After writing tens of obsequious articles about how great Mandelson was as the British ambassador in Washington, the media’s herd brain is starting to turn. Unfortunately the articles are all still there…
Co-conspirators will remember the lavish praise British hacks gave Mandelson as soon as he entered the ambassador’s residence on Massachusetts Avenue, reaching a crescendo around the time of the minor US-UK deal. The ‘Trump Whisperer‘ was apparently universally adored…
Unfortunately most British lobby hacks don’t have solid US sources and publish whatever they are fed. Some astute observers noted Trump’s jibe at Mandelson at the signing of the deal didn’t quite mesh…
Since Mandelson’s exit hacks are conducting a volte-face and declaring that while some in MAGA liked him, he was actually viewed sceptically by the top White House figures like Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Trump himself. Expect more of that to drip into long-reads about Mandelson in the coming weeks. Hacks are still resisting coming to terms with the work they have done over many years to polish the image of a serial briefer who was actually the poodle of a convicted paedophile…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”