Jeffrey Epstein seems to have had a lot of secret children. Please, please, please let someone stand up at Prime Minister's Questions tomorrow and call on Keir Starmer to condemn such irresponsibility. Both of the most recent General Elections have been won by men like that. Consensual adultery used to end Cabinet Ministers' careers, would have brought down the Prime Minister if anyone had known, and came close to bringing down the President of the United States.
The Labour Leader in the Major years was a heavy drinker, although again he had nothing on Starmer, but he refused to have Peter Mandelson in the room even then. Bryan Gould would have been better in policy terms, but the death of John Smith was the making of Mandelson, as it was the unmaking of so many better people. Yet look at the Labour Right now. Beyond Mandelson, Tony Blair himself is on Donald Trump's Board of Peace while retaining his party membership, so why would anyone vote for a parliamentary candidate who did?
The tradition represented by something like Labour First has to applaud the Chagos deal as completing a 60-year project of Denis Healey and David Miliband, but it cannot have enjoyed the transfer the Chagos Islands to a signatory to the Pelindaba Treaty. If Blue Labour still means anything, then it must oppose the deal itself, as well as the failure to defend British sovereignty in the face of the hijacking of the Marinera by the United States Coast Guard. And so on. The general decadence, if that does not suggest too much fun, was demonstrated when this afternoon's Commons debate on Mandelson was treated to, and respectfully heard, the contribution of Tulip Siddiq.
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