The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1348
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 32 minutes
Words per Minute
182.2723
Summary
In this episode of The Low Seaters, we look at the absolute carnage that is British politics at the moment, including the Leveson inquiry, the Sadiq Khan and Tulip Sadiq scandals, and the Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney affair.
Transcript
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast, The Low Seaters, for Thursday, the 5th of February, 2026.
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I'm joined by Nate and Luca, and today we're going to be talking about the absolute carnage that is British politics at the moment.
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A lot has happened in a very short amount of time, so we're going to get into that.
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We will be talking about Rupert Lowe's rape gang inquiry. The media's not talking about this.
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It's only Patrick Christie's, as I understand, even covered this in anything approaching mainstream media.
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Crickets. And some of the stuff that's come out of it has just been horrific.
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And then we're going to be examining the grey sludge that they intend to turn our country into, and the future that they have promised us.
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Which is really weird, because it's the worst promise in the world.
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So, I love going back through just a couple of years ago, Anna Soubry.
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The grown-ups are back in government, and people can just get on with their lives, watching politics out of the corner of their eyes.
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Remember Andrew Marr, you know what, it's peace and stability.
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For the first time in many of our lives, actually, Britain looks like a little haven of peace and stability, says Andrew Marr.
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And my favourite, probably my favourite, it's hard to pick a genuine favourite out of all this.
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It's been absolute chaos, right? It's been carnage.
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The thing is, it was chaos pretty much immediately after everyone had tweeted these things out.
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There was loads of scandals pretty much immediately.
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In the interest of time, I'm afraid that we've got to get on, because there's loads to cover today, right?
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So, Kimmy Badenock was raking him over the coals in Parliament.
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Watch a little bit of these clips, just because they are very informative.
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So, for anyone who doesn't know, the Epstein files have revealed that Peter Mandelson was a weird gay bum boy of Jeffrey Epstein.
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They had a weird relationship, and it's really gross.
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And this came to light, and, of course, Keir Starmer had appointed Peter Mandelson as the British Ambassador to America.
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But also more than that, which we'll get into shortly.
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And, man, Starmer dealt with this really badly.
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If that was really the case, then he wouldn't mind if the ISC had a look.
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And let's be clear, he says the Cabinet Secretary makes it non-political, but that doesn't make it independent.
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We know that there will be a cover-up, because this implicates the Prime Minister and his Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, a protege of Peter Mandelson.
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The Prime Minister chose to inject Mandelson's poison into the heart of his government on the advice of Morgan McSweeney.
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His catastrophic lack of judgment, telling us now that he did know, has harmed the special relationship, it has endangered national security, it's not the humble address, it's him, it's compromised our diplomacy, and it has embarrassed our nation.
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After all of this, does he have the same full confidence in Morgan McSweeney that he had in Peter Mandelson?
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Morgan McSweeney is an essential part of my team.
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He helped me change the Labour Party and win an election.
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Morgan McSweeney is an essential part of my team.
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So, Keir Starmer's Labour government is not the same without Morgan McSweeney, Peter Mandelson's protege, and the man who lobbied Starmer to bring Mandelson into the government.
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My government can't function without being plugged into the international paedophile network.
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That is word for word what he has said there, basically.
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And so, the question that everyone is focusing around now is that, did Starmer know that he was friends with Mandelson?
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Mr Speaker, I asked the Prime Minister a very specific question.
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Did he know that Mandelson had continued his friendship with Epstein after the conviction?
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In January 2024, a journalist from the Financial Times informed the Prime Minister that Mandelson had stayed in Epstein's house even after that conviction for child prostitution.
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So, did the Prime Minister conveniently forget this fact, or did he decide it was a risk worth taking?
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Well, Mr Speaker, as the House would expect, we went through a process.
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There was a due diligence exercise, and then there was security vetting by the security services.
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Well, it wasn't very good then, if that was the case.
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Well, the other thing is, that was an abject failure, wasn't it?
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I remember at the time when Mandelson was appointed to America, like, Anons on Twitter were just saying, he's still...
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And if Anons on Twitter know, then people with access to the information of the British deep state knew.
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And throughout this, you could see Starmer's hands shaking, as Connor has pointed out here.
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Like, if you just focus on his hands, he is absolutely wrecked here.
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Look at him, holding his own hand, stop the shaking, and things like that.
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So, I think it's worth getting to, you know, the people in Labour and their opinions on Peter Mandelson.
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Weirdly, I mean, like, Alistair Campbell from 2009, Mandelson's a class act.
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Why would you say that in 2009, as he resigned once or twice at that point, right?
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Both he and Darling showed in different ways, it's authenticity is what counts.
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Why Peter Mandelson's the best choice to meet Trump from last year.
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Why Mandy is the perfect choice for the US ambassador.
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Now, I can't show you the article, because the article has been deleted.
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This was published the day before yesterday, and the day before the scandal broke, and it
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was, Labour has a giant debt of politics to Peter Mandelson in the modern era from Adam
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People pointing out, like, well, you did go to Mandelson's wedding, right?
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Like, you were, you know, again, a really best friend of his.
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Oh, by the way, we've missed a link there, Samson.
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This is how he was depicted in the 1990s, in parody.
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And it was the Prince of Darkness when I was a kid.
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So, this whole, like, oh my god, I can't believe Peter...
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The Prince of Darkness was an evil liar, whose best friends were the most notorious
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international pedophile, who used his connections for compromise and money
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Everyone knew that Peter Mandelson was a wrong-un, right?
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So, anyway, like I said, a lot of people are deleting stuff quick.
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Like, here's just one example of West Streeting's fiancée
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just removing references to work for Mandelson.
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For some reason, you were all fine with this guy,
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who you all knew was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein,
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and you were just like, okay, well, that's weird.
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No, no, we'll just have him come in and do things.
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The Labour Party is directly connected to Jeffrey Epstein,
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and that network of bribery, compromise, corruption, and paedophilia,
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That's what everyone sees of the Blairite Labour Party as it stands now.
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And you can hear it in the tones of their voice.
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That was the whole of what we, as the Labour Party, promised this country.
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I think that he needs to think very hard about what is in the country's best interest
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You can tell, you can hear the anger in his voice.
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This is a continuity of Tony Blair's Labour Party.
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The serpent is still wrapped around the leader and is still worm-tonguing his way into his ear
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and still has the same connections to the disgusting, immoral, paedophilic network
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And, man, people were just like, okay, this is bad.
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One Labour MP behind the scenes said it's made things far, far worse.
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Couldn't believe some of his answers in the Parliament.
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It seemed like being present at the political death of the Prime Minister,
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And that seems to be what people are thinking because, of course...
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I mean, when Starmer falls, a lot of them are going to go, right?
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Because the knives have just come out here, right?
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Starmer has made a lot of enemies in the Labour Party.
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Because, remember, Starmer took it over when it was failing under Corbyn.
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And Starmer came in with, oh, no, we're going to restore politics
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you know what, I'm going to give you some confidential info
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that I've been sitting on for decades about Peter Mandelson.
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Now that the time is right, it's like, okay, fair enough.
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You've got Richard Burgon and the Labour left, like, speaking in Parliament,
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saying that Starmer deliberately turned a blind eye to the crimes of Mandelson
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because he was effective at suppressing the left in the Labour Party,
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no, I'm going to make sure that absolutely everything is out here
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because John McDonnell was the shadow chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Like, and Keir Starmer kicked out Jeremy Corbyn
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The due diligence report that we have on Mandelson,
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well, no, you should use the Intelligence Security Committee.
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And suddenly, what's Starmer's argument against it?
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That might be absolutely catastrophic to my case.
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So, the Red Queen has come out and stuck the knife in, right?
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who are just, like, planning to release various files
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Because a bunch of backbenchers are really angry.
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There are questions of, like, Labour MPs suggesting
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that maybe one of the Cabinet Ministers should resign
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into a position where he has to essentially resign
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If you get a prominent, like, you know, Labour,
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blue Labour, you know, strong, like, defection,
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Especially because they're going to get destroyed
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who are going to get slaughtered in the elections.
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that it's not all clear that McSweeney will survive.
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It's not clear that bloody Starmer's going to survive.
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You mentioned the sweat dripping under, you know,
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I mean, look at the trending in the United Kingdom.
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yeah, right, we're going to abolish jury trials.
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and now Labour is going to lose Gordon and Denton
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yes, it's nice to have peace and stability back?
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This is going to sound perhaps like a confession,