"Traditional rulebook or conventional practice I guess, by that, Mandelson means the traditional rule of law, where you don't deport people without due process, to countries they weren't even born in, or detain four-year-olds in the middle of cancer treatment. Or maybe he means the conventional practice of thinking genocide is bad; we live in a world where that belief has apparently been overturned, replaced by an AI mock-up of what Gaza would look like cleansed of its remaining inhabitants."
"Mandelson is only the most cynical and supercilious edge of a Labour approach that is impossible to make sense of. They want to deplore misogyny and authoritarianism and yet go fishing with JD Vance. They want to support Ukraine to the hilt and yet pull out the stops for Trump's state visit to which he could easily show up with Vladimir Putin as his plus-one."
Donald Trump is framed as a risk taker who disregards conventional practice and might succeed where business-as-usual fails. Arguing for a pivot away from the UK–US special relationship is labeled lazy thinking. Traditional rulebook norms—due process in deportations, refusing to detain ill children, and condemning genocide—are contrasted with contemporary actions that violate those standards, including deportations, detention of children, and imagery erasing Gaza. Labour's posture is characterized as inconsistent: condemning misogyny and authoritarianism while associating with figures like JD Vance, supporting Ukraine but endorsing a state visit for Trump, risking reward for aggression.
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