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Keir Starmer, Peter Mandelson, and the Epstein Scandal That Is Rocking British Politics · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're gonna hop across the
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  Speaker 1: pond and we're gonna check in on Kiras Starmer. And
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  Speaker 1: as you all know, he's under incredible pressure over the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he was the guy who appointed mister Mandelsson
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  Speaker 1: to be the ambassador to the United States, especially considering
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  Speaker 1: that Kara Starmer knew exactly the kind of scumbag that
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  Speaker 1: mister Mandelsson was and is now. Of course, Kira Starmer
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  Speaker 1: he's not gonna take real responsibility for it. He'll say
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, he'll say that he was misled, he'll pass
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  Speaker 1: the buck, but he's not gonna resign. And if they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get rid of Kari Starmer over in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna have to force him out. Is that gonna happen?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but the pressure is certainly cooking and
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  Speaker 1: Karas Starmer is feeling that heat. Today we have an
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  Speaker 1: article from Time and the headline he cannot conceivably continue.
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  Speaker 1: UK Prime Minister Starmer faces drown calls to resign. This
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  Speaker 1: article was authored by Callum Sutherland. British Prime Minister Kuris
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  Speaker 1: Starmer has fiercely denied accusations that he deliberately misled lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: over his appointment a former UK ambassador to the US,
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  Speaker 1: Peter Mandelsson. No I did not mislead the House of Commons.
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  Speaker 1: I accept an information that I should have had, an
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  Speaker 1: information that the House should have had should have been
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  Speaker 1: before the House. But I did not mislead the House,
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  Speaker 1: Starmer said Monday, when asked if he inadvertently misled the
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  Speaker 1: Lower House of Parliament. Of course he didn't. Everything's a
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  Speaker 1: big accident. Mister Kiis Starmer had no idea that Mandelsshon
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  Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Epstein were buddies. I mean, how could you
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  Speaker 1: expect him, the Prime Minister of the UK, to know that.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile the rest of us knew exactly what Mandelson was
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  Speaker 1: and how deeply he was intertwined with Jeffrey Epstein. But sure,
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  Speaker 1: mister big shot over in the UK m I six
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  Speaker 1: Scotland yard. God knows what else had no idea? Does
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  Speaker 1: anybody believe that the arousing session in Westminster unfolded amid
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  Speaker 1: mounting calls for Starmer, the leader of the ruling Labor Party,
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  Speaker 1: to resign, after it was revealed last week that Mandelsson
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  Speaker 1: failed the security vetting in January of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: only for his appointment as ambassador to go ahead the
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  Speaker 1: following month. Anyway, on account of the Foreign Office overruling
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  Speaker 1: the decision, seems pretty clear cut. Somebody overruled the decision
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  Speaker 1: and decided that Mandelssohn was the perfect guy to send
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  Speaker 1: to DC. I mean, maybe they were thinking if they
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  Speaker 1: sent another Epstein class individual to deal with the other
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  Speaker 1: Epstein class individuals, it would behoove the UK. But short
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  Speaker 1: of that, what in the ever living hell was Kure
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  Speaker 1: Starmer thinking? Only Robbins, a top civil servant at the Foreign,
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  Speaker 1: Commonwealth and Development Office, was sacked after the sequence of
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  Speaker 1: events came to light. Always have to have a fall guy, right,
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  Speaker 1: Somebody like Cure as Starmer, he can't take responsibility for anything,
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  Speaker 1: so aways somebody else's fault. In this case it's Ali Robbins.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to geopolitical issues, somebody else's fault, right,
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  Speaker 1: Never cure a Starmer's. Starmer denied having prior knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the initial failed vetting process, telling Parliament that a deliberate
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  Speaker 1: decision was taken to withhold that material from him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that might be a bigger problem. Do you mean
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  Speaker 1: to tell me that the people inside of his government
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  Speaker 1: think it's okay to withhold material from him and pull
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  Speaker 1: end around decisions? And if so, do those same people
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  Speaker 1: have access to the nuclear codes? And I only say
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  Speaker 1: that half jokingly, Like what's even going on here? The
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  Speaker 1: embattled Prime Minister said that he only learned last Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: that the Foreign Office officials granted Mandelson developed vetting clearance
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  Speaker 1: against the specific recommendation of the UK security vetting. That
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  Speaker 1: should not be able to happen if the vetting system
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  Speaker 1: says that somebody shouldn't be in a position breaking news,
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't be able to be overridden. And who decided
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  Speaker 1: to override that decision? Well, they're going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that it was Ali Robbins, But I have my doubts.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really think that Ali Robbins just decided on
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  Speaker 1: his own to do that? I mean maybe, but if
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  Speaker 1: he's anything like the bureaucrats here in America, there's no way.
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  Speaker 1: Because the bureaucrats here in America, they know they got
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  Speaker 1: to kick that shit up, send that up to somebody
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  Speaker 1: else to make the decision, and then they'll just implement it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like alex Acosta did. But it never fails
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  Speaker 1: that the government has to have a fall guy, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess in this case it's mister Robbins. If I
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  Speaker 1: had known before he took up his post that UKs
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  Speaker 1: V recommendation was that developed vetting clearance should be denied,
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  Speaker 1: I would not have gone ahead with that appointment. He insisted.
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  Speaker 1: What we all believe you, mister Starmer, another guy that
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  Speaker 1: deserves our trust, right, a very trustworthy individual. Starmer said
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  Speaker 1: that the correct vetting process had been followed and that
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  Speaker 1: a review of the process took place in September after
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  Speaker 1: MANDELSSHN was sacked from the role when a newly released
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  Speaker 1: batch of the files revealed he shared a closer than
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  Speaker 1: previously disclosed relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, we've been talking about mandelsonn and Epstein for
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  Speaker 1: five or six years. You mean to tell me that
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  Speaker 1: mister Kure Starmer had no clue what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: had no idea whatsoever that mister Mandelsson and Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: were BFFs. And any way you chop it, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look good for Kure Starmer either. He's a dumbass who
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have control of the vetting process or his own people,
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  Speaker 1: or he looked the other way, which is it. But
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  Speaker 1: Starmer's defense did little to abate calls for him to resign,
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  Speaker 1: with leader of the Conservative Party Keemi Badnock telling him
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  Speaker 1: his reputation is at stake. Taking issue with the timeline
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  Speaker 1: of events put forward. Opposition leader a bad Knock argued
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  Speaker 1: that if Starmer found out about the fell vetting process
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, he should have told Parliament at the earliest
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  Speaker 1: opportunity in accordance with the Ministrel Code, which he argued
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  Speaker 1: should have been during the Prime Minister's questions on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not only members of the Opposition who are
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  Speaker 1: holding Starmer to task, as he's also facing stern criticism
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  Speaker 1: from some of his Labor peers, and he should If
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  Speaker 1: you want to hold other people accountable, you have to
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  Speaker 1: hold your own people accountable. So if Labor wants to
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  Speaker 1: be taken seriously when it comes to Epstein, they have
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  Speaker 1: to make sure they do the right thing when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to Starmer, the question is will they. As the
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  Speaker 1: UK leader navigates the growing crisis, Here's what to know
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  Speaker 1: about the series of events that led to Monday's tents
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  Speaker 1: parliamentary session and where things currently stand. Mandelssohn was announced
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  Speaker 1: as the incoming ambassador to the US by Starmer in
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  Speaker 1: late twenty twenty four. Having served in a number of
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  Speaker 1: cabinet and advisory positions under multiple Labor governments since the nineties,
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  Speaker 1: the season politician was viewed by some as a strong pick,
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  Speaker 1: although his previous resignations did raise some concerns. In nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight, he resigned his Trade and Industry Secretary after
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  Speaker 1: a secret loan from a fellow minister was revealed. In
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one, he resigned again, this time from
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  Speaker 1: his position as Northern Ireland Minister, over allegations of misconduct
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  Speaker 1: related to a passport application for the Hinduja Brothers. An
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  Speaker 1: inquiry later cleared him of any wrongdoing. Of course it did.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to put somebody like mister Mandelssh on
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  Speaker 1: the rack. Just not going to happen. He was also
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  Speaker 1: known to have some type of relationship with Epstein, which
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  Speaker 1: Starmer initially defended prior to additional information coming to light
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  Speaker 1: such bs don't buy it. Starmer's lying, and there's an
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  Speaker 1: active cover up, right now as we speak in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: we have parallel cover ups going on right now, and
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  Speaker 1: it's wild and bananas to me that more people aren't
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  Speaker 1: hip to it. The ambassador has repeatedly expressed his deep
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  Speaker 1: regret for his association with him. I have confidence in
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  Speaker 1: him and he's playing an important role in the UK
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  Speaker 1: US relationship, said the Prime Minister. Wow, talk about being
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  Speaker 1: tone deaf, talk about not understanding the optics, talk about
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  Speaker 1: not caring about the survivors and the people that were
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  Speaker 1: harmed by Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelsson officially started the role in
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  Speaker 1: February of twenty twenty five, but in September he was
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  Speaker 1: fired after emails between himself and Epstein were published, unveiling
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  Speaker 1: a closer than previously the vulge relationship. The correspondence also
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  Speaker 1: showed that Mandelson maintained a relationship with Epstein after the
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  Speaker 1: disgraced financier pedophile was first convicted of procuring an underage
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  Speaker 1: girl in two thousand and eight. Upon his dismissal, MANDELSSN
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  Speaker 1: told embassy staff that he felt utterly awful about his
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  Speaker 1: association with Epstein. No, he felt awful about being outed.
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  Speaker 1: Please tell the truth like at least dig up that
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  Speaker 1: much humility and be honest. Now you've been caught, you've
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  Speaker 1: been outed, Stop bullshitting. In January, when over three and
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  Speaker 1: a half million more pages of the Epstein files were released,
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  Speaker 1: further correspondence came to light that proved even more damning. Mandelssh,
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  Speaker 1: when serving as Business Secretary under former Prime Minister Gordon
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  Speaker 1: Brown from two thousand and eight to twenty ten, appeared
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  Speaker 1: to tell Epstein he would lobby other government officials in
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  Speaker 1: an effort to reduce attacks on a banker's bonuses. In
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  Speaker 1: another email, he appeared to have forwarded an internal government
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  Speaker 1: report to ABSO which showed ways the UK might raise
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  Speaker 1: funds after the two thousand and eight financial crisis. He
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  Speaker 1: also seemingly tipped off Ebstein that Brown would be resigning
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  Speaker 1: in twenty ten and that the EU would announce a
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  Speaker 1: five hundred billion pound ball out the stem the Greek
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  Speaker 1: debt crisis. And that might sound like mundane information to you,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not to Epstein. That's how you get insider
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  Speaker 1: trading tracks, that's how you're ahead of the game, that's
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  Speaker 1: how you make a fortune. In February, Mandelsson was arrested
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  Speaker 1: on suspicion of misconduct in public office, and was released
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  Speaker 1: after questioning set to remain under investigation. Well, he should
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  Speaker 1: be under investigation. He should be charged. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: enough evidence to charge him. A government inquiry into the
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  Speaker 1: former ambassador's appointment to Washington was launched, with initial findings
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  Speaker 1: published in March. In a significant blow for the Prime Minister,
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  Speaker 1: one of his labor appeers as joined calls for him
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  Speaker 1: to resign. He cannot conceivably continue as a credible prime
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  Speaker 1: minister any longer. Lord Maurice Glassman told the Telegraph, if
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  Speaker 1: you can't own your mistakes, you can't move. All he
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  Speaker 1: needed to say was we made an error. But he's
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  Speaker 1: completely stuck in saying he hasn't done anything wrong. So
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  Speaker 1: this can't go away. And that's the truth. You have
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  Speaker 1: to own it, especially if you want to be somebody
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  Speaker 1: that's taken seriously suspended. Labor lawmaker Diane Abbott also criticized
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  Speaker 1: Starmar's handling of the situation. Ordinary people don't really care
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  Speaker 1: about process and procedure. They want transparency, She said. He
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  Speaker 1: insists on saying nobody told me anything. Nobody told me.
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  Speaker 1: The question is why didn't the Prime minister, ask bingo,
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  Speaker 1: that really is the question, and Diane Abbot, whoever she is,
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  Speaker 1: hit the knell on the head. You gotta be more inquisitive.
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  Speaker 1: The buck stops with you ask some questions. On Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Opposition leader bad Knock doubled down on our argue in
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  Speaker 1: that Starmer had misled Parliament. I'm only holding the Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister to the same standard to which he held others,
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  Speaker 1: she said, referring to a previous occasion where Starmer stated
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  Speaker 1: if a prime minister misleads Parliament, they should resign. Does
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  Speaker 1: he stand by those words or is there one rule
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  Speaker 1: for him and another for everyone else? Well, we know
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  Speaker 1: the answer. Starmer's part of the club, folks, you are not.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a different set of rules for mister Starmer.
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  Speaker 1: Bad Knock previously said that Starmer's position was untenable following
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  Speaker 1: Robin's dismissal. Leader of the Liberal Democrats at Davy has
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  Speaker 1: voice similar concerns. He blames his officials, He says he
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  Speaker 1: has no idea. He gives every impression of a prime
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  Speaker 1: minister in office, but not in power. Davy said in
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  Speaker 1: the House of Commons on Monday, we need a government
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  Speaker 1: of honesty, integrity and accountability. So will the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: finally accept that the only way he can help deliver
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  Speaker 1: that is to resign? Well he should, the question is
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  Speaker 1: Willie My opinion he won't. People like Kias Starmer, they
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  Speaker 1: don't seed power, They have to have it wrestled from them.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think that Cure of Starmer is any
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  Speaker 1: different and that he's just gonna give power up, you
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  Speaker 1: got another thing coming. So what do you folks think?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that Kure of Starmer is going to
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  Speaker 1: be forced out? Or do you think that he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: weather the storm? Shoot me some emails and let me know.
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