Dear, oh Lord. Poor Peter. In the shit again, over Jeffrey Epstein. The dear man just cannot catch a break. However, he has at least nobly resigned from his beloved Labour Party to prevent it any “further embarrassment” over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and again apologised to his victims, who should have apparently got justice long before now. I am choking up as I write this.
Further embarrassment to the Labour Party. Well, it’s not like he hasn’t caused it plenty of that over the years. He’s going down swinging, mind: “Allegations which I believe to be false that he made financial payments to me 20 years ago, and of which I have no record or recollection, need investigating by me”, is the quote from a Guardian article today. Geez. Maybe he’s so accustomed to people sending him large sums of money that he simply can’t remember them all. Seventy five large is quite a lot of scratch and it was apparently paid in a few instalments, a couple of them to his partner Reinaldo, and into accounts at two different banks. It’s kinda hard to see how they would have escaped notice, but what do I know of such rarified lives as Peter’s and Reinaldo’s.
The latest dump of stuff from the US clown car DOJ also has pics of Mandelson, one in a toweling robe talking to his bestie Jeff on the veranda of a shingled cabin. The other shows Pete in white underpants and a tee shirt, talking to a young woman, face redacted, who is in a towel robe. Mandy is holding a folder type thing, as though he was choosing from a menu of colonic irrigation treatments or options for a light lunch.
Should one kick a man when he is down? Not usually, but in the case of Mandelson, emphatically, yes, especially because of his pieties on behalf of the victims. These have been wrung from him over the weeks since his sacking as US ambassador and the start of his current fall from grace. When it all started, Mandy was standing on his dignity, and in harrumphing mode.
His starting position was that he knew nothing of what Jeffrey was doing to his victims and since he was not culpable, he did not feel the need to apologise. Even someone with Mandelson’s brass neck could not hold this line and after a short time, he was forced to recant, after which he grovelled shamelessly. It still sounded graceless though, since he blamed the US Department of Justice for the pain caused to the victims.
This was reported in a Guardian puff article that seemed to signal the stirrings of a campaign to rehabilitate him. In the piece I wrote when that article appeared, I speculated that the chief motive for his change of heart was the hope that if he apologised convincingly, he might have a chance of getting back to the top table, even if it was below the salt. Since he is reputed to be so fucking clever, one wonders how his cleverness did not extend to a prescience about what else might yet fall out of the Epstein files and onto his arrogant, well-coiffed head.
But to get back to kicking him, it is most necessary to give him a good shoeing pour encourager les autres caught up in the filth of the Epstein case. These people need to see how far they might fall when the patience of the world runs out. If a man can be sacked from the premiere ambassadorial post his government has to offer and another actually stripped of a Royal princehood, how vengeful might a clique of republicans become if they take heart at these examples and grow the first vestiges of a backbone? And not only Republicans: Bill Clinton and others from the democrat side of the divide are still a long way from being out of the woods.
And not only politicians: what about the tech bros? It seems like a lifetime ago, but was it not the great genius Elon who, when he fell out with Trump, said he was all over the Epstein files? And now we see that Elon was all over Epstein, asking when the “wildest party” on the island would be so that he could time his visit to take advantage, and on another occasion to state emphatically that he didn’t want a tranquil island experience, but to party his fat arse off?
No, now that he is bloodied, we must kick the shit out of Lord Mandelson – he is still a peer, after all; maybe that would be the first thing soppy Keir could look into changing if he wants to rehabilitate his own battered image and show he has the smallest piece of steel when it comes to something other than up-ending a possible opponent.
These chances to humiliate those such as Mandelson will be rare; when they come, we must pile on and savagely belittle these rich, cruel men. It will make us all feel that tiny bit empowered when we do.
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