So The Prince of Darkness manifests itself again at this Christmastide, the time of Good Cheer or Winter Solstice if you are of that older and profoundly Pagan persuasion. Necromancer on high of Blairite New Labour, truly it is said of the ignoble Lord that the Undead never die, they only smell that way. Take up your garlands of garlic, sprinkle salt in every corner of your rooms, cross your fingers against the Daemons and be ready to smite them when they do be preoccupied in acts of buggery as is their wont.

Against all common sense Starmer (as is his wont) has appointed this perfidious jasper to the most important diplomatic post in the World, that of Ambassador to the USA where of late things have not be going too well Special Relationship wise. Mainly due to a string of knocking comments made by Arch Europhile Mandy and his cronies against the man who never forgives or forgets a grudge and EU hater, President Elect Trump. It would take a judgement of Solomon for Trump to overlook the active campaigning by seconded Labour activists against him widely across America – and Trump ain’t no Solomon. Happily the Democrats seemingly took their advice and Biden/Harris were roundly defeated.

Time for a grovelling reset and what our American friends call a lube job (Mandy’s speciality) do you think? Well no, respected steady pair of hands and practised smoother of Trump feathers Ambassador Karen Pierce is given the heave ho and replaced by Mandy without it seems running the appointment past the old America hands at the Foreign Office and last but not least the Yanks themselves.

Lord Mandy is fanatically pro EU, pro China and a mate of late US embarrassment Jeffrey Epstein. Not exactly hand in hand with the Donald then.

“Chris La Civita, who was a co-campaign manager for Trump’s presidential election bid, criticised the British government’s decision saying it was replacing a “professional universally respected ambo [ambassador] with an absolute moron”. (BBC News)

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Nominated by Sir Limply Stoke.