Was there a home or a hostelry in the land where a cheer didn't go up when the news broke?
Not knowing precisely what the law is as regards publicly discussing live (potentially) criminal cases, I'll settle for a few random, unworthy observations.
- Gotta love the way Gordon Brown solemnly offered PC Plod his forensic account of how outrageously Mandelson betrayed him - sorry, betrayed the Nation - when in office just before and after the 2010 GE. Hell hath no fury ... and it's never difficult to tell the difference between a dour Scotsman and a ray of sunshine. Etc
- Also enjoyed seeing Mandy crammed into the back seat of ... a Ford Focus! Of all cars. With three other coppers. He won't have sat in a seat as lowly as that for the best part of 40 years!
- Channel 4's "sources close to Mandelson" said that when Andy was arrested but not him, he reckoned the storm had passed. Well, that's Mandy - always aggressive, shameless optimism in public, as we've said here before. But - how much sleep did Mandy get, do we think, after Andy was arrested?
- Nobody has much scrupled to disguise the exact location of his "Camden" house (= Regents Park). Nice house!
ND
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Shurely My Noble Lord Fumblebum has been renting premises owned by the Rothchilds........
My wife called me in to watch the TV news last night. Pretty uninformative except for a reference to his "home" being worth millions of quid. Where did that come from, then?
Partly house price inflation, no doubt, but when did he buy it and for how much? Did he pay market value for it?
I recall when the one-eyed Scottish idiot, as Jeremy Clarkson referred to him at the time, was in government there were innuendos circulating about his private life.
There's one thing you can rely on about commies, they never know when to keep their stupid mouths shut or when to keep a low profile. As the current events prove.
As I recall (too lazy to AI it in detail) the London house purchase was when he was an EC Commissioner, and there was allegedly some trick involved where the house price was artificially lowered and an extravagant amount was paid for "fittings", to get it below some Stamp Duty threshold.
Allegedly
IIRCC
Of course he lost his job (first time around) over a dodgy loan from Geoffrey Robinson which was for an earlier house purchase
I wonder if anything will come of the Mandelson and Mountbatten-Windsor fuss. I can imagine a trial(s) would be an embarrassing thing, lots of muck raked over. Not a nice idea. On the other hand having stirred up the Augean stables a sense of cover-up would never go away. The newshounds will never let go even if we had a trial.
Some countries adopt the high window/tumbled out approach, not the British way. But I can't see the silver salver, whisky bottle and pearl handled having the desired effect either. Unless 'encouraged', know what I mean.
All very difficult - what fool started this mess.
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