Peter Mandelson oligarch Oleg Deripaska linked to mafia boss

[AtW]

I heard Oleg Deripaska described as an Aluminium Magnate - but surely Aluminium is non-ferrous?

He now owns a lot more than that, he is very closely linked to the Kremlin - I don't understand why MI5 is not briefing key ministers and opposition frontbench about people they should not meet, especially on their ship and especially while being in a hostile country.

[Board Game Geek]

MI5 is not briefing key ministers and opposition frontbench about people they should not meet

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer still ?

[AtW]

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer still ?

I think Lord Mandelson might be following another saying - I scratch your back you ...

[NickFitz]

the attempt to smear George Osborne

tell the truth about

...as he himself has (just about) admitted.

Still, let's not allow the facts about Tory sleaze to get in the way of your desperate desire to only think well of that bunch of lying scuzzballs, eh, Cyberman?

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A few days later Gutseriev's 23-year old son, Harrow-educated Chingiskhan, was killed in a mysterious car crash as he drove his Ferrari through Moscow.

Chingiskhan. Really?

[DodgyAgent]

tell the truth about

...as he himself has (just about) admitted.

Still, let's not allow the facts about Tory sleaze to get in the way of your desperate desire to only think well of that bunch of lying scuzzballs, eh, Cyberman?

There is a difference. Osbourne is not in power and he did not accept any party donations. He is a foll for having got involved with this evil Russian in the first place.

On the other Mandleson's involvement has potentially far reaching implications.

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There is a difference. Osbourne is not in power and he did not accept any party donations. He is a foll for having got involved with this evil Russian in the first place.

On the other Mandleson's involvement has potentially far reaching implications.

Isn't it great to have Mandelson back? A real achiever, he wasted no time getting back into the sleaze headlines.

[KathyWoolfe]

If these people need friends why dont they just sign up to CUK?

Do you think even CUK'ers would be so undiscriminating as to make friends with them?

[DodgyAgent]

Do you think even CUK'ers would be so undiscriminating as to make friends with them?

we would welcome them arms open. We already have one of the great Oligarchs, and SASguru can give Mandleson a run for his money.

[AtW]

Chingiskhan. Really?

Probably, it's a given name - that guy comes from areas close to where Chingiskhan lived, at some point he controlled big part of Russia, the only invador who managed so for a long time.