1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:09,160 Epstein Chronicles. By any standard of political judgment, cure Starmer's 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,599 decision to bring Peter and Mandelssohn back into the corridors 4 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:16,480 of power is unforgivable. We're not talking about a small misstep. 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,359 It's not a minor lapse in judgment. It's a flashing 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,039 neon sign that the Prime Minister is unfit for the 7 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,920 office that he holds. By appointing Mandelssyn's Starmer hasn't just 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:31,719 shown poor taste. He's demonstrated an alarming disregard for integrity, accountability, 9 00:00:31,879 --> 00:00:35,439 and the very people he is supposed to serve. Peter 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,600 Mandelssohn is not a neutral figure. He's not some benign 11 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:42,320 statesman brought in for his wisdom. He's the embodiment of 12 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:45,719 the back room politics and corrosive cronyism that helps shatter 13 00:00:45,799 --> 00:00:49,479 the public's faith in Westminster in the first place. His 14 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,200 name is synonymous with sleeves, triangulation and the kind of 15 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,439 deal making that puts the interest of insiders above those 16 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,119 of ordinary citizens. To elevate him is to send a 17 00:01:00,159 --> 00:01:03,200 message that nothing has been learned, nothing has been changed, 18 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:06,400 and the political class is still determined or recycle its 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,239 most tainted operatives while the country cries out for something new. Now, 20 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,400 for Starmer to open the doors of government to Mandelssohn 21 00:01:14,599 --> 00:01:17,840 is not only tone deaf, it's politically suicidal. At a 22 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:21,400 time when trust in institutions is scraping the floor, when 23 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,480 millions of people are disillusioned with politics as usual, he's 24 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,200 chosen to embrace the very symbol of the rot. The 25 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:33,159 timing is as offensive as the act itself. Britain is 26 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,920 staring down crisis on every front, economic uncertainty, social fracture, 27 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,680 international instability, and the Prime Minister's answer is to summon 28 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,200 a relic of the worst kind of politics back into 29 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,439 the fold. Now, this appointment lays bears Starmer's character, or 30 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,359 rather his lack of it. It shows him for what 31 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:56,040 he is, not a leader of conviction, not a man 32 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,719 of principle, but a political operator, more interested in stitching 33 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:04,680 together alliances with discredited power brokers then an offering real change. 34 00:02:05,159 --> 00:02:08,479 The appointment is not a mistake born of ignorance. It's 35 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:12,960 a choice born of calculation, and that calculation reveals a 36 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,080 hollowness at the heart of his leadership and let us 37 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,360 be blunt. The public sees it too. The fury this 38 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:22,280 is unleashed is no mystery. People are sick of it. 39 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,159 They're tired of watching their leaders wrap themselves in the 40 00:02:26,199 --> 00:02:29,280 same stained cloak of inside our politics, as if the 41 00:02:29,319 --> 00:02:33,439 failures of the past never happened. Mandelsshn is not some 42 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,199 brilliant strategist waiting to be rediscovered. He's a warning sign. 43 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,840 He's a living reminder of why faith in Westminster collapsed 44 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,680 in the first place. By appointing Mandelssohn's Starmer has taken 45 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,919 ownership of that legacy of sleeves. It's his now. Every 46 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,120 word that drips from Mandelssohn's mouth, every whisper of scandal 47 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:56,000 that follows them, will cling not only to Mandelsh himself, 48 00:02:56,159 --> 00:02:59,719 but to the Prime Minister who legitimized them. It's a 49 00:02:59,759 --> 00:03:03,840 self inflicted wound and it might be politically mortal. So 50 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,879 what now? The answer is simple. Starmer must resign, not tomorrow, 51 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,080 not next week. Now. He cannot continue as Prime Minister 52 00:03:13,439 --> 00:03:17,719 after making such a reckless, insulting choice. Britain needs leadership 53 00:03:17,719 --> 00:03:22,560 that inspires confidence not discussed. The English need a government 54 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:27,240 that signals renewal, not regression. Starmer has proven that he's 55 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,680 incapable of providing it. If the Prime Minister truly cares 56 00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:34,599 about the country and not just about clinging to power, 57 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,000 he will accept that his decision has destroyed his credibility 58 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,840 beyond repair. The public does not want mandelssh anywhere in 59 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,400 your power, and they certainly don't want a prime minister 60 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:50,000 who thought bringing back Mandelsshn was acceptable. Cure. Starmer's time 61 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,360 is up. He walked into Downing Street promising to be different. 62 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:56,919 By bringing Mandelssyn back, he is proven he is anything but. 63 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,520 The betrayal is complete, the mask is slip, and the 64 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:04,599 damage is irreversible. The honorable thing left for him to 65 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:08,199 do is step down before the people do it for him. 66 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,000 Today's article is from The Independent, and the headline Starmer 67 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:16,319 breaks silence over Mandlssoon's sacking. Had I known what I 68 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,199 know now, I'd have never appointed him. Bro, you knew. 69 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,759 What are you even talking about right now? All these 70 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,279 people with the oh I didn't knows, You knew, you 71 00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:28,839 didn't care. You just happened to get caught. This article 72 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:34,480 was authored by David Maddox and Millie Cook, Sir Kiris 73 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,040 Starmer insisted he would never have appointed Peter Mandelsson as 74 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,560 US ambassador if he had known the full extent of 75 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,079 his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, in his first public comments 76 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,879 since the sacking of the Labor Peer. As he sought 77 00:04:47,879 --> 00:04:50,639 to get back on the front foot after his Phase 78 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,240 two plan for government got off to a chaotic start, 79 00:04:53,399 --> 00:04:56,240 the Prime Minister attempted to move on from the fiasco 80 00:04:56,759 --> 00:05:01,439 hours before Donald Trump's historic second state visit. So there's 81 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,120 all kinds of stuff going on right now, right over 82 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,120 in the UK. They're fired up. They just had a 83 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,680 big ass rally on Saturday, and of course the media 84 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,920 said there was only one hundred and ten thousand people there, 85 00:05:13,399 --> 00:05:16,079 but some of the videos I saw seem like a 86 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:19,639 lot more people than that. So I'm guessing it's somewhere 87 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,439 in the middle. Right, you had one side, the people 88 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,160 that put the rally together. They were talking about three 89 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,839 million people and maybe it was. I don't know. I'm 90 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,360 not locked into British politics that way, but I will 91 00:05:31,399 --> 00:05:33,079 tell you this, it was more than one hundred and 92 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,959 ten thousand people. And people are pissed off, people are 93 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:40,519 fired up, and people have had enough. And then you 94 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,839 add this on top of it, this kind of decision 95 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:48,000 making Starmer's in for it. But even as he tried 96 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,839 to bolster his position, he was rocked by yet another 97 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,120 resignation when Kiaid Paul Ovinden quit his head of strategy 98 00:05:55,319 --> 00:05:58,720 in a fresh scandal over obscene emails about veteran MP 99 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,439 Diane Abbott. So, listen, Americans, if you thought we were 100 00:06:02,439 --> 00:06:06,000 the only ones that were being hampered by ineffective leadership 101 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,079 by people who didn't give a fuck, you're crazy happening everywhere. 102 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,720 There's too many people that are in politics that care 103 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,759 about themselves and not about anybody else. And we have 104 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,079 a situation where these people get into politics and they 105 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,759 become rich. That was never supposed to be the way 106 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:27,360 it worked. It was supposed to be your neighbor who 107 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,600 runs for Congress or somebody in your district. Now you 108 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,360 have lawyers and doctors and that's pretty much it. And 109 00:06:33,439 --> 00:06:35,920 of course none of these people have any idea what 110 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:38,920 the rest of us are going through, so they live 111 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,360 in their bubble and then when some shit like this happens, 112 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,000 they act all surprised. Well, breaking news bro spending time 113 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,199 with Jeffrey Epstein and accepting money from him and calling 114 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,000 him your bestie. It's not going to get it done anymore. 115 00:06:52,399 --> 00:06:54,920 And when that kind of stuff comes out, people are 116 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,560 going to demand accountability and they should. On Monday night, 117 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:03,240 amid calls from some backbenchers for Sir Kir to resign, 118 00:07:03,639 --> 00:07:06,839 the Prime Minister insisted he would not quit, adding I'm 119 00:07:06,879 --> 00:07:09,480 absolutely clear what the task is in front of me. 120 00:07:09,839 --> 00:07:14,360 The dramatic developments came as Nigel Frag pressed home as 121 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,920 Pole advantage by unveiling the first affection of a sitting 122 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,240 MP to reform. Now, all of this is English politics 123 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:22,920 and I'm not going to get too deep into it 124 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,120 because I don't know enough about it, but I'll give 125 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,639 you the bullet points. Questions were raised about Lord Mandelson's 126 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,920 dynamite Epstein emails landed on the PM's desk. Labour MPs 127 00:07:33,959 --> 00:07:38,160 publicly and privately suggested Sir Kir could be out in months, 128 00:07:38,279 --> 00:07:42,680 with one minister calling him screwed. Tory MP David Davis 129 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,920 secured a parliamentary debate on Lord Mandelsson's appointment as ambassador 130 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,439 to the US. The three hour emergency debate will take 131 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,959 place on Tuesday afternoon and see Kira's government grilled over precisely, 132 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,480 who knew what about Lord Mandelsson's relationship with Epstein and 133 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,319 when it will see further pressure piled on the already 134 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:08,839 struggling PM. Well guess what you put him in that position? Right? 135 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:13,120 You made that decision. Now you got to answer for it. Meanwhile, 136 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,519 two of Britain's leading pollsters warrant Labor is facing even 137 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:20,199 worse problems with voters, with one suggesting the party is 138 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:23,720 yet to hit rock bottom with the crisis over Lord 139 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:27,079 Mandelsshon throwing serious questions on his judgment as Prime Minister. 140 00:08:27,439 --> 00:08:31,040 Sir Ekir held a morning meeting with his junior ministers 141 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,720 in Downing Street to rally the troops. Well here's an idea, 142 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:38,320 just be truthful. I know it's very difficult for these people, 143 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,120 but if you're just truthful and you tell us what's 144 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:44,600 going on, then you're gonna be a lot better off 145 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,159 later on down the road. It might suck at first, 146 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:49,720 but people are going to realize, Look, at least his 147 00:08:49,799 --> 00:08:52,919 motherfucker was transparent, came out and told us right away 148 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,440 what the deal was. But no, it's always obfuscation. It's 149 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,480 always kicking the can down the road, and it's always denied, denied, deny. 150 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,919 In the afternoon, he came out to address the concerns 151 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,279 which had been raised about the Lord Mandelsson debacle and 152 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,799 what he knew before appointing him as ambassador to the 153 00:09:09,919 --> 00:09:13,600 US and then standing by him at PMQ's last Wednesday, 154 00:09:14,279 --> 00:09:17,879 before ultimately sacking the Labor peer on Thursday. And that's 155 00:09:17,919 --> 00:09:20,759 the problem. He doubled down on the support, right, you 156 00:09:20,799 --> 00:09:22,600 can't trop this dude out and be like, oh, yeah, 157 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,000 I support him, and then flip the script a few 158 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:28,879 weeks later and act like you didn't know what was 159 00:09:28,919 --> 00:09:32,879 going on. You knew, you didn't care. You care now 160 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:35,200 because you're getting your ass whipped in the polls. But 161 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:38,639 besides that, you didn't give one single shit. Maybe you 162 00:09:38,639 --> 00:09:41,200 guys should stop focusing on what people are typing on 163 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,000 the internet over in the UK and start focusing on 164 00:09:44,039 --> 00:09:47,120 the shit that matters. He insisted he would have never 165 00:09:47,159 --> 00:09:50,519 appointed Lord Mandelson had I known then what I know 166 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:53,759 now in his first comments in sacking him over his 167 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,279 links to Jeffrey Epstein. We all knew previously about Mandelsson. 168 00:09:57,879 --> 00:10:01,240 We've been talking about Mandelshon for years, So don't act 169 00:10:01,279 --> 00:10:05,320 like you didn't know it's such bullshit and it's disrespectful 170 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,320 to the British people. He said. The nature and extent 171 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,960 of the relationship between the convicted pedophile and Lord Mandelssohn 172 00:10:13,039 --> 00:10:15,840 is far different to what I understood to be the 173 00:10:15,879 --> 00:10:18,919 position at the point of the appointment. What a bunch 174 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:23,440 of googly gawkhah. See. What had happened was shut your mouth, bro, 175 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:26,559 you're bs in, You're a lion. You're not telling the 176 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,639 people of England the truth. And at some point they're 177 00:10:30,639 --> 00:10:33,399 going to have enough, and I think that point is 178 00:10:33,519 --> 00:10:37,919 approaching very quickly. Ask why he had been appointed in 179 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:40,960 the first place, Sir Kira said, Peter Mandelssh before he 180 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:44,639 was appointed, went through a due diligence process, that's the 181 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,039 propriety in ethics team. He went through the process and 182 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:52,600 therefore I knew of his association with Epstein. But you 183 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:56,000 hired him anyway. You appointed him anyway because you know 184 00:10:56,039 --> 00:11:00,559 it wasn't that bad breaking news. Okay, Whenever if somebody's 185 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,360 outed as Jeffrey Epstein's friend, what you're hearing is only 186 00:11:04,399 --> 00:11:07,360 the tip of the iceberg, and inevitably we always hear 187 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,960 more news about how close they were or about a 188 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,279 business dealer or whatever. It's never what it seems. But 189 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,039 had I known that then what I know now, I'd 190 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,440 have never appointed him. Because what emerged last week were emails, 191 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,799 Bloomberg emails which showed that the nature and extent of 192 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,279 the relationship that Peter Mandelsson had with Epstein was far 193 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,039 different to what I had understood to be the position 194 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,360 when I appointed him, which is such bs we all 195 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,559 knew if my dumb ass knew had a new know 196 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:39,559 mister Starmer. On top of that, the email showed that 197 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:42,639 he was not only questioning but wanting to challenge the 198 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:46,159 conviction of Epstein at the time. For me, went and 199 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,919 cut across the whole approach that I've taken on violence 200 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:54,279 against women and girls for many years and this government's approach. Yeah, 201 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,279 what about those grooming gangs? Any comment on that, mister Starmer. 202 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,360 How about the little girl that had the axe and 203 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:05,120 the knife defending herself up in Scotland. I mean, come on, 204 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,519 we got problems over here in the UK. It's not 205 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,600 just America, folks, believe it. There's something going on. There 206 00:12:12,759 --> 00:12:15,960 is something in the air, and it's worldwide. There's a 207 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,480 lot of upheople and if these governments aren't careful. She 208 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,120 can go south real quick. Keep in mind that when 209 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,639 people have nothing left to lose, they lose it. But 210 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:30,159 as he tried to address the Mandelsyn crisis, mister Ovenden, 211 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,960 a long standing member of his staff, was leaving Downing 212 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,720 Street over revelations he had sent emails that used explicit 213 00:12:36,759 --> 00:12:41,600 sexual language about Miss Abbot. Number ten spokesperson said these 214 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:45,639 messages are appalling and unacceptable. As a first black woman 215 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:49,000 to be elected to Parliament, Diane Abbott is a trailblazer 216 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,440 who has faced horrendous abuse throughout her political career. These 217 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:55,519 kinds of comments have no place in our politics. I 218 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:57,720 have no idea about any of that, so I'm not 219 00:12:57,759 --> 00:13:01,320 going to comment. With Labor losing seats to Reform in 220 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:04,960 three council by elections last week, there was a feeling 221 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,600 that the wheels are in danger of coming off. Polster 222 00:13:08,759 --> 00:13:12,320 Robert Hayward noted that postal voting means last week's council 223 00:13:12,399 --> 00:13:16,039 by elections would not have fully reflected the scandals which 224 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,720 led to the resignation of Angela Rayner as Deputy Prime 225 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:24,519 Minister over her tax affairs and Lord Mandelson sacking a 226 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,159 whole ass scandal going on over here, and there's no 227 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:31,080 way that Starmer is going to survive it, he told 228 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,279 The Independent. Those two events will have a significant impact 229 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,559 on the polls going forward. Last week's results were bad, 230 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,360 but labor has not hit rock bottom yet, and I 231 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:44,080 think that is going to be very, very, very difficult 232 00:13:44,159 --> 00:13:47,600 for some people to swallow. Right, you have a bunch 233 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,879 of people that are out here pushing a narrative for 234 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,440 how long and now the people are rejecting that narrative 235 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,639 and they're doing it wholesale. And it's not just in 236 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,080 the UK, it's in America too, And that's why I'm 237 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:03,200 talking about this feeling of change on the wind, and 238 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:04,600 I know a lot of you out there feel it 239 00:14:04,639 --> 00:14:10,080 two from the emails I've had with you, folks. Something's coming. Meanwhile, 240 00:14:10,159 --> 00:14:13,600 Professor John Curtis noted all three reform games were on 241 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:17,039 a round thirty percent of the vote. That's often enough 242 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,200 to win in our fractured politics. So they don't have 243 00:14:20,399 --> 00:14:23,159 just two parties over there, right, They have other things 244 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,320 going on and things are different with the way that 245 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:30,720 they go about their elections. Meanwhile, mister farrag with a 246 00:14:30,759 --> 00:14:35,279 ten point poll lead, for Reform over Labor unveiled the 247 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,279 first sitting Tory MP to defect to him, with Danny 248 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,720 Krueger switching his party. But even with Kemy bad Knock's 249 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,080 leadership of the Tories in free fall, Labor MPs were 250 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,320 more concerned about their own leader and whether he could survive. 251 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,639 Some suggested Sircuir could be gone, while others said he 252 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,799 has until next May's elections in English councils and the 253 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,399 Scottish and Welsh Parliament to turn it around. Labor Norwich 254 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,720 South m P Clive Lewis warned on Friday that Sirkre 255 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,840 doesn't seem up to the job, which fellow MP Graham 256 00:15:07,879 --> 00:15:10,799 Stringer said, the Prime Minister is sipping in the last 257 00:15:10,879 --> 00:15:15,000 chance saloon. I agree with that, not about this other 258 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:17,840 stuff because I don't know, but the Epstein stuff. Bringing 259 00:15:17,879 --> 00:15:22,600 mandelssh in one of the worst decisions ever. There was 260 00:15:22,639 --> 00:15:25,879 speculation that mister Stringer may step down to allow Greater 261 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,279 Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to replace him so he could 262 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,120 replace Sir Kere. Speaking to Channel four News on Monday night, 263 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,879 Sir Kere was asked whether he would quit if the 264 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,759 party felt it was necessary. The Prime Minister responded no, 265 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,039 because I'm absolutely clear what the task is in front 266 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,720 of me. We have a cross roads really in terms 267 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,960 of the future of this country. We go forward with 268 00:15:48,039 --> 00:15:52,000 Labor for National renewal, a patriotic call about this country 269 00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:55,679 and taking this country forward true patriotism, or we have 270 00:15:55,759 --> 00:15:59,080 the vision and decline under reform. Oh, I'm sure it's 271 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,360 that easy. I'm sure one side bad, other side good. 272 00:16:02,919 --> 00:16:05,080 Same kind of framing they try here in America. But 273 00:16:05,159 --> 00:16:08,279 we all know that shit's nuanced. It's the uniparty. Really, 274 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,840 at the end of the day, does anyone really care 275 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:15,279 about us? We all know the answer. Sir Kirr also 276 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,799 told the broadcaster he was angry to have been put 277 00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:20,519 in the position to sack Mandelson, adding it would have 278 00:16:20,519 --> 00:16:23,399 been better if the detailed alegations had been put before 279 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,919 him before PMQ's last Wednesday. Here's an idea, do your 280 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,440 due diligence, mister Prime Minister. Have the MI five take 281 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,200 a look. That's what they're there for. Right. Meanwhile, latest 282 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:41,200 polling by Servation on Labour's deputy leader found Lucy Powell 283 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,960 had the support of almost forty seven percent of members, 284 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,279 ahead of Bridget Phillipson, who is seen as Keres favored candidate, 285 00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:51,720 back by thirty percent. So look, I don't think he's 286 00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:54,559 going to be able to survive this. With how volatile 287 00:16:54,679 --> 00:16:57,320 English politics are right now, they're looking for any reason 288 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,639 to get rid of Starmer and this presents the perfect reason. 289 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,400 So like usual, we'll see where it all goes as 290 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,599 the radioactive fallout moves across the pond. All of the 291 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,720 information that goes with this episode can be found in 292 00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:14,640 the description box. What's up everyone, and welcome to another 293 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:19,079 episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Joe Exotic of the Windsor 294 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,000 family is being pressed from all sides, and at this 295 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,400 point this buffoon has absolutely nowhere left to crawl. The 296 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,079 walls aren't just closing in, they're collapsing like cheap scaffolding 297 00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:34,079 at a discount construction site. Every escape route he thought 298 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:36,839 he had has turned into a brick wall, and even 299 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,359 the usual lifelines he's relied on since birth are snapping 300 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,920 one by one, and the spotlight is roasting his bitch 301 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,319 ass like a rotisserie chicken. And for the first time 302 00:17:47,319 --> 00:17:51,000 in his over pampered, under functioning life, he doesn't have 303 00:17:51,079 --> 00:17:55,200 anyone to hide behind. Not only is the Royal family 304 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,839 finally done pretending is idiocy is quirky or charming instead 305 00:17:58,839 --> 00:18:02,279 of predatory empathetic, but now the UK government has tossed 306 00:18:02,319 --> 00:18:05,799 their own top hat onto the pile, announcing to the 307 00:18:05,839 --> 00:18:08,799 world that maybe, just maybe it's time old and he 308 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,079 sits down for a thoughtful little chat with the authorities. 309 00:18:12,279 --> 00:18:15,839 In the United States, you can practically hear the panic 310 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,880 rattling around in that hollow skull like loose change and 311 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,440 a dryer, And of course mister bean stunned double wants 312 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:25,079 nothing to do with it, because what exactly is he 313 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,839 supposed to say? Well, what's the plan here? Flash that awkward, 314 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,640 constipated half smile and repeat, Actually you see, I don't 315 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,359 sweat throughout another I was at Pizza Express and woking 316 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,480 like it's the nuclear launch code. That shit might have 317 00:18:39,559 --> 00:18:43,039 worked on the soft BBC interviewer, but good luck running 318 00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:45,279 that routine when the g men show up ready to 319 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:48,640 give you a metaphorical colonoscopy with all the lights turned 320 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:53,079 on and the camera's rolling. And what absolutely destroys me 321 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,359 the comedy gold at the center of this circus is 322 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,440 the way all these stiff upper lip high society. Doucheburgers 323 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,599 are so acting like any of this is shocking, like 324 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,759 it's breaking news, like it's some shocking twist in a 325 00:19:05,799 --> 00:19:10,200 series finale none of us saw coming. These fools are 326 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,960 performing outrage like they're auditioning for Shakespeare. Hand on chest, 327 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,640 eyes wide, gasping, like someone just told them the earth 328 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,319 is round and the words of Sebastian Man of Scalco. 329 00:19:20,839 --> 00:19:24,559 These people are out here pretending they just discovered fire, 330 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,000 when the rest of us have been watching this bonfire 331 00:19:27,079 --> 00:19:30,759 blaze for damn near two decades. They're acting like the 332 00:19:30,759 --> 00:19:33,599 Epstein connection fell out of the sky last week, when 333 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,079 every single person with a functioning frontal lobe has known 334 00:19:37,079 --> 00:19:40,599 that this guy was radioactive long before the BBC interview. 335 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,799 This ignoramus has always been the questionable relative nobody wanted 336 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:49,440 to leave their kids alone with. He's always radiated that 337 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:53,200 uncle touchy energy like a malfunctioning neon sign buzzin' in 338 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,000 a dark alley on forty deuce in the old days, 339 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,960 if you needed a headline to tell you that you 340 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,440 weren't paying attention, or you were choosing not to. And 341 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,000 now here comes the freshly discovered moral outrage. Arriving twenty 342 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:10,599 years late like a drunk uncle stumbling into Christmas, drunker 343 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:15,759 than Cooter Brown. Suddenly everyone's a crusader. Suddenly everybody who 344 00:20:15,839 --> 00:20:19,160 sat quiet for years is sprinting the microphones to declare 345 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,519 how appalled they are, how disappointed they feel, how they 346 00:20:22,559 --> 00:20:25,960 could never have imagined. Come on, these are the same 347 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:30,480 hypocrites that were laughing off accusations, defending them, covering for them, 348 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,839 and hugging them in photo ops five minutes ago. They knew, 349 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,680 they all knew. They just didn't care until the wind 350 00:20:36,799 --> 00:20:40,160 changed direction and the public started to refuse to play along, 351 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,640 And the second that they felt the temperature shift, boom 352 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:48,359 outrage instant morality fully microwaved and served steam and hot. 353 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:53,440 If there were awards for performative indignation, they'd sweep the category. 354 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,119 But for the handful of us who have been screaming 355 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,880 this truth from the rooftops for years while getting told 356 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,440 to shut up, calm down, and stop being dramatic, the 357 00:21:01,559 --> 00:21:04,759 vindication is hitting like a cold beer after a brutal day. 358 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,720 Because this stank ass, goofy ass, poorly tailored brain cell 359 00:21:08,759 --> 00:21:12,480 optional degenerate has looked guilty from day one, In my opinion, 360 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,960 he hasn't changed. The only thing that changed is that 361 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,720 people finally ran out of places to stash the truth. 362 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:22,079 And watching the world finally catch up, watching the rug 363 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:24,799 get yanked out from under the people who thought they 364 00:21:24,799 --> 00:21:29,359 were untouchable, Well that part feels like justice warming up 365 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,920 in the bullpen. This article was published by Fox News 366 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:36,759 and the headline UK Prime minister suggests former Prince Andrew 367 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,720 should testify an Epstein investigation. Well, that's a good suggestion, 368 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,480 probably one he should listen to. One he's definitely not 369 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:47,920 going to listen to. Though. Prince Andrew is not the 370 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,079 kind of guy that takes good advice. Come on, he's 371 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:53,920 too honorable for that. He'd much rather stay over at 372 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,559 Jeffrey Epstein's pad than take good advice. This article was 373 00:21:58,599 --> 00:22:04,160 authored by Anders Nagstrom. UK Prime Minister Kira Starmer suggested 374 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,319 Monday that former Prince Andrew should testify in the US 375 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:12,480 investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Imagine having to be told to 376 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:16,160 do that. Imagine being a grown ass adult and knowing 377 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,640 you were around this dude this much, knowing you went 378 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,160 over there and had a nice little hangout where you 379 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,960 guys watched the King's speech. You remember the time, Andrew, 380 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,880 don't you? And imagine not speaking to the authorities and 381 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,680 acting like you have no idea what's happening, like you 382 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,240 have never been around this dude, like you weren't in 383 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,440 the picture with Virginia, Like your dumbass fingers are too 384 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,039 fat to be your actual fingers in that picture. I mean, 385 00:22:40,039 --> 00:22:43,599 come on, So, if anybody thought that this dude was 386 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,559 ever going to speak with anyone in authority about what 387 00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:49,720 went down, you're crazy. That was never in the cards. 388 00:22:50,039 --> 00:22:54,079 I mean, if Alfred there Great was resurrected tomorrow and 389 00:22:54,279 --> 00:22:57,519 ordered Prince Andrew to speak to the FBI, Andrew would 390 00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:01,720 rather face the consequences than speak to the FBI. That's 391 00:23:01,759 --> 00:23:04,079 how bad it is for this dude, and he knows it. 392 00:23:05,519 --> 00:23:08,160 Starmer made the comment to reporters while traveling to a 393 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,839 G twenty summit in Johannesburg on Monday, though he declined 394 00:23:11,839 --> 00:23:15,880 to comment on the former prince's case directly. Well, he 395 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,640 has to split the baby, right. He can't get the 396 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,200 aristocracy to Matt Adam, so he has to kind of 397 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,759 measure his words. I don't comment on his particular case, 398 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:28,799 Starmer said, but as a general principle I've held for 399 00:23:28,839 --> 00:23:31,599 a very long time is that anybody who has got 400 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,240 relevant information in relation to these kinds of cases should 401 00:23:35,279 --> 00:23:38,240 give that evidence to those that need it. And that's 402 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,440 just a basic outlook on life. I mean, I'm not 403 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:44,519 somebody that likes to speak to the police. Let me 404 00:23:44,559 --> 00:23:47,119 tell you where I'm from. Last thing you want to 405 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,720 do that usually ends bad for everybody involved. But if 406 00:23:51,759 --> 00:23:54,519 you're hanging out with somebody who's a human trafficker and 407 00:23:54,559 --> 00:23:57,279 you have nothing to hide and they're outed as that 408 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,839 kind of scumbag, you don't go run into the police 409 00:23:59,839 --> 00:24:02,240 and say, hey, look I knew so and so from 410 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,839 a business arrangement. I was never around him for his escapades, 411 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,599 but maybe I saw something. Is there somebody I can 412 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,000 talk to? Like what sort of decent human being doesn't 413 00:24:12,039 --> 00:24:14,960 do that? And look, I'm not talking about getting involved 414 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,599 in every altercation you see or every beef you see. 415 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:24,079 But this is something different. This is something much different 416 00:24:24,559 --> 00:24:28,359 than your usual issue, right, you know, calling your neighbors 417 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,160 playing the music too loud, or your neighbors smoking some 418 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:34,599 pot that makes you a snitch, that makes you, you know, 419 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,759 somebody who is let me speak to the manager type. Right, 420 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,839 But if you're around this shit and you're seeing what's 421 00:24:41,839 --> 00:24:45,839 going on as a decent human, don't you say to yourself, Hey, man, 422 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,480 I have daughters, and if anyone did this to my daughter, 423 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,200 I'd go fucking bananas. But no, we don't get that 424 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,279 from Andrew. Just more lies and then now just silence 425 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,920 Starmer's comments. After the US House Oversight Committee requested that 426 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,759 the royal, who is now known as Andrew mount Batton Winsor, 427 00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:11,200 submit to a transcribed interview regarding his long relationship with Epstein, 428 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,720 he is so far ignored the request. Does he get 429 00:25:15,759 --> 00:25:17,920 service out in the middle of the wilderness or wherever 430 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,440 he's at? That might be his next excuse, I didn't 431 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,119 have phone service out here. You banish me too far away, 432 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,559 Prince Andrew, Fucking Pluto isn't far enough away. If we 433 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,400 banish this dude to Pluto at eight by nine o'clock, 434 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,559 the Plutonians would be on Earth pissed off that we 435 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,759 sent this dude there. There is literally nowhere in the 436 00:25:37,839 --> 00:25:41,920 universe where somebody like Prince Andrew is going to be accepted. Well, 437 00:25:42,079 --> 00:25:47,640 maybe the UAE representative Robert Garcia of California. The committee's 438 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,880 ranking Democrat and representative, Suja Submarinean, accused the disgraced royal 439 00:25:53,039 --> 00:25:56,039 of trying to hide from the investigation. Well, what about 440 00:25:56,279 --> 00:26:00,279 Stacey Plaskett, your own colleague, any comments about that? Tough guys? 441 00:26:01,079 --> 00:26:03,559 Oh yeah, let's go after Prince Andrew the low hanging fruit. 442 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,599 And believe me when I tell you I enjoy it. 443 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,839 If anyone deserves it, it's his bitch ass. But you 444 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,960 got people like Robert Garcia and Suha Submaranium and they're 445 00:26:13,079 --> 00:26:16,400 out here playing this performative bullshit. How about you hold 446 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,880 your own colleague accountable for her nonsense. Anyone who acts 447 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,119 like what she was up to it wasn't bad, is crazy. 448 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,559 What Stacy Plaskett was engaging in, that should be a 449 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:29,200 fireable offense. And if she was in the private sector, 450 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,880 it would be the only reason that she's not packing 451 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,039 her shit right now is because she's in government and 452 00:26:35,079 --> 00:26:37,680 we all know how they rally around their people. Right 453 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,960 if you're wearing the right jersey, you will you can 454 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,640 do no wrong that goes for both sides. By the way, 455 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,839 the work will move forward with or without them, and 456 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,279 we will hold anyone who was involved in these crimes accountable, 457 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,759 no matter their wealth, status or political party. They said 458 00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:55,880 in his statement released on Friday, we'll get justice for 459 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,440 the survivors. Well start with Stacy Plasket. She's already been 460 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,720 sued by the survivors and she was saved by the court. 461 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,799 Jurisdictional nonsense, you know, the usual loopholes and technicalities that 462 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,920 these people rely on. But I'm not going to let 463 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,359 up on the whole Stacey Plasket issue, and I don't 464 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,359 think you should either. It's really a litmus test, honestly, 465 00:27:16,599 --> 00:27:19,119 when you can hold people that might be from your 466 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,079 party or a party you align with, accountable, that's a 467 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,759 litmus test. Are you in the bunker or aren't you? 468 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,960 Are you hanging out in the very last days in 469 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,400 Berlin and that bunker as the echo chamber surrounds you 470 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,160 about how great things are? Or are you one of 471 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,359 the people that sees the writing on the wall and says, 472 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,000 you know, what fucking wrong is wrong? Enough is enough? 473 00:27:40,319 --> 00:27:42,240 And I would hope that anyone that's listening to this 474 00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:46,279 podcast is on that train, because if not, you're going 475 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,160 to be sorely disappointed with a rhetoric that's coming from me. 476 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,079 Because if you think I'm going to choose one side 477 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,160 or the other when they're both complicit. You got another 478 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,319 thing coming. Like I've told you before, there's nobody coming 479 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,680 to save us. There's no cavalry, there's no hero, There's 480 00:28:01,759 --> 00:28:06,920 just us. King Charles IID formally removed the style and 481 00:28:07,039 --> 00:28:11,079 titles and honors of Prince Andrew in late October. His 482 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,839 lease on Royal Lodge has to date provided him with 483 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,920 legal protection to continue in residence. Buckingham Palace announced in 484 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,640 his statement formal notice has now been served to surrender 485 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,559 the lease and he will leave to alternative private accommodation. 486 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,640 Oh yeah, private that the King's paying for private would 487 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,079 be like me or you, you know, shalling out rent 488 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,480 every month or a mortgage or whatever it might be. Yeah, 489 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,759 he's not doing that. Bro is getting taken care of 490 00:28:38,839 --> 00:28:42,319 once again. Basically paid to go away because he's such 491 00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:45,480 a jerk off, the modern day equivalent of being sent 492 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:51,559 to timbucktoo. The Palace said the censures are deemed necessary 493 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,960 notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations 494 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,799 against him. Andrew announced October seventeenth that he was relinquishing 495 00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:03,519 Duke of York title after the publication of an unauthorized 496 00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:07,960 biography by British author Andrew Lowney entitled The Rise and 497 00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:10,920 Fall of the House of York in August. And I'll 498 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,160 tell you what, Andrew Lowney absolutely killed it with his book. 499 00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:18,079 He did great research, had a bunch of great angles, 500 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,440 and if you want to read something or listen to 501 00:29:20,519 --> 00:29:24,000 it on audible, I would highly suggest picking it up 502 00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:27,039 because he definitely knows what he's talking about, and he's 503 00:29:27,079 --> 00:29:30,119 locked in. And as far as Prince Andrew goes, or 504 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,200 the Artist formerly known as Prince Andrew, or the Diddler 505 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,799 formerly known as Prince Andrew, I guess is more apt. 506 00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:41,799 His troubles are just beginning because the predator has now 507 00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:44,880 become the prey. All of the information that goes with 508 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,400 this episode can be found in the description box.