Morgan McSweeney resigns

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Morgan McSweeney has resigned as chief of staff over the Mandleson scandal.

“After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government. The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong. He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself. When asked, I advised the Prime Minister to make that appointment and I take full responsibility for that advice.
In public life responsibility must be owned when it matters most, not just when it is most convenient. In the circumstances, the only honourable course is to step aside.
This has not been an easy decision. Much has been written and said about me over the years but my motivations have always been simple: I have worked every day to elect and support a government that puts the lives of ordinary people first and leads us to a better future for our great country. Only a Labour government will do that..

What do you think, will Starmer be next? I have a feeling that he will have to resign too.
Place your bets..

YABU Starmer will survive
YANBU Starmer will resign

It's a high delivered by the youngest in society and, honestly, I think the Greens are able to get their grand, simplistic and emotional narratives into short form content in the way nuanced arguments that are asked to interact with everyday limitations cannot.

Sorry, was going to add this to my post.

General election now, please. No one voted for this.

It is shameful.

unbelievable that Starmer takes no accountability for the appointment of Mandelson. What an utter embarrassment to have him as the leader of our country -a worm has more of a backbone. And don’t get me started on Rayner… The woman has no shame because she lacks moral compass. Her mouth is why she got where she is. I don’t think this country could get much worse right now. Please 🙏 for a GE…

How can he resign from The Government; he was never elected to be in The Government in the first place?

He hasn't resigned from government, he has resigned as PM's Chief of staff

I'm just wondering how many more time McSweeney will be reappointented and resign before he gets the top job in Washington.

He won’t go because there is no one suitable to replace him. Rayner would be an embarrassment on the world stage and isn’t well liked by voters!

Given his links to the IRA, there are serious questions to be asked about how he got the job in the first place.

Someone urgently needs to look into Mandleson’s time as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Was that on Epstein’s say so?

And while they’re about it, could they please find out whether Mandleson (Epstein) advised Gordon Brown to sell off the UK’s gold reserves at an all-time low? Not hard to figure that one out, is it?

😂

Yep Starmer has no qualms at throwing anyone under the bus to save his own skin.

He is the leader and accountable for the Mandelson appointment, he can’t rely on McSweeney going.

He's played his last card anyway, when the Mandelson / Epstein headlines keep coming he’ll have no one else left to blame.

I’m seeing more Labour MPs putting their names on record that Starmer should go. McSweeney falling on his sword probably won’t save him after all.

Wes Streeting.
such a shame they kiboshed Andy Burnham in my view.

McSweeney is smart. It's a shame to see him go. It should be Starmer if anyone,

Mandleson’s protégé, no less. What could possibly go wrong?

He isn’t smart! Why do people constantly quote men as ‘having the brain the size of the planet’.

McSweeney made a huge error of judgement and because Starmer is so useless he went along with it. He will limp on but only because the alternative isn’t worth thinking about.

Bring some of the old guard in. Harriet Harmen and Gordon Brown could give Starmer some good advice. Labour are truly one of the worst governments in my life time.

Irish Man Resigns caught my eye as I was catching up on the Irish news.

Can't say I know much about him, except that he lived on a kibbutz for a while.

Wii Starmer go? Judged by past mega-scandals yes. However, Starmer seems to lack the basic awareness of other resigners like... oh Truss, the fleeting oddity.

The two political gamblers I know are punting on Mahmood and Miliband. Given Rayner's not yet having spent enough time being rehabilitated and Burnham being over the water, of Ship Canal, for now, I would keep an eye on Streeting (the Starmer lookalike with a bit more flesh on him and in possession of an empathy button).

None of them enthuse and neither do the alternatives in the other parties.

KS has thrown MM under the bus to save his own skin. Useless, spineless, clueless little man.

Wes Streeting is a sly little weasel, if he told me the sky was blue I’d go outside to check, and then wonder what he was planning to get up to while I was gone.

If you think Starmer is untrustworthy, Wes is far more slippery

There is something about Streeting that creeps me out. Is it the shiny face?

Agree.

I don't think that's fair. Given the mess this whole shit show is, it's fairly clear that KS isn't in charge in any real sense. That's part of the problem. I think that if he'd been acting totally alone, he'd never have appointed Mandelson because of the pre-Epstein issues that caused him to resign twice. It was MM with the Labour Men In Grey Suits that got Mandelson into that post.

My guess is that the cabal actually running the the show behind KS have decreed that the best way for them to keep their man in post is to sacrifice MM. KS will also want to maximise his chances of keeping his job so he'll go along with it but he won't like it because he has been very dependent on MM.

Some time has been bought for KS but it will run out eventually once the Labour party MPs and unions sort themselves out and amass behind a preferred candidate.

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After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government.

he is, but he’s messed up on numerous occasions.

he will get a lucrative private sector job somewhere or other.

Streeting should be head of roads and transportation for some local authority because:
a) that’s about the height of what he’s fit to govern; and
b) nominative determinism.