Thread 47 Starmer: Vai ficar tudo bem esta noite. Rock and roll.

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And someone who might hold the answers - McSweeney. Except his phone has gone missing. How bloody convienent.

Far worse than Johnson eating cake?

People died

I think he will survive.....for now.

Madelson had been fired twice. He was known as the Prince of Darkness. What could possibly have gone wrong when he went through vetting?

Fuck me, the LiW thread must be a realy dud

If it was a "set a thief to catch a thief" well just say so and recover some of your integrity. If that's even possible

I guess telling each other how much they hate Starmer is not very entertaining.

Telling us how much they hate Starmer is fucking tedious.

People who make mountains out of molehills, and cause a storm in a teacup for attention are to be pitted in my view, they must have such dull lives.

I have been through SC vetting. Thought DV was just too much and worked for a big corporate at the time.

There is no way you go through the vetting and no one is allowed to tell your masters the answer. Otherwise what is the point of it? Certainly Sir Ollie shouldnt be going into the finer details of the report itself but Mandelson didnt pass - with hindsight of course he wasnt going to with all his previous contacts. Sir Ollie then decided to not tell Starmer the result - after all he was only the PM!

The Civil Service are known to keep their bottoms covered. Why would Sir Ollie decide himself to pass Mandelson anyway and not tell anyone?

It all stinks to high heaven along with the 'stolen' phone. Funny bearing in mind the importance of the phone that it hasnt been found. Its all wiped of course.

Translation:

"Oops, I've been rumbled ...."

As posted earlier:

"Ciaran Martin, a former senior civil servant, said: “Not only is there no duty to disclose the details of a vetting case, there is a duty not to disclose them.” Simon McDonald, a former permanent secretary of the Foreign Office, said vetting was a “confidential process”, citing the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010"

So it seems the problem may be the process.

Maybe Farage Uncensored ?

Starmar shouldn't hidden behind "process" though he will

There's not a vote of no confidence today in Parliament. Neither will there be a snap election.

For those in the back.

Full your boots. Let's be having you!

Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice have now written to Reform calling on them to remove any candidate found to have “promoted Covid or vaccine conspiracy theories, make clear that it disowns those views, and explain what steps it is taking to root this problem out of the party”

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/20/bereaved-covid-families-demand-nigel-farage-sack-conspiracy-theory-reform-candidates/

see my previous comments in this thread on this process

and there isn't a report issued - the only outcome is a yes or no and only the vetting officer knows the reason why its a no, the individual going through the vetting doesnt get told why and most definitely no-one else gets told!!

A great post.

Are there only two threads? This one, and ‘LiW’?

I agree. But your employer will be told whether you pass or fail. I understand completely why the reasons arent disclosed.

Sir Ollie took it upon himself to overide the decision. Just why??

‘Full your boots’?

Yeah, that would be it…..

Said nobody, ever.

No details need to be disclosed on why someone didnt pass the vetting. But the RESULT does need to be disclosed. Otherwise why would someone be vetted in the first place.

I am beginning to think we should amble over there en masse and fangirl breathlessly over Starmer. No need to respect their threads any more.

The u and the i are adjacent on the keyboard, and calling out typos is the preferred strategy of those with nothing valid to say.