Cut to the chase. All of the above are headline news in the UK. For the wrong reasons. The common denominator is not abusive sex (as awful as that is). The topline isssue should be the wholesale corruption of British society by arms sales — both legal and illicit.
Short version. In the Eighties, Margaret Thatcher turned ploughshares into swords, in order to fill a huge gap in British industry, that was about to be created by her pulling the plug on nationalisation and government subsidy of industry.
As a consequence, in the Eighties, the British arms industry surged. It’s still surging today. Starmer keeps priding himself on announcing arms deal after arms deal.
You can’t have a front-door arms-exporting business, without having a backdoor arms-exporting business. This also surged during the Eighties.
Among other individuals (cf. Savoy Mafia, Wafic Said, Fayed, etc.), Hugh Simmonds was personally tasked by Margaret Thatcher with undertaking two operations (among other things): setting up the money-laundering routes for the backdoor arms business, and nannying Mark Thatcher (Margaret’s son), so that he could make money from this enterprise (Mark was and remains the very dimmest bulb on the Christmas Tree).
How do I know? Hugh Simmonds was a close friend. I spent 27 years trying to work out why he turned up dead in some local woods in November 1988, in mysterious circumstances. My book (“Maggie’s Hammer” — https://tinyurl.com/yhu4nysa) chronicles the investigation and the discoveries.
Back to the short(ish) version. Between 1984 and 1988, Hugh oversaw the transfer of some $12 million from accounts under his control in the island of Jersey to accounts under the control of Mark Thatcher in Texas.
I have credible information from the former manager of the Atlanta branch of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL — the largest bank in Italy, which funneled US$5 billion to Iraq from 1985 to 1989, in order to buy arms: https://tinyurl.com/yehxcn7m) that BNL provided Hugh with a letter of credit for some $28 million, to buy for Iraq a number of GEC (UK) engines, to be utilized to extend the range of Iraq’s SCUD-B missiles.
My further information is that the proceeds from this deal were to be Margaret Thatcher’s ‘pension.’
By the end of the Eighties, some $300 million a year was flowing into the British Treasury, from kickbacks, bribes, and commissions. When Tony Blair took the reins in 1997, the operation continued — with New Labour as the beneficiary. Peter Mandelson was the man who greased the New Labour wheels.
Among other dubious connections. Mandelson was close to important international arms brokers, like Wafic Said and the Indian Hinduja brothers (details in ‘Maggie’s Hammer’).
Mandelson was also close to Epstein. But not for sex. For arms. Details about Epstein, arms, and the Eighties: https://tinyurl.com/4v2p7stk.
The latter article explains that, when Epstein made his big move to London in the Eighties, he became connected to the same arms-dealing circles as Hugh (Ari Ben-Menashe, Robert Maxwell, etc.).
Through Robert, Epstein was introduced to Ghislaine (in the Eighties, not the Nineties), through whom Epstein then met Ghislaine’s good friend, Andrew (the Windsor formerly known as Prince).
The latter became appointed a special international trade representative for the British government. Since Britain’s trade had become primarily arms deals … well, connect your own dots.
Andrew and Fergie formed a close relationship with Epstein, from the Eighties, with both sides gaining — Andrew and Fergie got money; Epstein got contacts (and an introduction to the revolting sexual habits of the British upper-class).
So, there you have it: the British media are correct to have a front page connecting Epstein, Mandelson, Andrew, and Fergie. But, they are connecting them for the wrong reasons.
In the meantime, for Starmer, the big news is: how did he miss all of this? I guess the same question goes for Britain’s much vaunted investigative press.
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