United Kingdom<p>Donald Trump’s UK state visit set for September — when MPs are away – POLITICO</p><p>The high-profile visit coincides with a U.K. parliamentary recess — potentially helping sidestep a diplomatic row. Britain’s MPs,…<br><a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Americas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Americas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EmmanuelMacron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmmanuelMacron</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/exports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exports</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreatBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatBritain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/KateOsborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KateOsborne</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/keirstarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>keirstarmer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/lindsayhoyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lindsayhoyle</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MelaniaTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MelaniaTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/parliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parliament</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/petermandelson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petermandelson</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/queenelizabethii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queenelizabethii</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2243059/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2243059/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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The real Keir is whomever Peter Mandelson wants him to be. If Mandy wants Starmer to cosplay as Jeffrey Epstein and go on a shopping date, he will
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@ChrisMayLA6 is there some way to make Brussels understand this man does not represent the majority of us?
Our Prime Minister is not listening to the nations' wishes, but the vision of men like Peter "Epstein Shopping Buddy" Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney
##UKPOL #UKpolitics #Starmer #KeirStarmer #PeterMandelson #MorganMcSweeney
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Once more flagrantly violating the #law:
British envoy to the #US #PeterMandelson then offered #Trump a special price for a #RollsRoyce:
"Mr. President, I wonder whether you'd like to buy…I would be happy to suggest a discount. Obviously, a very modest discount," he said.
Trump resonded: "You know, the last time that happened, I ended up buying a Tesla," referring to his #promotion of #ElonMusk's car on the WH lawn.
#EmolumentsClause
#economy #trade #tariffs #recession #geopolitics #UK
Today we have it confirmed that the UK has been sold out to American Tech Bros, the ones turning our young men into unrepentant rapists and bigots.
Peter Mandelson thinks we should all fuck off, especially if we bring up his friendship with another of America's most infamous rapists.
Does Peter have a problem with 'consent?'
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Oh look, we're siding with the Nazis.
Is that in our 'National Interest?'
Do we get a vote on it?
Or is it just Peter Mandelson selling out this nation to one of his Rapist friends?
I think we can guess an answer to that, can't we?
William Keegan rightly criticized these words from Mandelson as kowtowing to Trump.
The UK needs to keep its relations with the USA diplomatically correct but without a trace of submissiveness, and preferably with all talk of "the special relationship" excised.
One measure the UK should take is to shelve plans for a royal visit to the USA while Trump is in power. The UK government should do this for these reasons:
- It's bad for the UK internationally to be seen as sucking up to Trump.
- It's bad for the UK domestically to let Trump host the King because it erodes our self-respect, fuels the power of hostile external actors like Musk, and gives aid and comfort to internal right wing wreckers like Reform UK.
Mandelson's having to eat his words should also remind us what a bad idea it has been to appoint a political celebrity with a record of controversial remarks rather than a professional diplomat to the ambassadorial post in Washington.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/29/peter-mandelson-remarks-trump-us-ambassador
The Guardian · Peter Mandelson calls past remarks about Trump ‘ill-judged and wrong’
“Because the facts have indeed changed.”
Indeed they have not. Mandy called Trump a “bully” and “reckless and a danger to the world”. Those facts remain true, as Trump has ably demonstrated in his first two weeks back in power.
All that has changed is that Mandy has been given a cushy and prestigious job as ambassador in Washington. I suspect that’s the only “fact” that matters to him.
The Guardian · The Observer view on Peter Mandelson’s U-turn on Donald Trump: it’s easy to mock, but that’s diplomacy
Chris Riddell on how #PeterMandelson’s meeting with Donald ‘Jabba the Hut’ #Trump might go – cartoon in The Observer, 22nd December 2024.
The #Labour peer, who has been appointed Britain’s US ambassador, greets Trump as #ElonMusk and #NigelFarage look on.
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So they mentioned this aspect of Mandelson's appointment as Ambassador on Today this morning.
Apparently the last time we had an Ambassador to the US (or maybe anywhere?) who wasn't a professional diplomat was in 1977.
So not unprecedented then, but definitely highly unusual.
Good grief. Mandelson confirmed as UK Ambassador to USA
Two senior staff at (friend of Jeffrey Epstein) Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm are behind the Future Governance Forum, an industry-funded think tank that's urging Labour ministers to adopt controversial private finance deals (PFI) to build new schools and hospitals.
#PeterMandelson #PFI #UKPolitics
Mandelson’s lobbying firm behind think tank pushing PFI 2.0
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/scoop-peter-mandelsons-lobbying-firm?r=4vze6&triedRedirect=true
Democracy for Sale · Mandelson’s lobbying firm behind think tank pushing PFI 2.0
@JackTheCat @Fragarach raising my hand to say I was never the friend of one of the planet's most infamous nonces.
I think getting Peter Mandelson to give a tribute to John Prescott would be like pissing on Prescott's grave but that's the BBC for you....
They love Peter, he's sooooo Middle Class and Establishment, just ignore his friendship with the Epstein Nonce....look away....
The way Peter Mandelson dictates the way the country will be heading for the next 10+ years.....and who elected him exactly?
But only on YOUR timetable, isn't it? Epstein's Shopping Buddy.....
BTW, didn't Labour vote for Johnson's deal to "get Brexit done", which you now are tacitly admitting was a bad idea that needs to be fixed.
Fucking clowns...
Oh, THIS Peter Mandelson is it? Who says no to the EU on our behalf is it? This guy?
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/labour-figures-hit-back-peter-142643194.html
Yahoo News · Labour should slow down reform of workers' rights, party grandee argues
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"Pro Business AND Pro Worker" "Left AND Right" "Up AND Down" (it's ok none of it means anything so don't worry your little peasant heads about how 'clever' Lord Mandelson is)
If you don't work, like me, you don't exist. You're not a citizen, nobody will look out for you....just die already.
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How British is this, we acknowledge Brexit is shit, but we have to 'see it through' because otherwise The Posh will lose face.
You call this a Democracy?
I call you a shit-eating peasant...because if we have your way we'll be eating shit from our rivers until 2050.
Are you happy with that Mr Status Quo?