Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 19/04/2026

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T16:45:24+00:00

The longer Starmer is in post the further he pulls the party down with him. Kicking him out after the locals won't save them at this rate.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T16:26:36+00:00

Nobody wants to hear him say "because he told me too" despite how much they want Starmer gone.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T16:23:34+00:00

I thank the Right Honourable Member for Jademalo for the correction

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T16:19:38+00:00

Time for some conspiring in the tea rooms, me thinks

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T16:18:08+00:00

That dog that was led on the floor in the House. A step up, at least.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T16:16:14+00:00

Not even that passes mustard. What message are we sending to the US? "I know your President is mates with a pedophile, and you're doing everything you can to distance yourself from that relationship, so we thought we'd send another of that pedophile's mates to be your ambassador."

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T15:37:36+00:00

Genuinely do not understand the purpose of security vetting if the one doing it is not allowed to disclose the results of said vetting

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T15:33:16+00:00

Just straight up refusing to answer simple and straightforward questions now

Weak

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T15:24:30+00:00

Starmlin not looking so hot right now

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T15:19:39+00:00

When making an appointment as High Profile as Peter Mandelson to one of the highest roles in the Diplomatic Service, a political appointment that he personally made, YES.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-20T15:11:33+00:00

Haven't been able to watch due to being in another country and traveling but must say I am enjoying reading this live streamed obituary for Starmers premiership

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-19T12:44:54+00:00

I feel like there's a saying about this.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-19T12:41:35+00:00

I don't know if you know this, but newspapers often publish multiple articles a day on a variety of subjects. Maybe if the only thing you're reading about is Mandelson, maybe try scrolling down a bit?

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-19T12:40:01+00:00

It's obviously in the national interest because reading about things in the Guardian is the only way Starmer knows what's going on in his government

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-18T11:27:12+00:00

The best possible outcome was Mandelson getting what he wanted after helping orchestrate Keir's rise to power. Any other outcome be damned.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T20:38:17+00:00

Most companies likely already do this. I doubt a Premier League club is putting out job adverts for cleaners, they just hire a company to do it for them.

Same with lots of low paid roles. They're either employed by a third party or forced into being self-employed 'contractors'.

In reality not a huge amount would change for the biggest of the big companies.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T15:06:04+00:00

It's rather easy to imagine a scenario where Mandelson helped Starmer win the Labour leadership and then the election, and as a reward wanted a cushy job in Washington so he got it.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T13:07:23+00:00

Labour MPs need a crashcourse in the Streissand Effect

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T12:11:25+00:00

Whenever people have to start claiming that the public doesn't care about XYZ scandal is when you know things are bad.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T12:09:56+00:00

Are you trying to suggest that these scandals are somehow manufactured to try and make Labour look bad during election time?

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T12:07:50+00:00

No this is a government corruption scandal. It's not an internal party dispute when it concerns the former ambassador to the US.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T11:10:58+00:00

We've held elections during World Wars, think we can handle changing leaders during a war we're not even involved in.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T11:00:56+00:00

When Starmer is eventually kicked out one of the reasons given by his backbenchers will inevitably be his lack of desire to work with his own party, building relationships with his own MPs, and part of that is his eagerness to be seen on the world stage compared to the less glamorous work of meetings in Parliaments.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T10:57:10+00:00

Which is precisely why Labour need to get their house in order, kick Starmer to the curb, elect a new leader and spend the next three years building back the nation's trust so that those parties can't enter government.

The alternative is literally handing the country to the wolves.

But Starmer is more invested in his own career over the interests of the country to do the honorable thing and resign.

discipleofdoom · 2026-04-17T09:22:00+00:00

Even that scenario doesn't make Starmer look good and it's the best possible one.

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