Mandelson tells truth shock

[Nick]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7762371.stm

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.


























 

[Snoopy]

The incredible thing is that Mandy actually seems to think anyone believes him ~ about anything.

[Barman]

The incredible thing is that Mandy actually seems to think anyone believes him ~ about anything.

Indeed... he is clearly incapable of telling the truth... 

[Uncle Mort]

"I haven't had a discussion in my memory" Funny way of putting it  

[Pastis]

But, that's the truth bit; he talks to himself... so he's always right 

[Snoopy]

"I haven't had a discussion in my memory" Funny way of putting it  

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.