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Re: Oh Mandy (as he becomes Peter Pants) – politicalbetting.com
Thought he was a fighter and not a quitter.Will Mandy takes this lying down (other positions are available)? He must have a significant collection of his own 'reminisces' of both political and powerful people. Political changes could get rather sudden and messy during 2026.If he’s the vengeful sort it could get interesting.
But he’s a Labour man first and foremost. Surely he will put the party ahead of any petty desires for vengeance ?
Re: Oh Mandy (as he becomes Peter Pants) – politicalbetting.com
Nicola Sturgeon's house got the full crime scene treatment for less.
Re: The latest Gorton & Denton by-election betting – politicalbetting.com
It might even be supposed that in an act of dumb 4D chess they (HMG) thought putting in a friend of Epstein as ambassador to the court of another friend of Epstein was a smart move.I think that Labour are in really big trouble over this. They had a Cabinet member who allowed his paedophile ring running friend front run the UK market by giving him insider information about changes to tax before they were announced. Insider trading isn't a victimless crime, these people are stealing from other people including pension funds and individual investors.It's hard to disagree with this.
This is probably one of the most serious scandals that the country has had in a while. If the FCA is made to investigate this and it proves that Epstien and linked vehicles profited from this insider information then I hope Mandelson goes to jail for a very long time and Starmer has to resign for resurrecting his career.
The UK government went to a lot of trouble to install Mandelson, who the US initially rejected.
To have installed a 'friend of Jeffrey', and one who appears to have leaked price sensitive information to him (albeit information the dissemination of which is not illegal), is extraordinary.
The only explanation that makes sense is this:
(1) Mandelson lied
and
(2) The US chose not to share information with the UK about Mandelson (either during the Biden administration or the Trump one)
Worked out well.
Re: Oh Mandy (as he becomes Peter Pants) – politicalbetting.com
Will Mandy takes this lying down (other positions are available)? He must have a significant collection of his own 'reminisces' of both political and powerful people. Political changes could get rather sudden and messy during 2026.If he’s the vengeful sort it could get interesting.
But he’s a Labour man first and foremost. Surely he will put the party ahead of any petty desires for vengeance ?
Taz
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Re: Oh Mandy (as he becomes Peter Pants) – politicalbetting.com
The question to ask is not should there be a police investigation into Mandy, it's will you hold a govt investigation into his vetting when you made him ambassador?FPT...So any easy one for Mr Forensic to have swatted away then.Starmer refuses to answer a question from the SNP about whether Mandelson should face a police investigation.Whether someone should face a police investigation should be for the police to decide, not the government, no?
Re: The latest Gorton & Denton by-election betting – politicalbetting.com
BBC's Faisal Islam.
..For a decade and a half, I have wondered about a private conversation I had with the late Alistair Darling, chancellor under Gordon Brown, about the financial crisis.
Darling told me about a painful and angry telephone conversation he had with Jamie Dimon, chief executive of US banking giant JP Morgan, at the end of 2009 when the UK government announced plans to tax bankers' bonuses.
Some of it had been reported at the time, such as a threat to pull plans for JP Morgan's massive new headquarters in the UK.
But - to my utter astonishment - details of the background and the context to this call appear to be in the Epstein files released on Friday, and appear to have involved the unlikely combination of Peter Mandelson, Jeffrey Epstein and the suggestion of "mild threats" over the bonus tax..
..For a decade and a half, I have wondered about a private conversation I had with the late Alistair Darling, chancellor under Gordon Brown, about the financial crisis.
Darling told me about a painful and angry telephone conversation he had with Jamie Dimon, chief executive of US banking giant JP Morgan, at the end of 2009 when the UK government announced plans to tax bankers' bonuses.
Some of it had been reported at the time, such as a threat to pull plans for JP Morgan's massive new headquarters in the UK.
But - to my utter astonishment - details of the background and the context to this call appear to be in the Epstein files released on Friday, and appear to have involved the unlikely combination of Peter Mandelson, Jeffrey Epstein and the suggestion of "mild threats" over the bonus tax..
Nigelb
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Re: The latest Gorton & Denton by-election betting – politicalbetting.com
A bit tone deaf of Starmer to choose today to say, "I changed my party from a party of protest to a party of power."
Re: The latest Gorton & Denton by-election betting – politicalbetting.com
The Epstein files are going to (finally) bring down some people.You'd think some of them might break ranks, Scott, but I'm pessimistic, partly as a result of following the Post Office scandal where all but a couple of witnesses toed the Party line...so far, at least.
How many of them might elect to try and take down others along the way?
Re: Oh Mandy (as he becomes Peter Pants) – politicalbetting.com
Shocked to discover that the billionaire financier class have access to government information and a veto over policies which might make them slightly less obscenely rich.
Whatever next?
Whatever next?
Re: Oh Mandy (as he becomes Peter Pants) – politicalbetting.com
I was once invited to a party by Lord Mandelson.
Thank feck I turned it down.
Thank feck I turned it down.
