@ChrisMayLA6 I do wonder how much our political elite draw upon a shared sense of privilege. Especially the men. Private school + Oxbridge.

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Well, good riddance.

How this cat with 9 lives is still around, is remarkable anyway.

Why on earth Starmer chose him is beyond me.

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However, it's not like other PMs were any better, ref Evgeny Lebedev. An even more grievous appointment!

@ChrisMayLA6 I have lots of confidence in democracy. What we're seeing here is how the deals are done in a plutocratic oligarchy.

I hope we give democracy a go. I fear that the oligarchs are going to use bigotry and their resources to destroy us all

@ChrisMayLA6 Starmer will be happier if all the noise is focused on old offences from the Files and nobody becomes aware of the recent ones implicating him, and probably Reeves, which can stay hidden under the thirty-year rule.

Some things in the banking/Israel/Trump overlap, I’d imagine.

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Nicely illustrates the most likely business Jeffrey Epstein was really in. His sex crimes business, though pleasurable for him, was his fishing gear.

His passion was to troll for rich, powerful, and connected marks, whom he could pleasure, and then persuade or blackmail into exchanging favors.

That would enhance his network and produce confidential personal, business, and govt information he could exchange for profit and to further enhance his network. Begat, begat, begat.

@ChrisMayLA6 you’re right it’s not good for democracy but was Mandelson ever elected for anything?

@ChrisMayLA6 The underlying worry is the implication that our political elites see no boundary on their behaviour. That "Doing the Right Thing" is no more than a performance. While actually even those posing as standing up for virtue will transgress if they think it can be concealed from the public eye.

@ChrisMayLA6 Should he not have been arrested by now. Official secrets act, maybe treason ?