BalthazarBlaze

Lol

Do you believe youre that terrible a parent?

it really boils down to who do you hate more, rich sex abusers or the left, and I’m afraid that from Thatcher to Starmer we’ve been run by people for whom the answer to that question is “the left”

Better morals for sure

My gran, 96, said she bet the round faced slimy one who you always see on TV is going to be the next prime minister. Which is remarkable since that stuff is largely in the papers.

It occurs to me all the millennial ones went to Cambridge at the same time he did and when he was head of the union/NUS president.

On top of all the other lobby group links etc, i bet they're buddies.

Sometimes, as Jim says, questions are just "more pertinent" than earlier, and thats "not always" (heh) just a case of everyone waiting until the tide has turned and moving on everything theyve been sitting on.

Right time in the electoral news cycle and all.

"A skilful media performer (correctly)" I love when they slip these little bits of somehow objective assessment in, as though no one can remember when Keir Starmer was the 'skilful media performer (correctly)'

Yeah, our political class always needs a scapegoat so they can rotate the next piece of shit in and pretend they had nothing to do with the last one. Rinse and repeat.

It's not just that they get rid, the closest thing the UK has to a national religion is the feeding frenzy when they realise the PM is a lame duck where everyone at all levels of all parties moves in to get a bite or two in and they eat their prey alive before choosing the next tribute as PM

I will now listen to the podcast and expect I will agree with you entirely given the title

1/3 of a good movie, good casting, can't believe how they did Cecilia Reyes (should have had the guts to put Mr Sinister in strong)

The US did not want Mandleson as Ambassador. The UK had to fight for that. It's a nonsense story.

Less tribal loyalties from you would be a good start, and a PM who supports the country rather than his mates.

The Starmerista cult continues to shriek at anyone who criticises Dear Leader. Yes, the Tories were worse. Anyone outside of the cult doesn't take that as an excuse for corruption, malfeasance and dereliction of duty and responsibility.

Either that or you support the world's biggest paedo.

If Starmer is that naive, he is more incompetent than Liz Truss ever was.

The Starmerista cult do not understand their own arguments.

The Starmeristas in the replies here are something else.

The cult is having a bad time. They long for the days when Toynbee and Freedland told them it was all So Sensible and now they can't grasp it was all hollow and none of the writers believed it.

Nesrine's sincerity blows their tiny minds

Like anyone civilised, I don't ever examine my massive cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.

Fact is, KS must have known the nature of the friendship or you are stating he is a total buffoon and moron with no grasp of his position or responsibility.

Enjoy the coping, but you are the problem.

What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik

These people pretend they didn't celebrate the 2019 defeat wholeheartedly, that they weren't devasted that Labour didn't get wiped out in 2017... you meet them and you understand that so many people have no concept of hypocrisy when it's them. Circular morality.

Even when they tell the story, it misses out the point. The battle with Sue Gray in government was Month 2 of the new strong stable government, 4 months after everyone said what a blinder Starmer had pulled with securing this noble civil servant

"Few feminist credentials" sprang to mind.

He was Margaret Hodge's boy, so they were all invested in the myth.

I have heard about Trotsykites all my life but I am pretty confident they've barely existed even within the Labour party since the 70s, and they've certainly had no influence since then.

That Lambeth was under the control of the Reds in the 00s is fucking nonsense.

Robinson who had been very vocally supportive of all the people beholden to Mandelson. Call me cynical but just seems to be the usual 'nothing to do with me, look at how outraged I am now' after the fact as we saw with BoJo. The real crime is the embarrassment.

I dont see you acknowledging that you have alwahs been a big supporter of McSweeneys project, from before most people had any clue who he was (i am dubious you didnt since its your job).

Weird isn't it? How you keep doing this, how it never leads where you want, how it hurts other people.

Those are *His* circles, and you know it.

Look at what youre all willing to turn a blind eye to as long as it lets you stomp on anything left of Peter Mandleson.

Nick Cohen though eh? Ian has his mates too, and Nick is i understand a pretty good pal of Peter Mandelson too.

Absolutely detached James. I think its important to actually look at the details, not just keep repeating the story McSweeney told you about himself when it clearly doesnt hold up.

Lots of people manage not to associate with the paedo power broker.

This is a great parody account or a harrowing insight into psychosis

Another day, another blinder.