Source: morningstaronline.co.uk 1/11/26
The Scottish National Party (SNP) will present a Bill Tuesday to strip Peter Mandelson and other friends of sex offenders of their peerages.
It comes as Lord Mandelson declined to apologise to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims for remaining friends with the convicted financier.
The former ambassador to the US said he had paid a “calamitous” price for being sacked over his association with “evil monster” Epstein.
He apologised for a system that failed Epstein’s victims, but not for his continued support after Epstein’s first conviction.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution and a minor, but Lord Mandelson said he believed his excuses.
He described it as “misplaced loyalty” and “a most terrible mistake on my part,” insisting he was “at the edge of this man’s life.”
Emails, however, revealed the friendship persisted after the conviction.
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The SNP’s “Removal of Peerages Bill” would strip Lord Mandelson of his titles and rights in the House of Lords and allow similar action against Matthew Doyle, amid revelations of his links to convicted sex offender Sean Morton.
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said: “This sordid story has gone on long enough.
“Friends of paedophiles should not be in the Lords and that should be an open-and-shut case for any reasonable person.”
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander called Lord Mandelson’s interview “deep naivety” and said it would have helped victims if he had apologised.
Lordship,
People fail all the time some higher and harder than others and I bet you all aren’t as righteous as you would like others to believe, so perhaps you should have your lordships taken away for being faker than a Rolex bought on a New York City corner back in the 1980s.
Growing up in the 90s, it was fun watching tv lampoon the 1950s as being cruel and homogenous, and mocking the “won’t somebody think of the children!” excuse whenever there was a convenient opportunity to trample civil rights. But it’s clear millennials and gen-xers didn’t really understand what they were mocking–despite having tattoos and dyed hair and listening to rock and/or roll, the folks running the show now are white bread 1950s chicken littles on steroids. “Won’t somebody think of the children?” has gone from a Simpsons joke to the unassailed mantra of Western politicians. During McCarthyism, the question “Are you now or have you ever been a Communist?” was made famous–but for millennials in government, the question today would be “Are you now or have you ever been polite to a Communist?” For all of the protest this country endures, no one actually cares about meaningful civil rights. For all their faults, people in the 1950s were better than people today. They wouldn’t kick a man out of his job for who his friends were. The SNP are scumbags.