Fool or liar? Starmer gets Cooked

Sir Keir Starmer (right) with Lord Peter Mandelson

Jonathan Cook yesterday on Britain’s most despised prime minister in living memory – and just look at the recent competition for that spot!

Liz (‘the lettuce‘) Truss … Boris (‘Partygate‘) Johnson

But back to the current prime minister, who owes his position to the McCarthyite lie that former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn had overseen an explosion of antisemitism within the party … the machinations of a Labour right which wanted Corbyn to lose in 2017 … and a slew of broken promises made when, a candidate for the leadership in 2020, it suited Starmer to pose as man of the left.

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Starmer’s go-to excuse: ‘I was in the dark’. Don’t believe it. He’s deeply in the loop

From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was knighted.

Sir Keir Starmer must be the most ignorant man ever to have entered high office.

Here are a few highlights:

• • As Director of Public Prosecutions, Starmer was apparently never consulted on his office’s decision, in 2009, not to prosecute prolific, and highly connected, paedophile Jimmy Savile, despite Savile being one of the most famous figures in Britain. Starmer claims he didn’t even know that his own Crown Prosecution Service had opened a file on Savile, friend to the then Prince, now King, Charles. It will never be possible to confirm or dispute Starmer’s account since all CPS files related to the case were destroyed – under Starmer’s watch.
  • Again as Director of Public Prosecutions, Starmer was supposedly not informed that the CPS was insisting through 2010 and 2011 that Sweden press on with sexual assault allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, despite a lack of evidence. Assange had deeply embarrassed the UK and US by exposing their war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Starmer’s officials again secretly destroyed the email trail between the CPS and Sweden that would likely have illuminated his role in the affair.
  • As Labour leader, Starmer apparently had no knowledge of the fraudulent activities being carried out by Labour Together, the shadowy think tank that brought him to power, including its covert campaign to smear journalists who tried to expose its criminal acts.
  • As prime minister, Starmer claims to have had no idea of the depth of the ties between Peter Mandelson and serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, even though Mandelson was the most influential figure in the Labour party backing his bid to become leader. In return, Starmer would promote Mandelson in late 2025 as ambassador to the US.
  • Starmer said this week that he was kept in the dark that Mandelson had, in fact, failed vetting by the British security services for the post of ambassador. That requires that we believe his own Foreign Office, which overruled the security services’ decision, did so without consulting with him.

This is one long trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance and incompetence. Does any of it sound even vaguely plausible?

Read full piece on Jonathan’s substack …

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