The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 29, 2026


The Last Stand of the Epstein Network


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In this episode, we look at why Lord Mandelson failed the security vetting test, and why it matters to the rest of the Labour Party, and how the party is dealing with it. We're joined by Dan and Alex to discuss all things Labour.

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00:00:00.000 Hi folks, welcome to another one of our political chats in which Dan and I are going to be discussing
00:00:04.580 whatever it is that's happening in the Labour Party, because something very interesting is
00:00:09.440 happening in the Labour Party, and it's been very public, but there's a kind of opacity to events
00:00:17.960 that I think a lot of people aren't really seeing the underlying motions and realising what these
00:00:23.400 things actually mean. Well, I think a lot of it's quite obvious, even though they refuse to expand
00:00:29.700 on any of it we just have no starmer has consistently failed to offer his motives for
00:00:36.600 doing almost anything that he's done yes which is getting him to trouble at the moment now because
00:00:41.480 he's talking about rules and procedures but he's not talking about is why i did any of these things
00:00:45.060 in the first place yeah and the thing is there's a lot of circumstantial evidence yes around starmer
00:00:53.300 and the networks of which he is a part
00:00:56.280 that suggests there may have been motives
00:01:00.100 behind it all after all,
00:01:03.200 he just can't really say it in public.
00:01:05.280 No.
00:01:06.180 Well, definitely some of the stuff.
00:01:07.400 I mean, I can only imagine
00:01:09.340 where you were going to go with this,
00:01:10.440 but if you've included everything
00:01:11.640 that I'm thinking of,
00:01:12.860 no, he definitely can't talk about all of it.
00:01:15.160 Well, we'll see.
00:01:15.920 And we'll see how the factions in Labour
00:01:19.960 are dealing with this.
00:01:21.320 Yes.
00:01:21.420 i think it's very very interesting actually so you remember that last week summer had to address
00:01:26.380 parliament over the vetting decision surrounding peter mandelson and he looks kind of terrified
00:01:32.980 frankly and look at his body language there well i i i heard about it i haven't watched this yet
00:01:37.100 are we going to watch much of this we're not going to watch it um i'm just going to talk about it but
00:01:40.220 you you can see the faces on rachel reeves and david lammy there stummer's body language is quite
00:01:45.640 small and defensive and he he looked frankly terrified throughout this whole thing well
00:01:50.680 Rachel Reeves is sitting there like an aged King Charles Spaniel
00:01:53.500 waiting to die. 0.98
00:01:56.320 Lammy looks like he's just miserable. 0.97
00:01:58.180 Yeah, Lammy looks like he's sat outside the headmistress's office
00:02:00.760 after having done something very naughty.
00:02:03.200 And Starmer, yeah, he's just...
00:02:05.420 I'm now going to argue my case, even though I know I'm in the wrong.
00:02:08.920 Yes.
00:02:09.420 Yeah, that's basically what's happening.
00:02:10.840 And he spends this whole time hiding behind proceduralism.
00:02:14.180 It's like the procedures were followed.
00:02:15.900 There was an error with the procedure, but I had it changed.
00:02:18.620 and badenock had him at one point bang to rights on a minor technicality as it and it's it's really
00:02:25.160 petty for you and i we'd be like what are you talking about who cares but for him so the the
00:02:31.680 question that badenock got him on was when he told parliament about uh when he found out the
00:02:38.100 mandelson had failed his vetting and he didn't tell parliament that previous wednesday even though
00:02:44.520 because that was the earliest opportunity he'd done it on like the thursday or something right
00:02:48.320 so it's like it's really really petty oh yeah but that goes to the core of who starborough is
00:02:55.200 and actually i'll tell you the reason why that's so important is because his whole attack line
00:03:00.600 against boris johnson back in the covid days was that yeah that well specifically that you did not
00:03:06.120 uh that you misled parliament and you didn't update them at the earliest possible convenience
00:03:09.680 so he had so even though it's a day and it sounds like nothing to him that is i mean that's his
00:03:14.460 origin story yeah no absolutely it's and and don't get me wrong bedrock was it was good to get him on
00:03:19.660 that point because that is something that affects him but it is also somewhat petty fogging and kind
00:03:25.920 of irrelevant to the larger point that we're seeing being played out in the labor party in
00:03:29.980 public at the moment uh anyway yeah like i said starmer changed the process so appointments can't
00:03:34.380 be made until security vetting is passed as if that was anything to do with mandelson like but
00:03:40.920 we'll get to that but again again why why did you not do the security vetting yeah we'll get to it
00:03:46.740 there's a lot here right um and starmer of course claimed that he was kept ignorant by the civil
00:03:52.180 service he wasn't told about the the security vetting uh he didn't ask them any questions
00:03:57.420 about mandelson so as in you the allegation that we'll get to in a minute is just starmer demanded
00:04:03.660 it be mandelson and asked nothing further uh and that's that's the point because he knows full well
00:04:08.360 that if he doesn't ask,
00:04:10.680 he can't say that he knew later
00:04:13.500 when he didn't know.
00:04:15.180 But, you know,
00:04:16.720 he didn't even meet with Mandelson
00:04:18.020 before appointing him as US ambassador.
00:04:20.660 It's really weird, isn't it?
00:04:21.720 Yeah.
00:04:22.320 Why was Peter Mandelson so important?
00:04:24.740 And the most damning charge
00:04:25.900 I think he made against the civil service
00:04:27.420 was there was a decision made by them
00:04:29.980 to hide information from him,
00:04:31.900 which again is something
00:04:32.600 we'll come back to in a bit.
00:04:34.240 So anyway, Emily Thornberry
00:04:35.660 chaired a select committee meeting with ollie robbins the fired civil servant who has been
00:04:42.260 taking the fall for this uh and ollie just came out swinging at starmer now this is all quite
00:04:49.180 surprising because i mean starmer is the the probably the one politician you'd expect maximal
00:04:55.560 compliance from the civil service from he's their kind of man he's got their kind of agenda he
00:05:01.540 believes their kind of things and he loves their kind of procedures so why is he at war with his
00:05:06.860 own civil service well because he'd rather throw them under the bus than go under the bus himself
00:05:11.260 well that's the point isn't it that's a great point throwing people under the bus is exactly
00:05:16.780 what starmer does and everyone's noticed this yes why is he throwing people under the bus
00:05:20.880 which is something we'll come to so anyway sorry in fact ollie robbins did did say that he didn't
00:05:28.080 he didn't use a term for under the bus he said something like one of these things he was asked
00:05:33.480 to give a specific on an on another civil servant who um is connected with this and he said he said
00:05:41.300 some version of oh i'm not gonna i'm not gonna you know put throw this person under the bus or
00:05:45.520 something like that he said yeah but he said it in such a way as to be clear that he thought that
00:05:50.500 was exactly what was happening to him so that is the perception percolating through the civil
00:05:55.380 service very much so um so anyway ollie robbins uh in this in this meeting uh said that the cabinet
00:06:03.520 office as an under starmer and mcstweeney had suggested there was no need to vet mandelson
00:06:07.820 at all they'd applied constant pressure uh to approve mandelson's appointment and took a
00:06:13.340 dismissive attitude to vetting which i honestly quite believe uh mandelson was given uh access
00:06:19.880 to the FCDO building to low-classification IT
00:06:23.600 and to higher-classification briefings
00:06:25.240 before he was granted security clearance.
00:06:27.980 And remember, in advance of this,
00:06:29.160 he had been essentially controlling the Labour Party
00:06:31.700 with Morgan McSweeney on the spreadsheet
00:06:33.440 of who can become MP or not.
00:06:35.860 Actually, I think it's even worse than that.
00:06:38.140 So, like you say, he got access to the building.
00:06:40.500 Now, that little pass that he wore around his neck
00:06:42.320 that got him into the building
00:06:43.320 and got him into all the secure rooms inside the building,
00:06:46.200 the date on that was something like the 6th of January.
00:06:49.500 Really?
00:06:49.880 Yeah. Then the, I forget the exact specific, but something like the 6th of January and the vetting process began on the 8th of January.
00:06:58.500 Very interesting.
00:06:59.100 So the vetting process began after he had full access to the highest classified level.
00:07:04.000 Really strange, isn't it?
00:07:05.080 Yes.
00:07:06.960 Just almost in comparison, how could anyone have this level of access?
00:07:11.740 Well, because he's one of the original dark lords of the Labour Party.
00:07:14.280 exactly and i think that what this is showing us is how the the dark lords in the labor party
00:07:20.280 operate and i don't doubt this very conservative as well so anyway uh number 10 showed no interest
00:07:24.600 in the actual vetting the entire focus was just getting mandelson to washington as quickly as
00:07:28.360 possible uh so yeah like you say sama had appointed him before the checks no need to check the claim
00:07:32.860 and the argument that they made was mandelson was a lord and on the privy council and therefore we
00:07:37.440 don't need to do any checks it's like okay but he's also peter mandelson and he's only been fired
00:07:41.340 what three times now for misconduct so i mean why would you why would you suspect
00:07:44.980 for the man who keeps getting binned from government why would you suspect anything
00:07:49.800 a bit iffy about the prince of darkness yes um yeah anyway so there's you know lots of these
00:07:55.380 updates but um the same thing uh was applied to matthew doyle who was again uh suspended from
00:08:03.140 labor over his links to a pedophile because he was campaigning for a convicted pedophile
00:08:06.820 for some reason.
00:08:07.900 Or a different one to Epstein.
00:08:09.040 Yeah.
00:08:10.120 Crops up a lot.
00:08:10.960 Well, he was made a lord as well.
00:08:12.340 Yes, of course.
00:08:12.920 And so that's very interesting, isn't it?
00:08:14.320 It's like lords in the Labour Party
00:08:16.360 who have direct links to pedophiles, 0.73
00:08:18.300 convicted pedophiles, literally.
00:08:19.680 In Mandelson's case, Epstein.
00:08:20.960 In Doyle's case,
00:08:21.660 I can't remember the name of the chap
00:08:22.820 who is campaigning for now.
00:08:24.700 It's weird that at the higher levels of government
00:08:26.860 it's such an occupational hazard
00:08:28.280 that you run into pedos all the time.
00:08:30.540 Well, I don't know if I'd call it weird.
00:08:33.780 Structural?
00:08:34.140 that's more the point yes right and i think that's what's behind mandelson being accelerated up the
00:08:41.320 ranks by starmer uh anyway so yeah the um ollie robbins uh testified uh in complete defense of
00:08:49.280 the civil service yeah obviously you know and so you can see this this rift has occurred between
00:08:54.780 starmer who expected a clean interface into the civil service and the civil service who wanted to
00:09:01.140 interface with Starmer but are being asked to do something they know at some point is going to come
00:09:05.260 back to haunt them right with the Mandelson stuff then there was constant pressure applied we didn't
00:09:08.960 really understand it's like yeah I think you probably did understand why I think they understood
00:09:13.700 exactly what was going on and that's why they didn't press very hard to give Starmer an update
00:09:18.440 because they knew that Starmer knew that he didn't want to ask questions and therefore could cover
00:09:22.780 himself later by saying that I didn't know I remember none of this would be happening if Trump
00:09:28.120 hadn't dropped the Epstein files
00:09:29.500 and it had implicated Mandelson
00:09:31.060 because we saw all of his...
00:09:32.860 Oh yeah, Mandelson was still being posted today.
00:09:34.620 Absolutely.
00:09:35.220 Yeah, with the highest level of security clearance.
00:09:36.880 So all of these people who are currently like,
00:09:38.980 yeah, I mean, Keir Starmer forced us to do it.
00:09:41.700 Well, you stayed quiet and were completely complicit
00:09:44.560 until it got blown up through events beyond your control
00:09:47.840 that has now ruined you.
00:09:49.500 This has caused all this issue.
00:09:51.480 So the distance they're trying to create
00:09:53.780 between Starmer's administration and the civil service
00:09:56.060 just doesn't really exist.
00:09:57.160 it's only accidentally that we happen to know all of these things and that this event is even
00:10:01.880 blowing up in the in their face in the first place i mean ollie robbins was like yeah i uh
00:10:06.440 i regret all of this i regret everything he claims that he had done the process as starmer had laid
00:10:12.060 it out uh and starmer to be to his credit does seem to be in the wrong here but again you were
00:10:18.200 completely complicit in everything and the only reason this is happening is because of events
00:10:23.100 beyond your control. Anyway, 10 Downing Street responded to this, denying the constant pressure,
00:10:28.560 saying, well, we were just asking about the appointment process for the vetting. We were
00:10:33.600 not needing any vetting. They say, well, we were discussing it with the cabinet office,
00:10:41.140 foreign office officials, and security clearance. But these talks concluded there would need to be
00:10:45.180 vetting. They denied that they were... Yeah, they had already appointed him. That's a really weak
00:10:49.240 point exactly it was in the building yeah they they denied they were only leaning against clearance
00:10:54.640 for madison uh saying the vetting body clearly recommended against and this should have been
00:10:57.960 communicated to the pm and they refused uh refused to deny robin's claim that he was told
00:11:02.840 found find an ambassadorship for then comms director matthew doyle lord doyle who was
00:11:07.720 uh kicked out for being associated with the pedophile do you know what he failed the vetting
00:11:12.780 actually on yes it was uh business links to china and russia yeah russian a russian and chinese firm
00:11:18.100 it was actually nothing to do with the epstein stuff at all nothing at all and that's why they
00:11:21.900 got him through because because the the advice came back and they said well and actually the
00:11:26.140 advice it wasn't advice at that stage it was he's got these links to this russian and chinese firm
00:11:30.860 um and so they're leaning towards not and ollie robinson who was under pressure said well can we
00:11:37.640 put in place mitigation such as if he ever has any dealings with those two firms then it can be
00:11:42.960 disclosed and someone else can sit in the meeting and something like that and because of those
00:11:46.640 mitigations that was how you how he's able to sort of squeak through clearance it's got weird
00:11:52.800 sort of echoes of hunter biden being on the board of burisma taking money from chinese firms and
00:11:57.640 things yeah it's a bit like that like it feels that what's happening is actually there's a network
00:12:01.480 of um compromised people who become loyal through the compromise that they have on one another
00:12:07.300 and then foreign money is funneled through these networks and then they run the western world and
00:12:12.000 they happen to be yeah then they accelerate oh he's our man in that network and therefore
00:12:16.400 and i'm just going to call this the epstein network because epstein was clearly a core part
00:12:21.760 of this yes and it genuinely seems like um pedophile compromise i'm sure there's other
00:12:26.400 important nodes but he was clearly one of them yeah yeah i'm sure there are other important
00:12:30.060 nodes but he was also quite a public facing uh feature of it um so an interesting thing is uh
00:12:37.220 emily thornberry has been doing another select committee today and this came out today of uh
00:12:43.400 uh philip barton uh admitting the permanent private secretary is not unheard of for them
00:12:49.040 to withhold information from their bosses uh emily thornbury as artemis for now points out
00:12:53.900 is stunned um but yeah i mean this is the kind of thing that they do like the the permanent civil
00:12:59.720 service have their own interests to protect and they are very ideologically aligned with labor
00:13:05.600 they obviously want to work with the epstein network but they do have to look out for themselves
00:13:10.880 So if it's a sensible decision not to give certain kind of information
00:13:16.620 to the prime minister, well, then, yeah,
00:13:18.560 it's not unheard of that they'll withhold it.
00:13:19.780 Yeah, I mean, on a broader point, that's absolutely true,
00:13:23.540 and I'm sure that happens all the time.
00:13:25.260 Yeah, absolutely.
00:13:25.640 But in this particular case, it was made incredibly easy
00:13:29.420 by Starmer being so remarkably uncurious.
00:13:32.480 Yes, but also so belligerent.
00:13:34.380 No, I want it done.
00:13:36.480 Yeah, so he was belligerent before, and the moment it happened,
00:13:38.960 he then didn't engage at all he didn't ask any questions he didn't say how did it go he didn't
00:13:43.640 ask he didn't even meet mandelson he didn't do it he did no follow-up whatsoever and this is a
00:13:47.700 consistent theme actually with starmer that everybody reports he's just remarkably uncurious
00:13:53.380 so so often there'd be a space of an hour or two a day where he takes himself off to a room and he
00:13:58.660 reads a whole load of papers that have been given to him and it is normal for prime minister to come
00:14:04.140 out of there with scribblings or points. We must do this, that. I didn't agree with that. This is
00:14:09.520 fine. And people get a sense of what's going on. Starmer apparently walks out of those every time
00:14:13.860 and says nothing to anybody. You don't know if he's got an opinion, if he has an opinion,
00:14:18.340 what he wants you to do. And so everybody's kind of running on rails because Starmer is just kind
00:14:23.620 of this blank void of not only charisma, but purpose. Yes. And the purpose is one of those
00:14:30.540 interesting things um that we need to get to but the way that i would characterize this so far is
00:14:37.220 i think what's happening is starmer as the representative of the epstein network
00:14:41.660 in the british government is actually struggling with the deep state of britain
00:14:45.760 about uh this accidental bomb that trump has dropped on them and who's going to be holding
00:14:52.340 the fallout from it and the question that is continually ducked which you have brought up is
00:14:58.000 why did Starmer want Mandelson?
00:15:01.000 Because this is where it starts to become very evident
00:15:03.180 that actually it is part of the network,
00:15:05.720 and it is one of those things,
00:15:07.400 because otherwise there is no motive.
00:15:09.460 If Starmer isn't acting as an agent
00:15:11.180 of this foreign influence network,
00:15:13.560 then why is he doing any of the things that he does?
00:15:16.960 Well, I could expand.
00:15:21.120 Well, there's more.
00:15:23.260 So today, I mean, literally like an hour ago,
00:15:25.820 morgan mcsweeney was testifying at the same select committee with emily thornbury chairing
00:15:30.860 uh and the fact that it's emily thornbury chairing is quite important as well because
00:15:34.860 emily thornbury isn't part of the epstein network nor is she part of the primary enemies of the
00:15:41.120 epstein network she's a labor grandee but she's the other part of it she's the soft left yeah
00:15:47.360 soft left she's the sort of person who posts the pictures of england flags on the guy's house and
00:15:51.840 go see look at this england flags it's like yeah but emily you that's normal that you know that's
00:15:57.360 there's nothing wrong with that so anyway she uh she's been uh i mean i would say grilling but it's
00:16:02.500 really just lightly interviewing morgan mcsweeney can we play a little bit i've never heard it speak
00:16:08.320 uh irish accent very few of these people are english by the way and i mean one of the other
00:16:13.340 problems was that kia didn't like him i mean the again for the new statesman kia doesn't even like
00:16:19.000 him and never really has he's not Keir's sort of person um and the foreign office definitely didn't
00:16:24.840 like him um as far as we can tell and then of course there's all the red flags so all of these
00:16:29.560 things are problems you know getting in the way of Peter Mandelson becoming ambassador but you
00:16:34.060 still wanted him to be ambassador right at the time in Downing Street um there was conversations
00:16:41.340 about who could be the best candidate
00:16:43.860 and names that were considered
00:16:48.300 and most people were making pros and cons arguments.
00:16:51.200 I have to say, I know that a lot of people now say
00:16:53.940 they told the Prime Minister they were against it at the time.
00:16:57.360 Everything I know about how the Prime Minister works
00:16:59.620 is he will consult widely, he will take a lot of views on
00:17:02.780 and if everybody else was opposed to this appointment but me,
00:17:06.640 he would not have made an appointment such as that.
00:17:10.680 He does like to try to build consensus within his team
00:17:13.820 and to get a wide range of views.
00:17:16.820 Right.
00:17:18.060 Now, this is really interesting.
00:17:21.680 Thornberry is pointing out, well, look,
00:17:23.300 everyone knows Starmer actually doesn't like Mandelson.
00:17:27.320 Right?
00:17:27.680 Starmer is not the kind of guy who would willingly hang out with Mandelson.
00:17:31.460 Starmer is the kind of guy who hangs out with Lord Hermit,
00:17:34.020 who's his one, like, long-term friend.
00:17:37.120 Right?
00:17:37.620 Mandelson, you know, he's a party animal.
00:17:40.200 He loves socializing.
00:17:41.640 He loves making connections.
00:17:42.980 He loves getting dirt on people.
00:17:45.380 Starmer is not.
00:17:45.980 So why is Starmer insistent on Mandelson?
00:17:48.540 Well, it's because it seems like he's the servant of some higher power.
00:17:51.660 And what I found really interesting about McSweeney here,
00:17:54.540 that, look how quickly, like, he thinks he's about to be attacked.
00:18:00.780 Right?
00:18:01.540 Watch it.
00:18:02.060 Watch it.
00:18:03.280 There was conversations about who could be.
00:18:06.900 Look at that.
00:18:07.320 Sorry, do you think there's an assassin coming, Morgan?
00:18:12.140 That is prey-animal behaviour, isn't it?
00:18:14.800 That is a man who thinks he's in imminent physical danger.
00:18:18.920 He probably feels that all the time.
00:18:20.360 I think most leftists feel this all the time.
00:18:22.740 I think this is about being a part of a particular kind of network. 0.54
00:18:29.000 Well, it could be that, but leftists are very low-T individuals.
00:18:32.600 Maybe.
00:18:33.300 They're just constantly scared.
00:18:34.980 That's why they're so spiteful.
00:18:36.200 Maybe.
00:18:36.480 but um out out of this i think is quite an important uh point which is there's no natural
00:18:43.560 reason that starma would want mandelson yeah i can get i mean i can give a little bit of background
00:18:48.640 on on this sort of origin story of this chap here as it comes in so basically as we know the early
00:18:55.580 days of the new labor movement was the great darkness himself tony blair and then his two
00:19:01.300 of his arch uncleans which was alistair campbell and peter mandelson and the three of them kind of
00:19:05.600 did new labor and there were loads of other people around like jack straw yeah but those were the big
00:19:09.720 three yeah those are the dry when when um tony blair sat down in his office and closed the doors
00:19:15.580 those were the three people in the room and they decided the real direction of what was going to
00:19:18.740 happen anyway early on in the tony blair government um mandelson did whatever however you do the dark
00:19:25.680 arts of how you do his job presumably pentagrams were drawn orphan children arrived candles were
00:19:30.540 it and he unfurled a wing and out of the wing pit a spore plopped Morgan McSweeney so he he in the
00:19:38.420 in the Blair government he was a young 20 year old brought on by Mandelson now of course Mandelson
00:19:43.920 does his thing and gets involved in scandals gets brought back scandal uh buggers off again scandal
00:19:49.420 off he goes but he continued to gestate in the body of of the of the new Labour party and continue
00:19:56.320 to climb up the rank and now he's whatever he is mid-40s or something and he's achieved a
00:20:00.260 position of power so a lot of people think that he is he or he was Keir Starmer's chief of staff
00:20:06.960 a far more accurate way to look at it is that Keir Starmer was his prime minister so he was
00:20:13.720 there first and he was casting around at the end of the Corbyn era and it's like okay well I'm I'm
00:20:19.340 the functionary for the Blair right wing of this party Corbyn can't last who do we go to and he
00:20:28.640 identified Starmer he was brought into parliament he was then fast-tracked through the process
00:20:32.840 really quickly and when it came to be who was leader the the most powerful labor faction which
00:20:38.760 was functionally led by him picked Keir Starmer so so Starmer is his creation not the other way
00:20:45.360 around right correct and he is Mandelson's creation he's Mandelson and he's Mandelson's
00:20:49.420 creation right he was advocating so hard yes and throughout this thing he says well look
00:20:54.720 i i didn't know i didn't know it's like i don't believe that right oh yeah for a second i mean
00:21:01.520 like he he's got a very strange history as well when he was 17 he spent like six months in an
00:21:05.280 israeli kibbutz and things like that and then he went straight out of uh university into the
00:21:10.920 labor party in the in the sort of um that's the summoning i was referring to yeah it's it's very
00:21:16.180 brought on by manelson yes you know for an irish lad you know how how this is his like life
00:21:22.700 trajectory is very peculiar and i can't explain it i wish i knew how you had to be compromised
00:21:27.040 because because you know i could have achieved high political office if i just offered myself
00:21:30.780 up to whatever process it is yeah so anyway uh in going back to the previous uh 1.00
00:21:37.720 parliamentary appearance where uh we started uh diane abbott absolutely destroys keir starmer 1.00
00:21:44.640 here and we'll watch a bit of it because it's funny. The Prime Minister has gone on at considerable
00:21:53.460 length about process and procedure but ordinary people don't really care about process and
00:22:02.740 procedure. They want transparency and they want to know that they can have confidence
00:22:09.420 in the words of elected politicians like all of us in this chamber on the question of Peter
00:22:17.720 Mandelson it was in the 90s that Peter Mandelson had to resign for the cabinet for the first time
00:22:26.080 because of his dealings with the millionaire Jeffrey Robinson it was a few years later he had
00:22:35.260 to resign for the cabinet for the second time because of his relationships with the billionaire
00:22:41.520 hinduja family peter mandelton has a history
00:22:48.180 based down how it gets exactly it's not like peter mandelton wasn't some known property
00:22:55.400 you there isn't just there's nowhere to hide here there's absolutely nowhere to hide and in fact
00:23:00.440 it was john mcdonald who really drove the nail home on this right and isn't the reality this
00:23:07.360 that when he sought to realize his ambition to become leader of the labor party
00:23:12.780 with very little base within the party he became dependent on max sweeney and mandelson
00:23:20.320 and labor together to organize fund his election and that when he became prime minister the reward
00:23:27.440 for Max Sweeney was control of number 10 and for Mandelson the highest diplomatic office
00:23:34.440 and the message the unspoken message to civil servants was what Mandelson wants Mandelson gets
00:23:41.560 this has damaged the party that I've been a member of for 50 years I urge him I urge him
00:23:49.620 i urge him to take steps to clear this toxic culture out of our party and take the first
00:23:57.780 step by having an independent inquiry yeah now it's important to note that mcdonald and abbott
00:24:06.200 are not a part of the epstein faction in fact they were one of the primary opponents of the
00:24:11.780 epstein faction yeah they're hard left yeah they're hard left right uh and so is jeremy corbyn
00:24:17.920 and the epstein faction used allegations of anti-semitism to crush them yes drive corbyn
00:24:24.160 out of the party you notice that he made reference to labor working together so that is basically the
00:24:30.060 labor party's officio assassinorum yes that that is how they they they basically take people out
00:24:36.420 with what you said i mean they they will use the anti-semitism because that normally works but they
00:24:41.800 use anything else that they need to as well anything they can get their hands on um but this
00:24:46.260 what he said there, we need to get rid of that toxic
00:24:49.180 culture. He's speaking specifically
00:24:50.860 about the Epstein network, named the people
00:24:53.260 at the top of it who are in control of
00:24:55.220 the actual infrastructure and the executive
00:24:57.220 function of the party, and he's saying
00:24:59.240 look, you've got to get rid of these. Now
00:25:01.140 Starmer's never going to do that, but he denies
00:25:03.480 this obviously, because he's never going to do that
00:25:05.220 because he is a creature
00:25:07.140 of this network, because I think this network does
00:25:09.220 work on compromise, which is why it's the Epstein
00:25:11.220 network, and not some other
00:25:13.240 network, but it's all coming out
00:25:15.280 and Starmer's being left holding this hot potato.
00:25:18.260 And I think John McDonnell's right.
00:25:20.360 The Epstein Network is the patron of Starmer in the Labour Party.
00:25:24.900 It's how he got his position, as McDonnell told him.
00:25:27.520 He didn't have an organic base,
00:25:29.200 but he had the backing of these people
00:25:31.700 who have deep pockets and strong grips.
00:25:34.820 And you can understand why John McDonnell in particular
00:25:37.340 is upset about this,
00:25:38.240 because, of course, he was the number two for Jeremy Corbyn.
00:25:40.880 Oh, yeah.
00:25:41.760 And Abbott the number three.
00:25:42.980 Well, yes.
00:25:43.640 and and this was an old battle that tony blair had previously won which was expunging the hard
00:25:49.060 left and bringing in the the blair right the compromise fraction as you might might think of
00:25:52.960 it and then the the hard left was basically pushed aside and then they had that brief moment of
00:25:57.800 revival when when corbin unexpectedly became leader because ed meliband foolishly changed
00:26:02.220 the rules so that anyone could sign up for five pounds i signed up under like 10 different names
00:26:06.460 um yeah and and anyway so then and then he lost to therese may yes and then um he he had got sort
00:26:14.100 of pushed out of it so for him this this is an entirely sort of personal um bit of a personal
00:26:19.200 vendetta as well what was it therese may or boris johnson who crushed corbyn actually no it would
00:26:23.760 have been i'm sure it was may it was 20 no it was may may won very very narrowly that's right because
00:26:29.200 she had a majority and then it was a lot shakier well so so she called an early election and then
00:26:34.580 And Corbyn lost, but he lost on far more votes and a higher vote share than Keir Starmer won on.
00:26:42.060 And they kept coping about it, saying, look, we won that election.
00:26:44.440 It's like, no, no, you did lose.
00:26:45.520 It's like, yeah, okay, we didn't lose as badly as we thought we were going to.
00:26:47.300 Yeah, but they lost well.
00:26:48.660 Which is a victory for us.
00:26:49.980 But the reason why he's so offended by this is because during that Corbyn process,
00:26:56.060 Starmer had himself suitably oiled and attached to Corbyn.
00:26:59.760 Yes, Starmer was awful.
00:27:01.320 he basically lied to the Labour Party membership
00:27:03.940 saying no no no I'm one of you
00:27:06.020 I'm one of you
00:27:06.600 and then the second he gains power
00:27:08.000 Corbyn's out
00:27:09.280 he nearly kicked Diane Abbott out
00:27:10.480 he nearly kicked John McDonough
00:27:11.360 he tried to on both of them
00:27:13.560 in fact on Diane Abbott he got overturned
00:27:16.560 but it was quite a fight
00:27:18.660 but she's so well entrenched in Tower Hamilets 0.98
00:27:21.820 or wherever it is that she is 0.97
00:27:22.980 Hackney
00:27:23.300 Hackney that's it
00:27:24.220 but this entire time where he was shadow chancellor
00:27:28.620 yeah Starmer was there
00:27:30.800 oiled and attached and being a spokesman and what he and what he was doing is he because he was a
00:27:36.300 fresh mp at that point he was building his power levels with the network being run by mcsweeney
00:27:41.860 so the moment the labor uh was it labor friends working together or something like that he
00:27:46.620 mentioned i think it's just called labor together labor together yeah so as soon as the officio
00:27:50.640 assassinorum of the labor party could remove corbyn the moment that he lost an election
00:27:55.600 suddenly um starmer flipped it was like ah i've never i never actually was your guy even though
00:28:02.380 i spent the last five years telling you i was a guy anti-semitism is unacceptable and now i'm
00:28:07.300 going to use the um the labor friends together thing to have you taken out yes and this and
00:28:13.220 this is the starmer mcsweeney sort of control and the mandelson control of the the sort of
00:28:18.960 core infrastructure of the labor party but it's all dark hearts it's it's none of it is front
00:28:23.260 facing it's all behind the scenes and all of this was in facing perfectly well with the civil service
00:28:27.600 until trump's dropped the bomb on them yes right and this is the thing we've got to remember it's
00:28:31.540 like no these people are not being wrenched apart because they want to be they were very happy doing 0.86
00:28:37.080 everything behind the scenes because somebody's going to sink into the oil and starmer's damned
00:28:40.620 if it's him but the but none of this was happening until trump wrenches open this this ray of light
00:28:47.120 onto it you know they were completely happy to go along with it uh anyway so going back to the
00:28:53.180 mcsweeney thing um i'm just going to summarize a bunch of things i was watching it i watched it
00:28:57.200 before we came on to record this uh morgan's basically confessing everything um he says
00:29:02.360 that peter mandelson would not have got the job of kamala harris had been elected u.s president
00:29:05.700 so peter mandelson was chosen specifically by keir starmer even though keir starmer doesn't
00:29:13.280 like peter mandelson and i think it's because peter mandelson is best buddies with jeffrey
00:29:17.720 epstein sends him all the information and all this stuff and the epstein network is embedded
00:29:23.780 in the trumpet i mean there was there was a yeah there was a dark interpretation of that which is
00:29:27.840 what you just said which is having if somebody from the network gets in yep on the u.s side
00:29:34.640 we need our best man in the network to go and interface with their network men and if kamala
00:29:41.680 harris had won well i guess they would have chosen someone else yeah i mean the the two people they
00:29:46.640 would have found somebody that lines up with her network the the two people who were up for the
00:29:50.200 ambassador job were mandelson and george osborne i'm not saying anything about george osborne i
00:29:55.340 don't know anything about george osborne really i mean he was the chancellor but like you know in
00:29:58.340 this when it comes to the dark arts and the mysteries surrounding the the back end of
00:30:02.660 politics i don't know if he's involved but the question becomes raised well okay it was mandelson
00:30:08.760 for trump but if kamala had won would it been osborne i don't know why was he even up for the
00:30:15.380 job like what why i mean it's not like osborne is completely divorced from that network i mean
00:30:25.180 bear in mind that him and mandelson were you know it was a minor scandal at the time but a scandal
00:30:31.060 none the less they were both on the same billionaire's yacht um private party so it's
00:30:37.980 is not like osborne is completely out of that world so he's not as ingratiated as mandelson
00:30:42.480 but he's not out of it either yeah and like i said i'm not casting any aspersions on osborne
00:30:46.160 i don't know anything about osborne's personal life behind the scenes but the question is just
00:30:51.120 why was he the other guy and it kind of implies okay i've got two people seems to be dependent
00:30:56.340 on who wins the election that's what it sounds like to me anyway he carries on and says um that
00:31:02.020 mandelson was picked uh because donald trump and as i said kirstarmer did not have enough
00:31:06.160 information because mandel mandelson did not share the necessary information yes everyone
00:31:10.240 knows and also because he didn't ask you didn't ask but also like dan abbott pointed out it's
00:31:14.580 mandelson yes everyone knows he's you know oh mandelson claims i'm not jeffrey epstein's friend
00:31:19.940 anymore it's like there are pictures of him giving epstein birthday cakes and things like this like
00:31:24.940 look no one no one thinks this um and and that was known at the time yeah yeah this none of this
00:31:31.380 was a secret at all yeah long-term knowledge uh and morgan mcsweeney says he thought manderson
00:31:37.080 cared about his party and country and at least be honest with his prime minister which no but
00:31:42.320 none of you expected to have to go through this process because none of you none of you thought
00:31:45.560 the epstein files had dropped and also starmer didn't speak to him so so you know even if
00:31:50.780 manderson was was a you know even if he's got the worst poker face of the world and he would
00:31:55.340 have gushed all out on light examination yeah starmer didn't ask him any of it he didn't even
00:31:59.660 meet with him. But he doesn't want to, right? Because as Emily Thoroughby pointed out, they
00:32:03.420 don't like each other. He doesn't like Mandelson. Like, he's not Starmer's kind of guy. They
00:32:07.320 wouldn't actually hang out. Anyway, another point that was made is that Keir Starmer held a meeting
00:32:14.660 in mid-December where a decision was made to appoint Lord Mandelson as US ambassador. There's
00:32:18.340 no record of this meeting. There's no minutes of discussions or the reason at the time. The
00:32:22.500 cabinet office simply can't find it. It doesn't appear to exist. So it really is a significant
00:32:26.420 meeting on the appointment of the u.s ambassador one which had huge ramifications for starmer's
00:32:29.760 premiership it only appears to exist in the memory of those who are present as in this was done off
00:32:34.440 the record right so we were trying to keep as much as we can off the record because nobody really
00:32:40.880 wants it because i mean you don't think that the epstein files are going to drop but maybe they do
00:32:46.400 and anyway and then you've got manderson giving the highest level of security clearance which
00:32:53.080 again is really weird and i think it does tie into the fact that uh mandelson was the person
00:32:58.600 who drove out the corbinites because of course they're not a part of the epstein network
00:33:02.840 mcsweeney ends up claiming that he didn't know anything about this it was a knife through my
00:33:08.040 soul when i discovered mandelson's at the extent of mandelson's links to jeffrey epstein well yeah
00:33:12.980 because that's his mollocks well that's because no what he's wounded there of is that mandelson
00:33:18.860 is his sire and and and now that his dark sire is being you know splash with holy water or however
00:33:24.520 it works and you know criminal justice system um yeah he's affected by that it's a key node in his
00:33:30.820 network he's being damaged that's what that's why he's upset yeah uh anyway so what we're what we're
00:33:35.960 seeing is the two warring factions in labor the corbinites and the epstein network and they're
00:33:39.420 not the only factions but the two that are currently at war and the corbinites uh have
00:33:43.860 really struck hard here because the epstein files have exposed the epstein network um
00:33:49.840 another thing that robbie ollie robbins pointed out with it is that they were pressuring him to
00:33:56.800 give matthew doyle some ambassadorship again the guy disgraced because he was campaigning for a
00:34:01.520 pedophile for anyone doesn't know this is baron doyle um but he was still giving the peerage
00:34:06.040 despite the links to it he's still lord doyle he hasn't even been forced to resign as well
00:34:10.660 mandelson was at least forced to leave the house of lords but not uh lord doyle for some reason i
00:34:16.780 mean this must have been quite difficult for ollie robbins because he is a career civil service and
00:34:20.500 at the time of this there were cuts to the foreign and commonwealth office meaning that he was having
00:34:25.980 to fire a great number of very senior very experienced diplomats and then two of the
00:34:32.520 plushest jobs go to two labor apparatchiks with no diplomatic experience whatsoever but people
00:34:40.000 who seem to be connected to the same network well there was that which appears to involve
00:34:44.380 compromise yes um and the long-running question about epstein and the political influence network
00:34:53.640 that he was peddling was how do they maintain loyalty and control over their network and it
00:34:59.620 seems to be through this kind of dark compromise and on that note a fifth rent boy has hit the
00:35:09.140 white that hit the twin towers a second a fifth one has been arrested over arson attacks on
00:35:16.080 properties linked to kia starmer yeah now you remind me of this i'm changing my mind i'm glad
00:35:21.580 that in my younger years nobody explained to me how to get into this network because yeah yeah
00:35:26.180 because it's it's it seems to be quite dark and now we can only make inferences on the evidence
00:35:32.420 that the the data points that present themselves this this this fifth arrest is he like just out
00:35:41.060 of interest i haven't seen the fifth arrest is he out of interest just like all the other ones which
00:35:45.200 which is to say i don't know young boyish good-looking in a sort of boy i haven't seen
00:35:51.120 a picture of way i mean and they haven't released his name right this was a 19 year old who was
00:35:56.880 arrested so hang on he's 19 now yes he's as of today he's 19 yes and keir starmer lived at those
00:36:07.460 addresses like four or five years ago something like that a fifth man these were properties
00:36:12.300 linked to keir starmer but in fact we've got the fact sorry but what why yes the trial has begun
00:36:19.180 it began yesterday right right so we're from uh labor heartlands left-wing news views and opinion
00:36:25.940 uh we are we are informed and by the way there's no reporting restriction on the rent boy trial
00:36:31.900 and we know because a few of our friends are down there reporting on it nothing in nothing
00:36:37.260 very interesting nothing will happen early on yeah but but the point is there's no reporting
00:36:41.160 restrictions but none of the press are there oh thank goodness we got people there then
00:36:45.660 well exactly anyway uh the alleged incidents unfolded five days in north london in may 2025
00:36:50.580 the first occurred on the 8th of may when a car was satellite in a residential street in kentish
00:36:54.740 town three days later on the 11th of may a fire broke out the front door of a house converted
00:36:58.620 into flats in islington a further fire occurred in the early hours of 12th of may at a property
00:37:02.720 at the same kentish town street the kentish town property was the home where kia starman lived
00:37:06.860 before he became prime minister and moved into downing street he no longer lives at any of the
00:37:10.740 properties at the time of the fires no injuries reported either so hang on i'm just i'm just when
00:37:17.060 did kia starman become prime minister was oh that was only two years ago so yeah okay so technically
00:37:22.900 that latest one
00:37:24.500 he could have been
00:37:25.240 over 16 at least
00:37:26.740 when
00:37:27.140 when he had
00:37:28.320 caused to be upset
00:37:29.460 with
00:37:29.720 Keir Starmer's
00:37:31.380 back door
00:37:31.880 it implies
00:37:33.020 that
00:37:33.760 the events
00:37:35.000 that these young men
00:37:36.140 are angry at Keir Starmer for
00:37:37.500 yes whatever they may be
00:37:38.860 happens
00:37:39.260 yes who knows
00:37:40.120 what they could be
00:37:40.780 yes
00:37:41.220 happened
00:37:41.760 several if not many
00:37:43.620 years ago
00:37:44.300 well
00:37:45.740 hopefully it was the day
00:37:47.400 before he became
00:37:48.320 Prime Minister
00:37:48.880 whatever the event was
00:37:49.900 because at least
00:37:50.660 that way they would be
00:37:51.620 over 16
00:37:52.260 which isn't saying
00:37:53.200 I mean
00:37:53.420 some of them
00:37:54.380 would have been
00:37:54.640 under 18
00:37:55.380 but they would
00:37:56.520 have at least
00:37:57.020 but yeah
00:37:57.640 actually he lived
00:37:58.440 there for a number
00:37:58.840 of years
00:37:59.040 and it could
00:37:59.560 well be
00:38:00.640 for five years
00:38:02.700 ago
00:38:03.180 would line up
00:38:03.900 quite well
00:38:04.860 with the sort
00:38:05.340 of thing
00:38:05.540 we got out
00:38:06.240 of the Epstein
00:38:06.740 files
00:38:07.240 I mean
00:38:07.500 here's
00:38:07.880 Mandelson
00:38:08.240 and Epstein
00:38:08.840 we're praying 0.97
00:38:10.460 for a hung
00:38:10.900 parliament
00:38:11.280 in 2010
00:38:11.880 alternatively
00:38:12.880 a well hung
00:38:13.600 young man
00:38:14.240 I mean
00:38:15.140 yeah
00:38:16.320 Matt Mandelson 0.91
00:38:17.620 himself is gay
00:38:18.500 and not 0.94
00:38:20.040 great surprise
00:38:20.700 but the point
00:38:21.120 is this is
00:38:22.260 i don't know yeah who knows and that's from the top one is from oh no that's from peter mandelton
00:38:30.140 the top one yeah because yeah because epstein likes girls but it seems like anderson it would
00:38:35.380 seem like boys okay fine yeah yeah yeah and because a lot of these young men they were on
00:38:41.240 these apps weren't they on these apps where if you may i think they're male modeling that's how
00:38:46.560 they describe themselves male modeling app so that if you know it's i don't know three o'clock
00:38:50.420 on Saturday morning, and you just need a bit of modelling done,
00:38:54.840 you can get one of these very young, boyish men to turn up
00:38:59.960 and do a spot of modelling for you, because, I don't know,
00:39:02.580 maybe you just need that for whatever reason.
00:39:05.440 And so that's all quite weird and inexplicable stuff.
00:39:08.620 And then you remember where Starmer became the first Prime Minister
00:39:12.000 to take a HIV test, which was bloody weird and inexplicable, isn't it?
00:39:17.240 i mean if he were to just quietly go and have an hiv test being quite famous that's the sort of
00:39:27.180 thing that would leak so you probably can't do that but what you can do is you can do it in your
00:39:33.280 charisma vacuum way on tv or what yeah while being boring while claiming to raise awareness
00:39:41.480 and you get the same outcome you get your hiv test while committing to end new hiv cases in
00:39:47.300 england by 2030 is keir starmer doing his bit to make sure that hiv isn't spread i don't know it
00:39:54.160 was negative for him so that's good news well yeah that is encouraging and then this also ties
00:39:59.500 into rumors swirling around now i can't confirm or deny any of this but uh dan wootton uh who is
00:40:07.020 himself quite plugged into these things uh you'll see here that starmer says his wife victoria is
00:40:12.740 encouraging him to stay on as prime minister i can find her all the time that's the best advice
00:40:16.060 just thankful i got her every day and dan witten uh rebuts this saying no this is a complete lie
00:40:20.780 lady victoria starmer no longer resides in downing street with the children she's more miserable than 1.00
00:40:24.680 she's ever been and wants them out asap uh she's being used as a political tool based on fantasy 1.00
00:40:28.540 now i i don't know what the state of kia starmer's marriage lady i don't know uh but i didn't realize 1.00
00:40:34.780 she was nobility well i mean maybe she was given a peerage or something as well i don't know
00:40:38.900 i didn't look into it to be honest but the point here is it sounds like there's something in kia
00:40:45.720 starmer's personal life that we're not being told about now i mean there are rumors and
00:40:49.240 allegations of him and look like a bastard child and things like this now like i said i don't know
00:40:54.360 any of this if the wife isn't in the house she wouldn't be there while the male modeling jobs 1.00
00:41:00.200 are going on i guess not she but she might have some sort of creative insight on on how to model
00:41:05.580 effectively you you might think but the point is it's not it looks like that i mean there's very
00:41:12.340 rarely smoke without fire right yes especially literally your front door being set on fire by 0.61
00:41:18.140 strangely attractive ukrainian young men like why was it his front door that was burning or was it
00:41:23.300 his back door that i think it was actually the front door front door um but the point is
00:41:29.900 it may be that keir starmer is in private exactly the kind of man who would be compromised by the
00:41:38.700 epstein network no comment i can't i'm not saying this is definitely true i don't know
00:41:48.420 but these are all again data points that are being made very publicly i can understand why
00:41:54.140 some people might start to ask questions here i mean personally i'm i'm completely satisfied
00:41:59.360 and i'm not sure i want the answer yeah i mean i i don't want to be arrested myself so i i draw no
00:42:05.840 further inference however i can understand that one or two people watching this may yeah possibly
00:42:12.020 draw some conclusions yeah you're connected to the epstein network via mandelson you have
00:42:18.760 ukrainian young men attacking where you used to live yeah and you've taken a hiv test and and
00:42:26.640 your wife has moved out and is miserable i mean i i'm just saying i feel like there's more of a
00:42:33.340 story there that we're not being told but any possible isn't it yeah so is starmer the kind
00:42:37.940 a person who is who could be compromised by the epc network well maybe i don't know right now so
00:42:44.880 let's move on to what starma is going to do so how do the public think starma is doing well across
00:42:49.880 basically every way that there are stay hated uh does he stand up for britain abroad now that's his
00:42:54.860 best uh characteristic actually oh the fact that he is minus 20 approval rating on that um minus
00:43:01.840 20 is as good as it gets that's literally the best one on this list yeah uh because he didn't
00:43:06.800 get involved in the iran war oh yeah yeah i mean obviously not good on chagos that's lord hermer's
00:43:12.900 fault so yeah you know but he agrees with that he's the prime minister um but you can see acting
00:43:17.640 in the nation's best interest not really competent my god you know nearly minus 40 sticks to
00:43:22.780 principles no i've never heard him articulate a principle oh apart apart from all the the wanky
00:43:28.920 twaddle about diversity is our strength and that's the only principle i've ever heard
00:43:32.620 anti-semitism and islamophobia his primary principle is keeping the native english people
00:43:38.260 down in their place actually that's true that's true those are the principles yeah he yes yeah
00:43:43.340 so so actually he does stick to his principles why is that just evil well yeah but he sticks to 0.61
00:43:48.240 them uh yeah yeah but you know decisive now this this decisive one's a bit unfair he's bloody
00:43:53.720 decisive he kicked out corbyn he's he's literally like starling in the way that he has operated
00:44:00.440 Labour Party. So he is actually
00:44:02.400 decisive. It's just, it's evil
00:44:04.700 and in a way that is not
00:44:06.220 wanted. The public is just wrong in those
00:44:08.360 last two, because you're right, he does stick to his 1.00
00:44:10.380 principles for sticking it to the native British, and
00:44:12.340 he is decisive about it. And so what was the other one you said?
00:44:14.660 Getting things done? Yeah, he does that as well.
00:44:16.920 He's getting a lot done. I mean, abolishing
00:44:18.380 jury trials is a decisive,
00:44:21.280 effective, executive
00:44:22.440 action. Yes. That's getting, I mean, it's
00:44:24.360 just people don't like the things that he's doing.
00:44:26.400 Like, he's doing evil, and it's like, yeah, okay,
00:44:28.480 well. Yeah, but he's doing it competently.
00:44:30.060 he actually is you know trustworthy well not for you but for someone else's network he is pretty
00:44:38.920 trustworthy actually you know he's getting the job done he's he's brave he's being trusted with
00:44:43.580 big decisions sorry for someone else they are all gonna say yes no kia sam is our man of course you
00:44:50.620 being on the raw end of the cutting edge you're gonna be like no i don't like this and so of
00:44:55.160 course you can see likable there right at the bottom uh strong leader shares my views is really
00:45:00.200 bad in touch with ordinary people and represent most people's views no he represents the epstein
00:45:04.860 network very very effectively uh but the point is nobody likes him but the problem that labor have
00:45:13.240 is that nobody really likes anyone else either uh here's you gov asking well i mean you know who
00:45:19.160 who would do a better job and andy burnham kind of oh he's this clear standout choice but
00:45:24.660 36% of the public
00:45:26.140 don't know enough
00:45:26.880 about it anyway
00:45:27.560 so like
00:45:28.680 almost half of people
00:45:29.680 like I don't know
00:45:30.460 or I don't like him
00:45:31.380 so what's his net
00:45:32.700 approval there
00:45:33.600 is it
00:45:33.920 is it the left
00:45:34.960 34
00:45:35.640 34
00:45:37.040 much better
00:45:37.700 or somewhat better
00:45:38.560 34
00:45:39.220 okay a third of people
00:45:40.780 think you'll be better
00:45:41.540 than the most hated
00:45:42.160 prime minister ever
00:45:43.020 that's terrible
00:45:44.900 good god man
00:45:46.900 like you'd think
00:45:48.080 just putting up
00:45:48.800 a literal
00:45:49.720 empty suit
00:45:50.940 would at least
00:45:51.700 put you on zero
00:45:52.500 like
00:45:53.360 but you're not even
00:45:54.420 you don't even have half of the people being like
00:45:56.940 that is a ridiculously low bar
00:45:58.340 if anybody can do a better job than
00:46:00.740 Keir Starmer
00:46:01.440 and I can literally finish the sentence there
00:46:04.540 anybody can do a better job than Keir Starmer
00:46:06.740 and Andy Burnham but don't get me wrong
00:46:08.840 about the same, somewhat better
00:46:10.780 much better job, it's about 50%
00:46:12.960 you know just over 50%
00:46:14.020 yeah okay, you know yeah
00:46:16.760 but he's not in parliament
00:46:18.440 but yeah because Keir Starmer blocked him
00:46:20.980 because he is actually effective
00:46:22.240 at these sort of machina...
00:46:24.680 Keir Starmer did save his political career by doing so,
00:46:27.780 because otherwise he would have lost a by-election.
00:46:30.480 But then look at Angela Rayner. 0.99
00:46:32.160 I mean, much better job or somewhat better job. 0.89
00:46:34.040 What's that, about 20% if that?
00:46:36.340 I don't know, 17%, something like that.
00:46:38.400 Too small to even see the number.
00:46:40.660 So she would be my choice if I was in Labour,
00:46:44.160 because she's the only one who has a sort of personality
00:46:46.460 that isn't set to repel. 0.98
00:46:48.980 Sure, but 37% of people think she's just doing a worse job, 1.00
00:46:51.580 because she's a moron. 1.00
00:46:53.300 Oh, yeah, she is a moron. 1.00
00:46:55.380 And she doesn't understand any of what's going on behind the scenes. 1.00
00:46:58.240 Very doubtful.
00:46:59.200 But again, why did Keir Starmer surround himself with these people?
00:47:02.480 We'll come on to that in a minute, actually.
00:47:04.220 Ed Miliband, again, about the same number of people.
00:47:07.680 Okay, he's actually a competent minister.
00:47:10.120 He's not doing good.
00:47:11.480 Sure.
00:47:12.160 But he is impoverishing us and making us poorer
00:47:16.580 and giving us less energy in a competent way.
00:47:18.680 But about 15% of people think he'll do a better job.
00:47:21.580 than Keir Starmer.
00:47:22.820 That's not exactly a vote of confidence, is it?
00:47:24.640 Wes Streeting, same.
00:47:25.940 Yvette Cooper, even less.
00:47:27.020 Shabana Mahmood, even less.
00:47:28.020 David Lammy, the past two,
00:47:30.120 show a number on it.
00:47:34.580 No, 5%.
00:47:36.600 Actually, it has to be David Lammy for the memes,
00:47:39.720 doesn't it?
00:47:40.000 It'd just be hilarious.
00:47:40.700 Yeah, and that is just the general public.
00:47:44.080 Now you've got 2024 Labour voters,
00:47:45.800 but those numbers aren't even that much better.
00:47:48.680 This is not a great vote of confidence.
00:47:50.300 for about the same or don't know enough
00:47:52.300 is most people on each one of these.
00:47:54.980 So this is not an endorsement.
00:47:57.140 Like, the Epstein Network might be evil
00:47:59.020 and they might have complete control of the Labour Party
00:48:00.660 and they might have the worst and most hated man
00:48:03.100 in the world in it.
00:48:04.420 You don't have a strong alternative.
00:48:07.820 So Burnham is Blairite.
00:48:11.420 Yvette Cooper is very Blairite.
00:48:12.700 We're Streeting is Blairite.
00:48:14.360 Yeah, but a lot of them are...
00:48:15.980 We're Streeting, yeah, correct.
00:48:17.380 But a lot of them are quite close to the soft left
00:48:19.200 Because these are categories with permeable borders. 0.83
00:48:22.540 So Angela Rayner is soft left.
00:48:24.360 David Lammy is soft left. 0.92
00:48:26.620 Shabana Mahmood. 0.97
00:48:27.680 She's right wing. 1.00
00:48:28.520 Yeah. 1.00
00:48:29.060 She's right of the Reform Party.
00:48:32.440 So the point is, nobody is really very persuaded
00:48:35.940 that Labour has any good options, actually.
00:48:38.240 No.
00:48:38.760 And again, more polling on this.
00:48:42.320 Well, who would you prefer?
00:48:43.420 Well, a quarter of Labour voters in 2024 would prefer Andy Burnham.
00:48:48.240 10% want Angela Rayner
00:48:49.820 but none of them is 12%
00:48:52.180 and don't know is 23%
00:48:53.580 so the none of the above
00:48:55.600 if we just add those two together
00:48:56.960 are storming ahead
00:48:57.960 but then if it's just among all voters
00:48:59.980 none of them at 28%
00:49:01.660 Andy Burnham's only on 17%
00:49:04.020 with all voters
00:49:04.940 like 28% are just like
00:49:07.020 no I don't want any of these people
00:49:08.880 and 27% like don't know
00:49:10.660 like half the voters just like
00:49:13.340 check it
00:49:15.340 nothing
00:49:16.420 but look at the point of view of a labor um mp right current polling suggests you're on track
00:49:24.100 for four seats so it's well it's not entirely that i mean like some polling has them on about
00:49:29.660 70 seats some polling oh yeah okay so let's say 35 seats so so the probability of you losing your
00:49:36.680 seat is somewhere between 75 and 99 my point is that's pretty rough my point is yeah 1.00
00:49:45.180 you might as well just roll the dice andy burnham is an option um angela rayner is too stupid to 1.00
00:49:52.360 even have a faction just doesn't understand what's going on she doesn't get she doesn't 1.00
00:49:56.000 get the depths of the political nuances at all right but she she has a personality and she's a
00:50:02.120 bit bubbly and some people like her when they first see her so just leave with her or something 0.96
00:50:07.300 we're in charge of the country which is what literally five percent of people want in the 1.00
00:50:11.260 country five percent would prefer her to be yeah she she could be you know she's great for a night 1.00
00:50:16.140 cool teacher at the kindergarten around the corner or something i could go for a beer with
00:50:20.900 angela totally fine but come on but this this is really interesting though isn't it because not
00:50:26.480 only have labor never been less popular yeah but essentially their entire careers now depend on
00:50:31.880 starmer not backstabbing them all because if they think oh we're going to take him out and we'll
00:50:37.700 come into what this what's going on underneath this in a minute salman can just call a general
00:50:42.440 election oh yeah he wants right yeah he literally holds the the sword of damocles above their heads
00:50:47.840 and anyway let's let's carry on and we'll get we'll follow that line of thought we'll come back
00:50:53.180 on that because yeah absolutely yeah uh so this is a party lever favored uh by most by most by
00:50:58.820 region right zach polanski is at three plus three percent in scotland in wales it's farage
00:51:04.740 In the Midlands, it's Farage.
00:51:06.220 And in the North, it's Farage.
00:51:07.660 In the South, it's Baden-Ock, weirdly enough.
00:51:10.480 And only in London, plus two is it Starmer.
00:51:14.520 So you can see, actually, what does Starmer represent?
00:51:17.800 He represents the civil service and the blob
00:51:20.820 that he's currently at war with, 0.95
00:51:22.840 and he has no natural constituency outside of that.
00:51:26.080 No, he doesn't, does he?
00:51:26.900 This is where he exists as an entity, 0.58
00:51:30.500 and the connection to the larger Epstein network 0.66
00:51:33.660 is literally just at the you know it's sort of occupying the brain of the country and the body
00:51:40.420 of the country is like no anything anything but this this is starting to look like i don't know
00:51:44.700 medieval france where paris is just this like fortress city that kind of rules the country
00:51:51.820 but not really it just sends out raids into the rest of the country and issues forth devastation
00:51:57.000 takes the plunder and lays down the law and then clears back off to paris again isn't isn't that
00:52:02.140 interesting yeah right where so you you've got this issue here and then you've got the issue that
00:52:08.500 nobody actually wants the labor party as we've just covered so that means that starmer is
00:52:13.620 projected to lose his seat to the greens but also corbyn is projected to lose his seat to the greens
00:52:19.600 so these two warring factions who have spent ages taking chunks out of each other are both going to
00:52:24.580 be kicked out of government and get kicked out of parliament but the labor party is going to come
00:52:29.100 I mean, look, in Islander North,
00:52:32.600 the Labour Party's third in Corbyn's high seat.
00:52:37.300 But even then, it's second in Holborn and St. Pancras,
00:52:41.540 which is Starmus' seat.
00:52:43.060 Again, these were just Labour heartlands.
00:52:45.740 Labour aren't going to completely lose London,
00:52:48.260 but they're going to lose a lot of London in the May 7th elections.
00:52:53.220 And so these, again, the public is like,
00:52:57.600 look, we don't care about the Epstein Network's argument
00:53:00.260 with the communists.
00:53:01.760 You know, we don't care.
00:53:02.600 Yes.
00:53:02.900 We're not up for it.
00:53:03.700 We don't care.
00:53:04.700 We don't want that.
00:53:05.980 But they are lowering each other's HP 0.85
00:53:07.480 while the Greens come storming in like the final boss of communism. 0.86
00:53:10.940 And, you know, you can say whatever you like about Zach Polanski, 0.77
00:53:14.960 but he's an inveterate enemy of the Epstein Network.
00:53:18.100 He's obviously, he hates Israel,
00:53:19.920 and he's surrounded by people who just religiously couldn't qualify 0.88
00:53:24.000 for the Epstein Network.
00:53:25.000 so um you know like he he's he's not part of that he's something else that's evil but he's not part
00:53:32.500 of the epstein network and so uh the the labor party like hang on a second the things we're doing
00:53:39.620 seem kind of mad now right in light of all of this happening like are we sure we want to give
00:53:44.980 under 16s votes they haven't voted for us anymore they're voting for oh no the people who are going
00:53:50.800 to do that backfires i mean that that is the biggest backfire since giving u.s police body
00:53:55.080 cams as a as a black lives matter demand because yeah all of those 16 to 18 years like 90 percent
00:54:01.020 of them are going to vote for the greens they've lost the argument on that because what they don't
00:54:04.640 want to vote for the epstein network yeah and they literally call it the epstein network themselves
00:54:08.940 the green well i'm lifting this terminology from the greens because i think they are right to call
00:54:13.500 it the epstein network so i think that's literally people connected to jeffrey epstein through
00:54:17.640 various means because of various reasons but starmer isn't isn't going to let this happen
00:54:24.200 he's going to go down fighting right he's going to plot to get out of the sleaze inquiry by whipping
00:54:30.100 the labor mps to vote down any attempt to have the parliamentary sleaze inquiry as in basically
00:54:36.940 he's going to kick them out of the labor party if they even think about opposing him who are not
00:54:41.440 supposed to use a free line whip for that that but you're not supposed to do anything that starmer's
00:54:47.180 doing well yeah scandal after scandal after scandal after scandal and literally yeah like
00:54:51.520 i'm sick of hearing jacob rees mob going well he's finished now he's going to have to resign now it's
00:54:56.420 like no jacob you don't understand what's happening bro like you're thinking in like again the terms
00:55:01.380 of a conservative in normal times where a scandal would be like boris johnson and chris pincher
00:55:07.460 was enough to make him resign not now like well you played a brilliant clip on on this show maybe
00:55:13.980 five or six episodes ago it was a while ago now and the clip was david lammy walking down downing
00:55:18.900 street and somebody shouted out are you going to resign and he's and he replied back i've been
00:55:22.540 waiting 14 years to get here i'm not going now yes exactly the same with so this this guy has 0.82
00:55:28.820 been a soulless fabian since that weird passport photo that keeps getting shown in the press when 0.94
00:55:34.860 he was 90s yeah like when he went to czechoslovakia and and yeah like probably the 80s actually he's 0.97
00:55:40.120 he's been waiting his whole life for this moment he will do whatever it takes to cling on yeah and
00:55:47.280 so and and this is why it's important to think about this in terms of factions starmer mandelson
00:55:53.360 mcsweeney epstein faction at the top of the lay party got complete control his front bench 0.99
00:55:59.600 soft left retards right literally puppeteering these morons right as in i don't care 1.00
00:56:10.060 about you at all i will throw the civil service under the bus yes i will throw all of you guys 1.00
00:56:15.940 under the bus and like the the epstein network has been using the soft left yes idiots as like 1.00
00:56:22.240 cannon fodder were they useful idiots they literally are useful idiots yeah because and 1.00
00:56:27.360 that's the danger of having i mean i know aa keeps talking about you know unified elite but 1.00
00:56:34.880 the problem is this this particular elite is so hard to get into that it is by definition very
00:56:41.600 narrow and it's not it's not even broad enough to encompass an entire government front bench
00:56:47.560 and but it's it's well prepared to wield power very viciously and corbyn out you know abbott and
00:56:55.220 um donald nearly out like the skin of the teeth you know this is again starma is literally like
00:57:02.200 Stalin when it comes to this kind of bureaucratic exercise of power and Starmer thinks he's gonna
00:57:07.960 win uh oh sorry we'll get to that uh so yeah Starmer thinks he's gonna win he thinks he can
00:57:12.220 win the next election right and it's like okay but that sounds mad I mean given that he's so
00:57:20.220 soulless that it's difficult to know if he actually believes I don't think he believes I think that he
00:57:25.260 wants people to think that he believes that so that he's given the benefit of the doubt until
00:57:31.080 the next election actually holding power until the next election is the real prize here but but
00:57:36.480 of course who's giving him support well lord hermer i'm optimistic to win the next election
00:57:40.880 under sir kia well this is this is the epstein network of human rights lawyers the rule and like
00:57:47.460 hermer is starmer's oldest friend isn't he the chap who's embroiled in a fresh news scandal
00:57:53.900 because he was backing bogus claims against british troops in iraq and afghanistan correct
00:58:00.160 which has caused many troops to be well some have committed suicide they've been dragged through the
00:58:05.800 courts have been absolutely persecuted and it turns out most of it if not all of it was entirely
00:58:11.040 made up to win fees and that he was profiting from these malicious charges against troops
00:58:17.860 yeah he also um he got a 1.5 million pound house without having to pay tax on it recently i only
00:58:24.340 saw the headline going past i haven't looked into it but the point is like typical epstein network
00:58:28.920 nonsense right a proper rotter this one yeah absolutely hermer is an inveterate anti-british
00:58:34.660 enemy and under every circumstance yes he was arguing for shaman begum to come across he wants
00:58:39.400 chagos deal sent away and all the everything it's all coming from the attorney general
00:58:43.840 richard hermer right gear starmer's one and only true friend one and only true friend which puts
00:58:48.960 him smashed into the epstein network right so we've got the backing of the epstein network we've
00:58:54.040 got the backing of his human rights lawyers compatriots like you can see who wants starmer
00:58:59.220 to remain in their position and labor list have come out and uh put out this propaganda now i'm
00:59:05.700 not i'm not saying that there's anything to this but the point is this is one of those cases where
00:59:11.560 the polls are designed to lead opinion rather than report opinion should kia starmer resign
00:59:16.620 over the scandal 61 of labor members say he shouldn't oh really okay even though 83 he's
00:59:22.860 handled it badly 61 think 61 think he should not resign so there we go label party members who read
00:59:28.660 label list again you can see this is part of the network and its functions in the party essentially
00:59:35.520 saying no no we're not going anywhere yes right that's the thing they're not going anywhere they
00:59:42.240 they think they can win i think kirstama can win i think i can win i mean i don't know why you would
00:59:49.480 think that because everyone hates you you are literally the most hated prime minister
00:59:54.240 labor's current approval rating is about 15 against 68 negative like it's like it's almost
01:00:02.020 impossible to find someone who does like the labor party at this point i don't even know where i would
01:00:06.840 go i mean i guess you go to central london which is where he's got the only approval rating that
01:00:12.440 he's ever he has in the entire country but if he can if he can keep the reins of power for three
01:00:16.980 years he can do a lot in three years exactly and so he has to fend off the soft left now he has
01:00:23.140 been making noises about patriotic values he intends to fight i mean maybe customer is literally
01:00:27.960 so delusional he thinks he could be nigel farage on this subject i mean you know nigel farage's
01:00:32.700 popularity is going down but if if he turns it into a referendum on who is the patriotic party
01:00:37.220 labor or reform he can't win that so like you know nigel farage's got many many flaws but being
01:00:43.180 an anti-british traitor is not one of them actually yeah but it won't it will it will be
01:00:48.940 a battle between um some mix-up between restore and reform versus the greens the labor are not
01:00:56.760 going to feature in this of course but he either doesn't know or doesn't care about this right
01:01:01.740 because like you yeah i can't bet i think i think he just wants power three more years to do as much
01:01:06.380 damage as he possibly can until he's kicked out exactly and so the soft left don't know what to do
01:01:12.800 right so we've got um you know people like yvette cooper oh i'm extremely concerned about all this
01:01:18.460 i can't believe like it's it's something that they know is wrong but they don't know what to do
01:01:24.860 ed milliband can't even defend starmer on this this is hilarious let's watch this quickly
01:01:29.320 um that whole due diligence report saying lord mandelson was a walking red flag
01:01:36.600 Keir Starmer reads it, decides to appoint a walking red flag
01:01:41.040 to be the US ambassador, and nobody thinks that's a problem at the time. 0.72
01:01:48.460 Well, I think, you know, look, it was a very risky appointment
01:01:51.020 and it turns out to have been extremely risky for all the reasons that we now know.
01:01:56.660 If I'm watching you, I'm not sure what else anyone needed to tell
01:02:01.580 the person at the top of government about this individual
01:02:04.900 that would have made it clear
01:02:07.760 it wasn't just risky, it was wrong.
01:02:11.520 What else did you need to know at that moment?
01:02:14.640 Look, it's a fair point.
01:02:19.400 That's not how you're supposed to do political interviews.
01:02:23.760 Well, what could you say?
01:02:26.600 What could you say?
01:02:27.220 The Epstein Network and Starmer have stitched up
01:02:30.080 the soft left so comprehensively.
01:02:32.640 They've got to go out there
01:02:33.700 and get grilled like this and be like yeah well you're supposed to turn up with like three or
01:02:38.060 four talking points and just repeat them endlessly and pad them with filler you're not supposed to
01:02:42.080 actually stop and think about the question because because there's no bloody answer to it yeah i
01:02:46.600 mean like you know i disagree with miliband profoundly politically and on his you know
01:02:51.720 policies and politics and whatnot but i don't think he's an evil man no he's just a weak man
01:02:57.340 he's exactly yeah hell yeah i'm tough enough to stand up to putin i cared you know do you remember
01:03:03.200 I've seen him
01:03:04.480 trying to get into
01:03:05.060 a London club
01:03:05.680 he's not tough enough
01:03:06.520 to stand up to the
01:03:07.340 concierge
01:03:07.880 do you not remember
01:03:08.360 back in like
01:03:08.900 2011 or something
01:03:10.840 like that
01:03:11.220 where he was being
01:03:11.820 in feud
01:03:12.220 and he was like
01:03:12.920 heck yes I'm tough
01:03:13.880 enough
01:03:14.100 it's like look
01:03:14.520 Ned Flanders
01:03:15.140 I'm sure you're
01:03:16.840 a lovely guy
01:03:17.400 and everyone
01:03:18.020 says Ed Miliband
01:03:19.720 is a lovely guy
01:03:20.480 but he
01:03:22.900 is not weak
01:03:24.040 he's just weak
01:03:24.900 the definition
01:03:25.540 of
01:03:25.880 I keep making
01:03:27.420 the reason the
01:03:28.540 left are the
01:03:29.700 left is because
01:03:30.340 they're low T
01:03:31.240 weak men 0.98
01:03:31.720 that's what they are
01:03:32.960 But like I said, he's not a part of the Epstein Network.
01:03:35.640 No.
01:03:35.800 He's very clearly not.
01:03:36.920 He's very clearly being used as a meat shield 0.83
01:03:39.500 while the Epstein Network is on manoeuvres behind the scenes, 0.95
01:03:43.060 trying to essentially shore up their own position
01:03:45.340 because Trump dropped this giant bomb on them by accident.
01:03:48.280 And so the soft left are like, right, okay,
01:03:49.820 are we just going to stand for this?
01:03:50.940 And the answer is, yes, you are.
01:03:52.500 You're just going to stand for it
01:03:53.840 because every single one of you is going to lose your seat.
01:03:55.880 That's why.
01:03:56.400 Yeah, because you're threatening a man with the election button.
01:04:00.260 Exactly.
01:04:00.620 And if you turf him out, he'll just turf all you out.
01:04:03.740 And also, Keir Starmer, not a career politician,
01:04:06.920 Keir Starmer, does he have a network of patronage
01:04:09.400 that he can lean into after his job is done?
01:04:11.840 Absolutely he does.
01:04:12.900 He'll just go back to campaigning to get child murders released
01:04:15.760 like it was beforehand.
01:04:16.740 If he doesn't just retire and do the speech circuit
01:04:19.600 where he gets Boris Johnson paying half a million a bloody speech.
01:04:23.100 Well, I mean, his prime minister's pension alone will cover him.
01:04:26.500 Exactly.
01:04:27.300 Starmer's going to be fine.
01:04:28.400 you are the guys who are going to all get it in the neck and so um go away daily mail all your
01:04:34.600 notifications uh dan hodges points out here like everyone loathes kiss armor like dan hodges goes 0.51
01:04:40.260 around speaks to all the mps behind the scenes they all loathe him and they've all come to the
01:04:45.900 conclusion that actually this avatar of the epstein network doesn't have our best interest
01:04:50.180 at heart doesn't have the best interest of the labor party at heart and it's actually thrown so
01:04:54.420 many of us under the bus that maybe yes maybe he's the problem but when like oh well if we if
01:05:00.880 we don't do it now it's only a matter of time to when he's ousted not if it's like okay yeah but
01:05:07.180 you have no good time i mean you don't want to do it for may the 7th because someone's going to be
01:05:11.280 the gods of olympus have got together and decided that maybe chronos isn't acting in their interest
01:05:16.380 yeah but yeah but i mean like at least the gods of olympus were capable because they had a zeus
01:05:21.100 to overthrow croons right they don't have a zeus that their zeus is angela rayner it's like god
01:05:26.160 right but it's a certain amount of time of when he's ousted it's like okay but now should be the
01:05:31.560 time even but you know that they're thinking well the may 7th election is coming up we're going to
01:05:35.080 get creamed we can't do it before then i don't think that should hold you if if you've got right
01:05:39.860 option to become prime minister you just play it off say yeah that's starmer's fault you you just
01:05:45.240 do it you don't try and you don't then try and mass because you don't then try and massage your
01:05:49.460 timing getting to be prime minister of this country is bloody hard enough without trying to
01:05:53.760 then massage the timing as well but also nobody's going to blame you like if you're like you know i 0.95
01:05:58.460 had to throw kirsten around because of the epstein network and everything they've done and they're
01:06:02.020 ruining the party i had to come along and save it oh yeah we got creamed in the may 7th elections 0.67
01:06:06.440 yeah everyone knows because you were there for like two weeks the only thing it's not you the
01:06:10.920 only thing is maybe they think it would just be easier to get rid of him after that they do think
01:06:15.480 so but what this also does is give starmer time he needs time to keep shoring up his position and
01:06:22.320 it's like because the thing is the dramatic shock of the may 7th elections has already happened 0.56
01:06:27.480 everyone knows you know tomorrow the day after like yep you got you got screwed did you well
01:06:33.460 we knew that was going to happen anyway moving on and so okay if not now then when right and so we
01:06:39.180 are told by the telegraph here they are plotting a coup as they say backbench labor mps have told
01:06:45.000 the telegraph the game is already up for the prime minister over his disastrous handling of the
01:06:48.160 manderson vetting scandal a senior labor mp said i think there's going to be a process for replacing
01:06:52.740 the prime minister it needs to be as quick as it can be tick tock like what are you doing like you
01:06:58.940 say these things but starmer and hermer and the rest of the like his close confidence it's like
01:07:05.220 no chest out we're gonna fight the next election and we're gonna win it and so the soft left can
01:07:10.020 like oh no we we're all now gonna have our vote with no confidence or something no because starmer
01:07:14.740 is just going to be like no you're not election bam you're all done i'm buggering off to some 0.51
01:07:20.240 think tank or whatever i'm going to do yeah and i'm just going to literally nuke the lot of you
01:07:24.720 right uh another senior mp said we can't be having months and months of speculation and leadership
01:07:29.700 contests that just creates a lot of uncertainty for the country there's going to be change and
01:07:33.580 labor party needs to work out how that would happen quickly so they want a coup they want to 1.00
01:07:37.460 have a coup within this structure but the soft left are the useful idiots and they don't have 1.00
01:07:41.980 any leadership. They want Andy Burnham, 1.00
01:07:44.180 but Steinberg blocked Andy Burnham. 0.98
01:07:46.160 Angela Rayner has got her tax problems
01:07:47.980 and honestly, I don't think 0.91
01:07:50.120 she's doing this. Yeah, and by the way,
01:07:51.780 that tax inquiry,
01:07:53.720 that seems to be getting slow walked.
01:07:56.020 Yeah, right. Why is that taking so long?
01:07:57.960 Because the whole time that that's
01:07:59.720 ongoing, it kind of blocks her from
01:08:01.960 being leader. Right. Then you have to
01:08:03.980 go down to the real tertiary tier 1.00
01:08:06.100 of idiots. Yeah, David Lammy. 1.00
01:08:08.500 Yeah.
01:08:08.720 but the and that whole thing it was over 40 grand a 40 grand stamp duty on a house i mean
01:08:16.320 don't get me wrong that's a lot of money yeah you know but it's also stamp duty on a house
01:08:20.580 it's not that she was she wasn't like mandelson taking money from the russians and the chinese
01:08:24.620 or connected the network it's not the sort of thing that gets your back door burning no exactly
01:08:29.680 it's totally trivial and yet like you say that's being walked out for a long time why can't you
01:08:35.520 just pay that money and get on with it yes like come on what you know what's that what's the hold
01:08:39.740 up here and also apparently uh starmer is just going to throw them under the bus right starmer
01:08:46.420 doesn't get he's he's he's if the if the local elections are a bloodbath that's right rachel 1.00
01:08:51.060 reeves again another soft left moron under the bus everything to protect the primacy of the epstein 0.99
01:08:58.000 network in the prime minister's chair no not a civil servant not a not a soft left um member of 0.99
01:09:05.140 the government yeah not morgan mcsweeney none of them will be spared starmer chucking them straight
01:09:12.480 under the bus and and weirdly i mean okay we've now got to the position where uk bond yields are
01:09:18.580 five percent which is higher than they were under the peak of the liz trust moment they're higher
01:09:22.580 than they're constantly going about liz trust ruining it it's like well we're way past that
01:09:25.620 so bonds are at five percent this we are in the you know the the alarm bell the smoke alarm is
01:09:32.420 pinging at this point but weirdly the bond market actually quite like rachel reeves and that's not
01:09:37.840 because they think that she's competent but they think that everyone else would be more
01:09:42.480 incompetent than she is so if you appoint somebody else things could get lively on the on the
01:09:49.620 financial front yeah and we're already at the point where the debt expenditure is rivaling 0.82
01:09:54.760 the nhs spend yeah yeah it's mad it's mad the the country's on the edge of a meltdown oh yeah
01:10:00.940 So anyway, I think what we've seen here is that there is a faction
01:10:05.880 in the Labour Party called the Epsi Network.
01:10:07.520 It's got rock-solid control of the administration of the country.
01:10:10.420 It has the nuclear button in the general election.
01:10:14.160 And the spite to use it.
01:10:15.220 And the will to use it.
01:10:17.180 And again, the soft left, the Rainerites,
01:10:19.940 who are limping along thinking, well, we have to do something. 0.98
01:10:22.240 But none of them are brave.
01:10:23.400 None of them have a personal sort of magnetism or constituency.
01:10:27.260 And any that might have done, Starmer has destroyed already. 1.00
01:10:30.060 right so uh and kept out of the party and they're being used as useful idiots being chucked under 0.99
01:10:35.920 the bus for this the corbynistas have been mostly expelled and sent to the green party or to your 0.99
01:10:41.320 party which is and the hard left are the only the only faction that has the rival mental faculty
01:10:46.720 will to power to fight yeah the will to power the soft left don't have a will to power corbynistas
01:10:51.960 have the will to power but they've been expelled so they've gone to the green party uh and so what
01:10:56.600 have you got left what the trade unions well farage has actually been flirting with them yeah
01:11:00.560 they're off as well yeah they're off and i i watched an interview with the trade union boss
01:11:04.920 the other day and farage was talking about how well you know we accept the trade unions are a
01:11:08.760 fact of life and we're prepared to work with them it's like that's dangerous territory if you're
01:11:12.240 labor isn't it we're going to use lose the unions and then i guess the last thing you've got is like
01:11:16.440 blue labor under morris glassman who does nothing but go on tv and say starmer's terrible yeah that's
01:11:21.980 not a real thing that's not a real thing that has no traction those any anyone who is like blue
01:11:25.820 labor voter again they're already voting for the conservatives or reform they're already they're
01:11:30.260 already voting reform so basically there's not a lot there's not much left in the labor party
01:11:35.400 to actually resist and the coup of the soft left is never going to happen the lack of world's power
01:11:41.180 core beliefs is now have no access to that because starma destroyed them and so it's like look i
01:11:46.580 think that the epstein network is going to destroy the labor party forever and so three more years i
01:11:54.320 say yeah and that's the end of labor forever well and it'd be useful for our thing because 0.94
01:11:59.200 restore could actually do with those three years so absolutely so a bit of a shame for the country
01:12:03.240 and bond yields and it's yeah but yeah but it's yeah like none of the other people would make
01:12:08.280 things better no and it would just be like limping on for another election cycle oh god another five
01:12:14.680 years of us not addressing the problems blah blah blah so so honestly i i think for the actual right
01:12:20.240 this is good thing i think for the actual country just destroying the labor party because it's long
01:12:24.380 past this prime and needs to go here is good anyway and i just think this is basically what's
01:12:29.720 happening and i mean it's it's a quite exciting little game of thrones episode really shame it
01:12:35.440 has an effect on real life