Lord Dom B

I can’t unsee that now.

Nadine Dorries crapping on about the lack of growth in the economy on #bbcqt after backing Brexit and Boris Johnson to the hilt is quite the flex.

Nadine Dorries crapping on about the lack of growth in the economy on #bbcqt after backing Brexit and Boris Johnson to the hilt is quite the flex.

Can Mandelson be prosecuted?

We’ve discussed the law and the evidence with leading lawyers. The bottom line: "misconduct in public office" is the only viable route.

The law is messy and proving intent is hard - but we believe there is a realistic prospect of conviction.

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Jim Ratcliffe, himself a migrant to Monaco to avoid paying his fair share of UK tax, and who supported Brexit which has so damaged the British economy, is yet another millionaire oligarch backing the far right to further line his pockets

Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’

Unfortunately, when as PM you choose to use expressions such as “Island of Strangers”, you too are dignifying the narrative that Ratcliffe tapped into.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Everybody Hates Keir How did Starmer go from landslide to endgame in under two years? Also this week: the most murderous mammal on earth; and every thought I have about an insane train plan.

"They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too."

Sure, at times the EU can be slow or myopic (as its detractors delight in reporting) but this is beside the deeper point that in quitting its frameworks, we exposed ourselves to some of the consequences. And this is one. Thank the Brexiters now whining about the EES (and later ETIAS).

EES (and ETIAS) not applicable to passport holders of EEA states (or CH), whether in Schengen or not. So Irish citizens are fine.

Sure, at times the EU can be slow or myopic (as its detractors delight in reporting) but this is beside the deeper point that in quitting its frameworks, we exposed ourselves to some of the consequences. And this is one. Thank the Brexiters now whining about the EES (and later ETIAS).

Embarrassing, yes, but also perplexing that a statement of the obvious is at odds with her governing party’s ongoing rejection of any attempt to rejoin the single market or a customs union.

Embarrassing, yes, but also perplexing that a statement of the obvious is at odds with her governing party’s ongoing rejection of any attempt to rejoin the single market or a customs union.

Helping the BBC out with one of its headlines.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar calls on Keir Starmer to stand down Sarwar tells press conference: ‘The distraction has to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change’

Wasn’t the end of the Tory reign meant to signal the end of the UK’s political nervous breakdown? To think we used to mock those funny Mediterranean countries racked by chronic instability and leadership changes.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.

Reform-run Kent council accused of fabricating £40m net zero savings Disclosures show figures cited by authority’s leader rested on unfunded ideas listed briefly in budget papers

NEW: Reform UK’s flagship council, Kent, has been accused of telling a “blatant lie” after its claim of nearly £40m in savings on net zero were found to be based on hypothetical projects for which there was no documentation.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Actually, you’re right…

Starmer’s grave error over Mandelson has helped take the heat off Farage and his sycophancy towards Trump. It has buoyed Badenoch and undermined Labour’s claims to be the antidote to 14 years of Tory sleaze. It’s a PR disaster and risks fatal reputational harm three months out from local elections.

Starmer’s grave error over Mandelson has helped take the heat off Farage and his sycophancy towards Trump. It has buoyed Badenoch and undermined Labour’s claims to be the antidote to 14 years of Tory sleaze. It’s a PR disaster and risks fatal reputational harm three months out from local elections.

Britain’s trade chief races to Brussels to avoid ‘Made in Europe’ shutout U.K. officials fear that planned industry act could lock British firms out of key European supply chains.

Cakeism isn’t a flaw that infects just the Right in this country. When it comes to EU, the whole political Establishment seems to be shot through with entitlement and exceptionalism. www.politico.eu/article/uk-t...

I helped bring Mandelson down before Peter Mandelson is brilliant, but slippery. Connected, but compromised. Why was Starmer too naive to recognise that?

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/710...

Times:

The Metropolitan Police is expected to announced on Tuesday evening that Mandelson is being investigated on suspicion of misconduct in public office, an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

Why would anyone in Mandelson’s position, knowing there was more as yet unreleased dirt on him, even bother, as he did, to go on Kuenssberg’s BBC show in an attempt at reputation rescue?

I’m sure you’re not alone.

The Mandelson–Epstein emails demand action, not excuses.

It’s time for the Government to act, bring forward legislation to strip Peter Mandelson of his peerage and reform our political system.

"Of course, how was Mandelson to know that Epstein, who seemed so plausible, was a wrong ‘un? Well, one clue was that, at the very moment Mandelson was forwarding this stuff, Epstein WAS IN PRISON. He had pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution."

In The Telegraph? Still, I’ll take it.

In The Telegraph? Still, I’ll take it.

Fine but Starmer too is wrong about Brexit and will remain so while he peddles the myth that it can be made to work within the parameters he needlessly set, keeping us out of the single market or a customs union. He is not the innocent inheritor of the Brexit mess.
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