Mandy in Charge

[Eric Mc]

Official.

Harman's now on hols.
Brown is AWOL

Mandy now officially running the country - although apparently he's abroad as well.

[V8mate]

Eric Mc said:

Mandy now officially running the country - although apparently he's abroad as well.

It's ok; he's got all the systems set up so he can run the country just fine from the Death Star.

[Puggit]

As much as I dislike Harperson - she's an elected member of government, so in my view suitable for running the country.

Does this mean that Brown can make Putin a peer, and allow him to be in charge?!

[Digga]

I was wondering why I was feeling so queasy. What a revolting thought.

[s2art]

Puggit said:

As much as I dislike Harperson - she's an elected member of government, so in my view suitable for running the country.

What you meant to say is; She is a member of this government and therefore in no way suitable to run the country.

[gingerpaul]

I think Mandy has probably been running things for a while in reality.

[Digga]

gingerpaul said:

I think Mandy has probably been running things for a while in reality.

Mandleson a.k.a. Lord Rhumba of Rio, couldn't lie straight in bed. If he can't even explain his own mortgage dealings, what hope for his handling of anything less transparent?

Lest we forget:

The Telegraph said:

Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool is today facing uncomfortable questions about his housing finance arrangements. The indefatigable Andrew Gilligan (described by Mandelson at the time of the Hutton inquiry as a “loose cannon”) has been digging through publicly available records to explore the Business Secretary’s property dealings.

What has whetted Gilligan’s appetite is just how his lordship could afford to buy a £2.5 million villa in Regent’s Park, one of the capital’s swankier addresses.

He apparently made the purchase in 2006 when he was a European Commissioner, with a salary of about £160,000. The purchase price was almost 16 times his salary, which even by credit crunch standards of over-leveraging looks a little excessive.

At the time, it was reported that he had helped raise the finance by selling shares in an advertising agency as well as receiving a legacy from his mother. But it emerges the shares were sold a year after the purchase, and the legacy amounted to “only” £452,000. Gilligan reckons that about £400,000 is unaccounted for.

Bender.

[FourWheelDrift]

The sky hasn't turned red, water hasn't turned to blood and plagues of locusts have not flown in. So it's not as bad as it could have been, yet.

[s2art]

FourWheelDrift said:

The sky hasn't turned red, water hasn't turned to blood and plagues of locusts have not flown in. So it's not as bad as it could have been, yet.

Give it time.

[AndrewW-G]

V8mate said:

Eric Mc said:

Mandy now officially running the country - although apparently he's abroad as well.

It's ok; he's got all the systems set up so he can run the country just fine from the Death Star.

Mandy busy at work in his office in Coruscant Italy

[elster]

gingerpaul said:

I think Mandy has probably been running things for a while in reality.

I think that is fairly obvious. It is not as if the rest could be left to run their own bath.

[esselte]

How can Mandy be running the place when he's not even been elected..? Democracy my arse...

[Eric Mc]

Brown's PR office has just issued a statement saying that he is "not in charge" - he's just helping out a bit.

(I kid you not).

[esselte]

Eric Mc said:

Brown's PR office has just issued a statement saying that he is "not in charge" - he's just helping out a bit.

(I kid you not).

You couldn't make it up could you..?

[mywifeshusband]

He's not been elected, he's not here but he is in charge? What a buch of useless idiots this new labour have turned out to be.

I guess GB is too scared to let either Milliband taste power.

[AMacA]

Where is Brown just now? Wondered this when Harman took over...

[CoopR]

AMacA said:

Where is Brown just now? Wondered this when Harman took over...

I was just thinking the same, what with the news about Harman and now Mandy. Has he finally thown a mobile phone too many and somones dialed the men in white coats?

[bonsai]

V8mate said:

Eric Mc said:

Mandy now officially running the country - although apparently he's abroad as well.

It's ok; he's got all the systems set up so he can run the country just fine from the Death Star.

I enjoy Mock the Week too.

[AndrewW-G]

CoopR said:

AMacA said:

Where is Brown just now? Wondered this when Harman took over...

I was just thinking the same, what with the news about Harman and now Mandy. Has he finally thown a mobile phone too many and somones dialed the men in white coats?

No doubt enjoying more cliff top therapy exercise like last year, once out of office IMHO he’ll either carry on thinking he’s the greatest PM and chancellor ever or he’ll have time to think and reflect on the fact that almost all the history books written about this little country from now on will list him as possibly the worst person ever to hold either office . . . . . . . . this will hopefully lead to an accident from which he wont recover

[zac510]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8189293.stm

I love the way they have to make a statement about who's running the country.

Us nor them seem to know!