Mandy to return to cabinet

[whitechief]

Gordon must have really lost the plot..


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-235...

Edited by whitechief on Friday 3rd October 09:57

[Puggit]

WTF?

How can that possibly help Labour win the next election - it will utterly galvanise the floating floaters against Labour.

[limpsfield]

crazy - its deja vu all over again with dodgy ex politician embroiled in sleaze being forgiven - just a different party this time around.

[JRM]

AND a peerage. GB has totally lost the plot - reminds me of the New Statesman sketch when Alan B'Stard was informed that the Tories wanted to lose the next election because the economy was in such a state that they wanted Labour to take the blame, resulting in them being unelectable for the next 10 years - spot on writing, just in reverse.

Plus GB has left it a bit late to avoid blame - I thought Tony planned his departure prefectly though!

[Puggit]

anonymous said:

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He isn't - he's using Bliar's back door tactic of using a member of the house of Lords in the cabinet...

Mandy is currently a failed politician (ie on the EU gravy train)

[Benny Saltstein]

From the article it looks like Brown is poised to give Mandy a peerage for all the great things he's done at the trade commission.

DC could sleepwalk into No.10 at this rate.

[Puggit]

anonymous said:

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So you're ok with giving him a peerage then?

[whitechief]

It is a truly bizarre appointment and to give the slimey fker a peerage to facilitate it

[anonymous-user]

Will there be another by election with this cabinet reshuffle.

[Benny Saltstein]

El stovey said:

Will there be another by election with this cabinet reshuffle.

Ruth Kelly is resigning as MP too so yes.

[anonymous-user]

Benny Saltstein said:

El stovey said:

Will there be another by election with this cabinet reshuffle.

Ruth Kelly is resigning as MP too so yes.

Excellent. Chalk another one.

It all smacks a bit of last ditch changes but I think it's too late.

[esselte]

Benny Saltstein said:

El stovey said:

Will there be another by election with this cabinet reshuffle.

Ruth Kelly is resigning as MP too so yes.

Not until the next General Election so no by-election.....

[Puggit]

Los Angeles said:

Puggit said:

He's using Bliar's back door tactic

I'd be grateful if you kept sexual innuendo out of the discussion. Thank you.

Took until the 15th post - PH is slacking.

BTW - Hello LA, how are things?!

[Puggit]

Los Angeles said:

Miserable, curmudgeonly, and angry. In other words, just my old self! How are you?

Not far different to your good self!

[chris_w666]

anonymous said:

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He isn't but when he was he was utter ste.

Though I have some interesting stories from a friend that lived opposite.

[BigLepton]

I suspect after the 'loss' of Ruth Kelly from the cabinet, Broon decided he needed another ugly woman who wears bad dresses, so Mandy was the ideal replacement.

[HundredthIdiot]

Whatever you think/thought of him as an MP, I get the impression he has suffered a great deal in the Commission. Can you imagine spending your life negotiating with the French over agricultural subsidies? Bureaucratic hell - that's got to be a worse job than being Chancellor under Brown.

[Stuismyname]

Sounds a little bit like when several senior Nazi's followed Hitler into the bunker to share their final days together.

I'm fine with this; stops him further sullying our country's name across the continent, and we'd be paying for him for the next year or so however you look at it.

[DJC]

fkING MANDELSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cant believe that bds back, thought we had seen the last of him.

[vehiclesystems]

BigLepton said:

I suspect after the 'loss' of Ruth Kelly from the cabinet, Broon decided he needed another ugly woman who wears bad dresses, so Mandy was the ideal replacement.