A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.

The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.

Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.

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    Corbyn‘s new party called Your Party was founded a few months ago. It’s a sectarian leftist party, already split between woke activists, socially conservative Muslims, and communist entryists.

    The leaders Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn hate and work against each other openly.

    Some important members are jumping ship and go to the Greens.

    read some guardian articles on it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/your-party

    Watch the party convention to get an idea of the culture.

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      The Guardian is very openly pro-Lib Dem, actively participated in the slander campaign against Corbyn including the one where a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was deemed an anti-semite to try and taint Corbyn by association and its columnists very openly say of themselves as being “Opinion Makers”.

      These people are the very opposite of a trustworthy and unbiased news source when it comes to left-wing politics in Britain, with the notable exception of Monbiot and Owen Jones.

      Sourcing your “information” about internals of left-wing parties from traditionally propagandist hard-neoliberal news media is almost as bad as sourcing it from fascist tabloids.

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      What you need, is an economic populist, a real one not fake populism like on the right that scapegoats for the problems of the rich.

      Just take the new party with a flood, and cut throat tactics to get control of the party enforcement mechanisms, fucking Corybyn never took control of it when he let the conservatives purge him and his supporters and the left out of the party often under demonstratably false allegations, as covered in Al Jazeera Investigates, The Labour Files, where someone dropped internal labour party emails. It would make your blood boil knowing how everything has turned out. This is all the conservative establishment inside labour’s fault.

      Either you purge them all our of the party as they did the left, or take this new party, get rid of the divisive social justice pc warriors in any position of visibility, and make the party populist reform that everyone agrees with. No one wants to get fucked by the super rich without their consent. That is what people care most about too, having enough money to live a dignified life, nothing else matters without that point.

      Sideline everyone pushing points for the super rich that are meant to divide, unite around the simple messages of restoring working people to a dignified wage and way of life and forcing the rich to relinquish the license they got from capturing our governments and party half a century back.