"It was treacherous, it was the most appalling behaviour... I'm really, really shocked at it." Dame Emily Thornberry MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, describes Lord Mandelson's conduct as "completely unforgivable". #Newsnight

▪️Thornberry has been working closely with Mandelson for 30+ years. ▪️#Newsnight is well aware of Mandelson’s long history of gross dishonesty, corruption and links to criminals and billionaires. Yet both here feigning shock and astonishment. UK Media and Politics is rotten.

Mandelson had already been sacked twice by Labour but Starmer still thought he'd be the right man for the top job. This is Starmer's disaster as much as anybody's. He should resign over it.

The handwringing starts from people who knew exactly what he was.

And they all now try to act surprised & distance themselves, despite "Petie's" previous resignations along with numerous prior warnings. Nothing but rats, now desperately trying to get themselves a safe distance away from HMS Mandelson. .

Lady Nugee had no inkling that Mandelson was a scumbag then. In which case she must be more stupid than she looks. All the clues were out there but she must have chosen not to see them.

He won’t go to jail because he has too much dirt on other politicians and he will squeal like a stuck pig xx

It was Treason and how many more of those “Labour friends of Israel” and “Tory friends of Israel” are doing the exact same to us every day?

More appalling than appeasing and enabling genocide Emily?

Bollocks

@rayfletcher223 Thornberry wants us to believe they had no idea what Mandelson was. We weren’t born yesterday, Thornberry.

"It was treacherous, it was the most appalling behaviour" - could be talking about any Labour bod tbh.

Wow. She's really shocked. All those year's knowing Mandelson, and she's really shocked. Didn't his behaviour and " doing something every day to harm Corbyn tell her anything. A top lawyer, and she didn't realise how damaging he was whilst in Corbyns team? Really shocked?

WHEN DO MANDELSON'S CHIEF ENABLERS RESIGN?? BLAIR, MCSWEENEY, STARMER all knew what Mandelson was and still persisted in forcing him into High Profile Positions in UK Politics and into the Lords. HIS ENABLERS NEED TO BE CLEARED OUT ALONG WITH MENDELSON and HODGE

EMELY did not know... bless our Emily... but we have not heard from Blair..... and a little from Brown

Nigel Farage is mentioned many times within the Epstein Files.

Lies! @EmilyThornberry I’ve worked for an MP & you cant get past security clearance without stringent checks at even a low level. You knew. They all knew about Mandelson so don’t piss on my leg & tell me it’s raining! You’re an enabler as well as a genocide supporter.

Has she been living in a cave all this time?

Starmer knew what Mandelson was like. He has a shocking history and remained a friend of Epstein after his first conviction. The world, apart from it appears, the useless Starmer knew Mandy was a dodgy fucker, but he still appointed him as US ambassador.

Thornberry is speaking rubbish. Questions over Mandelson and his bestie Epstein have been in the press for decades. Labour knew. Labour decided despite knowing that Mandelson was one of them.

@EmilyThornberry is full of it. They all knew. And you knew too.

Shocked my arse, this woman has been up to her armpits in the dark prince for 30+ years, yet another lying Labour charlatan!

Fuck right off, that old bint has been in Mandelsons pocket for years. She should be dead centre of any investigation

They knew.

It's equally as bad as the traitorous 486 MP's who voted to give their own country away to be ruled by unelected foreigners in Brussels. Wait a minute, @EmilyThornberry was one of those TRAITORS.

Wrong T word... It's Treason not Treachery...

@RuthHen05786097 “Unforgivable” - how about criminal? When will the police investigation into gross misconduct while in public office begin?

Another Dame on the gravy train. The establishment looking after the establishment. They pretend to be shocked and horrified when found out.

These people are acting as if it weren't a well-known secret. We knew, Emily and yet you still allowed him to launch a hate campaign on the left and Jeremy Corbyn.

Do you remember when she resigned from the Labour party in protest at Sir Keir appointing Lord Mandelson as US ambassador? No me either..

Guess what? No one in @UKLabour knew Petey was a wrong un. How could anyone have guessed that someone twice sacked as a Minister for wrongdoing & a friend of a convicted paedophile was not an appropriate choice for Ambassador? Starmer needs to go. #StarmerOut

Consider the mindset of a person that new about Peter Mandelson (Because cut the shit, they did) and knew about rape gangs (Because cut the shit, they did). But kept quiet about it all, only to publicly moan about a house with a white van on the drive and a George Cross flying.

Thornberry acting shocked about Mossad Mandy, pure bullshit..they all knew.