It’s not clear to me why the press, and indeed the Tory party themselves, are behaving so prissily about the suggestion that George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, might have been examining ways in which a donation might be received, presumably legally, by the party. What is wrong with that? Doesn’t everyone in every walk of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mandelson’
Deripaska, Osborne and that non donation.
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics, tagged Deripaska, donation, Mandelson, Osborne, Tory Party on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mandelson – Hypocrisy – New Labour
Posted in Politics, tagged hypocrisy, Mandelson on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And politicians wonder why most of them have a bad press.
Mandelson was the architect of the New Labour project, which heralded the Blair era and which has resulted in the current recession and consequent threats to jobs and pensions, (public sector workers, politicians and Mandelson excepted of course), that most of us are now experiencing.
One [...]
Mandelson: up to old tricks?
Posted in Politics, tagged Brown, EU, Mandelson on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gordon Brown must be kicking himself.
After having what most people on both sides of the political spectrum would describe as a ‘good banking war’, he must be ruing the day he decided that in order to bring the Blairites on board, and recover his bad public image, he should bring Mandelson into the Cabinet.
Mandelson is [...]
