It’s nice to see there’s still social pressure in some parts.
Would be nice to see this from Andrew, but he’s irredeemable and his brother is protecting him.
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Andrew could be the anti-hero we need and implicate Trump, under oath. He has nothing to lose.
It's kind of the only good thing he has available for him to do for the rest of his life.
the second Charles tries to make him testify, he’ll flee.
Maybe his lordship should no longer be a lord.
Good call. They unprinced Andrew, they can unlord Mandy.
Maybe a new title is needed and can be given to him; the Unlord?
How about Lord of the Nonces, a faithul servent of the Prince of the Nonces Andrew.
I lived in Britain for a decade and the impression I got was that, outside people with genuine proven merit like artists and scientists, having a titles of nobility there was a pretty good indicator of the holder of the title being a complete total sociopath, the higher the title the worse the character of the holder.
They do quite a lot of whitewashing of the system by giving things like knighhoods and damehoods to well known and loved actors and actresses, plus a renowned scientist here and there, plus some lesser honors (NEVER a knighthood or damehood) to people like firemen or nurses who went above and beyond their duty in helping others, but the vast majoriyty of types with Peerages and above are either well connected career politicians who made sure the "right" people gained from the system, very wealthy nouveau riche or those from old wealth.
Tbh I don't think anyone ever thought Mandleson was good, his nickname was The Prince of Darkness.
Hes a classic case of "its always the people you suspect the most"
I think that if one would blindly throw a stone in the middle of the Lords it would be far more likely to hit a person who is not good (i.e. with a personal moral better than "personal upside maximization") than one who is.
More broadly for things like Peerages, outside artists it's rich people, politicians and public-school attending scions of the upper and upper-middle class (even the Public Servants who get one are public-school educated). Notice how common people who are not in the public eye and committed enormous acts of bravery and self-sacrifice for the good of others (the above-mentioned "firemen and nurses") never get peerages or above, and instead get at most OBEs.
I think we should, to a degree, separate peerages from KBE/CBE/MBE/OBE/BM - they're not political and there are (so far as I know) specific criteria that need to be met to achieve the various levels (for instance someone doing something locally will by definition never get anything higher than an OBE, because a CBE requires significant achievement at a regional or national level).
Peerages are a bit weird, senior politicians/lawyers/academics etc getting appointments makes sense because they're the upper legislative house and to a degree we want some level of political nous in the parliamentary body. However they're also given to the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber presumably as a reward for his achievements, which may or may not be deserved, but also mean he can be shipped in if required to vote on legislation.
Separation of "honours like" and "legislative like" peerages would be a good idea.
The criteria of "significant achievement" is basically bollocks: for example Fred Goodwin who led RBS to pretty much bankruptcy (not quite as it was saved by the state) held a knighthood for "Services to Finance" which he got for merelly leading the bank he almost destroyed (though at least it was annuled after he almost destroyed it) and mandarins, politicians and public prosecutors get theirs for nothing more than doing their job without being brazenly incompetent, something which is only a "significant achivement" if one expects extreme incompetence for the vast majority of such people hence doing one's job without ending up in the press for massive incompetent is a "significant achievement".
From my point of view (as an immigrant who lived in Britain for a decade, and thus having not started with any respect or lack thereof for the Honors System), after a couple of years I concluded that whilst the folklore surrounding it was all about if being about honor (hence the supposed criteria of "significant achievement" and the very loud giving once in a while of one to a very visible public personality such as an actor for being a famous person who did their job in a competent manner), the reality of it was no such thing and de facto the criteria were highly skewed by the social class a recipient originated from and their level of contribution to "keep the boat steady and stop it from being rocked".
Certainly when it comes to peerages the Honors System bares no relation to honor or any kind of achievement that goes beyond "having a specific job and not end up in the press for being exceptionally incompetent at it".
I'm not really trying to argue the point on the level of achievement - that will always be subjective. More to address the point on why local heroes don't get above OBE and to raise the absurdity of the dual use of peerages.
titles of nobility there was a pretty good indicator of the holder of the title being a complete total sociopath
He should be chemically castrated
No matter how despicable each person turns out to be, remember that all of them are less weird than Elon Musk in the eyes of other pedos.
Even if I was stuck in a damp dark cave obsessing over naught but a magic ring, that truth would still be sufficiently warm and anodyne enough to comfort myself to sleep with at night.
So they're investigating him and expect to bring up charges, right? Right?
That will be right after they do it to Tony Blair for the war crime of Pillage in Iraq as detailed in the Iraq War Report ...
Judging from all the sociopathic shit I've seen from New Labour both when I lived in Britain and when I didn't, I fully expect that Mandelson is but the tip of the iceberg.
And this is without even going into the Tories, who are at least as devoid of empathy as New Labour types, though possibly more open about how they're superior people for whom there is no need to verify that they obbey the ethical and moral boundaries that are supposed to moderate people's social behaviors. (IMHO they mainly differ from New Labour types in their level of hypocrisy rather than in personal character).
Consider the possibility that a nation's "support for Israel" is highly correlated to how many of the elites there were involved in the pedophilic honeypot that Epstein ran together with Mossad.
This sounds about on point from the perspective of that Israel scam. That whole country is just money laundering.
I know nothing of uk politics, which parties are conservative and left
Now lock him up.
Throw him in the tower
In/from
Now investigate him
Huh. Well. Congratulations to our Englishmen across the pond on having a official with the balls to resign.
Balls is not the correct description for resigning in shame after being publicly outed as a paedophile...
It is however refreshing to see any politician anywhere resign for gross misbehavior. Shame is all too much a thing of the past for these bastards.
Has he?
I compare it to the US. They simply don't care here, and this guy actually feels shame. Makes him more human than our regime .
They are not resigning because they are ashamed of being pedophiles. They are resigning because they were caught being pedophiles.
If they were ashamed they would've resigned before the Epstein files were released.
See that's the part I don't agree with. If it wasn't shame, there really aren't any consequences if he doesn't resign, other than losing his next election.
That won't happen in the US. The regime here is incapable of shame.
Could we get some of that across the pond?
Oh naur.
Cool! Now do Trump!
Lord Mandelson will be exposed finally. JE is very much alive
https://www.printernational.co.uk/timmann2/history.htm#epstein