Nobody who hung out with Epstein should be in important jobs because a) they were abusing underage girls and b) Epstein was producing kompromat by filming/photographing it, turning all these people into Russian assets. That goes for Trump too btw.
More likely just plain old US assets tbh.
If Russia had all this intel on these old fucks then they’d have released it already.
Once it’s released there is no further expectation for the asset to continue complying with them. That’s the whole purpose of it.
Either there is no kompromat and these people are not assets or they are complying with the holders of it to prevent its release.
Why would they burn assets like that?
Any minute now a labour centrist type will be along to tell us that criticising Mandelson for his friendship with Epstein and all that implies is not pragmatic and is in fact unreasonable purity politics.
I’m glad journalists are starting to ask, but I’d rather they’d get to the point.
Surely it’s very bad for British interests for us to send an ambassador to a country where said ambassador is almost certainly blackmailable by said country’s intelligence agencies.
British interests
You mistakenly think (understandably, because that’s what we’re taught, but that doesn’t make it true) that those are your interests, or even society’s interests, but they are neither. They are the interests of the owners of this country, the royals, the other gentry and land owners, and otherwise filthy rich. Theirs are the only interests the state serves.
Well my cynical side thinks that the government have thought about this and are absolutely fine with it because they actively want Britain to be servile little piggies to the US. My theory on Trump not bringing us into his stupid trade war is because we just give them so much already that inspiring the British public to get angry about it would cost the US far more than they could possibly gain.
What makes your assertion true? Popular up votes on Lemmy? 😂
History. An honest appraisal of the fact that humans mostly work towards goals of self interest. Even capitalism agrees to that… It’s half the point.
