By Liz S
Mandelson , the once Business Secretary in Gordon Brown’s cabinet and also he was once appointed as the UK ambassador to the US by Keir Starmer, is yet another Labour scandal coming just after the other recent big Labour scandal .
It was reported that “Jeffrey Epstein made $75,000 (£55,000) of payments to accounts connected to Lord Mandelson, bank statements released by the US Department of Justice suggest“
Lord Mandelson said he had no record or recollection of receiving the sums and did not know whether the documents were authentic.
The other Labour scandal being when it was reported recently that Jim Murphy’s lobbying firm asked companies for £30,000 to sponsor an event, including a “photo opportunity” with a minister and access to a “VIP dinner” with “top advisers” to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. (Murphy being a former leader of Scottish Labour and also an ex-Labour cabinet minister under Blair and Gordon Brown).
Arden Strategies said in a statement: “Information about an event unfortunately contained very clumsy language by mistake which should never have been used and hadn’t been approved.
“It was stupid to do and we apologise for this mistake. This included mentioning attendees who had not been confirmed. We are sorry for these errors.”
So Labour ministers and their advisors were all oblivious to this arrangement Murphy had set up?
These are the people who assume that they can critique others in politics while knowing that they themselves are far from perfect when it comes to their own suspect behaviour.
Also Labour , both HQ and the branch office in Scotland, constantly cast aspersions upon the SNP as if their own Labour party were above reproach.
Clearly Labour are not above reproach but are mired in various scandals , as a party and via individuals within their party.
Mandelson cannot recollect receiving this alleged money , convenient.
Also a representative of Jim Murphy’s lobbying firm used the weak excuse that it was “clumsy language” , “stupid to do” and that they are “sorry for these errors”, as if that is credible to believe in respect to what was being offered and the amount it would cost.
Follow the money, the quest for power and look at the party that they , as individuals , are linked to.
I thought all of this kind of behaviour was meant to be only associated with the Tory party via them as former various UK governments……..
Seems not, as some things clearly never ever change.
(Seems a very hard lesson that should be learned by all of those within Scotland who voted in 37 Labour MP’s in the 2024 GE, some will learn from their ‘mistake’ and others will seemingly either forget or forgive and so will vote for Labour again. However it seems that same forgetfulness and forgiveness will never be extended to the SNP based upon all of the UK media’s relentless drive to publish and broadcast #SNPBAD news).
The BBC will need to pull out another Scottish Ferry story to try to distract us all from the constant Labour scandals.
Liz S
Talking-up Scotland 
Follow the money indeed Liz S. Next up, no doubt, the return of PFI contracts through local authorities.
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Indeed seumascoll.
Saw this online:
“The Mandelson revelations are going to rewrite the entire New Labour era. Mandelson was operating as a paid adviser to Jeffrey Epstein & as a senior minister acting to directly serve the interests of Epstein & the global corporate class not the govt he was a minister in”.
Oh but the public in Scotland are expected to view the police investigation linked to the SNP as the ‘political crime of the century’.
However we all know that the past and present various scandals that have been linked to all UK political parties are far far greater than any so called scandal that opposition parties and their allies try to associate as being #SNPBAD………..
Mandelson should be removed from the gravy train that is the HOL as should Michelle Mone.
Looking at some of the peerages that have been awarded in the past and also now, it is more like a den of inequity, a den of thieves and a den of snakes (especially with Michael Gove now a peer).
Yet much of that mob in the HOL’s gets to critique our Scottish government………
Remember how former Labour MP Margaret Curran was rejected by her constituents in Scotland in 2015 and at the count on that night she did not even have the decency to go on the stage and congratulate the SNP candidate who won the seat from her. Instead she ran away with her tail between her legs and then Starmer in December 2024 awarded her a peerage. For what ?
This is the politics of the UK State……….corrupt, dysfunctional and not fit for Scotland.
Hopefully in May of this year more people in Scotland will take stock and make the best voting decision for Scotland, themselves and their families……….if some do not , then they will have to live with their ignorant and reckless voting decision, alas so will we too.
Vote SNP in May to show them all (media, opposition parties and wealth political donors) that democracy in Scotland cannot be bought by rich donors donating to compromised political parties, that media propaganda cannot sway our opinions in Scotland (via a majority) and that opposition parties have no moral advantage that allows them to critique the SNP (based upon the scandals linked to opposition parties both in the past and in the present).
Liz S
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I haven’t read this article yet sorry but, I have seen via some activist groups emails that England are planning on using PFI for NHS etc…I’d need to look it up though.
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Thanks. It was just that I heard that East Dunbartonshire Council (Labour led I think) were going to fund a new school in Clydebank.
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