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Title: Mandelson tells truth shock
Post by: Nick on December 03, 2008, 12:26:39 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7762371.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7762371.stm)

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Lord Mandelson has denied telling the head of the European Commission the UK was ready to join the euro.

Jose Manuel Barroso sparked feverish speculation after saying he had spoken to UK politicians about the idea.

But Lord Mandelson who worked with Mr Barroso for four years rejected claims the EC President was referring to him.

The business secretary said he still favoured eventual UK entry but could not remember speaking to Mr Barroso about it recently.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I haven't had a discussion in my memory, with Mr Barrosso about this.


So that's all right then.


























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Title: Re: Mandelson tells truth shock
Post by: Snoopy on December 03, 2008, 12:31:51 PM
The incredible thing is that Mandy actually seems to think anyone believes him ~ about anything.
Title: Re: Mandelson tells truth shock
Post by: Barman on December 03, 2008, 12:33:02 PM
The incredible thing is that Mandy actually seems to think anyone believes him ~ about anything.
Indeed... he is clearly incapable of telling the truth...  noooo:
Title: Re: Mandelson tells truth shock
Post by: Uncle Mort on December 03, 2008, 12:36:44 PM
"I haven't had a discussion in my memory" Funny way of putting it  rubschin:
Title: Re: Mandelson tells truth shock
Post by: Pastis on December 03, 2008, 12:39:58 PM
But, that's the truth bit; he talks to himself... so he's always right  ;)
Title: Re: Mandelson tells truth shock
Post by: Snoopy on December 03, 2008, 12:45:16 PM
"I haven't had a discussion in my memory" Funny way of putting it  rubschin:

Not if you punctuate it and provide yourself with weasle words that can be interpreted when the brown stuff hits the revolving object.
Try it like this:

"I haven't had a discussion, in my memory, with Mr Barrosso about this.

Which can later be said to have been a lapse of memory as in "Oh that was just a passing remark made, in a larger context, that had slipped my memory, as I said at the time ~ so I wasn't lying, see"

Mandleson has pulled similar stunts before and will no doubt do so again and of course he has the help of piss poor punctuation, deliberate or otherwise, from his friends at the BBC.