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Miliband ‘doing well in the circumstances’, says Mandelson

January 26, 2012 4:57 pm

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Listen below to Lord Mandelson’s interview with the Today programme this morning:

Anonymous
Boy was that funny
Anonymous
At some point Ed will press the panic button and bring him back as a ‘strategic media advisor’ just as Gordon did. I wonder whether this is the beginning of that process?

Anonymous
Mandelson is the dark destroyer, father of evil, Dracula, the dark accountant, of the New and Newer labour party, the figure head, I give up he wants to be Eds friend.

Anonymous
So I’ll mark you down as being open-minded about his return then

Anonymous
When it comes to this gent no such thing, Mandelson does nothing for anyone except himself

Anonymous
God forbid!
The man is a snobbish, pompous, oily creep

Anonymous
Are Labour supporters usually so cruel about ex Labour Mps?

Anonymous
Over the years you can see that when he speak leaders quake, normally because the knife in their backs is up to the hilt while he is saying my friend
Anonymous
Mandy was and is a self-serving pompous jerk. The man who distained the idea of working class Labour MPs (“New Labour doesn’t need horny-handed sons of toil”). He caused the party embarrassment with his dishonesty (making false claims on a mortgage application). He frequently briefed against fellow Labour MPs in very deflamatory terms. He was perfectly relaxed with the “filthy rich”, and much more at home ingratiating himself with millionaires than he was with ordinary Labour supporters, who he looked down on. Vain, snobbish and seedy
Sybil Fawlty once said of Basil “you are like a puff adder, spitting poison…or you’re licking their boots”. That was Mandelson

Daniel Speight
From the recent evidence given in the Nat Rothschild/Daily Mail libel case it seems he isn’t against accepting freebees from rich hedge fund managers and Russian oligarchs including private jet trips to Siberia to be thrashed on the bottom by 25 year old Russia lads.
I guess what we didn’t realize at the time was his ‘filthy rich’ statement was actually a wish list for him and his boss.
http://www.figurewizard.com Joe Jonkler
“Milliband is doing well in the circumstances.”
Talk about being damned with faint praise! The only surprise is that Mandleson didn’t go on to say that he was doing well – despite the circumstances.

Anonymous
It’s sad that this oleaginous old has-been, so often discredited and exposed as a liar and a fake is still taken seriously by the BBC (or anyone else for that matter).
It is also sad that Mandelson has so little self-awareness that he can’t see people regard him as a joke.
Who cares what this raddled old music hall turn thinks about anything?

Anonymous
New Book coming me thinks, perhaps on Miliband and why he refused to give a position on power.
But if Miliband tells you your doomed then sadly your doomed, because he’ll make it happen.

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