Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor are embodiments of base Britain, where venalities are expertly covered up or brushed off. Loyal citizens still believe that corruption happens in banana republics and old Soviet countries. You can’t blame them. Our masters have, for centuries, projected GB as a rule-based nation, an example to the world. The propaganda has lulled its own people and fooled the world.
In 2015, while writing a book on England’s infatuation with the east, I went to Jordan, Egypt and India. In all three countries, people told me they wanted their politicians and civil servants to be as incorruptible as they were in the UK. Huh.
In Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, Britain continues to decline from its 2017 position. The 2025 report highlighted concerns about political donations, “cash-for-access” scandals, and public mistrust in government. Hollow were Starmer’s promises of virtuous politics.
As the journalist George Monbiot wrote in a scathing column: “Fear, shame, embarrassment: these brakes no longer apply. The government has discovered that it can bluster through any scandal. No minister need resign. No one need apologise. No one need explain.”
Mandelson was forced to resign in 1998 and 2001 for misdemeanours in office. He became more arrogant and influential than ever. Devoid of ethical sensibilities, he slipped between governmental work and lobbying. He mingled only with the rich and powerful and used his influence to facilitate their requirements. He was the Machiavellian power player former prime minister Tony Blair used, Gordon Brown handed a peerage and top job to, and Keir Starmer appointed as ambassador to the USA. The vetting seemed to have been cursory.
Now, MPs are becoming proper scrutinisers. About time. On Monday, some demanded answers to the many questions that remain outstanding about Mandelson’s conduct – for which he’s now being investigated. Mandelson has previously said he has not acted in any way criminally and that he was not motivated by financial gain.
Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, assured MPs that documents would be made available. I remain sceptical. The secretive state will keep its deep secrets. It’s a facade.
On to Mountbatten-Windsor, a man even more horribly haughty than the scornful lord above. He denies any allegations of wrongdoing. Do you really trust the system to reveal what went on in the years between Virginia Guiffre’s revelations and now?
The unpalatable truth is he was coddled by his mum most of all, by his avaricious and amoral ex-wife, and, for the longest time, the other Windsors and obliging hacks. The opaque royalist system also protected him. That will continue. Sorry, I do not believe he will face proper justice for misconduct in public life. The state will find a way of seeing that off.
Consider some other big scandals of our times. Who was properly held to account for the Post Office’s persecution of good, innocent people? Were they taken to court? Are they in prison?
This week, Dirty Business on Channel 4 dramatised other monumental state failures. England is currently the only place in the world where water is fully privatised – thanks, Mrs Thatcher. Effluence is poured into waterways; private companies make huge profits and sell on. A young girl contracted E. coli and died after going to a beach with her parents. Her dad later took his own life. This week, Lake Windermere is again full of human faeces. The Environment Agency is shown to be compromised and unconcerned. They all get away with it.
We commoners have witnessed scandals come and go in our political and social spheres, with few, if any, people held accountable. Long inquiries are held to show concern. Nothing changes. The unforgivable corruption of the Covid contracts has passed into the ether. The company linked to former Conservative peer Baroness Mone still owes the government tens of millions of pounds for supplying unusable personal protective equipment. And the former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who was in charge of how the government protected us all, has slipped away. Boris Johnson, too.
Parliament needs to serve the population, not political parties or itself. A new authority is needed to reestablish integrity in public life. It should have an investigative role as well as legal power. The remit should extend to the royal family. Appointees should apply and go through a fair and transparent process. And be vetted. Most importantly, those who break rules must be made to pay.
All is rotten in our state machinery. It must be fixed to save democracy and win back the trust of voters.
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