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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.
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In this episode we're going to hop across the pond and check in on the situation that
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is threatening to bring down Kira Starmer, especially now that the former foreign office
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chief says that he was told to get on with appointing Mandelson despite his own worries
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that he had ties to Epstein and that directive came from Kira Starmer's office according
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to the reporting. And if that's the case then Kira Starmer's whole narrative is absolutely
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cooked. So when is Kira Starmer going to do the right thing and step down because it's
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obvious that you've been lying about this from the very beginning?
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Today's article was published by LBC and the headline. The former foreign office chief was told
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to get on with appointing Mandelson despite his worries over links with Epstein.
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This article was authored by Asher McShane. Sir Philip Barton told MPs today I was presented with
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the decision and told to get on with it. There was no space for dialogue. I had a concern that a man
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who demonstrably from the public record at the time and it was clearly much bigger than we all knew
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had a link to Epstein and that Epstein through both the presidential election campaign in the US
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and more generally in US politics had been and was a controversial figure and I was worried that
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this could become a problem in the future and he was told to get on with it.
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So that tells me and it should tell you that Kira Starmer didn't really care. They thought this
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was done. Keep that in mind. They thought this story was done and over and they were never
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going to have to deal with it again. They thought it was effectively buried
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but the discharge petition changed everything because that forced the hand of the DOJ.
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They couldn't slow walk it. They couldn't you know pick and choose. Well they did but the law says
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they can't on what they're going to release. They have to release all files that fall under the
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umbrella of what the law states and obviously they haven't done that but the ones they have
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released have been quite damaging for people like Peter Mandelson especially when you consider
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he was passing off confidential information in emails to Jeffrey Epstein when he was in a position
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of authority and in a position where he was representing the UK government and who the hell knows
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if that's the worst of it. Who else did Mandelson pass information on to? That is a very
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candid account of what I was thinking at the time but there was no space or avenue or a mechanism
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for me to put that on the table. A decision had been taken. It was a political decision.
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Oh this is bad for Starmer 100%. This is the kind of thing that should chase them from office
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and then you look at everything else going on over in the UK where it's certainly not roses and
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rainbows. And you come away thinking to yourself, how does the guy like Starmer survive this?
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Because I have a hard time believing that he comes out of this. I think that Starmer is absolutely
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cooked. He said that the normal order is vetting and then announcement asked if he knew why the
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process was reversed in Lord Peter Mandelson's case. He told the Foreign Affairs Committee
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know the timing of the announcement was driven and decided by number 10. So he's blaming
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Keir Starmer and the Prime Minister's office. And I would too. If I was being made the scapegoat,
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I'd be blabbing my fat-yap too. While it wasn't me, they told me to do this. I advised against it.
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But my boss said that we have to do it so here we are. And that's basically what this dude's saying.
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Sir Keir Starmer is facing claims. He misled Parliament for saying that full-do process was
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followed in Lord Mandelson's appointment when it obviously wasn't. So he lied to Parliament.
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And I'm pretty sure that's a big deal over in the UK. You can't lie to Parliament just like you
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can't lie to Congress, especially if you're the President or the Prime Minister. Forget it,
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the political fallout that comes with something like this is career-ending or should be.
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He also said that the cabinet office initially suggested Lord Peter Mandelson did not need high
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level security clearance to be the US ambassador. Say what now? He doesn't need high level security
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clearance. How's he going to have meetings with his counterpart and report back to the UK authorities?
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What does that even mean? Sure looks like a massage job to me. And it looks like the UK government
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just wanted to get their guy in and they were willing to steamroll the whole process in order
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to do it. I mean that's what it looks like from the outside looking in.
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Sir Philip told the Foreign Affairs Committee of MPs, as we're taking forward the practical
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steps required. The cabinet office initially said that as Mandelson was to use the technical
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phrase from the guidance of fit and proper person. As a member of the House and Lords, he did not
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require develop vetting. Oh well, in that case, if you were born rich and you're part of the
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House and Lords, you don't need any more vetting. Must be nice. Yo Mandelson's like that feudal
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lord who would show up at your village and take all of your crop. Leave you with like one turnip
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and five carrots. That's the kind of guy Mandelson is. And to think that Kira Starmer thought it
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would be a good idea to have this guy as the ambassador to the United States is a fireable offense
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on its own in my opinion. I mean to be honest with you, I thought that was odd and insufficient.
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I'd been deputy ambassador in Washington and therefore occasionally in charge. I knew very
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well to do the job effectively. You have to be party to some of the deepest secrets that the UK
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government holds. And that's what I was just saying. How could you be ambassador and not have a
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clearance? That's ridiculous. And even suggest that is just absurd. And whoever made that decision,
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whoever made that suggestion, they should have their clearance yanked because they're obviously
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not qualified to be in the position that they're in. I'm sure the folks over in the UK are very,
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very confident in their security apparatus after hearing this shit. But I also recognize that
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the situation was unusual. And therefore I asked for advice, although it was pretty clear in my
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mind from FCDO foreign commonwealth and development office security team. They came back to me after
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discussions with the cabinet office and said that their advice was that he should have DV
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developed vetting. And I absolutely agreed with that. And if they would have done that,
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they could have avoided this whole entire nightmare. But instead the UK chose to keep that cover
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up rolling. And if you don't think we're going to expose their cover up, you're crazy.
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The rug's getting pulled here too because I want you to keep in mind that all of this is part of
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the same story. These are just different threads over in the UK, over in Paris, Europe, wherever
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they all come from the same strand. But they're just different threads that run off the main strand,
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but it's all connected. And when I tell you that this cover up is vast and it's intercontinental,
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this is what I mean. Elsewhere in his evidence, Sir Philip told the committee he had learned the
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government wanted to appoint Lord Mandelson to the post on December 15th, 2024. And that
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had due diligence process, but not developed vetting had been carried out to deem them suitable
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for the job, suitable for dog catcher maybe, ambassador to the United States, more like ambassador
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to fucking Pluto. Sir Kira Starmer has pleaded with labor MPs to reject a bid for parliamentary
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sleaze inquiry into Lord Mandelson's vetting scandal as he faces another moment of peril over the
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future of his premier ship, as he should. Look Kira Starmer's in charge, right? He's the man at
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the top. He made the decision. He hired Peter Mandelson. Now he has to own it. Or is that only for
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the rest of us? Like is there no more self responsibility whatsoever? Because sometimes I feel like I'm
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the only person that takes responsibility for my own bullshit. Let me be very clear with you.
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Just about every problem that I've ever had in my life has been self-created.
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My own dumbass getting in my own way. And the same's true here.
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What? Because Kira Starmer is some prime minister. He doesn't step on his own dick.
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Most certainly does. And this whole entire situation is a self-inflicted wound.
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The Commons will vote on Tuesday on whether the privileges committee should consider if the
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prime minister misled the house by claiming due process was followed in appointing the former
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labor grandiose U.S. ambassador despite failing his security vetting. How could there be no misconduct here?
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Like seriously, how could there be none? Now I doubt they're going to hold Mandelson responsible
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because I just I'm cynical about it all. What I want to happen and what I think are going to happen
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are two very different things. And I'm not going to sit here and bullshit you guys all day
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and tell you a bunch of fairy tales so that people are engaged. I'm going to tell you what I think
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and not only that, I'm going to show you how I arrive at those opinions. Now does that mean
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they're all right? Hell no, it doesn't. But if you follow the evidence wherever it leads,
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I promise you you're going to be better off for it. A large-scale effort appeared underway by
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Monday evening to rally support from the back benches with former labor prime minister Gordon Brown
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also urging the party to backstarmor. All about politics. All about politics. And it's really
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pathetic and it's why I find it laughable when people are like, well, the UK and Europe,
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they're getting busy, are they? Where are they just stalling? Because it would seem to me that
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there'd be a big push from everybody in the UK at this point to get rid of starmor. But instead,
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what do you see? People rallying around them, circling the wagons and defending his nonsense,
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all because they're from the same party. I'll never understand it. If you can't hold your own
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accountable, how do you expect us to believe that you're going to hold anybody accountable,
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especially if it's somebody that you quote unquote dislike? How do we know what your motivations are?
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When it comes to Epstein, either you're all the way in or you're all the way out.
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There's no neutrality, there's no fence sitting. Those days are over because as it currently
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stands, there's only two sides when it comes to this story. You're either on the side of truth
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and transparency, or you're on the side of the Epstein class, and from the way Kira Starmor
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and the Labour Party are conducting themselves, it would seem that they've made their decision.
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