We all get things wrong from time to time.
Okay, perhaps not the Canary editorials because they’re always on the money, and my favourite allotment king, my G, Jeremy Corbyn. But most of us get it completely wrong at some point.
Back in 2019, known polyp on the anus of humanity, Peter Mandelson, possibly for the first time in his miserable, snivelling life, got something right.
In a now-famous interview with an Italian journalist in 2019, he described Donald Trump as “reckless and a danger to the world”. This followed a 2018 interview with the Evening Standard where Mandelson described president Trump as “a bully”
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, after all.
Mandelson: not as much fuss as they might have been
On the theme of getting things right, Chris LaCivita, who was a campaign aide for Trump, described the ambassador-in-waiting Mandelson as, and I quote, “an absolute m*ron”. Go Chris.
Across the pond, there is a deep sense of unease at the impending appointment of Peter Mandelson as Keir Starmer’s man in Washington.
Remember, anything to the left of the American establishment is considered to be dangerous Marxism, so add Mandelson’s numerous links to China into the mix and you can probably see why the appointment has gone down like a cup of cold vomit within Trump’s camp.
I wonder why, despite the personal insults aimed at Trump, the new American president is letting Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador in the US go through without any real resistance? Trump isn’t exactly known for keeping quiet, so why isn’t the giant tangerine tantrum putting a stop to the appointment?
One word. Epstein.
Mandelson’s volte-face is hardly a shock. Most right-wingers can find some common ground if they try hard enough. In fact, Mandelson and Trump only need to look as far as the Middle East to find something that they can wholeheartedly agree on.
Like Trump, Mandelson is a gigantic piece of shit, and most gigantic pieces of shit support Israel. Indeed, the litmus test for being a gigantic piece of shit is unashamed support for the nasty little colonial pariah state of Israel.
I wonder if you’ve ever heard of ELNET.
ELNET
ELNET (European Leadership Network) has branches across Europe and Israel and describes itself as “the most influential pro-Israel advocacy organisation in Europe”.
ELNET counts the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as one of its “partners”. It has also promoted highly controversial views – including recently claiming that there is “no starvation in Gaza” and said the IDF should not worry about killing innocent civilians who live near Hamas terrorists.
An openDemocracy expose revealed that Mandelson, along with other Labour relics such as John Woodcock, have each also joined at least one of ELNET’s online briefings about the genocide in Gaza.
Like most dodgy pro-Israel fronts, ELNET refuses to reveal how and where they secure funding, although it is known that they have accepted donations from American billionaires who have poured a fortune into getting Donald Trump re-elected.
One of the Trump-supporting billionaires, Bernie Marcus — co-founder of Home Depot — gave some $300,000 to ELNET’s American arm.
Mr Marcus says Steve Bannon had been “demonised” in the media and was a “passionate Zionist and supporter of Israel”.
Both the British and American establishment media would love for you to think Trump and Mandelson are diametrically opposed to one another, but it doesn’t take much of a speculative dig to discover their links with the genocidal terrorist state of Israel.
By the way: Zionism is racism.
Back in the UK, and Starmer is doing well (laughing emoji)
Back on the domestic front, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party continues to sink like a stone with the latest opinion poll putting Labour four points behind the Farage personality cult, Reform UK. If the poll was repeated at the next general election, the Labour Party would be left with just 116 seats.
Somehow, this total collapse in support for Keir Starmer’s shambles of a government will end up being Jeremy Corbyn’s fault.
Rachel Reeves, the pretend economist, has come up with yet another plan for growth, which has left some Labour MPs claiming it ‘reeks of panic’.
The only growth we are likely to see as a result of Labour’s austerity 2.0 is a growth in poverty, homelessness, and the use of Food Bank charities.
Keeping in with the theme of spineless dogmatic Blairites with one eye on replacing Keir Starmer, the Secretary of State for Pet Shop Infernos and Health is claiming he is going to fix the NHS.
*Fire up the eye roll and yawning emojis please, bestest Editor*
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What a mess – both sides of the pond (and Mandelson hasn’t started yet)
I am genuinely interested in finding out exactly how Wes Streeting plans to fix the NHS, making it ‘fit for the future’, when the plan essentially involves spending a lot less cash on it.
Didn’t the Tories defund the NHS, leaving it intentionally vulnerable to private sector vultures?
The NHS was a massive issue during last year’s general election campaign. Seven months later, has Streeting said anything to you that makes you think he is the right person — and Labour is the right government — to fix the NHS?
The Labour health secretary doesn’t sound any different to a Conservative health secretary. The talk of “cutting back on overspending” and “difficult decisions” is straight out of the Conservative Party ‘How to destroy the NHS’ playbook..
Wes Streeting’s pronouncements are doomed to fail. The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, and that’s exactly where we are with Streeting and the tried, tested and failed ideologies of days gone by.
Anyway, it’s five years on since Brexit day, so I’m off to spend a bit of my hard-earned sovereignty on some of that less expensive food that was promised to us by the tragic waste of a pulse, Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Featured image via Rachael Swindon
