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We touched on the deepening unpopularity of UK Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer in yesterday’s LinkSwarm, but Beege Welborn has a more in-depth and amusing look at a PM whose poll numbers are hitting record lows.

It’s no secret what I think of this milquetoast cockroach.

And the prime minister of England has been doing a pretty thorough job of making himself dispensable to the British public all on his own with his authoritarian carrying-ons, his embrace of foreign cultures and peoples over his own, onerous economic burdens, and his unfathomable drive to obliterate whatever respectable standing the United Kingdom still had in the world.

Popularity of Amelia meme snipped.

[There’s] a new theme song in the streets when Brits get together for a protest – one that they all know the words to.

“Starmer is a Wanker” ✊🏻#TwoTierKeir #TwoTierFreeGearKeir @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour pic.twitter.com/FxkhGacrqV

— Paul B 🇬🇧 🔴 (@pauldbowen) October 26, 2024

Numerous versions of this ditty can be found on YouTube.

Keir Starmer’s fortunes were wobbling so badly that he cancelled twenty-seven local council elections scheduled for this May in an attempt to keep his Labour majority.

OOPS

Make that 29.

He had to withdraw the deal to pay to give away the strategically essential Chagos Islands to the Chinese-cozy, rapacious Mauritians when the United States blew a gasket over being lied to about the ‘why,’ and invoked a 1966 treaty he and his toadies had overlooked.

But it wasn’t until this week, when the avalanche of Epstein files dumped by our Department of Justice reached out and touched more than the formerly known as Prince Randy Andy that Starmer’s future suddenly looked bleak.

Known as ‘The Prince of Darkness,’ Lord Peter Mandelson was an intimate of both Starmer’s and, as we now know, Jeffrey Epstein’s. There had been questions about the relationship between the two of them, especially with Mandelson’s position high atop the Labour pyramid, but he denied any close contact.

Or so Starmer says now.

Starmer, however, had always acted a bit impulsively around Mandelson. Like when he reportedly appointed him as the UK’s ambassador to the United States without anyone’s by-your-leave.

Well, darn it, says Two Tier Keir now after the revelations.

The “Two-Tier Keir” jib comes from his government favoring illegal aliens over native Brits.

I messed up. I believed the scoundrel.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer remains under pressure this evening over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador in 2024 – despite his connections to the late financier Jeffery Epstein.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey and the Conservatives’ Kemi Badenoch have pushed for MPs to have votes of confidence in the PM, with Badenoch saying “it’s a question of when, not if he goes”.

Reform leader Nigel Farage called it “the biggest scandal for 100 years”, and said Starmer’s apology was “weak”. Green Party leader Zack Polanski, meanwhile, told BBC’s Newsnight yesterday that it was “the right thing” for Starmer to step down.

And there is also pressure inside Labour.

Salford MP Rebecca Long-Bailey has called it a “catastrophic misjudgement” for the PM to appoint Mandelson, while Rachael Maskell told the BBC that it’s “inevitable” that Starmer has to step down.

Mandelson was the frontman for massaging the Chagos deal.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the reason Starmer sent Mandelson to Washington, despite his long history of scandals and his friendship with Epstein, was to lobby for the Chagos Islands, with Diego Garcia at the center, to be handed over to a Chinese vassal state. https://t.co/ZY2HoOJOrL

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) February 5, 2026

The Epstein files have revealed that Lord Mandelson was leaking sensitive government information to the disgraced and convicted millionaire paedophile, something Starmer was specifically quizzed about last September.

“That enquiry led to a response on November 19 that no departmental record could be found of any information or communication from Lord Mandelson to Mr Epstein on these issues.”

And the litany of lies, obfuscations, and prevarications from Starmer regarding Mandelson and his relationship with Epstein is astonishing.

There were years of photographs and evidence, even without the absolutely damning refuse floating up from the DoJ release.

Yet Starmer still forged ahead.

…A Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on Epstein in 2019 revealed that Mandelson had phoned Epstein in prison trying to arrange a meeting with the boss of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon.

Mandelson has been a Labour functionary at one level for decades, and yet his only idea to try and contact a prominent American businessman was to call up a convicted pedophile in prison? Doesn’t sound like the sort of man who should run a post office, much less an embassy.

It was public knowledge that as well as staying in Epstein’s homes in New York and Paris, he had stayed on Little St James – Epstein’s private sanctuary that the press widely referred to as “paedo island” – and that he had flown on Epstein’s private jet, nicknamed the Lolita Express.

I KNOW NUZZINK

…No wonder, then, that Labour MPs are now fuming at Sir Keir’s suggestion that it was somehow the fault of the security services that he was blinded to Lord Mandelson’s dodgy past.

Sir Keir announced in December 2024, before any Foreign Office vetting had been done, that Lord Mandelson was his choice to replace the highly capable Dame Karen Pierce as British ambassador to the US.

The Prime Minister wanted George Osborne, the former Tory chancellor, to do the job, but was persuaded by his chief of staff – and Mandelson protégé – Morgan McSweeney that the man who had twice resigned from the Blair government over his ties to wealthy men was the right person for the job.

McSweeney is Starmer’s chief of staff, and as head of Labour Together, also his front man against Trump and Twitter and Starmer’s efforts to silent dissenting media voices.

Sir Keir had been given a two-page report on Mandelson by the Cabinet Office propriety and ethics team, which carried out preliminary due diligence on all of the candidates for the ambassadorial role, and which amounted to a summary of publicly available information.

A sitting Labour MP openly saying ‘the PM has to step down’ is the kind of sentence you expect in a political thriller, not a Thursday morning.
If backbenchers are talking like this in public, imagine the group chats right now.

— Intare Batinya (@GorillaExplorer) February 5, 2026

Can Starmer survive? Possibly. All sorts of of politicians have brazened out scandals that were thought to be sure career-enders (Bill Clinton comes to mind). But Starmer seems historically unpopular:

Sir Keir Starmer’s popularity has hit a grim low, new polling shows. Three-quarters of Britons now have an unfavourable opinion of the Prime Minister, according to YouGov’s tracker.

This is up three points from last month, when 72% had a negative view of Sir Keir. Just 18% see him in a positive light, giving him a net score of -57. It marks his worst rating to date and equals his predecessor Rishi Sunak’s lowest point as prime minister.

If Starmer falls, “Labour candidates to replace him as PM include Red Queen” Angela Rayner, Blairite Wes Streeting, retread Ed Miliband (face of their 2015 general election defeat and a NetZero fanatic), and Shabana Mahmood, who, despite her ethnic background, is evidently an immigration hardliner, so its questionable whether the Islamophilic Labour cadres would elect her. Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, another rumored candidate, isn’t currently in parliament.

But expect many more chants of “Starmer is a wanker!” as long as said wanker continues to occupy No. 10 Downing Street.

(Hat tip: Director Blue.)