Comments on: Peter Mandelson: make London more competitive, not less http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:18:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: ros http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-2/#comment-21085 ros Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:12:07 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21085 Previously Gordon was funereal and spoke in a lugubrious monotone on every happy occasion. Now that the economy has hit the buffers, he is spritely, animated and as the news worsens, his demeanour brightens accordingly. He is actually smiling for the first time ever in a natural way! What an ambulance chaser! IT'S SICK! Previously Gordon was funereal and spoke in a lugubrious monotone on every happy occasion. Now that the economy has hit the buffers, he is spritely, animated and as the news worsens, his demeanour brightens accordingly. He is actually smiling for the first time ever in a natural way! What an ambulance chaser! IT’S SICK!

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]]> By: angela http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-2/#comment-21083 angela Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:19:15 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21083 It is very very off putting how happy Gordon Brown looks now he is centre stage not to say totally inappropriate. It is very very off putting how happy Gordon Brown looks now he is centre stage not to say totally inappropriate.

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]]> By: angela http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-2/#comment-21070 angela Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:42:06 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21070 re. my list of reasons to be cheerful, here is a reason not to be cheerful, Ospreys have dropped Gavin Henson! OH NO! I really like Gavin Henson and he is a very good player. I always fancied myself as a sports commentator, because a lot of men are uncomfortable with women talking about sport. So if you do that, you are getting double the enjoyment, you are talking about sport and you are winding up a lot of men. Which is fun. re. my list of reasons to be cheerful, here is a reason not to be cheerful, Ospreys have dropped Gavin Henson! OH NO! I really like Gavin Henson and he is a very good player.

I always fancied myself as a sports commentator, because a lot of men are uncomfortable with women talking about sport. So if you do that, you are getting double the enjoyment, you are talking about sport and you are winding up a lot of men. Which is fun.

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]]> By: angela http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-2/#comment-21064 angela Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:15:26 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21064 Mmm. Well to return to Peter Mandelson, today there was a Peter Oborne review of the new book by Adam Boulton TONY'S TEN YEARS and Peter quotes Adam Boulton's description of Peter Mandelson. "Mandelson never lied to me, dissimulated to me, in contrast to Campbell and Blair and many of their underlings." Oborne goes on to say "Although this defence of Mandelson's integrity sounds counter-intuitive, my experience as a lobby reporter was roughly the same." Adam Boulton makes no bones that Campbell was a ruthless bully and compares his compulsive lying with the transparent honesty of his maligned Tory predecessor, Bernard Ingham. Can't find a link for this review, sorry. It is in today's Daily Mail, headed "The seedy side of the Blair machine" review in the Books section by PEter Oborne. I just absolutely hated Alastair Campbell as a horrible bully and liar. On top of everything, he always thought everyone fancied him, stupid man. I seem to remember that in Boris biography by Andrew Gimson there is an account of an incident when Campbell absolutely went for Boris and tried to bully him, and Boris was absolutely shocked that someone could behave that badly. If Alastair Campbell comes back (and there are rumours that he is already back behind the scenes,) it will be the end of the present government and they will go to hell in a handcart, because Campbell so disgraced them before and now people know that. Mmm. Well to return to Peter Mandelson, today there was a Peter Oborne review of the new book by Adam Boulton TONY’S TEN YEARS and Peter quotes Adam Boulton’s description of Peter Mandelson.

“Mandelson never lied to me, dissimulated to me, in contrast to Campbell and Blair and many of their underlings.”

Oborne goes on to say “Although this defence of Mandelson’s integrity sounds counter-intuitive, my experience as a lobby reporter was roughly the same.”

Adam Boulton makes no bones that Campbell was a ruthless bully and compares his compulsive lying with the transparent honesty of his maligned Tory predecessor, Bernard Ingham.

Can’t find a link for this review, sorry. It is in today’s Daily Mail, headed “The seedy side of the Blair machine” review in the Books section by PEter Oborne.

I just absolutely hated Alastair Campbell as a horrible bully and liar. On top of everything, he always thought everyone fancied him, stupid man. I seem to remember that in Boris biography by Andrew Gimson there is an account of an incident when Campbell absolutely went for Boris and tried to bully him, and Boris was absolutely shocked that someone could behave that badly.

If Alastair Campbell comes back (and there are rumours that he is already back behind the scenes,) it will be the end of the present government and they will go to hell in a handcart, because Campbell so disgraced them before and now people know that.

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]]> By: StevenL http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-2/#comment-21060 StevenL Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:14:51 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21060 It's not something I have spent much time thinking about angela. I would suggest it could deter foreign investment if the government show they are prepared to use anti-terror laws to freeze the assets of a foreign entity that British entities have a civil dispute with. I thought that Ken Clarke made a good point on QT last night when he pointed out they wouldn't have done it to a big country like Germany. As for the worst that could happen, it's all the banks going bust. Where that would lead is quite unthinkable really. I'm not sure which banks have taken up Browns offer and to what extent yet. It’s not something I have spent much time thinking about angela. I would suggest it could deter foreign investment if the government show they are prepared to use anti-terror laws to freeze the assets of a foreign entity that British entities have a civil dispute with. I thought that Ken Clarke made a good point on QT last night when he pointed out they wouldn’t have done it to a big country like Germany.

As for the worst that could happen, it’s all the banks going bust. Where that would lead is quite unthinkable really. I’m not sure which banks have taken up Browns offer and to what extent yet.

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]]> By: angela http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-2/#comment-21052 angela Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:30:53 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21052 The thing I would really like to know, but maybe this cannot be expressed, is if all the rescue plans fail, what is the absolute worst that could happen? The thing I would really like to know, but maybe this cannot be expressed, is if all the rescue plans fail, what is the absolute worst that could happen?

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]]> By: angela http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-1/#comment-21051 angela Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:55:21 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21051 Steven L, it is probably a good thing, isn't it, for Gordon Brown to have frozen Icelandic assets over here, because Iceland won't guarantee UK deposits abroad? Isn't it? Sounds fair. Steven L, it is probably a good thing, isn’t it, for Gordon Brown to have frozen Icelandic assets over here, because Iceland won’t guarantee UK deposits abroad? Isn’t it? Sounds fair.

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]]> By: angela http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-1/#comment-21050 angela Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:45:09 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21050 It's true. Never has Gordon looked so blithe. The whole thing is un Tour de Farce. It’s true. Never has Gordon looked so blithe. The whole thing is un Tour de Farce.

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]]> By: dawn http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-1/#comment-21046 dawn Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:52:56 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21046 And all those twenty something babes hurling themselves at you as you caper around as blithely as Danny Cipriani, enjoying your freedom.... problems, problems, we should all have such problems! And all those twenty something babes hurling themselves at you as you caper around as blithely as Danny Cipriani, enjoying your freedom…. problems, problems, we should all have such problems!

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]]> By: StevenL http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/comment-page-1/#comment-21045 StevenL Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:40:04 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=494#comment-21045 "Wouldn’t it be more sensible to say “house prices have fallen by 13% but this level is more realistic - they were inflated previously" (ros) At the end of the day, most of the people that politicans and the mainstream media pander to are homeowners who hold a few bank shares from when their building society de-mutualised. Twenty-something single renters with no kids like me are just tax-fodder, here to pump up the value of everyones elses property portfolios and pay for other peoples kids Nike Air Max and Nintendo Wii's. “Wouldn’t it be more sensible to say “house prices have fallen by 13% but this level is more realistic – they were inflated previously” (ros)

At the end of the day, most of the people that politicans and the mainstream media pander to are homeowners who hold a few bank shares from when their building society de-mutualised.

Twenty-something single renters with no kids like me are just tax-fodder, here to pump up the value of everyones elses property portfolios and pay for other peoples kids Nike Air Max and Nintendo Wii’s.

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