskett issue. And I don't
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think you should either. It's really a litmus test, honestly.
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When you can hold people that might be from your
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party or a party you align with accountable, that's a
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litmus test. Are you in the bunker or aren't you?
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Are you hanging out in the very last days in
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Berlin in that bunker? As the echo chamber surrounds you
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about how great things are? Or are you one of
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the people that sees the writing on the wall and says,
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you know what? Fucking wrong is wrong. Enough is enough.
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And I would hope that anyone that's listening to this
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podcast is on that train. Because if not, you're going
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to be sorely disappointed with the rhetoric that's coming from me.
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Because if you think I'm going to choose one side
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or the other when they're both complicit, you got another
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thing coming. Like I've told you before, there's nobody coming
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to save us. There's no cavalry. There's no hero. There's
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just us. King Charles III formally removed the style and
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titles and honors of Prince Andrew in late October. His
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lease on Royal Lodge has to date provided him with
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legal protection to continue in residence, Buckingham Palace announced in
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a statement. Formal notice has now been served to surrender
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the lease, and he will leave to alternative private accommodation.
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Oh yeah, private. That the king's paying for. private would
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be like me or you, you know, shelling out rent
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every month or a mortgage or whatever it might be. Yeah,
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he's not doing that. Bro is getting taken care of
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once again, basically paid to go away because he's such
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a jerk off the modern day equivalent of being sent
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to Timbuktu. The palace said the censures are deemed necessary,
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notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations
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against him. Andrew announced October 17th that he was relinquishing
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his Duke of York title after the publication of an
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unauthorized biography by British author Andrew Lowney entitled The Rise
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and Fall of the House of York in August. And
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I'll tell you what, Andrew Lowney absolutely killed it with
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his book. He did great research, had a bunch of
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great angles, and if you want to read something or
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listen to it on Audible, I would highly suggest picking
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it up because he definitely knows what he's talking about
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And he's locked in. And as far as Prince Andrew goes.
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Or the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew. Or the
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diddler formerly known as Prince Andrew. I guess is more apt.
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His troubles are just beginning. Because the press. has now
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become the prey. All of the information that goes with
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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. By any standard of political judgment, Keir Starmer's
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decision to bring Peter Mandelson back into the corridors of
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power is unforgivable. We're not talking about a small misstep.
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It's not a minor lapse in judgment. It's a flashing
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neon sign that the Prime Minister is unfit for the
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office that he holds. By appointing Mandelson, Starmer hasn't just
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shown poor taste, he's demonstrated an alarming disregard for integrity, accountability,
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and the very people he is supposed to serve. Peter
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Mandelson is not a neutral figure. He's not some benign
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statesman brought in for his wisdom. He's the embodiment of
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the backroom politics and corrosive cronyism that helped shatter the
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public's faith in Westminster in the first place. His name
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is synonymous with sleaze, triangulation, and the kind of deal-making
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that puts the interest of insiders above those of ordinary citizens.
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To elevate him is to send a message that nothing
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has been learned, nothing has been changed, and the political
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class is still determined to recycle its most tainted operatives
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while the country cries out for something new. Now for
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Starmer to open the doors of government to Mandelson is
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not only tone deaf, it's politically suicidal. At a time
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when trust in institutions is scraping the floor, when millions
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of people are disillusioned with politics as usual, he's chosen
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to embrace the very symbol of the rot. The timing
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is as offensive as the act itself. Britain is staring
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down crisis on every front. Economic uncertainty, social fracture, international instability.
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and the Prime Minister's answer is to summon a relic
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of the worst kind of politics back into the fold?
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Now this appointment lays bare Starmer's character, or rather, his
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lack of it. It shows him for what he is.
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but a political operator more interested in stitching together alliances
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with discredited power brokers than in offering real change. The
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appointment is not a mistake born of ignorance. It's a
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choice born of calculation. And that calculation reveals a hollowness
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at the heart of his leadership. And let us be blunt,
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the public sees it too. The fury this has unleashed
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is no mystery. People are sick of it. They're tired
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of watching their leaders wrap themselves in the same stained
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cloak of insider politics as if the failures of the
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past never happened. Mandelson is not some brilliant strategist waiting
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to be rediscovered. He's a warning sign. He's a living
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reminder of why faith... in Westminster, collapsed in the first place.
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By appointing Mandelson, Starmer has taken ownership of that legacy
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of Sleaze. It's his now. Every word that drips from
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Mandelson's mouth, every whisper of scandal that follows him, will
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cling not only to Mandelson himself, but to the Prime Minister,
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who legitimized him. It's a self-inflicted wound, and it might
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be politically mortal. So, what now? The answer is simple.
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Starmer must resign. Not tomorrow, not next week, Now, he
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cannot continue as Prime Minister after making such a reckless,
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insulting choice. Britain needs leadership that inspires confidence, not disgust.
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The English need a government that signals renewal, not regression.
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Starmer has proven that he is incapable of providing it.
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If the Prime Minister truly cares about the country, and
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not just about clinging to power, he will accept that
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his decision has destroyed his credibility beyond repair. The public
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does not want Mandelson anywhere near power, and they certainly
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don't want a prime minister who thought bringing back Mandelson
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was acceptable. Keir Starmer's time is up. He walked into
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Downing Street promising to be different. By bringing Mandelson back,
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he has proven he is anything but. The betrayal is complete,
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the mask is slipped, and the damage is irreversible. The
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honorable thing left for him to do is step down,
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before the people do it for him. Today's article is
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from The Independent, and the headline, Starmer Breaks Silence Over
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Mandelson Sacking. Had I known what I know now, I'd
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have never appointed him. Bro, you knew. What are you
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even talking about right now? All these people with the, oh,
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I didn't knows. You knew. You didn't care. You just
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happened to get caught. This article was authored by David
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Maddox and Millie Cook. Sir Keir Starmer insisted he would
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never have appointed Peter Mandelson as U.S. Ambassador to if
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he had known the full extent of his ties to
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Jeffrey Epstein in his first public comment since the sacking
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of the Labour peer. As he sought to get back
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on the front foot after his phase two plan for
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government got off to a chaotic start, the prime minister
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attempted to move on from the fiasco hours before Donald
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Trump's historic second state visit. So there's all kinds of
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stuff going on right now, right? Over in the UK,
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they're fired up. They just had a big ass rally
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on Saturday. And of course, the media said there was
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only 110,000 people there. But some of the videos I
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saw seem like a lot more people than that. So
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I'm guessing it's somewhere in the middle, right? You had
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one side, the people that put the rally together. They
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were talking about 3 million people. And maybe it was.
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I don't know. I'm not locked into British politics that way.
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But I will tell you this. It was more than 110,000 people.
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And people are pissed off. People are fired up. And
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people have had enough. And then you add this on
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top of it? This kind of decision making? Starmer's in
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for it. But even as he tried to bolster his position,
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he was rocked by yet another resignation when key aide
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Paul Ovendin quit his head of strategy in a fresh
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scandal over obscene emails about veteran MP Diane Abbott. So listen, Americans,
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if you thought we were the only ones that were
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being hampered by ineffective leadership, by people who didn't give
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a fuck, you're crazy. Happening everywhere. There's too many people
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that are in politics that care about themselves and not
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about anybody else. And we have a situation where these
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people get into politics and they become rich. That was
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never supposed to be the way it worked. It was
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supposed to be your neighbor who runs for Congress or
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somebody in your district. Now you have lawyers and doctors
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and that's pretty much it. And of course, none of
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these people have any idea what the rest of us
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are going through. So they live in their bubble. And
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then when some shit like this happens, they act all surprised. Well,
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breaking news, bro. Spending time with Jeffrey Epstein and accepting
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money from him and calling him your bestie, it's not
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going to get it done anymore. And when that kind
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of stuff comes out, people are going to demand accountability.
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And they should. On Monday night, amid calls from some
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backbenchers for Sir Keir to resign... The prime minister insisted
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he would not quit, adding, I'm absolutely clear what the
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task is in front of me. The dramatic developments came
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as Nigel Farage pressed home his poll advantage by unveiling
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the first affection of a sitting MP to reform. Now,
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all of this is English politics, and I'm not going
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to get too deep into it because I don't know
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enough about it, but I'll give you the bullet points.
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Questions were raised about Lord Mandelson's dynamite Epstein emails landed
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on the PM's desk. Labour MPs publicly and privately suggested
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Sir Keir could be out in months with one minister
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calling him screwed. Tory MP David Davis secured a parliamentary
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debate on Lord Mandelson's appointment as ambassador to the US.
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The three-hour emergency debate will take place on Tuesday afternoon
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and see Keir's government grilled over precisely who knew what
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about Lord Mandelson's relationship with Epstein and when. it will
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see further pressure piled on the already struggling PM. Well,
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guess what? You put him in that position, right? You
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made that decision. Now you got to answer for it. Meanwhile,
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two of Britain's leading pollsters, Warren Labor, is facing even
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worse problems with voters, with one suggesting the party is
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yet to hit rock bottom. With the crisis over Lord
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Mandelson throwing serious questions on his judgment as Prime Minister,
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Sir Keir held a morning meeting with his junior ministers
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in Downing Street, to rally the troops. Well, here's an idea.
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Just be truthful. I know, it's very difficult for these people.
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But if you're just truthful, and you tell us what's
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going on, then you're going to be a lot better
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off later on down the road. It might suck at first,
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but people are going to realize, look, at least this
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motherfucker was transparent, came out and told us right away
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what the deal was, But no, it's always obfuscation, it's
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always kicking the can down the road, and it's always deny, deny, deny.
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In the afternoon, he came out to address the concerns
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which had been raised about the Lord Mandelson debacle, and
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what he knew before appointing him as ambassador to the US,
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and then standing by him at PMQs last Wednesday, before
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ultimately sacking the Labour peer on Thursday. And that's the problem,
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he doubled down on the support, right? You can't trot
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this dude out and be like, oh yeah, I support him.
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and then flip the script a few weeks later, and
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act like you didn't know what was going on, you knew,
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you didn't care. You care now, because you're getting your
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ass whipped in the polls, but besides that, you didn't
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give one single shit. Maybe you guys should stop focusing
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on what people are typing on the internet over in
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the UK, and start focusing on the shit that matters.
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He insisted he would have never appointed Lord Mandelson, had
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I known, then what I know now, in his first
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comments and sacking, him over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
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We all knew previously about Mandelson. We've been talking about
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Mandelson for years. so don't act like you didn't know
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it's such bullshit and it's disrespectful to the British people
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he said the nature and extent of the relationship between
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the convicted pedophile and Lord Mandelson is far different to
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what I understood to be the position at the point
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of the appointment what a bunch of googly gawk huh See,
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what had happened was, shut your mouth, bro. You're BSing.
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You're lying. You're not telling the people of England the truth.
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And at some point, they're going to have enough. And
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I think that point is approaching very quickly. Asked why
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he'd been appointed in the first place, Sir Keir said,
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Peter Mandelson, before he was appointed, went through a due
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diligence process. That's the propriety and ethics team. He went
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through the process, and therefore I knew of his association
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with Epstein. But you hired him anyway. You appointed him anyway. Because,
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you know, it wasn't that bad. Breaking news, okay? Whenever
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somebody's outed as Jeffrey Epstein's friend, what you're hearing is
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only the tip of the iceberg. And inevitably, we always
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hear more news about how close they were or about
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a business deal or whatever. It's never what it seems.
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But had I known that then what I know now,
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I'd have never appointed him. Because what emerged last week
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were emails, Bloomberg emails, which showed that the nature and
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extent of the relationship that Peter Mandelson had with Epstein
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was far different to what I had understood to be
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the position when I appointed him. Which is such BS.
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We all knew. If my dumb ass knew, how didn't
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you know, Mr. Starmer? On top of that, the email
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showed that he was not only questioning but wanting to
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challenge the conviction of Epstein at the time. For me,
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went and cut across the whole approach that I've taken
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on violence against women and girls for many years. And
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this government's approach. Yeah? What about those grooming gangs? Any
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comment on that, Mr. Starmer? How about the little girl
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that had the axe and the knife defending herself up
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in Scotland. I mean, come on, we got problems over
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here in the UK. It's not just America, folks, believe it.
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There's something going on. There is something in the air,
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and it's worldwide. There's a lot of upheaval, and if
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these governments aren't careful, shit can go south real quick.
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Keep in mind that when people have nothing left to lose,
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they lose it. But as he tried to address the
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Mandelson crisis, Mr. Ovenden, a long-standing member of his staff,
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was leaving Downing Street over revelations he had sent emails
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that used explicit sexual language about Ms. Abbott. Number 10
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spokesperson said these messages are appalling and unacceptable. As the
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first black woman to be elected to parliament, Diane Abbott
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is a trailblazer who has faced horrendous abuse throughout her
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political career. These kinds of comments have no place in
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our politics. I have no idea about any of that,
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so I'm not going to comment. With Labour losing seats
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to reform in three council by elections last week, there
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was a feeling that the wheels are in danger of
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coming off. Pollster Robert Hayward noted that postal voting means
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last week's council by elections would not have fully reflected
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the scandals which led to the resignation of Angela Rayner
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as Deputy Prime Minister over her tax affairs, and Lord
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Mandelson sacking. A whole ass scandal going on over here,
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and there's no way that Starmer is going to survive it.
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He told the Independent, those two events will have a
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significant impact on the polls going forward. Last week's results
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were bad, but labor has not hit rock bottom yet.
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And I think that is going to be very, very,
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very difficult for some people to swallow, right? You have
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a bunch of people that are out here pushing a
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narrative for how long? And now the people are rejecting
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that narrative and they're doing it wholesale. And it's not
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just in the UK, it's in America too. And that's
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why I'm talking about this feeling of change on the wind.
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And I know a lot of you out there feel
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it too. From the emails I've had with you folks,
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something's coming. Meanwhile, Professor John Curtis noted all three reform
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gains were on around 30% of the vote. That's often
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enough to win in our fractured politics. So they don't
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have just two parties over there, right? They have other
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things going on. And things are different with the way
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that they go about their elections. Meanwhile, Mr. Farage, with
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a 10-point poll, lead for reform over labor, unveiled the
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first sitting Tory MP to defect to him with Danny
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Krueger switching his party. But even with Kemi Badenoch's leadership
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of the Tories in freefall, Labour MPs were more concerned
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about their own leader and whether he could survive. Some
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suggested Sir Keir could be gone, while others said he
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has until next May's elections in English councils and the
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Scottish and Welsh parliaments to turn it around. Labour Norwich
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South MP Clive Lewis warned on Friday that Sir Keir
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doesn't seem up to the job, which fellow MP Graham
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Stringer said the Prime Minister is sipping in the Last
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Chance Saloon. I agree with that. Not about this other stuff,
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because I don't know, but the Epstein stuff, bringing Mandelson in,
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one of the worst decisions ever. There was speculation that Mr.
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Stringer may step down to allow Greater Manchester Mayor Andy
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Burnham to replace him so he could replace Sir Keir.
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Speaking to Channel 4 News on Monday night, Sir Keir
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was asked whether he would quit if the party felt
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it was necessary. The Prime Minister responded, no, because I'm
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absolutely clear what the task is in front of me.
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We have a crossroads, really, in terms of the future
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of this country. We go forward with labor for national renewal,
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a patriotic call about this country, and taking this country forward,
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true patriotism, or we have division and decline under reform. Oh,
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I'm sure it's that easy. I'm sure one side bad,
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other side good. Same kind of framing they try here
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in America, but we all know that shit's nuanced. It's
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the uniparty, really. At the end of the day, does
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anyone really care about us? We all know the answer.
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Sir Akir also told the broadcaster he was angry to
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have been put in the position to sack Mandelson, adding
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it would have been better if the detailed allegations had
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been put before him before PMQs last Wednesday. Here's an idea,
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do your due diligence, Mr. Prime Minister. Have the MI5
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take a look, that's what they're there for, right? Meanwhile,
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latest polling by Servation on Labour's deputy leader found Lucy
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Powell had the support of almost 47% of members, ahead
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of Bridget Philipson, who is seen as Keir's favored candidate,
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backed by 30%. So look, I don't think he's going
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to be able to survive this. With how volatile English
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politics are right now, they're looking for any reason to
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get rid of Starmer, and this presents the perfect reason. So,
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like usual, we'll see where it all goes as the
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radioactive fallout moves across the pond. All of the information
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that goes with this episode can be found in the
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description box. What's up everyone and welcome to another episode
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of the Epstein Chronicles. Joe Exotic of the Windsor family
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is being pressed from all sides. And at this point,
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this buffoon has absolutely nowhere left to crawl. The walls
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aren't just closing in, they're collapsing like cheap scaffolding at
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a discount construction site. Every escape route he thought he
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had has turned into a brick wall. and even the
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usual lifelines he's relied on since birth are snapping one
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by one. And the spotlight is roasting his bitch ass
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like a rotisserie chicken. And for the first time in
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his over-pampered, under-functioning life, he doesn't have anyone to hide behind.
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Not only is the royal family finally done pretending his
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idiocy is quirky or charming instead of predatory and pathetic,
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but now the UK government has tossed their own top
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hat onto the pile, announcing to the world... that maybe,
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just maybe, it's time old Andy sits down for a
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thoughtful little chat with the authorities in the United States.
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You can practically hear the panic rattling around in that
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hollow skull like loose change in a dryer. And of course, Mr.
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Bean's stunt double wants nothing to do with it, because
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what exactly is he supposed to say? What's the plan here?
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Flash that awkward, constipated half-smile and repeat? Actually, you see,
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I don't sweat. Throw out another, I was at Pizza
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Express in Woking, like it's the nuclear launch code. That
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shit might have worked on the soft BBC interviewer, but
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good luck running that routine when the G-men show up
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ready to give you a metaphorical colonoscopy with all the
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lights turned on and the cameras rolling. And what absolutely
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destroys me, the comedy gold at the center of this circus,
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is the way all these stiff upper lip high society
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doucheburgers are suddenly acting like any of this is shocking.
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Like it's breaking news. Like it's some shocking twist in
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a series finale none of us saw coming. These fools
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are performing outrage like they're auditioning for Shakespeare. Hand on chest,
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eyes wide, gasping like someone just told them the earth
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is round. In the words of Sebastian Maniscalco, these people
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are out here pretending they just discovered fire. When the
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rest of us have been watching this bonfire blaze for
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damn near two decades... They're acting like the Epstein connection
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fell out of the sky last week when every single
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person with a functioning frontal lobe has known that this
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guy was radioactive long before the BBC interview. This ignoramus
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has always been the questionable relative nobody wanted to leave
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their kids alone with. He's always radiated that Uncle Tom.
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energy like a malfunctioning neon sign buzzing in a dark
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alley on 40 deuce in the old days. If you
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needed a headline to tell you that, you weren't paying
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attention or you were choosing not to. And now here
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comes the freshly discovered moral outrage arriving 20 years late
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like a drunk uncle stumbling into Christmas and drunker than
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Cooter Brown. Suddenly everyone's a crusader. Suddenly everybody who sat
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quiet for years is sprinting to microphones to declare how
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appalled they are, how disappointed they feel, how they could
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never have imagined. Come on. These are the same hypocrites
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that were laughing off accusations, defending them, covering for them,
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and hugging them in photo ops five minutes ago. They knew.
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They all knew. They just didn't care until the wind
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changed direction and and the public started to refuse to
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play along. And the second that they felt the temperature shift, boom, outrage,
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instant morality, fully microwaved and served steaming hot. If there
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were awards for performative indignation, they'd sweep the category. But
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for the handful of us who have been screaming this
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truth from the rooftops for years, while getting told to
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shut up, calm down, and stop being dramatic, the vindication
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is hitting like a cold beer after a brutal day.
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Because this stank-ass, goofy-ass, poorly-tailored, brain-cell-optional degenerate has looked guilty
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from day one, in my opinion. He hasn't changed. The
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only thing that changed is that people finally ran out
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of places to stash the truth. And watching the world
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finally catch up, watching the rug get yanked out from
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under the people who thought they were untouchable, well, that
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part feels like justice warming up in the bullpen. This
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article was published by Fox News and the headline, UK
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Prime Minister suggests former Prince Andrew should testify an Epstein investigation. Well,
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that's a good suggestion. Probably one he should listen to.
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One he's definitely not going to listen to, though. Prince
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Andrew is not the kind of guy that takes good advice.
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Come on. He's too honorable for that. He'd much rather
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stay over at Jeffrey Epstein's pad than take good advice.
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This article was authored by Anders Nagstrom. UK Prime Minister
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Keir Starmer suggested Monday that former Prince Andrew should testify
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in the US investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Imagine having to
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be told to do that? Imagine being a grown-ass adult
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and knowing you were around this dude this much? Knowing
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you went over there and had a nice little hangout
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where you guys watched the King's speech? You remember the time, Andrew,
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don't you? And imagine not speaking to the authorities? and
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acting like you have no idea what's happening, like you
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have never been around this dude, like you weren't in
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the picture with Virginia, like your dumbass fingers are too
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fat to be your actual fingers in that picture. I mean,
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come on. So if anybody thought that this dude was
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ever going to speak with anyone in authority about what
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went down, you're crazy. That was never in the cards.
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I mean, if Alfred the Great was resurrected tomorrow and
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ordered Prince Andrew to speak to the FBI... Andrew would
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rather face the consequences than speak to the FBI. That's
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how bad it is for this dude, and he knows it.
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Starmer made the comment to reporters while traveling to a
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G20 summit in Johannesburg on Monday, though he declined to
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comment on the former prince's case directly. Well, he has
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to split the baby, right? He can't get, you know,
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the aristocracy too mad at him. So he has to
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kind of measure his words. I don't comment on his
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particular case, Starmer said. But as a general principle, I've
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held for a very long time is that anybody who
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has got relevant information in relation to these kinds of
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cases should give that evidence to those that need it.
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And that's just a basic outlook on life. I mean,
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I'm not somebody that likes to speak to the police,
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let me tell you. Where I'm from, last thing you
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want to do, that usually ends bad for everybody involved.
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But if you're hanging out with somebody who's a human
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trafficker and you have nothing to hide and they're outed
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as that kind of scumbag, you don't go run into
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the police and say, hey, look, I knew so-and-so from
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a business arrangement. I was never around him for his escapades,
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but maybe I saw something. Is there somebody I can
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talk to? Like what sort of decent human being doesn't
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do that? And look, I'm not talking about getting involved
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in every altercation you see or every beef you see,
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but this is something different. This is something much different
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than your usual issue, right? You know, calling your neighbors
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playing the music too loud or your neighbor smoking some pot.
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That makes you a snitch. That makes you, you know,
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somebody who is, let me speak to the manager type, right?
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But if you're around this shit and you're seeing what's
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going on, as a decent human, don't you say to yourself,
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hey man, I have daughters and if anyone did this
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to my daughter, I'd go fucking bananas. But no. We
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don't get that from Andrew. Just more lies. And then now,
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just silence. Starmer's comments come after the U.S. House Oversight
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Committee requested that the royal, who is now known as
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, submit to a transcribed interview regarding his long
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relationship with Epstein. He has so far ignored the request.
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Does he get service out in the middle of the
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wilderness or wherever he's at? That might be his next excuse.
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I didn't have phone service out here. You banished me
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too far away. Prince Andrew, fucking Pluto isn't far enough away.
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If we banished this dude to Pluto at 8, by
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9 o'clock the Plutonians would be on Earth, pissed off
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that we sent this dude there. There is literally nowhere
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in the universe where somebody like Prince Andrew is going
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to be accepted. Well, maybe the UAE. Representative Robert Garcia
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of California, the committee's ranking Democrat, and Representative Suhas Submaranian
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accused the disgraced royal of trying to hide from the investigation. Well,
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what about Stacey Plaskett, your own colleague? Any comments about that,
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tough guys? Oh yeah, let's go after Prince Andrew, the
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low-hanging fruit, and believe me when I tell you I
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enjoy it. If anyone deserves it, it's his bitch ass.
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But you got people like Robert Garcia and Suhas Submaranian
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And they're out here playing this performative bullshit. How about
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you hold your own colleague accountable for her nonsense? Anyone
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who acts like what she was up to wasn't bad
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is crazy. What Stacey Plaskett was engaging in, that should
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be a fireable offense. And if she was in the
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private sector, it would be. The only reason that she's
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not packing her shit right now is because she's in government.
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And we all know how they rally around their people, right?
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If you're wearing the right jersey, well, you can do
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no wrong. That goes for both sides, by the way.
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The work will move forward with or without him, and
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we will hold anyone who is involved in these crimes accountable,
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no matter their wealth, status, or political party, they said
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in a statement released on Friday. We'll get justice for
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the survivors. Well, start with Stacey Plaskett. She's already been
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sued by the survivors. And she was saved by the court.
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Jurisdictional nonsense. You know, the usual loopholes and technicalities that
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these people rely on. But I'm not going to let
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up on the whole Stacey Plaskett issue. And I don't
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think you should either. It's really a litmus test, honestly.
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When you can hold people that might be from your
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party or a party you align with accountable, that's a
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litmus test. Are you in the bunker or aren't you?
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Are you hanging out in the very last days in
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Berlin in that bunker? As the echo chamber surrounds you
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about how great things are? Or are you one of
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the people that sees the writing on the wall and says,
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you know what? Fucking wrong is wrong. Enough is enough.
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And I would hope that anyone that's listening to this
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podcast is on that train. Because if not, you're going
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to be sorely disappointed with the rhetoric that's coming from me.
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Because if you think I'm going to choose one side
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or the other when they're both complicit, you got another
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thing coming. Like I've told you before, there's nobody coming
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to save us. There's no cavalry. There's no hero. There's
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just us. King Charles III formally removed the style and
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titles and honors of Prince Andrew in late October. His
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lease on Royal Lodge has to date provided him with
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legal protection to continue in residence, Buckingham Palace announced in
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a statement. Formal notice has now been served to surrender
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the lease, and he will leave to alternative private accommodation.
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Oh yeah, private. That the king's paying for. private would
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be like me or you, you know, shelling out rent
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every month or a mortgage or whatever it might be. Yeah,
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he's not doing that. Bro is getting taken care of
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once again, basically paid to go away because he's such
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a jerk off the modern day equivalent of being sent
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to Timbuktu. The palace said the censures are deemed necessary,
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notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations
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against him. Andrew announced October 17th that he was relinquishing
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his Duke of York title after the publication of an
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unauthorized biography by British author Andrew Lowney entitled The Rise
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and Fall of the House of York in August. And
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I'll tell you what, Andrew Lowney absolutely killed it with
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his book. He did great research, had a bunch of
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great angles, and if you want to read something or
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listen to it on Audible, I would highly suggest picking
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it up because he definitely knows what he's talking about
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And he's locked in. And as far as Prince Andrew goes.
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Or the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew. Or the
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diddler formerly known as Prince Andrew. I guess is more apt.
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His troubles are just beginning. Because the press. has now
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become the prey. All of the information that goes with
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