Mandelson’s holiday plans: no Russians, no yachts, no Osborne
James Forsyth 10:07am
George Osborne might be steering well clear of Corfu after all the trouble that his holiday encounters there last summer got him into, but Peter Mandelson is a fighter not a quitter and so has headed back to the island. His spokesman tells the Mirror that this trip will be “much less glamorous” than last year’s — “He is there for a week but this time without Russians, yachts or George Osborne” — and that the peer had flown out there on Easy Jet.
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Jumpin Jack Flash
August 5th, 2009 10:20am Report this comment"..without Russians, yachts or George Osborne.."
And what of his partner in crime Nathan Rothschild?
Liz Brown
August 5th, 2009 11:06am Report this commentyeah and pigs fly.........
Short the UK
August 5th, 2009 11:12am Report this commentMr Osborne should spend the summer in Japan. Learning about hi-tech manufacturing. Our country needs some serious Kaizen.
He'll probably be sipping champagne and reading some flighty novel.
Would he cut it working for BAE or Google? I doubt it....
Gene Poole
August 5th, 2009 11:35am Report this commentWho's the ugly weirdo on the right?
Penfold
August 5th, 2009 11:40am Report this commentWith his catamite?
Chuck Unsworth
August 5th, 2009 11:44am Report this commentWell I look forward to seeing the holiday snaps, then. The notion of "much less glamorous" is interesting. Are there various levels of 'glamour' to which the Great Panjandrum aspires? I'd have thought he could get no higher, but expect to be proved wrong.
And, of course, a week in Corfu is a very long time....
The Bellman
August 5th, 2009 12:09pm Report this commentOh per-leez. The spokesman is being much too modest: wherever Lord Mandelson drops anchor will have glamour conferred on it instantly. He weaves his exotic magic wherever he travels. A wet weekend in Cromer with the Krankies would become Cap Ferrat 1957 with Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner if he were to mince along its high street.
Only with more venom.
Percy
August 5th, 2009 12:33pm Report this commentI know we're all supposed to be in awe of Lord Mandelson, but why? He's hardly been a rip-roaring success since his return.
Labour riding high in the polls? No. Labour winning tricky byelections? No. Labour got loads of good ideas to get the economy going? No.
He's a busted flush and you shouldn't be wasting your time in reporting where this three time loser is going for his holidays, it only encorages him. So there!
Tiberius
August 5th, 2009 1:29pm Report this commentWell if Mandy's going alone, maybe he'll be swept across to Albania while riding one of those banana-shaped boats they have out there, never to be seen again.
We can but hope.
Verity
August 5th, 2009 1:54pm Report this commentThe Bellman - mincing with venom. I like it.
The only person in public life (anywhere) with a more corrupt face than Mandelbum is Tony Blair. The brimstone leaps off the page.
2trueblue
August 5th, 2009 2:02pm Report this commentWill we miss him? Absolutely not. Since his return we have to suffer the fawning media around a man that has dishonoured politics on at least 2 occasions.
He is just another spinner, no delivery, not a man to make you feel positive.
logdon
August 5th, 2009 2:32pm Report this comment"mincing with venom"
Like a Fray Bentos pie freshly regurgitated by a rattlesnake?
logdon
August 5th, 2009 2:39pm Report this commentThe Bellman
August 5th, 2009 12:09pm
Imagine the studied ceremony of the packing of the Vuitton trunk?
And what about him indoors? Does he go too?
Austin Barry
August 5th, 2009 2:42pm Report this commentVerity 1.54pm, 'The only person in public life (anywhere) with a more corrupt face than Mandelbum is Tony Blair.'
Wrong. Have you seen Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen's face? Its Quasimodo aspect epitomises all the venality and corruption of politics.
Jeremy
August 5th, 2009 3:19pm Report this commentD'you mean to tell me that Lord Mandelson is swannin' 'orf on 'is 'olidays to the mysterious isle of Corfu, leavin our Army wonderin' abaht the plains of Afghanistan an' the nation at 'ome in the grip of The Mad Hattie's Terror? Disgraceful! Disgustin'! That's what I calls it...
I'm goin' t'write t'my MP...in precisely those terms. That's what I'm goin' t'do...
The Bellman
August 5th, 2009 3:27pm Report this comment@Verity, logdon: With venomous mining, I seem, inadvertently, to have introduced an interesting idea. What I meant to type is perhaps better expressed thusly:
"If he were to mince along its high street, a wet weekend in Cromer with the Krankies would become Cap Ferrat 1957 with Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.
"Only with more venom."
More haste, less speed...
But I find myself painting a gruesome mental picture from logdon's mention of Vuitton trunks: Lord Vandelmort clad in chocolate-brown leather, brass-studded, LV-monogrammed swimwear... Perhaps a matching pair for his young companion.
Jeremy
August 5th, 2009 3:58pm Report this commentPenfold:
"With his catamite?"
Is that a cat with marmite on it?
JohnAnt
August 5th, 2009 8:24pm Report this commentThere is something fishy about this whole story.
Apart from the fact that, if Peter Mandelson is flying on EasyJet, it means he has the entire plane to himself and Stelios is serving him his cocktails.
JohnAnt
August 5th, 2009 8:28pm Report this commentJeremy: That's as in the Italian saying:
"A dog-a could not be cooked in a bolognese sauce without the customers realising some-a-thing was a-wrong.
But a cat-a might be OK."
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