Appointing Mandelson in the first place is honestly bad politics by Starmer and his advisors. His closeness with Epstein is hardly the only problematic factor regarding that individual diplomat. It raised quite a few eye brows when he was appointed.
Mandelson also shows a characteristic (for him) lack of judgement by not stepping down and forcing PM to sack him.
Simply very bad politics.
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I wonder if Boris is eyeing a second termā¦
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Given recent developments, I think even that walking ballbag would realise he is persona non grataā¦
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The likely aftermath of Reform/Conservative tango leaves a potential path open
Heād air a couple of quirky Borisisms, make up utter bullshit about how we didnt know how good we had it under his leadership, and the media would be lapping it up in seconds and within a month everyone would be pining for those great days of spring 2020ā¦back before Labour fucked everything up
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You mean those days when he failed to attend multiple COBRA meetings related to Covid, then failed to actually shit the borders allowing travellers coming from Wuhan to walk through Heathrow airport with no quarentine or any sort of control and as people were dieing his response was ālet the bodies pile upā?
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Oh, he definitely āshit the bordersā and also shit the corridors of power, many times over.
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Iām just surprised he never followed Trumps lead and shit himself
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why bother? hes done his stint in (as @Mascot so perfectly put it) finishing school, now its time to make hay
In the end these people want immortality, legacy, power. The same could have been said for Trump - that why should/would he come back.
A sinister play would be the ConForm partyā¦. The Boris/Nigel ticket.
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Shows the state that you get a group of really poor, failed politicians under one person that plays the Pied Piper and people happily follow along.
Madness.
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If this is indeed true then surely another resignation or sacking canāt be far off.
Plus apparently
Pearson Engineering is chaired by Labour peer Lord Hutton and owned by Israelās finance ministry.
No wonderā¦
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Iāve got the feeling that the whole Epstein thing and the links to Israel intertwined through it is a black hole is crazy deep and has a lot of people in it. Robert Maxwell was in there for example.
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This is really important
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What does it show?
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There was a bit too much homage to Trumpās policies - which conveniently ignored the number seemed to have been coming down anyway. Indeed the upward spike was taking off before Biden came inā¦
Highlighting Trumpās success and not the figures of Obamaās era or previous eras - where there was much lower numbers than Trumpās 1st term, was annoying.
The movement of people through non-typical means seems to have gathered steam in the last decade or so and is probably due to any number of reasons - from simply being able to, to conflicts and resource decay across the globe.
The only other thing was āif it wasnāt for the pesky students, that out stay their welcome, things would actually look sort of okā. Basically we have taken their money, I mean educated them, and should find a way to tell them to leave - tāll be a trick sell.
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Iām not sure thats the picture they were painting - i thought that when they were saying that people were switching to work visas - it was often before completing their studies i.e people using the student visas to get into the UK in order to find work, not to actually study?
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Happy to be corrected in the case I misinterpreted.
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In fact, if you look at that graph, the figures rise rapidly under Trump, but are suppressed under the Covid years. They rapidly return to their mean trend after that. The rapid fall is under Biden, and that trend continues under Trump 2.
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