#ollyrobbins — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ollyrobbins, aggregated by home.social.
-
It's been a while, but here's a little cartoon based on this week's news surrounding Starmer and Mandelson.
#KeirStarmer #OllyRobbins #Mandelson #Starmer #cartoon #WashingtonAmbassador #ForeignOffice #FCO #EpsteinFiles -
If you believe #KeirStarmer has a habit of throwing people under the bus to hide his own political moves & serve his personal ambitions, you're are right. I didn't need to hear #FCDO chief & #Whitehall stalwart #OllyRobbins give a painfully-measured-yet-damning testimony today to know #Starmer had backstabbed him in the #Mandelson vetting case, then lied to Parliament. This is the Independent article that showed me how much https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-mandelson-vetting-scandal-downing-street-whatsapp-b2961540.html
-
#UKgov says #OllyRobbins overruled UK Security Vetting, and gave Peter Mandelson #DevelopedVetting status, without telling ministers what #UKSV found. So they fired Robbins. See e.g. The Guardian: https://archive.ph/sMAc9
Such deceit of ministers would end the career of any civil servant. But the govt story is that Robbins as head of the #ForeignOffice went completely rogue to tell ministers what they wanted to hear about a political appointment of top diplomat. Not credible.