Morgan McSweeney resigns

What the public needs to know is who hired McSweeney and why arent they being held accountable?

Justice cannot be done until we know who hired the man who advised the man to hire the man who was friends with a wrong un

Appointing a guy, now in jail for a decade for taking
Russian cash, lying that he barely knew him, whilst
taking Russian money and parroting the same Russian
propaganda.

Avoiding stamp duty by lying that his parter bought a
house in Clacton, whilst apparently previously lying
that he had bought a house in Clacton until he
was discovered not to have paid stamp duty.

Wretched, lol

Did McSweeney appoint Mandelson?

A reset ?

He'll be reappointed in a few years.

In any decent country, this would not only cause the PM to resign but probably collapse the Govt

Won't happen with this Disastrous shower Racing  , Shameless in the word that covers it

Will that be another chunk to be paid to Morgan

Doesn't matter if Starmer stays or goes ,he has been exposed for what he is , Useless and Shameless Leading a party in turmoil

There is another Issue that has been swept , Why men from Ukraine were setting  fire to our PMs property ,  in any other world there

Would be a full investigation and  statement as to what has gone on and why ?

Nick Brown

Is that Broon of the Toon ?

Pathetic whataboutery from Donny, as per.

Starmer's cowardice, lies and all round ineptitude is catching up with him.
As you are fond of saying old son - TICK TOCK

Off to the lords ?

I'd be tempted to lay 2026 for Starmer going at the prices. If it was gonna happen over Mandelson it probably would have done by now. Looks like they just don't have a credible replacement and aren't gonna do it for the sake of doing it. If they can pin the blame on McSweeney and tack to the left a bit more that could assuage the back benchers and members.




Meanwhile, what odds on McSweeney being the next defector to Reform?

Good, now starmer,then the rest of the cabinet, then a general election so we can get this shower out

Whataboutery.. tick

Pathetic.. Hardly

Highlighting hypocrisy of idiots... Tick

Quite long i would think PP, i know Morgan could easily change ideals or attitudes but if his reason for getting into Labour and politics was the Good Friday agreement it would be a seismic shift.

I know it must be hard for Donny to accept that Labour are just as bad (or even worse) than the other lot, but watching him morph in to just the kind of apologist and arch deflector that he regularly previously decried is immensely amusing

Same as Sue Grey.

Any of you considering applying to work for this chump? He needs some good advice

It only took a few posts to try and bring the chat around to Reform.

It's not like there is a shortage of material from the Labour muppet show. I know that the show hasn't even been going for 2 years yet, but he has packed a lot it (not just in his free suitcase)

Not as bad as the other lot (yet) nor your rabid racists (ever) .

Nowadays you have to be a bit naive to support any major British political party.

They are all incompetent and/or corrupt.

A shocking state of affairs.

Lol cider blocked me, but, hey ho...

schrodinger's block

At least the Tories can claim to have had to be dealing with multiple genuine crises. This particular sh111t show is all self harm.

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Lol cider blocked me, but, hey ho...schrodinger's block

I have all racists blocked, him amongst them.

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Fascist is feeling a little left out, I told him to give it a few minutes.

Projection, brilliant

You all know that this government was handed a poisoned chalice, other than that shocking appointment which i think might have had outside influence they are doing okay with the cards they were dealt with.

Er, no. We know they were desperate for it, and did everything in their power to get it.

Nothing to do with a poisoned chalice, everything to do with a reality check.

Repeating a phrase like 'smash the gangs', doesn't result in actually smashing any gangs. But does reveal incompetence and weakness.

I think they have tried to address both legal and illegal migration whearas the door was just left open previously. They inherited a country that put trade sanctions on itself which they are trying to reverse rightly as their big export market the US have applied tariffs, a crisis in itself,the shocking amount of debt and interest payments have tied their hands.

Nonsense as usual. Trump trade barriers bad, EU trade barriers good. Right ho

I suspect you've been on twatter too much. Since Labour took office, borrowing is up, borrowing rates are up, spending is up, taxes are up, inflation is up, unemployment is up.

Why?The reason i said putting sanctions on yourself was because Johnson choose to leave the single market, you are then subject to being rule takers ie you had to prove your goods were EU compliant,a disaster for small and medium exporters.
It isn't hard to understand.

How does China cope with such trade barriers?

What number Labour u-turn have we reached now, 14 or 15 ?  I've lost count and yet lapsy thinks they are doing ok

Not to mention all the ministers that have gone due to self inflicted harm.

And today, 18 months on from the "smash the gangs" promise, we had another few hundred freeloaders coming across the channel.  Well done Keir & Co

Maybe a Chinese lad will come along and answer that^

20 seconds of googling

Out of the top 4 Irish imports by country, only 1 of them is in the EU

Dixie £111 billion is being paid on debt interest per annum,what can you do?

"He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself. "


as damning as Starmer then

How does China cope with such trade barriers?

In part by controlling the value of its currency



Out of the top 4 Irish imports by country, only 1 of them is in the EU

2 out of top 5...lol, idiotic contrived stat by cider

Add em up.

Pat Mcfaddens answer this morning on Laura Kuenssberg show when asked if he had ever passed on confidential government emails to anyone outside the government.....

"I don't think so " ........

lapsy pa 08 Feb 26 17:25 
You all know that this government was handed a poisoned chalice, other than that shocking appointment which i think might have had outside influence they are doing okay with the cards they were dealt with.

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Brilliant 

How does our political system engender such power in No.10 to these non-politicians?  I presume this guy is a civil servant.?  He is certainly unelected.

New Labour (for real)

They wanted to be able to give alcy much more authority and influence, and changed the rules, effectively creating the spad role. They also perfected the art of giving peerages to get non elected people [friends] into cabinet (yes, including Mandy)

If politicians can outsource something, they nearly always do (New Labour again).

How does our political system engender such power in No.10 to these non-politicians?  I presume this guy is a civil servant.?  He is certainly unelected.

Advisors advise, leaders decide.

Giving a politician a large majority is akin to
making them king, many kings had poor advisors in
days before parliament took power away.

That guy you saw on newsnight would answer your question
more accurately than me,

.. and is a warning to all of us of power falling to wrong people,
or at least a reminder, as surely we all remember.

Power didn’t “fall” on this guy, it was vested in him, by Starmer.  Another dreadful shortcoming of Starmer’s judgement.

That's what I said.

Advisors advise, leaders decide.

F I L T H

No Stringvest, McSweeney isn't filth at all,your replies are one sided without thought, the Harp club was down a gentle hill with a taxi company next door,as an ex patron i expect better.

Its shut down now, best go to The Swan in Stockwell

Will i see Morgan there?

Possibly

What is going on on this Forum ?

The good Friday agreement has been Mentioned ,Is that because Mandy wrong un was a big part of it ?

Yak, has blocked Cider because he is a Racist Cider is a Racist ? Yak prob has me blocked , can he post why Cider is a racist,Im sure one of the lefties on here can ask him

All the left have left to shout is racists , Trump being a racist is the best , perhaps they forgot that back in the day , Jessie jackson and Al Shrapton were his buddies

Look at the state of this Government , thats what the Woke left have left us with , you would think they would retreat in to a dark place and keep quite ..

Ministers queuing up to back Starmer...

LABOUR SCOTLAND , have put the boot in

1.3 to go this this year , Labour 10s to win Gorton , Look at best to be 3rd behind The Greens and Reform , 13000 Majority  50 % of the Vote , GONE

It seems as if anyone associated with ep stein is severely punished in the UK,not so in the US.Why?

I would re iterate my point that Labour are doing ok, wage growth up,inflation falling , GDP per capita growing,good relations world wide and migration collapsing to circa 200k. It would be a wrong move to rid i would think.

Trumpy must be worried that his efforts to brush this under the carpet are being somewhat undermined by it bringing down a major leader elsewhere who hasn't even been named once in the files, never mind 38,000 times.

Trumpy doesn’t appear unduly worried about anything.

I dont think many people are punishing labour over epstein other than themselves. Massive streisand effect. The more they defend him the more he looks like he needs defending

^ Andrew and Mandleson were booted out of their positions as fast as their legs could carry them, rightly? of course, why isn't it the same in the US?

I think Mandy was booted out for passing on files. Aside from that he was holding onto his job with the whole ‘i deeply regret the friendship’ etc

lapsy appears to deliberately forget that Starmer gave his 'full confidence' to Mandy at the despatch box. In full knowledge at he was associating with Epstein after the paedo conviction.

of course, getting Starmer's confidence is not necessarily a positive

Mandelson had backing of farage as we already know.

Farage was even touting himself for the job before
he got ridiculed.

It's not epsteins pedo crimes that are bringing down
Mandelson, it's Mandelson's traitorous leaking of state
secrets to epstein.

He was tolerated as ambassador by many as they thought
his previous contacts in USA and links to Trump might
help UK through a difficult period.

Once his treachery was unveiled by release of epstein files
he became untenable.

It's quite a sad indictment of where UK is at
that so many supported his appointment in first place
and that had he not leaked stuff he still would be in place.
placement

Just my brain ticking over Cider but would you think Trump may have had any influence whatsoever on the US ambassador?

Of course it does in regards Starmer appointing him but things may have come to light down the line.

Credit to the UK who seem to be taking who are on the files to account, why do you think Trump isn't in the US?

I genuinely have absolutely no idea about what is happening in the US. But I do know it's a presidential system, thus completely different to ours. Starmer was forced to kick Mandy out [again].

Lapsy states :
I would re iterate my point that Labour are doing ok, wage growth up,inflation falling , GDP per capita growing,good relations world wide and migration collapsing to circa 200k. It would be a wrong move to rid i would think.

Inflation falling ? It was up to 3.4% in December 25, having been 2.2% when Labour took over in 2024.

Migration "collapsing" is hardly down to anything Labour have done , there was a large increase in emigration from 517k to approx 693k which accounts for 40% of the drop over the year. And lets not forget that a lot of the measures that have been taken to reduce immigration were actually introduced by the Tories.

And unemployment is up to 5.1% now compared to 4.4% when Labour took over.

Net Migration: 204,000 (down from over 600,000+ in previous years).

Immigration (Inflow): 898,000 people arrived, a 31% decrease from the previous 12 months.

Emigration (Outflow): 693,000 people left, a 7% increase.

Inflation is fc 2.3% for Summer 2026.
Migration figures are correct,they are reasonable rather than the previous 1 million +
I cannot argue with unemployment with you and note you didn't argue my point that the UK is viewed much more positively since he took the reins.

Inflation isn't the inflation forecast

If we relied on economic forecasts lapsy we could all make a mint !  even if correct it's still higher than when they took over.

As mentioned, the tories had taken measures to reduce immigration that have now bedded in, little of the decrease is down to Labour initiatives.

As for the UK being viewed more positively , which metric are you using rather than your own perception ?
Try asking the people who really matter (the UK electorate) what their views are of this government !

As target is 2% then it's likely to be higher than the 2.2%
that was caused by draconian interest rates imposed by boe
when it went out of control due to imported inflation.

When looking at inflation you really should be looking
at inflation and interest rates... (and unemployment)

One may be a price worth paying for another but getting
them all in order is better.

You are right,it is my own perception.Biden hated Johnson,the EU did not get on with him or the UK for their attitude, relations with next door neighbour Ireland were rock bottom, do you think it is fair to say Starmer has improved the negative feeling?

When sunak was booted, interest rates were 5.25%

If they were held at 5.25% inflation would likely be negative figs today.

Boe cut rates to 3.75% giving 5 cuts of 0.25%.

Pretty much as would have happened as predicted. They are predicting
a further cut of 0.25 this year, and a possible 2nd cut if
things go to plan.

Obviously cutting rates is thought to be inflationary

They appreciate a lapdog. Of course they are going to like Starmer if he concedes everything. But the Chinese are laughing in his face today.

I would have thought that as PM you should be more concerned with your own citizens feeling the positivity rather than foreign dignitaries.

Pleasegivemeanailedontip 09 Feb 26 18:34 
I dont think many people are punishing labour over epstein other than themselves

...............

I saw some of his sorry speech the other day, I couldn't understand his
almost tearful apology to 'the victims' (of Epstein, I assume).
What have they got to do with Starmer

Hi lapsy.   I would be very grateful if you would provide the forum with factual evidence that Trump is thwarting the public outing of Epstein villains in the U.S.A.  As per you post of 20.22.  Can you do so please?

Don't 'hi' me, Trump says the files are a 'hoax'.

Ha ha

"don't" is a redacted word in the epstein files

Makes you wonder if "don t" is redacted too...

And why, and who gave the command.

Welsh first minister another one to ‘support’ Starmer today

In summary she says theyve failed women and girls….but they should give Starmer another chance

They cant help themselves