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Title: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Grumpmeister on February 02, 2026, 10:19:34 AM
Mandleson resigns in shame to 'save the party from further embarrassment'...........again. How many times is this now?  noooo:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8jm2vpve1o

Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 02, 2026, 11:14:53 AM
Mandleson resigns in shame to 'save the party from further embarrassment'...........again. How many times is this now?  noooo:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8jm2vpve1o
I think it's 3 resignations and one sacking

What an utter fool he was, a triumph of idiocy and vanity over common sense and decency.
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Nick on February 02, 2026, 12:38:54 PM
It’s always been about money and millionaires. He can’t help himself. He needs to be stripped of his peerage.
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 02, 2026, 01:14:59 PM
It’s always been about money and millionaires. He can’t help himself. He needs to be stripped of his peerage.
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Barman on February 02, 2026, 01:47:26 PM
It’s always been about money and millionaires. He can’t help himself. He needs to be stripped of his peerage.
:thumbsup:
Thumbs: Thumbs:
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Nick on February 02, 2026, 06:34:38 PM
Sharing privileged info with Epstein now? Lock him up!!
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 02, 2026, 07:40:52 PM
Sharing privileged info with Epstein now? Lock him up!!
:thumbsup:  beginning to look a lot like Misconduct in Public Office
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Nick on February 02, 2026, 08:17:21 PM
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Barman on February 03, 2026, 07:11:22 AM
Sadly, Treason has been removed from the Statute Books hasn't it...? Was that Bliar...?  evil:
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 03, 2026, 08:39:29 AM
Sadly, Treason has been removed from the Statute Books hasn't it...? Was that Bliar...?  evil:
Methinks that's an urban myth, have to google

But what Mandleson did wouldn't be treason anyway
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 03, 2026, 08:49:05 AM
Still there:  https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/5-6/51   and  https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw3Stat5/25/2

Last conviction was in 2023

Blair removed the death penalty for it
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Barman on February 03, 2026, 09:52:47 AM
Still there:  https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/5-6/51   and  https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw3Stat5/25/2

Last conviction was in 2023

Blair removed the death penalty for it

Death penalty, that was it!  Thumbs:
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 03, 2026, 12:23:22 PM
He could however get life imprisonment for this.

if not already, someone needs to put him on suicide watch



Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 03, 2026, 12:35:18 PM
Unfortunate

(https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-038ea7aa-bfa6-4170-8ae9-e34dc0a1ae43.png)
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Nick on February 03, 2026, 01:09:33 PM
He’s toast
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 03, 2026, 01:57:55 PM
He could also get sued for £squillions by those that can show the market moves lost them money.

And as the BBC just pointed out, who else was he sending this information to?
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Grumpmeister on February 03, 2026, 03:19:16 PM
It might get even worse. I've had a hunch for a while now that Epstein was an intelligence asset, if that does turn out to be the case then depending on who he was working for there could be an entirely new shitstorm on the horizon.
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 03, 2026, 07:45:18 PM
Someone on the radio asked if this was worse than the Profumo scandal?  The response was 'in some ways it's worse'
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Barman on February 04, 2026, 11:41:00 AM

(https://i.postimg.cc/xJbv2xpV/7383853f-da5c-4e32-b04f-13ac115286dc.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/xJbv2xpV)
Title: Re: Gee I never saw this coming
Post by: Steve on February 04, 2026, 06:28:56 PM

(https://i.postimg.cc/xJbv2xpV/7383853f-da5c-4e32-b04f-13ac115286dc.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/xJbv2xpV)
lol: lol: lol:  very clever