This content details a political scandal involving the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the US ambassador, a decision linked to Morgan Mweeni, Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff, and highlights the deep-rooted, unethical political project orchestrated by Mweeni and Mandelson within the Labour Party.
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Forever this political project is going
to be associated with the decision to
appoint the best friend of the world's
most [music] notorious pedophile. That
is the legacy of Karma at this moment.
Karma's chief of staff Morgan Mweeny has
resigned after advising the prime
minister to appoint Jeffrey Epstein's
friend [music] Peter Mandolen as
Britain's ambassador to the US.
>> If I had known, of course I would apologize.
apologize.
>> But you won't for your association with
him after his conviction.
>> But I was not cable. I was not
knowledgeable of what he was uh doing.
>> Mweeny [music] was a protetéé of
Mandlesson and represented his dark arts
brand of politics. Just last week, it
emerged that a think [music] tank once
directed by Mweeni had hired a PR firm
to investigate our chief reporter John
Makavoy. Joining me to discuss this is
Mween's unofficial biographer, author of
this book, Paul Holden. For people who
aren't in the Westminster bubble, who
hadn't heard of Mweeni before this
weekend, why does this story matter?
>> Well, first of all, I think Mweeni is
the architect of pretty much everything
that's gone wrong with our modern
politics over the last decade. uh he has
accred to himself just extraordinary
political power and he's done so with a
political project that's he started in
about 2017 uh first to destroy the
prospects of a left-wing Labor
government under Jeremy Corbyn so that
he could personally handpick his
successor which was cirmer
having done so and having gotten circa
elected as the leader of the Labour
party he then assumed overwhelming power
on the Labour party expelled the left
from the party altogether remade it in
his sort of mandolsonian and princling
of darkness image and then when Kiama
became the prime minister he became so
Kystama's chief of staff and the legacy
of his political project has been the
least popular labor government in
history a government that's collapsing a
government that is so unethical is so
admired and scandal and corruption that
I think supporting somebody like Peter
Mandelon a longtime associate of the
world's most notorious pedophile was not
only acceptable but lordable what was
the thinking there did Mweeney owe
Mandlesson something in return for his
help getting Starmar into power. You
know, why was he so keen that Mandlesson
be the US ambassador?
>> Uh, it's an interesting question because
I I think the way that this is being
explained certainly like in the
mainstream press is that this is some
sort of weird misstep, some sort of
miscalculation that Stala was just badly
advised or they should have just taken a
bit longer. But really, this appointment
was the end point. It was the culmination
culmination
of a long-term political project in
which Mandel and Mcweeni were operating
together. This is the key thing here is
that that that Morgan Mcweeny enters
politics in the Labour party. One of his
first bosses is Peter Mandlesson. He
works for Peter Mandlesen running the
Excalibur computer system inputting
information which is like a dark arts
computer system gathering information
and intelligence on Labour Party
opponents including internal Labour
Party MPs as well. We now know that in
this period of time between 2017 and
2020 when Morgan Mcweeny is effectively
wrecking the possibility of a Labor
government behind the scenes with a
whole range of extremely problematic,
unethical uh and and potentially illegal
secret projects. He's being advised and
speaking to to Peter Manderson the
entire time. When Morgan Mweeni assumes
this amazing amount of power within the
Labour Party, he immediately brings in
Mandelen to advise him on how to
restructure the Labour Party to draft
key strategy documents to even allegedly
oversee the selection of who can and
can't be a Labour Party MP.
Extraordinary story. And then thereafter
when Circus Star becomes prime minister
and and Morgan Muini becomes his chief
of staff, it was obvious that Peter
Mandis was going to be chosen because
why on earth wouldn't they appoint
somebody who Morgan Mcweeni has been
working with for absolute years. This is
the end point. This is what they do.
This is the nature of political party
when they assume this sort of power.
This is how they behave and they behave
in ways that most people find
despicable. But a year before Labour won
that election, the Financial Times ran
this investigation exposing the fact
that Peter Mandlesson had kept ties to
Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction for
sex trafficking.
>> Now, so Labour would have known that.
And Mween's whole kind of selling point
is that he understands what the ordinary
voter thinks
>> and the far-left don't. They're obsessed
with Palestine.
>> I think we all know that ordinary voter
doesn't like pedophiles.
>> Yes. and looks badly on their friends. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> How did Mweeni not grasp that?
>> First of all, it's not just a Financial
Times investigation. I think that's the
thing that gets lost here. It's not just
that the Financial Times ran a story and
they were running a story based on
secret docu documents that nobody could
see. They ran a story based on open
court submissions. They ran a story
based on an investigation that JP Morgan
had put together themselves called
Project Jeep to look into the
connections between JP Morgan Bank and
executives and Jeffrey Epstein that
produced this project Jeep report
underlying which was a forensic detailed
analysis of all the emails between JP
Morgan senior staff
and Jeffrey Epstein in which Peter
Mandlesson's relationship was was uncovered.
uncovered.
>> These are documents where Epstein refers
to Mandlesson as PT. Yes, that's
correct. So, what you see in these
documents is it's an incredible document
and I encourage everyone to go read it
and you can literally just Google
>> United States government of the Virgin
Islands versus JP Morgan and go download
these filings. I'm sure you guys can
provide a link on declassified. And it's
an incredible report because it sets out
on a timeline every single email they
have which indicates that Jeffrey Epste
and Peter Manderson had a close
friendship after Jeffrey Epsteine had
been convicted for soliciting
prostitution from a 14-year-old minor.
So this idea that they wouldn't have
known this is nonsense. Everyone knew
this. They didn't care. And they didn't
care because PTY was one of them. Some
people are saying that with Mweeni gone,
the soft left will start to reemerge in
Labor. What impact did Mweeni have on on
the left and particularly, you know, the
the policies on Israel and Palestine?
How influential was he on on Starmmer's
line on that? And and could there be a
slight change now? I think he was I
think he had a really deeply profound
like really really really profound
impact on the way in which the Labor
Party approached Israel and and it's an
impact that has been created over a
decade. I think this is the important
thing that people have have have have
not paid much attention to and which one
of the things they've been trying to
blow a whistle on for such a long period
of time is that one of the ways in which
Morgan Mcweeny undermined the left-wing
of the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn
was that he was secretly for two years
working to inflame the so-called
anti-semitism crisis which was then used
when the Labour party came to power
under kastama to effectively purge the
left wing from Labour party but what it
also did was make it almost impossible
to express any sort of meaningful
solidarity of Palestine or to be
robustly critical of Israel. Amend that
as the Labor Party was coming into power
in the context of Israel's response to
the 7th of October to its plausible
genocide that had already come to power
and snared in this political project in
which it was basically impossible to
criticize Israel because if you were to
criticize Israel then you were an
outsider. You're an anti-semite. You had
to be expelled from the political party.
In fact, the Labour Party would happily
expel and publicly expel and shame
left-wing anti-Zionist Jews in order to
show their feelalty towards Israel. This
is a political project that has locked
this Labor government into Israel's
genocide. With these people being
removed, I can absolutely see that
change. If the outcome of this vacuum is
that somebody halfdeent from a different
an entirely different political faction,
an entirely different political
tradition emerges, if anybody takes over
from this political faction, we're not
going to see any change.
>> It's quite telling that one of Labour
Together's major funders was Sir Trevor
Chin, one of the most influential
pro-Israel donors in the UK. They didn't
really want Trevor Chin's funding of
Labor Together to be out in the open,
did they? I mean, you paid quite a heavy
price for trying to expose that. between
2017 and and 2020, uh, Morgan Mcweeni
achieved his his grand political
ambition of first of all destroying the
reputation of of the political left in
in the UK through the mainstream media
at the same time securing Kama's
leadership and that entire process was
funded with £730,000 in donations.
Nobody knew who was funding Labour
together in that period of time. Nobody
knew they had this massive pot of money
and it really is substantial in British
politics to have £730,000
to do whatever you want with effectively
without any scrutiny during this period
of time. And one of the donors they was
they were hiding was said Trevor Chin.
So you have effectively a Mandolen mandolonian
mandolonian
Blair right-wing hedge fund pro Israel
group of funders who come together to
fund this guy
to run these secret projects. What I
found out to my horror is that I've been
trying to blow the whistle on this for a
long period of time. Starting in
November 2023, I've been going to
multiple mainstream media outlets
saying, "I'm extremely concerned about
Morgan Mcween's conduct. I'm extremely
concerned about this these undeclared
donations. The result of which is that
my name was mentioned in some of those
newspaper articles. My publisher put up
a blurb describing my book. I started
publishing some articles in the United
States with Matt Taibbe about some of
these secret projects they were running.
and labor together hired this firm
called APCO worldwide which amongst
other things represents Elbert uh the
Israeli weapons manufacturer
to investigate me to investigate me and
my colleagues my work colleagues and my
family and we've now seen the BBC's
reported on the underlying contract and
it's very clear the underlying contract
says that what they were planning to do
was to develop a package of materials
that they could use to proactively
target my investigations.
Mandlesson has now stepped down as the
US ambassador. Um he's retired from the
House of Lords and Starmmer has sacked
Mweeni. Does that draw a line under all
of this?
>> No. I mean I think there's many ways in
which this is going to play out and one
of the reasons why there's there's not a
line under this is because now Kstarma
is forever associated with this
decision. Forever this political project
is going to be associated with a
decision to appoint the best friend of
the world's most notorious pedophile.
That is the legacy of Kama at this moment.
moment.
>> So this could bring down Kstama as well potentially.
potentially.
>> I think it doesn't just bring down Kama.
I think this is the thing that people
are struggling to deal with and we we
currently live in this weird political
vacuum. Karma is on borrowed time. He's
done. There's no coming back from this.
I mean he was pretty much toast before
this already cuz he's so deeply
unpopular and there already moves to
remove him. The problem is we now have
this political vacuum because the
success of the Mweeni Mandelen Star
Starma political project has been to
totally take utter control of the
commanding heights of the Labour party.
Its bureaucracy but also the cabinet.
The eight most senior people in cabinet
all have links to Mweeni going back
years and decades. This entire political
project is implicated and tainted by
this scandal. And that's a real problem
because in normal governments you'll
have a cabinet which is chosen from a
wide range of talents within a broad
political movement. This isn't. This is
a cabinet chosen from the tiniest
fraction of the tiniest fraction of the
tiniest fraction of the Labour party.
Not only are they despicable, not only
they're lowest by the public, there's
nobody there to take over the reigns as
a result because they all tainted by it.
So in this political vacuum, [music]
anything can emerge.
>> Paul, thanks so much for talking to us
this morning about this. It's great to
have one of the UK's leading experts on
Morgan [music] Mcweening join us on a
day like this.
>> Thank you so much.
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