Three men in a boat
THE sordid row that has broken out amongst the guests who stayed on Queen K, an £80,000,000 yacht anchored off Corfu, reveals the real nature of our Labour and Tory rulers and those with whom they choose to consort. It’s the sleaze beneath the spin.
The first figure brought blinking into the limelight in the affair was Peter Mandelson, thrice New Labour minister and erstwhile EU Trade Commissioner. When Mandelson accepted a peerage from Gordon Brown, to return to Westminster from Brussels as Business Minister, his exit from the European Union was eased by “transitional parachute payments” of £78 million and a £1 million pension pot, which will be funded largely by the British taxpayer.
Mandelson famously said that “New Labour” was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich”. One wonders what his grandfather, Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister in the last real, patriotic and radical, Labour Government we ever had, would have thought of that, or of his grandson’s relentless toadying to the global super-rich.
Mandelson first met the infamous boat’s owner, Russia’s richest man Oleg Deripaska when he was flown to Moscow to do so by rich financier Lord Jacob Rothschild in his private jet. Lord R is the father of Nathaniel Rothschild, who first blew the gaff on the goings-on on Deripaska’s boat.
In his role as EU Trade Commissioner, Mandelson was indisputably in a position to do some very useful favours for his new mate Oleg. It is of course pure coincidence, for example, that during Mandelson’s period of office in Brussels the EU cut tariffs on aluminium. This alone was worth £50 million extra profit to Deripaska’s aluminium smelting empire, stolen by him and his cronies from the Russian people.
Mandelson then encouraged and assisted the progress toward EU membership of of Montenegro, a bit of Serbia carved out as a private fiefdom by sundry global marketeers. Mandelson’s helpful attitude towards Montenegro’s EU accession is, of course, wholly unconnected with the massive extra income this will convey to his nautical host Oleg, who by a pure happenstance owns the biggest aluminium smelter in Montenegro and whose produce will be able to be sold duty free across Europe if Montenegro joins the EU.
Joining this New Labour Eurocrat on the boat were Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne and Tory Party fundraiser Andrew Feldman, who fell foul of allegations by Nathaniel Rothschild that the Tories’ top fundraiser and the richest man in Russia discussed raising funds for the Tory party and laundering the donations via a British front company owned by the billionaire.
So who is their host, Oleg Deripaska? He made his fortune by exploiting the collapsing corpse of the USSR and plundering industries and resources built up by the blood, sweat and toil of the Russian people. Deripaska battened on to aluminium industry in Siberia and in 1995 he emerged Russian’s top aluminium entrepreneur but only after many of his business rivals had lost their lives in rather mysterious circumstances. Today Deripaska is caught up in a welter of lawsuits and payoffs – he recently paid London property speculators the Reuben Brothers around £300 million to drop a financial claim against him.
The revelations of the past few days concerning Osborne and Mandelson just goes to show how low Labour and Tories alike have sunk. That politicians from New Labour and the Tories, our two main political parties, are courting the likes of Deripaska should be a matter of concern for us all. Nye Bevan, Mandelson’s grandfather’s Cabinet colleague in that fine 1945-51 Labour Government, summed up the behaviour of people of their ilk in his immortal phrase, they are “lower than vermin….”
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Mandelson has the gene that causes political corruption. Mandelson’s grandfather, Labour MP and Cabinet minister, Herbert Morrison, was a corrupt, Tammany Hall type thug.
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The likes of Mandelson (and there are many) but especially Mandelson, are like a cancer devouring the body politic of once Great Britain. It is up to the British People to decide if to fight this Lib/Lab/Con malignancy by voting BNP or to submit (the actual meaning of the word Islam) to the disease and effectively lay down and die - Ed
They have sold their souls to the highest bidders. I hope that the BNP can place restrictions now on its own funding, to stop this happening to itself later, once it’s in power.
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The British National Party will never betray the People who will have entrusted it to deliver this Country from its darkest hour since the Blitz - Ed
I was in Montenegro recently on holiday and was horrified to watch a local news programe reveal the Montenegrin government ‘recognise’ Kosovo as an independent (muslim albanian) state. Only the EU could tease out such maggots that would knife their own Serb kin in the back for the money and power the EU offers them.
Interestingly the UN General Assembly is BACKING Serbia’s draft to request an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the legality of the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo. October 8th UNGA, by a recorded vote of 77 IN FAVOUR to only 6 against (Albania, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, USA), with 74 abstentions (including the UK), adopted a resolution drafted by Serbia.
Well we can see among what countries America place in the new world order is.
People have always known that the Westminster toadies are in there only to cream as much for themselves as possible but this episode has brought it home in HD like clarity what these politicos are really like. The fact that Osbourne AND Mandelson were both on that “yacht” speaks volumes and is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the BNP to exploit the decaying corruption of the old parties with the British people.
As for Mandelson - I personally have never liked the man. He’s clearly as bent as a five bob note - and I am talking about him as a politician here! No mention of him abusing his former position in government to secure a work permit for his Brasilian boyfriend! LOL
However, anyone who watched last week’s Question Time from Stoke would have seen Alex Salmond, Roy Hattersley & Co almost admiring the “black arts” Mandelson practices!
Meanwhile the British people are facing HUGE increases in unemployment and a national debt that some experts say could go as high as £200 billion. Am I the only one who thinks that these people have to be brought to account for crimes against the British people including theft, corruption and economic mismanagement?
This really is a great metaphor for the entire Labour Government, the Liberals and the Conservatives and of course the EU, a bunch of crooks.
Disgraceful.
But on the bright side of things, another reason to vote common sense and the BNP.
The whole lot of them should be brought to trial and convicted accordingly.
As for Brown giving Mandy a peerage-surely this is the responsibility of the Queen? Since when has Brown had the authority to do this?
The Prime Minister has monarchical powers, the actual monarch is a figurehead - Ed
If I was into conspiracy theories I’d be thinking that Broon the Cloon has a pre-arranged plan to saddle the British people with a mountain of debt and destroy the pound thus making it easier for people to accept closer ties to the EUSSR and of course - the Euro!
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-at-this-rate-it-wont-be-long-before-were-joining-the-euro-975451.html
Am I on my own here?
“Theft, corruption and Economic mismanagement?”
Yes The Red Hand, these politicians and “leaders” should be brought to account in the future for these crimes but don’t forget the most serious crimes of all of which they are guilty - unlawful killing, manslaughter through the repeated and widespread negligence of their duty of care to elderly folk and the frail, sick and disabled in care homes and our filthy, under financed hospitals, etc. And then of course there is the crime of murder - for warcrimes!
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!
How about this as an idea for funding political parties? Every voter gets a voucher worth, say, £3 or £4, which they then send to the political party of their choice. That would be the only source of funding for political parties and would permanently end the obvious corruption that is inherent in the present system.
Oh come off it!
Can’t a couple of honest politicians go on a nice little cruise to relax without sending every conspiracy theorist into a frothed-up frenzy? Take your tin foil hats off and calm down people.
What you all need to do is go watch some footie, or X Factor, or how about that nice Jonathon Woss’s show?
“Nye Bevan, Mandelson’s grandfather’s Cabinet colleague in that fine 1945-51 Labour Government, summed up the behaviour of people of their ilk in his immortal phrase, they are “lower than vermin….”
In decades gone by it wasn’t like it is now. The Tories had a “one nation” strand of thought which you can date from Disraeli going through to the patrician Harold MacMillan. He built 300, 000 council houses and famously lamented the sale of the family silver and Thatcher’s destruction of the miners, “the best men in the world” as he called them.
The Labour Party, in which Methodism was as important as Marx, was born out of the fierce struggle to obtain justice for working class people. The achievements of the Atlee government speak for themselves. Wilson and Callaghan tried to defend the gains achieved in the post war aftermath.
It would be misleading, wrong, and unhistorical to write all this off, however ineffectual and misguided, particularly over immigration, the two big parties undoubtedly were.
But with the advent of Thatcherism matters went horribly wrong - Thatcher herself was profoundly influenced by “free market” financial gurus such as Milton Friedman, Sir Keith Joseph and Alfred Sherman. Sherman’s background is particularly noteworthy
“Born into an east London Jewish family of immigrants from Russia, He became a grammar school boy, getting a place at Hackney Downs county secondary school, then studied science at Chelsea Polytechnic. He joined the Communist party as a teenager and in 1937, aged 17, volunteered to fight on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/aug/29/guardianobituaries.conservatives
Nigel Lawson, Thatcher’s Chancellor, oversaw Big Bang in 1986 when the rapacious financial beast broke its bounds and run amok for 20 years with the catastrophic consequences we see today.
The Labour Party sold its soul to the devil in the early nineties with their “Prawn Cocktail Offensive”, a capitulation in which they promised to do anything and everything the City wanted in return for the trappings of office.
This has brought us to where we are now. What is particularly instructive about “Yachtgate” is that there can no longer be any illusions. It does not take any great education nor great insight to see the truth that these political muppets, as they cavort like little dogs for the favour of their globalist masters, are all one.
What we have here is truly the fulfillment of prophecy:
“No question, now, what has happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, man to pig, and pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
This is no utopia though, it is a seething dystopia of reckless greed, extremes of wealth and poverty, nation destroying mass immigration and police state control. But the pig/men have left something out of their calculation, that is the BNP and nationalist movements across Europe and across the world - to whom fraternal greetings!
We can’t be be bought, globalist porkers, and your greed will prove your downfall.
Hello. It’s no good, I have to come clean. I spoke to a multi-millionnaire the other day. I said “How would you like to donate £50000 to the BNP?” He said “Fine, I’d love to.”
I said “What do you want in return?”
He said “What do you mean?”
I said “Well, surely you want something in return?”
He said “No, I just like giving my money away for no reason.”
I said “So that’s how you became a multi-millionnaire with power and influence?”
He said “Of course, do you think I’m stupid?”
I said “Beam me up Scotty.”
Once again, Mandelson is back in the limelight and there are allegations of sleaze, if not outright corruption.
Whenever Mandelson appears, it seems that sleaze and corruption are not far behind. I am thinking this is no co-incidence and Mandelson is not merely accident prone.
And yet, Mandelson provides an excellent example of the ethical and moral standards of today’s body politic.
Re: Stringbag on October 28th, 2008 1:48 pm
Most prophetic and, unfortunately a very real summary of how things are. Best of all, perhaps is the prediction that these pigs will be the masters of their own destruction.
One thing is certain, it is exeptionaly unlikely if we will every learn the truth of this incident.
The only good thing about it is that the BNP might pick up a few votes.
Keep plugging away with the conversions.
Not just a few! - Ed
Stringbag, brilliant. I grew up with the saying ‘Come the revolution’ all around me. Well ‘Come the revolution’, the traitors and others will be made to answer for their deeds.
I believe that most of todays mainstream politicians are nothing but sleazy lying parasites who seem to just manage to keep within the laws manufactured by themselves. This is another reason that I am proud to support the British National Party. This party is made up from people from all walks of life who are hard working decent people, unlike the likes of Mandleson and Osbourne who actually bring disgrace to OUR country through behaviour that appears to indicate possible soliciting of money for political purposes etc.
Eventually the people of Britain will see that the only party worthy of voting for is the BNP.
The Rothschilds, father Jacob and son Nathaniel, are at the very heart of the Bilderberg Group. Osborne attended his first Bilderberg Group meeting in 2006 and his second the following year. Perusal of the Bilderberg Group lists of attendees would
reveal the year in which Mandelson joined.
All those involved in these shenannigans are Bilderbergers, trying to get their hands on some of Deripaska’s VERY dirty money.
The only mystery is why Nat Rothschild decided to blow the whistle
on this stinking plot. Did he realise that it was likely to become public knowledge at some point and decide to publicly dissociate himself from it, thereby hoping to make himself appear squeaky clean when, in fact, his whole family, along with the Rockefellers, are the originators of the New World Order conspiracy?
Noel - “in fact, his whole family, along with the Rockefellers, are the originators of the New World Order conspiracy”
I am afraid that the economic consequences of this are going to be absolutely devastating for our people - the Bankster notion of an economy is to trowel lipstick on a pig and hope nobody notices whilst they engorge themselves.
We see that the Hungarians have been forced into the arms of the IMF. This is no free lunch here,. the strings attatched will be a fierce austerity package. Iceland has been bankrupted by the banksters - and the IMF have forced their government to increase interest rates from 12 to 18%, which will just pile on the misery for the people.
Yet the UK net external debt is at least 6 times that of Hungary - as of 2007 Hungary was ranked 171st in the world as per the size of its current account deficit, the UK 186th - ie third worst!!!!
It was reported in the Telegraph yesterday that the rapid depreciation of the pound means that the UK has slipped below France in terms of the size of its economy(GDP in dollars) and will fall below that of Italy. The Bank of England also revealed that the projected losses of UK financial institutions as a result of their funny money tricks are of the order of £120 billions. And don’t we just know where the bill for that will end up!
The Brown government spends money like an alcohlic given free run of a drinks warehouse - much of the funding for this comes from overseas(between 2005-2008 some three quarters of Treasury gilt sales were taken up by foreigners). But now foreign investors are dashing for the exit as we see from the very sharp devaluation of the pound - it may well turn into a rout.
It is only a matter of time before Brown and his monkey Darling have to go grovelling to the IMF. And they will quite literally ram our faces down into the dirt.
This proves, though we already knew, that the mainstream parties are all the same & suck up to the same people.
It is obscene the way the Tories are in such a rush to get their snouts in the trough before they are in power, imagine what they will be like in power!
I understand that Oleg Deripaska bought Leyland Daf Vans which fits in with his vehicle making company Gaz who make Gazelle minibuses that look a bit like Ford Transits & are widely used in Russia & Eastern Europe as Marshrutkas, a fast limited stop bus.
George Osborne has admitted the basic story is true & Mandy is probably liked by Oleg because he did well out of EU decisions.
Well it did not take long did it ? The so called “prince of darkness” back on the scene , hated it was alleged by the unelected one , but back with a bang . Shadow Tory chancellor totally discredited , Tory lead in polls wiped away some , job done . Not without some colateral damage though because europe / russians and aluminium rear their heads . So the wonderful political leaders are at it again plotting and scheming to keep their positions with hardly a thought for anything else . Never mind the people losing their jobs , homes and struggling to survive - we are all right jack , so keep voting for us wonderful people -you know it makes sense . Pass the sick bag please somebody .
The Woss/Brand affair has enabled the regime to spin a piece of unpleasant trivia and create a very handy smokescreen for themselves. The regime’s leading weasel, English hating “Jack Straw”, is pontificating on this central event of our times in the Guardian today. Would they give a platform to Nick to explain the role of our planned National Reconstruction Bank in dynamising a manufacturing economy? Hardly !
What might they want to hide yesterday for instance? Well there were the leaden exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions. Tweedledum claimed, as usual, that the meltdown was global in origin - anyone would think that he was the Prime Minister of Burundi, not the Chancellor and PM with the world’s largest global banking and speculating operation under his supposed regulatory jurisdiction. Tweedledee has no policy apart from paying the Banksters, just like Tweedledum.
Meanwhile at the Cass Business School Brown’s monkey, Darling, was reassuring the Nabobs that, “”People should be in no doubt that government will take the decisions necessary to ensure sustainability in the medium term. To return borrowing and debt to a sustainable level - once these shocks have been worked through - just as we have in the past.”
Translated this means that that once the tribute has been handed over to the Bankster extortionists the people of this country will be savaged by even higher tax increases, mass unemployment, house repossessions, cuts in education, health, transprort and so on.
It doesn’t bear close scrutiny and is the reason why worthless degenerate media “pwersonalities” command such huge sums extorted in this case from the TV licence payer.