Mandy

[Bromptonaut]

1. Was such a process in place?

2. If yes, to above, did Government (ie us tax payers) stand an evens chance of winning at tribunal?

3. If no to (2), personally, I would rather have dragged the unsavoury bastard through the courts

The question you asked at #184 was general.

The answer was positied on the same basis.

Even with a snake like Mandelson it's almost always easier and cheaper to settle than pay a fortune to contest a claim. Even if an ET claim foundered on all points the cost of following it through would have been several times £75k

Pragmatism in play.

 

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/i/status/2036733423620936061

 

[TailWindHome]

Starkey with some more 'ill judged comments'

 

[Mr Celine]

'This will offend some people.'

Well the apostrophe fail certainly offended me.

 

[Psamathe]

I had to do a double take on this, and check the dats (given we are in April)

Peter Mandelson faces fixed-penalty notice for urinating in public
...
Mandelson was photographed in the act while standing outside the home of the former chancellor George Osborne last November, shortly after he had been sacked as the UK’s ambassador to the US over his relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
...

 

[AuroraSaab]

I would wake up my host at 11pm rather than wazz in the street, personally. I think Osbourne would prefer that to the smell of pee near his front garden wall.

 

[Beebo]

I would wake up my host at 11pm rather than wazz in the street, personally. I think Osbourne would prefer that to the smell of pee near his front garden wall.

But you are a woman.
I suspect virtually every man here has had a cheeky wee against wall at some point. It’s no different to a dog peeing on a wall really. And have you ever seen a police horse let one go?

It’s one rule for police horses and another for ex UK ambassadors.

 

[Pblakeney]

I would wake up my host at 11pm rather than wazz in the street, personally. I think Osbourne would prefer that to the smell of pee near his front garden wall.

It was possibly a statement rather than a requirement.

 

[AuroraSaab]

But you are a woman.
I suspect virtually every man here has had a cheeky wee against wall at some point. It’s no different to a dog peeing on a wall really. And have you ever seen a police horse let one go?

It’s one rule for police horses and another for ex UK ambassadors.

Well it's a bit different, surely. Still, it seems another fitting chapter in the Mandelson story. The guy just can't catch a break.....

 

[Dorset Boy]

But you are a woman.
I suspect virtually every man here has had a cheeky wee against wall at some point. It’s no different to a dog peeing on a wall really. And have you ever seen a police horse let one go?

It’s one rule for police horses and another for ex UK ambassadors.

You should have seen the elephant that was being taken for a stroll around Perth Zoo when we were there about 17 years ago! Would have filled a supertanker!