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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah because the pedophile cabal has been protecting each other and empowering each other for decades.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Pedophilia is only one of the crimes for which they protect each other. It's an elite-impunity cabal. That's what we need to break.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm astonished that both the royal family and Starmer are surviving this. UK politics almost as useless as the US.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

They found the perfect scapegoat in prince Andrew "we didn't know, fuck him. Now move on"

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

From what I’ve heard from politics reporters, Starmer has been a dead man waling since Galton &. Denton. The reasons he’s not yet gone are a) Labour don’t want to go through the messiness of a change of leader just before elections, and b) they need someone they can get rid of after they’re wiped out in the upcoming elections

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

He's such a tosser stuffed into his suits looking like a confused pheasant

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago

Because Israel and the CIA put a lot of time and effort into the wealthy of the UK as well as the US.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 17 points 6 days ago

You might think that the country that made sure Jimmy Savile died free with a smile on his face would have learned the lesson not to protect and empower sexual predators, but you would be wrong.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They put him there because they knew tramp would like him and get along over common interests :/ not a good look either, but makes a little bit more sense than simply appointing the worst person you know.

[–] Dotdashdot@feddit.uk 6 points 6 days ago

Or he bribed his way into the job knowing he’d make a ton more money with the info he’d feed his mates.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Mandelson was one of the main instigators of the cabal that drove Corbyn out as Labour leader and installed Starmer. McSweeney was a Mandelson protege.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

(Thankfully.)