Mandelson hits out at Magna

daddy 3 wrote:

rogerthecabinboy wrote:

Something's not right with this, beyond the usual bentness of Mandelson. Why is he so set against Magna? Isn't Magna's buying partner the GAZ car company(backed by Sberbank), whose owner is Oleg Deripaska, who Mandelson was wined and dined by on board Deripaska's yacht last year off Corfu? Have they fallen out, had a lover's tiff? Why would Mandelson be so against a deal that is in the interests of his acquaintance and presumably friend of one year ago, and to whom he allegedly bent the rules whilst EU Commissioner to allow Deripaska's alumnium company to gain contracts worth billions of euros within the EU bypassing import tariiffs from Russia? Is he perhaps feigning opposition to the Magna/GAZ/Sberbank deal so as to demonstrate he is not in the pocket of the oligarch, Deripaska, so as to bolster his case and credibility against any possible future charges by investigators against him for corruption in his dealings with Deripaska whilst EU Commissioner? He's such a crooked individual I wouldn't put that scheme past him. On the other hand it could just be he and Deripaska have genuinely fallen out and this is now just spite by Mandelson. Safeguarding Vauxhall and its workers woudln't cross Mandelson's mind unless there be some ulterior motive.

Well said.....

You've nailed it I'd say.

The unelected 'Lord' Mandelson will be PM before this government's terms is out, his 'people' are already feeding stories to the media that Brown is going blind and may have to step down......there are dark times ahead for this country and Mandelson will be behind much of it. A spiteful and more vindictive man you are unlikely to meet, as a civil servant I can say his reputation and power reaches far and wide across government.

This creature, and the other creatures in this travesty of a government, are not dead and buried just yet, not by a long way.