Guilt and Gilts: Keir Starmer
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is accused of promoting a known associate of Epstein as the ambassador to the USA, Peter Mandelson. Starmer claimed to not have known that Mandelson was an associate of Epstein. His political opponents claim that he lied to Parliament.
Via Becky Mortan and Chris Mason writing for the BBC,[1]
“During Prime Minister's Questions on 10 September 2025, Sir Keir said three times that ‘full due process’ was followed for the appointment.
The Ministerial Code states that ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament are expected to resign.”
If full due process were followed, then Starmer would have been informed of the association as Prime Minister. He was either ignorant and did not do his job or he knew of the association.
Starmer had a history of not prosecuting rape gangs while the head of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008-2013. He knew of Mandelson’s association.[2]
“It’s a big club, and you’re not in it.”
The problem for Starmer is that he made a big stink about getting Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign in 2022 for lying to Parliament.
The problem for Britain is that Starmer’s guilt is bad for the British gilt market because people are waking up to the fact that the entire government is fake and gay. With the fact that Britains are poorer than Mississippians on average in the news, British government bonds- commonly called gilts- haven’t been doing well lately. It is all a confidence game.[3]
The yield on 10-year gilts bottomed at .2% in the summer of 2020, rose to 4.5% in August 2023, and bounced around there until February 2026. Now they are at 5.14%. If people aren’t confident that the British are rich enough to pay their debt, then interest rates will rise at first and the welfare state in Britain will collapse in the end.
Same for Mississippi and the United States, but at least the governor got in a good zinger.
