Labour isn't working - Thread 29

[TheNuthatch]

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/17/keir-starmer-kept-in-dark-peter-mandelson-vetting-two-top-civil-servants

staggering

Bloody hell! That is a turn up (down?)!

'Staggering' indeed.
Starmer appointed Mandelson. Thats all there is to it really.

So presumably Antonia Romeo and Cat Little will now also be fired to Save Big Dog?
Darren Jones lied this morning according to that article so he should be fired too? How about Starmer fires the entire civil service?

Fux sake.

Sorry. I'll go and have a lie down 🤣🤣

You're right. Thank you. I haven't changed my opinion about her, though.🙂

The civil service need to find a spine.

Starmer does the same thing over and over. Throws others under the bus.

I read that the Ukrainian arson trial starts on 27th April. I thought that had disappeared.

"Trial date set for men charged over fires at homes linked to Keir Starmer - BBC News" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq851ve9jexo

You have to wonder who’d accept a senior civil service post under Starmer. You’d read the papers in the morning and worry that you’d be out of a job by lunchtime. Just because of some fuck up or shit decision by Starmer.

The sound of buses must terrify civil servants at the moment .

Front page of The Independent tomorrow. WhatsApp showing that No.10 were asked 7 months ago about Mandelson failing vetting over business links to China.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-mandelson-security-vetting-downing-street-b2959664.html

There is no way he can keep his position. It seems the opportunity to keep his dignity is gone too.

Archive version: archive.ph/5bNsl

He's a compulsive liar it seems

Mandy and China who’d of thought it said nobody ever

Thanks Fluffy.
Was it paywalled for you? I don't subscribe but it was free to read for me.

Ikr.
Is anyone surprised that Mandy failed vetting? I don't know why they bothered, his dodgy dealings have been in the newspapers going back years!
Any average person over the age of 30 could have told them that.

Interesting. All the Independent have to do is ask at the next press conference why they knew about the failed vetting and the prime minister claims he didn’t.

He really will look like a liar and a fool.

Olly Robbins will defend himself, as he should. ‘I did nothing wrong’

A staunch defence, tf for that. Starmer panicking and sacking anyone he can is weak and wrong.

I refuse to agree to cookies to be able to read it!

Good. Others in the know are also going on the record to say that he did nothing wrong.
If No.10 are sticking to their story that Antonia Romeo and Cat Little knew in March and withheld it from the PM deliberately, why haven't they both been fired this morning? It stinks.

Just Starmer trying to cling on to power...as per.

Ah, fair point 😁

The optics on the whole thing are shocking.

He's just a horrible man. Weak and controlling.

This is on Starmer. He’s at the head of the whole thing. He appointed Mandelson before vetting concluded anyway.

I can’t believe he’s going to cling on still. Ik he probably will.

I just don’t buy the idea that Starmer sacked Mandelson and didn’t before that or soon afterwards find out about what process was followed to appoint him and what the results were. Mandelson fell seven months ago. It was the biggest fuck up of Starmer’s time as PM. It nearly brought him down at the time.

This is an extraordinary fiasco.

How could Starmer not even ask was process followed before he made that statement?

How inept is he?