Lord of the Dance
James Forsyth 10:51am
The momentum behind the Mandelson dancing story just keeps building. The latest piece is in the People column in today’s Times:
Already the joke is Westminster is about a Political Strictly Come Dancing with Mandelson and Vince Cable. But no word yet on which Tory might be game for it.Was it a foxtrot, a waltz or a quickstep? Twinkletoed Lord Mandelson pressed his Strictly Come Dancing credentials by sweeping lobby correspondent Sunita Patel off her feet at his Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform drinks party at Westminster. “He was really very good,” says the Wolverhampton Express and Star reporter. “He asked me if I could dance and I said yes, though in fact it was actually my first time. Let’s put it this way, he didn’t tread on my toes.” Can his Cabinet colleagues say that?
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Something of the night
November 21st, 2008 11:04amThis is all a deliberate distraction from the economy and the Deripaska affair. Don't let Mandelson get away with the smokescreen.
Burt
November 21st, 2008 11:34amWho cares?
Why are you helping to make this creep look human?
TrevorsDen
November 21st, 2008 11:35amWhat is the sodding point of all this?
Mandelson is an evil lying bastard toe rag. Good to see the Spectator is on message
Phil Hornby
November 21st, 2008 11:38amLiam Fox-trot
Burt
November 21st, 2008 11:47amPlease please don't be seduced by such obvious pleb fodder. Leave that to Al'beebera.
Andy
November 21st, 2008 12:30pmI agree with the comments above. You diminish everything you stand for by peddling this nonsense. If people wanted to read this rubbish they would buy OK magazine. Please, for the sake of my sanity, stick to the issues that matter...
J H Holloway
November 21st, 2008 12:51pmRemember what Blair said? Something along the lines of his job would be complete when the Labour party learned to love Mandy.
This dancing stuff is a serious attempt by the oily creep to change his (well-deserved) public image.
It's either that, or spend the rest of his life in the UK being despised.
Nobody likes him - and he does care.
Wily Trout
November 21st, 2008 1:53pmAny popularity Mandy has comes from amusement at the amount of embarrassment he has caused the Labour Party. He isn't popular on his own account.
Mark
November 21st, 2008 2:14pmJames,
What has Mandelson got on you?
BrianSJ
November 21st, 2008 2:44pmGet this stuff out of the Speccie. Do not give this scum the oxygen of publicity. Report on what he is trying to hide.
Frank P
November 21st, 2008 5:27pmFor a long time I have suspected that The Long March has trampled over this this Magazine and at least a proportion of its staff has decided to join it.
The trivialisation by fraternisation and a faux award by the Speccie of Mandelson's return to Westminster, is disturbing to say the least.
The focus should be a sustained and vitriolic attack from as many angles as can be organised, against both him and the PM for bringing him back into the fold. The commentariat hereupon has made it plain time and again how they feel and even if your pieces are designed to provoke such outrage, it is a stupid ploy. As Brian SJ so emphatically points out, you are supplying oxygen to this poisonous bacterium in the reservoir of public affairs. It is just not funny; nor satirical; nor clever. This festering fop still has ambitions to be PM; it's in his blood. Don't help him - hound him! Or shut up and leave him bring about his own downfall ... again.
As for the numerous photographic portraits of the teflon coated turd, splattered all over these threads - will the seasonal Garland on the door of 22 Old Queen Street comprise an arrangement of pink ribbons by any chance?
hysteria
November 22nd, 2008 2:28amagree with all the above - ~FFS - can at least one serious journal avoid the dumbing down of our culture -