Peter Mandelson is Starmer's new Ambassador to the US

Keir Starmer's appointment of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the US makes an absolute mockery of his claims that he's been cleaning up the Labour Party

Keir Starmer’s appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the US makes an absolute mockery of his claims that he’s been cleaning up the Labour Party.

Mandelson was a friend of the notorious child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. What’s even worse is that he maintained contact with Epstein even after he was jailed for soliciting sex with a child, reportedly staying at Epstein’s luxurious $77 million New York townhouse while Epstein was behind bars.

Mandelson openly bragged about his business dealings in Russia, and it’s a matter of public record that he inveigled Putin to help out one of the Russian companies that had paid him £200,000.

Mandelson was one of the leading internal saboteurs during the 2015-19 period, once boasting that he was "working every day" to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn, with the aim of keeping the Tories in power until the Labour leadership could be stolen back by Labour right-wingers.

Before any of this he was a multiply-disgraced figure in British politics, having been forced to resign over an undisclosed £373,000 loan in 1998, and then again in 2001 over the Hinduja brothers passports for political donations scandal.

It’s beyond absurd that Starmer has appointed such a controversial and divisive figure to such a high profile position, especially given the minimal offences he’s used as excuses to punish, marginalise, and expel people on the Labour left.

Starmer purged Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party for saying that accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party had been "dramatically overstated for political reasons", which is undeniably true given that right-wing hacks publicly accused him of wanting to create a second Holocaust.

It’s odd that the media obsession with the Labour antisemitism scandal disappeared so quickly after Keir Starmer became leader, especially since his goons immediately set about expelling dozens of Jewish Labour Party members with accusations that they were antisemites.

The caricature of the self-hating Jew is one of the oldest and most obvious antisemitic tropes, yet the press maintained studious disinterest as Starmer weaponised this antisemitic trope to bully scores of left-wing Jews out of the Labour Party!

Starmer also removed Jamie Driscoll from the ballot to stand for Mayor of the North East for the "crime" of talking to one of Britain’s most decorated film directors at a local event about films.

Starmer purged Rebecca Long-Bailey from his shadow cabinet for retweeting an interview with the actress Maxine Peak.

Starmer expelled seven Labour MPs from the Parliamentary Labour Party for the "crime" of voting to end the eugenicist Tory economic sanction regime against children who have more than one sibling.

It’s absolutely clear that Starmer is operating a two-tier disciplinary system within the Labour Party, in which the Labour right can get away with pretty much whatever they like, to the extent of fraternising with convicted paedophiles, while Labour left-wingers are punished, marginalised, and purged for the most minimal of offences.

Appointing a scandal-magnet like Peter Mandelson to such a high profile position isn’t just an affront to decent people who think that associates of convicted paedophiles should have no place in British politics, it also demonstrates that all of Starmer’s rhetoric about "cleaning up the Labour Party" was merely just a smoke screen to conduct an ideological vendetta against the Labour left.