Meddling Mandelson & Mucky Maxwell – Peter Mandelson should NOT be Britain’s next ambassador to the US
Matthew Steeples
Matthew Steeples suggests the late Jeffrey Epstein’s close chum, meddling ‘Prince of Darkness’ Peter Mandelson, to be totally unfit to be British ambassador to the US
The Right Honourable Lord Mandelson PC is undoubtedly a terribly clever chap. He became known as the ‘Prince of Darkness’ with very good reason and it is understable that he is noted as “ruthless” and “media savvy.” Here, indeed, is a 71-year-old former Young Communist League member who has not only “played the game” for his entire career, but here also is someone who has most definitely “manipulated it” throughout his entire lifetime.
A man who has proven that only the most cunning cats can have more than nine lives – this, it must be remembered is someone who has comeback from scandals galore and in spite of being declared as the second most loathed Labour Party member in 2009, has dominated that organisation for decades – the title of Peter Mandelson’s 2010 memoirs sum him up perfectly. The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour detailed this Hendon, Middlesex born grammar school educated politician’s pivotal role in powerbroking during the Blair-Brown years and even now, Lord Mandelson continues to be described as being a “core part” of the policymaking direction of Sir Keir Starmer’s new government.
Prior to July’s General Election and since, it has been predicted that Lord Mandelson is about to find himself appointed to yet another plummy position, that of His Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States of America. With such would not only come a ritzy residence in Washington – formerly redecorated in a most tasteless fashion by the Chanel clad charity tin banging finger pointing prized pillock Baroness Meyer in the late 1990s – that was originally designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, but also what is considered to be “one of the most important and prestigious positions in His Majesty’s Diplomatic Service.”
If elevated to such a role, Lord Mandelson would not only have to present British policies to the American government and people and report American policies back to the UK, but he’d also have to be diplomatic and dedicated. Given his pugnacious past, would that even be possible? Given also, for example, in 2018, the peer described Donald Trump as a “bully and a mercantilist,” how on earth could he expect to foster good relations with the returning President?
Aside from being especially chummy with the non-sweaty, Pizza Express loving dimwitted dunce Prince ‘Randy’ Andy, ‘Handy Mandy’ has long been linked with the mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell via her pension pot plundering papa Robert Maxwell.
Lord Mandelson and his now husband Reinaldo Avila da Silva also holidayed with the late prolific paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in December 2005 whilst “Epstein was under police investigation for numerous sex offences” and then subsequently celebrated his own birthday in January 2007 with him at the sex trafficker’s Paris apartment. In June 2009, even more shockingly, according to the Financial Times, “when he was the UK business secretary, Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s lavish townhouse in Manhattan, while the financier was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor.”
One is left asking just one question: Can a meddling man of such poor judgment be considered a suitable person to manage what has long been thought of as the most “special” of relations? The answer can only be “most definitely not.”
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Pictured top – They partied together, they shopped together – Clearly close chums Peter ‘Petie’ Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein together in 2005 and 2007 (left) and the British ambassador’s residence at 3100 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. (right).
Meddling Mandelson – Further illustrating Lord Mandelson’s poor judgment, in August 2019, Guy Adams and Daniel Bates for the ‘Daily Mail’ reported: “A 2002 report in ‘New York magazine’ stated that the ‘British Cabinet minister’ had attended an intimate dinner party at Epstein’s New York home alongside a motley collection of guests including Donald Trump, magician David Blaine and Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. It added that food had been cooked by celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, at a cost to Epstein of $50,000. Strangely, Mandelson — then a serving MP — did not see fit to declare the expensive hospitality he received in the Commons register of interests — though he did register other events he attended during a 2002 visit to New York. Mandelson did not comment when asked for an explanation about the matter this week. However, speaking more broadly, an acquaintance said that the Labour politician met Epstein on a total of ‘no more than five or six occasions’ in the years they were acquainted, adding that, ‘Peter only knows him because of a friendship with Ghislaine, who he met in the 1980s and has known ever since. ‘It was Ghislaine, not Epstein, who invited him to Little St James, when he stayed on the island with Reinaldo. Epstein wasn’t there during that stay, and neither were any girls or what have you. So however bad it might now look, there was nothing about the visit that could have led him to believe anything untoward went on there.’”Prince Andrew, whose friendship and association with Peter Mandelson has long been known, was hosted at the British Embassy in Washington by the pompous pillock then ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer in 2001. He was pictured guffawing with Sir Christopher’s charity tin banger wife Catherine (now Baroness Meyer) subsequently and would likely love to see his chum ‘Petie’ take over the crib.Lord Mandelson has long been known to have had associations with Jeffrey Epstein’s cronies and most notable amongst them has to be Jes Staley, the now disgraced former JP Morgan and Barclays head honcho. Would these chums thus find themselves invited for Ferrero Roche nights at the British ambassador’s residence in Washington?
Lord Mandelson – at the time the European Union Trade Commissioner – holidayed with Epstein just months before the latter’s arrest in the Caribbean. The two “middle-aged holidaymakers” were photographed on 27th December 2005 in a fashion boutique where the former was snapped trying on a white belt whilst wearing a £21,000 ($28,500, €25,200 or درهم104,800) Patek Phillipe watch – which the ‘Daily Mail’ pointedly noted to be worth “almost two months of his post-tax income.” Opposite him, his clear ‘mate’ Epstein is captured giggling.Peter Mandelson was quite happy to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein, a mutual mate of the since disgraced JP Morgan Chase & Co. banker Jes Staley, at his £10 million Paris paedo pad circa 20th January 2007 in spite of the taxi driver turned sex trafficker having been charged with soliciting a woman for prostitution in August 2006. Whilst Lord Mandelson may or may not have seen newspaper reports about the arrest of his ‘chum’ just months earlier in August 2006, one is left questioning the standard of his judgment in hanging around with this subsequently convicted nonce. Pictured in a hoodie in his dining room blowing out candles on a cake presented by a diminutive butler named Valdson Viera Cortin is supposedly tee-total Epstein whilst ‘Mandy’ – whom features in the now infamous ‘black book’ we believe belonged to Ghislaine Maxwell with 10 phone numbers attributed – gawped rather over-enthusiastically, a glass of red wine in front of him. The pair appeared in the image perfectly at ease together, in spite of the fact that various newspapers had already reported on the horrific allegations against the Brooklyn born taxi driver turned teacher turned financier.As many have said of entries in the address book often misattributed to Jeffrey Epstein, which most instead believe is primarily the contacts of mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell, The Right Honourable The Lord Mandelson PC is someone who was closer to the deviant duo than most. With TEN phone numbers for him and his partner since 1998, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, this is someone who the pugnacious pair clearly had regular contact with.Whilst Peter Mandelson has been openly gay for many years and in a known relationship with a Brazilian, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, since 1998, it is lesser known whether Jeffrey Epstein liked ‘underage boys’ as well as ‘underage girls.’ Aside from allegations about an alleged ‘special relationship’ with his alleged benefactor, the aged Victoria’s Secret billionaire tycoon Leslie Wexner, it has been suggested the Ponzi scheming paedophile Epstein liked taking ‘little boys’ to his ‘Paedo Islands’ in the Caribbean as much as he enjoyed taking ‘little girls’ there for his own gruesome gratification. These images by an Instagram ‘artist’ going by the name @AIArtistKing have been proven fake, but rumours about what the former taxi driver turned teacher turned ‘billionaire’ did sexually with males continue to do the rounds.Oxford educated Peter Mandelson (St Catherine’s College, 1973 to 1976, pictured with Matthew Freud) and Oxford educated Ghislaine Maxwell (Balliol College, graduated 1985, pictured with Rupert Murdoch) are connected in multiple ways. Of the pension pot plundering ‘Bouncing Czech’ that was Robert Maxwell, the Labour peer once remarked: “It was very strange because you’d simultaneously want to be at Maxwell’s parties and at the same time shrink away from him. Because he was such a bully and so unpredictable. To be honest, I was frightened of his company. He had that ability to make you feel completely small and inadequate, and that just scrambled my head.” A Trump ‘love-in’ – Bizarrely, endorsement for Lord Mandelson (pictured with his Brazilian translator lover and now husband Reinaldo Avila da Silva) to be the next British ambassador to Washington has come from Nigel Farage (pictured with his French cocktail bartender lover Laure Ferrari). The Reform UK Member of Parliament remarked: Peter Mandelson, in my view, could be a viable candidate for the ambassadorial role. He’s an intelligent figure who knows his brief well, as I saw when he worked with the European Commission. While I’m not certain he’s the ideal fit for dealing with Trump directly, his intellect would at least command respect.”
