British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday fired his Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson just days after Dems on the House Oversight Committee made public the now-infamous Jeffrey Epstein 50th birthday book in which Mandelson contributed 10 pages variously describing the dead sex trafficker as an “intelligent, sharp-witted man” and “mysterious” figure who had “parachuted into my life,” called him “my best pal,” and including three pics of himself with Epstein, the BBC reports.

It was no drawing of what could be reasonably concluded to be the torso of a teenage girl with extremely suspicious text in the middle but that’s actually kind of the problem for Americans rather than Brits. See, Starmer – despite taking about two days longer than he should have to can this son of bitch or really should just not have hired him in the first place, more on that in a bit – did reach the conclusion that being associated with someone who contributed to the birthday book, and definitely visited Epstein Island, was more trouble than it was worth, with the UK Foreign Office saying in a statement that “In light of the additional information in emails written by Peter Mandelson, the Prime Minister has asked the Foreign Secretary to withdraw him as Ambassador. The emails show that the depth and extent of Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is materially different from that known at the time of his appointment.” Just getting it over with, ripping the bandaid off, etc.

The firing comes less than 12 hours after another political party currently holding a national legislative majority on the other side of the pond took what one might call a different approach to handling another friend of Epstein’s, the one who submitted the aforementioned torso of a teenage girl with extremely suspicious text in the middle to the Epstein 50th birthday book, voting 51 to 49 to block an amendment to the NDAA that would have forced the US Justice Department to release every file it has on the evil pimp – who died in 2019 while in the custody of the government led by that friend under what most reasonable people would consider to be “mysterious circumstances.”

Sure, there are dispositive differences in the situations but that does not mean that the party on the American side of the comparison lacks any agency. Quite the opposite in fact, as had just two of them voted yes rather than no then the respective outcomes would bear a lot more similarities – that certain actors with the power to exact accountability on Jeff’s birthday friends did not pass on an opportunity to do so. It’s almost like it was a really simple test of maintaining integrity in politics.

All that said, here’s a big similarity:

Yesterday I called for Mandelson to go.

The victims of Epstein are calling for Mandelson to go.

Now we hear most Labour MPs want Mandelson gone.

But still Keir Starmer dithers and delays.

Our Prime Minister has no backbone, no principles and no idea. Weak. https://t.co/ok8dw7VFj4

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) September 11, 2025

Yeah, the Tories have obviously taking notes from the Dems.