A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.

The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.

Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.

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    13 days ago

    Or, they get a new party and win with it. Isn’t Corbyn starting a new one? They just need a more populist, more cut throat type of Corbyn to lead the new party.

    Because with this labour party in charge Reform is getting in, pretending they aren’t betraying the country while they cancel the magna carta isn’t going to change that.

    And indeed starmer already did more damage than the tories did in over a decade. They are really taking this lesser of two dickheads strategy to an extreme just as it’s reaching it’s doomed to fail moment.

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      13 days ago

      Corbyn‘s new party called Your Party was founded a few months ago. It’s a sectarian leftist party, already split between woke activists, socially conservative Muslims, and communist entryists.

      The leaders Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn hate and work against each other openly.

      Some important members are jumping ship and go to the Greens.

      read some guardian articles on it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/your-party

      Watch the party convention to get an idea of the culture.

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        12 days ago

        The Guardian is very openly pro-Lib Dem, actively participated in the slander campaign against Corbyn including the one where a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was deemed an anti-semite to try and taint Corbyn by association and its columnists very openly say of themselves as being “Opinion Makers”.

        These people are the very opposite of a trustworthy and unbiased news source when it comes to left-wing politics in Britain, with the notable exception of Monbiot and Owen Jones.

        Sourcing your “information” about internals of left-wing parties from traditionally propagandist hard-neoliberal news media is almost as bad as sourcing it from fascist tabloids.

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      13 days ago

      And indeed starmer already did more damage than the tories did in over a decade.

      Sorry but what is that opinion based on?

      As a Brit I can assure you that a) he has absolutely most certainly not done more than the previous Tory governments to mess the country up. Lizz Truss, for only a single example, ruined the economy in 40 odd days. b) the prevailing opinion is not that he has been worse than the Tories. The reason many people say they want to vote Reform is precisely because they are a right wing party that are not the Tories.

      I’m very curious as to what you think his government has done that is worse than the 14 years of austerity, wrecked public finances, crumbling infrastructure and over population that the Tories provided? Obviously you are entitled to an opinion but I struggle to see what facts it could be based on.