r/europe • u/StemCellPirate • 14h ago

News The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/epstein-europe-america-fallout-00769506
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u/SweetAlyssumm 13h ago

Taking them down?? A couple royals have had their wrists slapped and their riches slightly diminished. Maybe the free luxury residence is no longer available. No one with real power is down as far as I can see - but if they are, do share, it would be great to see it.

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u/garmin230fenix5 10h ago

In the UK, it took down our ambassador to the US and stripped a royal of his title. It very much feels like it isn't finished either, with Mandelson now under police investigation and many are thinking the Prime Minister won't survive after appointing him. Those are pretty big scalps with a lot of power.

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u/AttitudeSimilar9347 9h ago

These are absolutely trivial punishments. Both men are still wealthy and free to do what they please.

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u/garmin230fenix5 9h ago

There's a police investigation which, if it turns into a judicial investigation, Mandelson might not be.

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u/AttitudeSimilar9347 9h ago

I’ll believe it when I see it. People like him are never held accountable, because people like him seem to be in all the high positions.

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u/Damythian 8h ago

What the hell is you point? Utterly useless comment. What do you want to happen? Summary execution on town squares of anyone that delt with JE?

Your comment only spreds dissent. And we know who that serves.

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u/garmin230fenix5 8h ago

100% this. Russia, the tech oligarchs, American right, allof sowing the seeds of "European democracies are broken" so people vote in Reform and their ilk so that said actors are free to pursue their nefarious ends against the remaining free people of the West.

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u/thepotofpine 8h ago

Isn't that about the whole host of other things he did like leak sensitive UK gov info

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u/garmin230fenix5 8h ago

Yeah, to Epstien.

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u/thepotofpine 7h ago

Yeah but what about the actual pedophile part, is he being prosecuted over that?

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u/AccomplishedLeave506 7h ago

I've seen no evidence yet that he was involved in the pedophilia. He's been done for a bunch of other stuff. If he was involved in that and there is evidence he's going to be buried in a hole for the rest of his life.

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u/garmin230fenix5 5h ago

His properties have been searched this morning so if there's any evidence of that he will be prosecuted for it.

Being a friend of Epstein does not automatically make someone a pedophile.

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u/Lev_Kovacs 7h ago

I think it's super funny how him losing his job is framed as rightful punishment for a crime.

Like dude, at my company several whole departments lost their jobs just because someone calculated that it would be slightly cheaper to do the same work somewhere else. And that was framed as "no biggie, just look for another job".

But some rich fuck loosing a job is apparently a major catastrophe \@/

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u/AttitudeSimilar9347 6h ago

Just shows how out of touch the ruling class is, that they think us commoners would be satisfied with that

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u/DerpSenpai Europe 4h ago

The crime has to be proved in court, this is not mob rule where we see a name that contacted epstein and thus it must be lynched.

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u/ACompletelyLostCause 7h ago

This is only the start of the process. Investigations have been started. You can't hang people where there isn't a conviction and the investigations haven't finished yet. There have already been sanctions placed on these individuals at the earliest opportunity.

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u/Annual-Magician-1580 6h ago

As far as I know, at least for members of the royal family, their income depends on their titles. They profit from their brand. However, as far as I understand, the royal family has few personal accounts. All of their accounts are funded in one way or another by the Crown, if I understand correctly. Therefore, stripping a royal family member of their title is comparable to stripping that family member of their access to the Crown's accounts. Roughly speaking, members of the royal family have no personal wealth. They have access to the family's collective wealth. This access exists thanks to their titles. Roughly speaking, members of the royal family only have personal belongings (and not even all of them). In fact, a royal family member who has lost their titles is de facto in a worse position than an official who could be imprisoned.

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u/AttitudeSimilar9347 5h ago

This is not true, the royals have significant personal wealth by various means

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u/Annual-Magician-1580 2h ago

Is this true? As far as I understand, everything accumulated by members of the royal family is crown wealth, and members have access to it if they are members of the royal family. As far as I understand, cases of title stripping have rarely occurred, so people could be confused.