Stalking Horses?

Even Buckingham Palace is briefing against Keir Starmer because of the position in which he will be putting the King in a few hours’ time. Even sooner, though, Starmer will either sack Wes Streeting, or he is too weak to do so and thus unfit to be Prime Minister. No one should take the job of Health Secretary unless Starmer guaranteed to support the uncompromising removal from the NHS of the Palantir of Jeffrey Epstein’s Peter Thiel, the Palantir that was a client of Epstein’s Peter Mandelson, the Palantir with which Mandelson and Starmer had off-the-books meetings in Washington while Mandelson, under whom Streeting had learned so much, was Ambassador there.

In 2015, Streeting chaired the Leadership campaign of Jess Phillips. For months, Natalie Fleet, whose politically useful version of her past is taken entirely at face value, has been telling people that she was going to replace Phillips. Tonight, she has. Graveyards are full of the indispensable. But does Fleet also want the access to every camera phone in the country that Phillips resigned for having been denied, right when Sovereign AI was being placed in the tender hands of Suzanne Ashman, the daughter-in-law of Tony Blair of the Tony Blair Institute, not to say of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace?

“I would stab Jeremy Corbyn in the front,” said Phillips, only now out of the office of “Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls”. She has accused British Pakistanis of importing wives for their disabled sons. She claims to have been rude and abusive towards Diane Abbott, although she may have built her reputation on lying about having used gutter language towards a woman who was old enough to be her mother. Phillips laughs at male suicides, at male cancers, at other men’s health issues, at violence against men, at problems in boys’ educational attainment, and at fathers denied access to their children. She has said that attacks of the kind that were seen in Cologne on the New Year’s Eve of 2015-16 “happen every week in Birmingham”, so the wonder is that it took until last week for there to be no Labour councillors in her constituency.

And on Tuesday 2 September, Phillips told the House of Commons that, “South Yorkshire police should never have been left to investigate themselves in this matter, 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 the Muslim candidate whom she had beaten by only 693 votes at Birmingham Yardley, which he intends to contest again, the wonderful investigative journalist Jody McIntyre. Then read the Epstein Files and worry about inferior cultures with no respect for women and with endemic predation on young girls. On a chilly spring day, poor Jenny Chapman was not only made to wait behind with Starmer after Cabinet, but she has been running around in what appeared to be only her slip, having not even been permitted the time to dress herself. What a burden it is that, as Beth Rigby put it, “she probably knows him better than most”.