The Duran Podcast - Time's up for Keir Starmer. Mandelson-Epstein ROCKS UK establishment

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

Time's up for Keir Starmer. Mandelson-Epstein ROCKS UK establishment

All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in the UK with Lord. Is he a Lord, Kirstammer? No, he's not a Lord? He's a Sir. He's a Sir. He's a Sir. He's a Sir. Yes. I get those confused. Lord and Sir. Anyway, Sir, what is going on with Prime Minister Sir Kierstommer? He is in a world of mess, especially with the Epstein Files and Mandelson. He's a Lord. Right? Is he still a Lord? He's a lord. Is he still a lord? Or did he resign? Or can you resign from a lordship? You are always called lord, but he's not going to use the term. And let me just quickly explain this just in case people are interested. I'm sure people are interested. Sir, technically, it means that you're a knight. It's not a hereditary title. You do not sit in the house of lords, which is the upper house of the British.

Parliament, but it is an honour. So it means that the king calls you, sir, and everybody calls you, sir. And in theory, as I said, you belong to one of the various orders of knighthood, the order of the Thistles, the Order of the Bath, the Order of the British Empire. Now, amongst the British elite, there are lots of ones, all of these orders, there are some which are more prestigious than others. The Order of the Garter is the far and away the most prestigious. My understanding is that Keir Stama got his knighthood, his position as a sir, because he was a civil servant, an official.

He served as Director of Public Prosecutions, and he is Sir Kier Stama, and I believe he believes, belongs to the Order of the British Empire in front of the people to know, which is actually the, the lowest ranking one. A lord means that you are a member of the House of Lords. And there are hereditary lords who have inherited their titles, who are the aristocracy, and then there are the lords who are appointed such just for their lives only by the Prime Minister. Most of the hereditary peers, the hereditary lords, no longer sit in the House of Lords, but all of the appointed ones do. So, I mean, it's, it's, being a lord doesn't mean quite as much as it used to,

but it still sounds rather grand. And he depresses people around the world. So Stama is a knight. He's a knight. He's a knight. He's a member, as I believe, as I said, of the Order of the British Empire. And Mandelson is a lord. And he used to be, as a result, a member of the House of Lords. In other words, a lifetime appointment to sit in the House of Lords. You get a car, you get a chauffeur, you get an allowance every time you go to the House of Lords. They pay you actually quite a lot of money. So it's a very, very nice, cushy position to have, just a second. Okay, well, he's in trouble, Sir Kirstammer, because of Lord Mandelson, or one of the reasons.

He has many reasons why he's in trouble. but the latest reason is because of Lord Mandelson. And Alexander, they're trying to pin the blame on Russia. So what's the situation now? Well, I think we are in the last days of Kirstama. I mean, I say that. I said this before. But yesterday was a moment of profound crisis and drama in Britain.

The closest approximation to it, you have to go back to the last days of List Trust. It's something like that. The atmosphere is a little like this. So Kirstam, already the most unpopular Prime Minister that Britain has ever had. I think he's equal sometimes with Liss Trust. Sometimes he's more unpopular than she is, sometimes a little less. But, I mean, he's on that level of unpopularity and has been there for some time. As we've discussed in previous programs, when there are elections in Britain and people knock on the door, One of the things the people always say, the public always says, is we hate Kistama. He is massively, intensely disliked in Britain.

And by pretty much every section of British society, except the North London elite that he comes from. So already a very unpopular prime minister heading a very unpopular government. And we have elections, local elections coming up in May. And as we discussed in a program, Kestama and the government have been trying to postpone as many of those elections as they can because they know they will do incredibly badly, but they can't cancel all of them. So they've only managed to postpone or cancel some of them. And that has made a terrible impression. And we had that awful episode about two weeks ago, a week ago, when a potential rival of Kier Starras, Andy Burnham, tried to get into the House of Commons.

He tried to sit for a seat in Manchester where there is a pending by-election and Kirstama blocked him. So already we have an incredibly unpopular prime minister heading an incredibly unpopular government, one which focuses mostly on foreign policy, one which focuses mostly. on Ukraine, just to say. Our prime minister who is called by his own MPs, the people who support him or supposedly support him in the House of Commons. They called him no, never hear Keir.

I mean, all of those things. So all of that. And suddenly we have this revelation and it came out clearly yesterday that Peter Mandel. Wilson, friend of Jeffrey Epstein, appointed to be ambassador to the United States. He wasn't just a friend of Jeffrey Epstein. He was a very long-standing friend of Jeffrey Epstein.

He continued to be a friend of Jeffrey Epstein's. After Epstein's one conviction, the one that happened was in 2009, he continued to meet with him. He pretended that he didn't, but of course he did. He remained a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein's right up until the moment of Epstein's final arrest. He wasn't just a friend of Epstein's. It turns out because as a result of this document dump that's come out at the United States, that he appears to be in a seriously corrupt man, providing private information, from the government itself, because Mandelson has served for many prime ministers, he's been close to prayer, he's been close to Brown, he's been close to many others, that he was basically taking confidential papers out of Downing Street, giving them to Epstein, he was accepting money from Epstein that he pretends he wasn't, but he was. He was absolutely, deeply, closely, intimately connected with Epstein. And he was also, lobbying for J.P. Morgan. He was in touch with Matt Diamond, the chief executive of J.P. Morgan,

at the time of the great financial crisis of 2008, he was as a government minister, as deputy prime minister, telling J.P. Diamond, look, I support you. I want you to protect bankers' bonuses. why don't you put pressure on the government to protect bankers' bonuses, this is how you're going to do it, this is who you're going to speak to, this is the kind of pressure you should put on. And by the way, when I leave my job as deputy prime minister, if you now have a nice job for me in J.V. Morgan, well, I'm not, you know, I'd be quite happy. So, I mean, this utterly corrupt, already deeply unpopular person, it turns out that Starmat made him ambassador to Washington, and it turns out now, and he admitted over the course of a House of Commons debate yesterday, that they knew, they knew that he had in fact been in touch with Epstein long after Deftain's conviction. They'd pretended otherwise. They'd now admitted that they knew all along that he had these longstanding connections with Epstein, and they still appointed him to the post he had. And of course, about his corruption, this has also been very widely known. So lots of people wanting to know how it came about that Mandelson was

appointed ambassador to the US. Stama comes into the House of Commons. And, and he comes into the House of Commons, he says, I'm going to provide all the papers that show this, except, of course, we're going to hold some back because of national security reasons. I'm going to get a top civil servant who wants us to me to filter the documents to decide which can be published and which cannot. And at that point, the House of Commons explodes. They said this is impossible. This cannot continue. His own MPs turn against him. Angela Rainer. Remember her? He's former deputy prime minister, turns against him. They say, look, this cannot be allowed to happen. You cannot control which documents we see and which we don't. It has to be

decided by a committee of MPs. Even Stama can see that the entire House of Commons is going against him. And so he has to back down. Now, when that happens, that is a sign that a Prime Minister is no longer in control, that he is in office but not in power. And from that moment, you can say definitely that he's on his way out. Everyone knew Mandelson's connections to Epstein, but before this latest document release. So why did Stammer give him the ambassadorship to the US? Very simple reason, extremely simple reason. It's an excellent question, by the way. The reason he gave Mandelson that post is because it was Mandelson who made Stama leader of the Labor Party and ultimately Prime Minister. And this is the other thing that has come out over the last

couple of weeks that, of course, Stammer's chief of staff, a man called Morgan McSweeney, who basically runs the government for Stama, that he is a protege of Mandelson's. Mandelson was in constant. contact. From the moment when Stama became Prime Minister, Mandelson has been constantly in touch with Morgan McSweeney. Morgan McSweeney told Stama, we must make Mandelson ambassador to Washington because we've got to give Mandelson a formal post. Mandelson is too toxic to be made a minister here. So we're going to shuffle him off to Washington and make him ambassador there. And in reality, of course, what was happening was that Mandelson was shuttling backwards and forwards between London and Washington, which, by the way, is very easy to do. They're very good flight connections.

And, of course, the British taxpayer pays to the first class tickets, which I'm sure was what he was using. He's shuffling backwards and forwards. He's giving advice. There was a very big government reshuffle. Ministers appointed. Ministers sacked. as recently as September, and Mandelson was basically in charge of it. So Mandelson and McSweeney together have played absolutely central roles in the government.

And despite the fact that, by the way, the extent of Mandelson's corruption was widely known. I mean, he's already been caught previously in two earlier scandals, extending all the way back, for the 90s, by the way. So there was no real mystery or secret about him. The fact that Mandelson remained such an important and pivotal figure in British political life, tells you so much about the reality of politics in Britain today. But that, you asked me the question, why was he appointed ambassador to Washington? It's because they needed to give him a formal job and to put him on a government salary. And of course, no doubt he did do some work in Washington, but mostly his focus was on what was going on in London.

Well, I mean, it shows that this guy was a very powerful person if he's one of the people credited with putting Kirstammer in the position that he's in, right? So they have to give him his favor. Yeah. Right? He puts Kirstomer in as prime minister and he has to get rewarded. But, you know, it tells you a lot about the UK establishment in the UK. elite. This man who's extremely powerful is also extremely corrupt, as you, as you say, this is not hidden. I don't think I'm saying anything that's hidden.

No. Or is not discussed in the media in the UK. I mean, does the media discuss Mandelson and all the things that he's involved in? How does someone like Mandelson end up being? so powerful? Well, the reason he is so powerful is the same reason why he is so corrupt, because he's part of the elite that governs not just present, but the whole of the collective West, or has done so. I mean, that is, in effect, the big revelation about the Epstein documents, the way in which the global elite was working.

and the global, the globalist elite was working. Mandelson was absolutely a key figure within it. That was what made him powerful. It was what gave him the connections. It's what gave him the access to the money. It was what made it possible for him to funnel money and support to all sorts of other people. and it exposed, the Epstein papers have exposed an awful lot, not just about the way in which the US is run, and the way the US elites work, but the way in which the British elite, the European elite,

all of these elites taken together work. And as I said, Mandelson is a major, was a major player in that elite. He had all of those connections, and that's what made him powerful. And that's why he was able to choose who would become the Prime Minister, because that's effectively what he did with Kirstama. And that's why he was playing all this pivotal role in the way Britain was governed from the moment Kirstarmer became Prime Minister. So this is one of the extraordinary revelations.

There's a British journalist, very well-known British journalist called Alison Pearson, rather a fiery personality. She writes of the Daily Telegraph. She said that from this moment on, the whole idea that there is a globalist elite that runs our lives is not a theory. It has been demonstrated to be a fact. And that's what she said. You'd be called all sorts of things if you said that just a month ago. Now nobody can deny it any longer.

Not only do they run our lives. They believe that they are untouchable. that for many decades, they were untouchable. Just the fact that Stommer gave this guy the post of a UK ambassador to the U.S., which is without a doubt the most important ambassador post in the entire British government, the fact that he gave this guy, the job of ambassador, to the U.S., knowing that he had all of this Epstein stuff going on, shows that that Kier Stommer, the entire laborer, government, the entire British establishment has had the idea that, you know, they're not

going to, the people aren't going to do anything to us. They're not going to say anything. They can't touch us. Who cares Peter, Bandleson, if you have all this Epstein stuff. Don't worry about it. No one's going to tell you anything. No one's going to do anything to you. You're above the law. We're above the law. You can be ambassador anywhere you wish. You can be a minister. anywhere you want. I mean, this is their attitude that they are, they were untouchable. And that's why they're still getting appointed to all of these posts, knowing all of the, all of the stuff that they have going on. Well, you're absolutely correct. And just to say two things about this. Firstly, I mean, he did go through a kind of vetting process before he was

made. Ambassador. It consisted in part of him being asked three questions about his connections. to have steam, which were put to him by Morgan McSweeney in the same person. Very difficult. Exactly. I mean, that was all. But, you know, the most disturbing thing about what you said is it's not only true, but they were absolutely right. I mean, appointing Mandelson to that post should never have been a problem.

The only reason it ever became a problem is because of something that happened, not in Britain, but in the United States. If the documents had, the Epstein papers had not been published in the United States, Mandelson would still be ambassador and he would still be exercising this enormous power in Britain today. Yeah. And the scary part is that there are many mandelson's floating around the UK establishment. Just a final question. What do you make of the narrative now in the UK, which is that this is all Russia. Epstein is connected to Russia.

Epstein is connected to Putin. It's all a Russia spy thing. What do you make of this? I don't think it's gaining any traction, to be quite honest. I actually saw that Sky News tried to run this story, this narrative about Epstein's being some sort of KGB. They even say KGB, which shows you how stupid these people are, but they say he's a KGB spy. And they had to turn off the comments, Sky News, because people were just slamming them. They were having none of it. People in the UK, people that were watching

Sky News were having none of it. They're like, who are you guys trying to fool? Who are you guys trying to gaslight with all of this Russia, Russia Putin-Ebstein stuff? No one was buying into it. But what do you make of it? You're absolutely correct. It is not gaining any traction at all. The media in Britain floated it. And you can obviously see who was behind it. Because, I mean, the Mandelson affair is about Mandelson.

It's about Kirsten, who, as I say, whose days are now numbered. I mean, there is no longer any dispute about this. I've sent you some articles, some headlines on the British. media, people can see it. But of course, the far bigger revelation is the shock for the British people is that they now see who really runs things, how the world is run, how Britain is run. And of course, what they do is they come up with this Russia story. It's all a honey trap run by the KGB and all of that. Everybody can see right through that.

That isn't going to continue for any time. There was some desperate attempts, by the way, by Starmas' few remaining supporters to bring up this narrative in the House of Commons debate yesterday, which again, it didn't succeed. I mean, it just basically died instantly. I'm going to say this. If they try and plug it, what it's actually going to do is the opposite. it's going to make more and more people question the entire Russia, Putin narrative altogether.

It's going to expose the way in which that has been repeatedly used, and it's going to make people start to question it. Because if they're bringing Russia into this story, well, maybe what they've been telling us about Russia, about other things, maybe that's not so true and so reliable either. So that's, it's not going to work. It's already failing. Donald Tusk in Poland is trying desperately to keep it alive there, whether that's an attempt to help Stama, you know, who's the great. Yes. It might probably is.

But, or maybe it's also because there's revelations about Poland coming. Who knows? But anyway, I mean, probably, probably a bit of both, but mostly I think it is about Stama. But whatever. This thing isn't gaining any traction at all. People are very, very angry. And people in the Labour Party are in absolute shock, not because these people are not themselves, many of them, very corrupt, very much apparatchiks and all of that.

But to have it exposed that they are is making them run around desperate, like, you know, headless chickens. They're saying, what can we do? What must we do? We're all going down. Let's try and find someone else to take over from Stama as quickly as possible because otherwise everything is going to start to get out of control because we've been shown to be who we, of course, actually are.

Yeah. You know, I go through the documents and I saw one of the documents said that Epstein despised China. He said there were a country of peasants, I believe, is the way. words that he used. He did not like Xi Jinping at all. He tried to regime change Putin. He was talking about regime changing Putin because he despises Putin. And so I just ask myself, you know what? On the one side, you have Epstein hating Putin, hating Xi Jinping, hating all of these guys, trying to regime change them. And on the other side, you have Epstein

hanging out and budding around with all of these collective West elite and all of these globalist elite. Correct. And I think that tells you everything you need to know. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Do you have anything else to add to this? No, I mean, this is a, I mean, in some ways, the fall of Starma is the least important part of this story. The far more important part of this story is, as I said, that we now know. We now have it on record who it is who actually runs us, who governs us, not just in Britain, not just in the United States, across Europe, in much of the world as well. And it is really extraordinary. It's really horrifying to see how brazen and open about it they were and the sense of impunity they have. And I do want to end with one

particular thing. There's a lot of talk about criminal proceedings being brought against Mandelson and on the face of it there's an open and shut case. He lied about his, he lied in background checks about his connections to Epstein, about that everybody knew about these connections with Epstein is now here nor there. He still lied about it. He was taking documents, important papers out of Downing Street. That seems already to be very, very criminal and very bad and very wrong. He was clearly taking bribes. I know he would dispute that, but that's what they look like to everybody. And, you know, we're not talking about small amounts of money either. You would say this is an open and shut legal case. And yet, consider what he's been prosecuted

for, or rather what he's been investigated for. He's not been investigated for treason. Some people talk about treason. But treason doesn't even do that. exist in this context. He's not being investigated for trafficking in official secrets under the official secrets legislation. He's being investigated for misconduct of public office. Now, that is a criminal offence with which I've experienced because every so often we used to get cases like that in the High Court when I was there. And I can tell you straight away, it is one. of the most difficult crimes to gain a conviction. Because, well, basically, you have to get a confession before it happens.

Because the bars on gaining a conviction are placed so high. It's a lawyer's feast. There's all kinds of things lawyers can do. They can dispute intention. They can dispute purposes. I mean, you know, these are legal tricks, maybe. But lawyers are there to play those tricks. I am far from convinced that he will be convicted of anything.

And already there are rumblings that the police do not want to pursue this investigation, that it's too complicated, that he's too well connected, that he's too difficult a person to investigate, that it would use up too many resources, that the London police have many more important things to do in London, closer to the real concerns of ordinary people, as if, by the way, the situation in London, in terms of protection for ordinary people was that good anyway.

But put all that aside, that there's going to be all of those excuses not to take this too far. They'll say that Peter, as they still called him, by the way, they call him Peter, not Mandelson. They call him Peter. Peter has already suffered enough. I would not be surprised if at the end of it, the establishment lets him walk away. He's still being protected. Absolutely. They're still going to protect him. Absolutely. He knows it and they know it. He knows it. They know it. I just say this four of you. Don't expect anything. Yeah. We'll end the video there. The durand.locals.com. We're on X, we're on Rumble, we're on telegram.

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