Let It All Come Out

In tomorrow’s emergency debate on Peter Mandelson, under parliamentary privilege, let it all come out. Let it all come out about Nick Brown, or let it be admitted that there was nothing to come out, which would itself be greatly to the discredit of Keir Starmer. Let it all come out about the three Ukrainian rent boys who had been charged with arson with intent to endanger life in relation to the attacks on Starmer’s rented out house, his old flat, and his old car. Let it all come out about Lord Alli. Let it all come out about Jenny Chapman, whom Starmer gave a peerage, made an Under-Secretary of State, promoted to Minister of State, appointed to the Privy Council, and invited to attend Cabinet, and who, while Starmer’s wife was pregnant, bore him the child who was now supported by Chapman’s Ministerial salary.

Let it all come out about Mandelson’s political godson, Wes Streeting, and about Streeting’s political godson, the youngest Minister since Gladstone, Keir Mather. Let it all come out about the close friend and ally of all of them, sent out to defend Mandelson on the airwaves, Peter Kyle, who like Anna Turley, was given his big break in politics by the Chief Whip whose Whips’ Office included both Kyle’s close friend, closest ally, and sometime lover, Ivor Caplin, and at the same time Dan Norris, who was also notably close to Caplin, and whose proxy vote in the House of Commons continues to be cast by the Labour Whips. Along with the subsequently adjudicated and disqualified electoral fraud Phil Woolas, such was the Whips’ Office that forced through the Iraq War. Caplin, Norris and Woolas were all made Ministers a few weeks later. Up behind them has come Kyle, among others.

And let it all come out about Jess Phillips, whom Kyle’s and Turley’s patron supported for Leader in 2020, declining to endorse any candidate after Phillips had pulled out, and who has told the House of Commons that, “South Yorkshire police should never have been left to investigate themselves in this matter [of the grooming gangs], and moving those investigations to the NCA is absolutely the right thing to do. I would be lying if I said that over the years I had not met girls who talked to me about how police were part of not just the cover-up but the perpetration.” Read again those words of the Minister who refused a statutory inquiry, an inquiry that had been, and still is, demanded by Jody McIntyre, the Muslim candidate whom Phillips had beaten by only 693 votes at Birmingham Yardley, which he intends to contest again. Away with her. Away with this entire Government. To secure disaffiliation from the Labour Party and then to build what came next, join Unite Community here. More pressingly, if no Opposition MP did these things tomorrow, then none of them would deserve to be there.