hang on...
One of the most powerful people in the Government today is Peter Mandelson, a man who had to quit as an MP twice because he was caught doing favours for his rich friends and almost had to quit as an MEP under suspicion of the same. He now holds a key position in Government even though he hasn't been re-elected as an MP, and regularly makes policy decisions based on little more than what his rich friends have asked him to do while he was a guest in their villas or on their yachts.

Do we really need stories about sinister elite cabals controlling society? It seems like it's pretty much out in the open nowadays.
( yes yes yes man oi mate, someone's writtten 'bum' on your neck, Sat 29 Aug 2009, 20:21, 9 replies)

Who the cunting fuck voted for him as an MEP?

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Sat 29 Aug 2009, 22:46, closed)

Slightly worse than that...
He wasn't voted in as an MEP, he was offered by Britain to join the EU cabinet, as business minister...

Yet more jobs for the boys...
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Wed 2 Sep 2009, 14:38, closed)

Actually
you can't quit being an MP. You have to wait for the next election or by-election and just not stand for re-election.

The most powerful men in Britain are the Permanent Secretaries of the civil service, who have never ever been elected in all our long history - and everything was going fine until democracy started getting in the way and mucking things up; we had an Empire and everything.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Sat 29 Aug 2009, 23:20, closed)

Legally, yes.
Actually, no. David Davis resigned not so long ago, after all.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons
( john3ners has relocated to the Highlands, Sun 30 Aug 2009, 22:27, closed)

Wikipedia got it wrong on one point;
the two offices mentioned are not the only two still used; Chancellor to the Duchy of Lancaster is also still used on occasion.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 18:36, closed)

Jon Ronson' book "Them"
clearly points to him working for the Bilderberg group anyway
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Sun 30 Aug 2009, 12:25, closed)

The Bilderbergers.
Fuck, I was wondering how long it would take to mentioning them.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 31 Aug 2009, 1:48, closed)

Jon Ronson
A man whose interrogative journalism can be summed up with the phrase "oh, okay then".
( chart cat has an itch, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 2:08, closed)

He's no Nigel Dempster.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 31 Aug 2009, 3:43, closed)