Mandelson nicked.

[beak]

Breaking news in the back of a police car.
Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, police say

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

At last. There's plenty of mud, but can they make any of it stick ? Like Andy, there's been ample opportunity to destroy evidence, but there should still be plenty around.
Who else might be incriminated ? 😀

 

[beak]

At last. There's plenty of mud, but can they make any of it stick ? Like Andy, there's been ample opportunity to destroy evidence, but there should still be plenty around.
Who else might be incriminated ? 😀

He has no support within Labour who will want revenge for betraying their misplaced trust.

 

[Matov]

Lets hope that Mandelson has not, in light of Prince Andrews arrest, sussed this might happen in advance and destroyed as much evidence as possible.

Because surely nobody could be that conniving?

 

[beak]

Lets hope that Mandelson has not, in light of Prince Andrews arrest, sussed this might happen in advance and destroyed as much evidence as possible.

Because surely nobody could be that conniving?

Very funny.

 

[Jacey]

Mandelson arrested??

Perhaps appropriate for him to share a cell with his chum,Andy!!

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

Apart from already burning anything implicating himself,
Mandelson retaining evidence on others, or at least being able to validate any allegations is his single hope of avoiding significant jail time.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

HE got arrested ? woo hoo.

"Things can only get better"

 

[Matov]

He will be dropping more bars of soap than his paymasters in Israel dropped bombs on Gaza.

 

[HKOwen]

Will depend on how much evidence was beyond the reach of deletion.

Starmer has no defence to this, one wonders what Mandy has on him, perhaps they used the same firm of East European male models

 

[Matov]

Interesting to see what is being put out tonight. Supposedly, Mandelson had a 'deal' with the police that he would attend for a voluntary interview in March but they arrested him due to a potential flight risk.

All of which poses a lot of quesitons. How the f*** was he going to be allowed to attend a voluntary interview? The f***ing emails he sent to Epstein are out there in the public domain. He should have been arrested within 24 hours of that and then held on remand.

Our justice system is a joke.

Mandelson's lawyers say he was arrested over 'baseless' claim he was a flight risk

The peer's lawyers say there is no truth in the suggestion he was planning to leave the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Matov]

This entire debacle gets murkier and murkier.

Met apologises to Commons Speaker for sharing Mandelson tip-off

It comes after Sir Lindsay Hoyle confirmed he gave information to the force suggesting the peer could be a flight risk.

www.bbc.co.uk

And as a consequence, Labour are now saying that they will not be able to release all the documents relating to Mandelson's appointment as US Ambassador because of this investigation?

WTF is going on with this? f*** me, I confess to enjoying trying to join the various dots by way of trying to say that 2+2 might not equal four but this now goes way beyond that.

I am a great believer in the old 'cui bono' approach to try and work out what is going on but this leaves me scratching my head, unless you can believe that Labour have deliberately set up to engineer this by way of giving them a chance to delay having to release the info they were meant to publish next week?

And the old bill allegedly 'inadvertently' letting this info slip (the wrong info by the way)? Surely you would have put your wiliest old hounds onto this interview? Any and every question planned into advance, with various responses gamed?

Something is very, very amiss with all of this.