Life is full of little disappointments, Peter!
Oh Peter, what are we going to do with you?
I see Lord Mandelson of all sorts of interesting places and titles has been having full and frank conversations with the Krafty butchers of Cadburys:
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has said he is “disappointed” that food giant Kraft would not commit to managing Cadbury’s brands in the UK.
Frankly, I struggle to see what business it may be of Lord Mandelson how Kraft intends to run one of its subsidiaries. He may well believe that because he is a Labour minister that he can still prance around the business community like he owns it, but unfortunately for him, Cadbury is not a bank. I can only imagine that Irene Rosenfeld is a person of better breeding than Mandelson and smiled sweetly as he laid down his demands while thinking to herself: “I’m glad I’ll be leaving this pestilent little monster behind when I return to the land of the free.”
Really, what business is it of the government at all, that Mandelson even feels that he is entitled to harangue this woman like she’s some sort of disappointing acolyte?
He said he was glad of the personal meeting, but would now be looking for “much harder, more specific commitments in the next three to six months”.
Much harder, eh? Was he firm? Was he all butch and strong and manly with her?
Ooh, ducky!
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February 3, 2010 at 08:50 -
It’s unbelievable this one, isn’t it? Mandy has no skills beyond political ice-picks and mud-chucking, but continues to comment on stuff about which he is confused as to the sky/floor arrangement.
The press releases did, however, follow the classic Zanulab tri-state dialectic of warning, urging and then being disappointed. I doubt very much whether the gargoyle Rosenfeld even notices this silly little gnat.
Kraft is an awful company – ghastly client and poor quality people, with no corporate culture. Cadbury was a company with values and genuine brand assets.
I see Rosenfeld now needs a rights issue to pay for this pointless purchase….which will be bad news for her shareholders…..plus ca change.
The whole episode is proof-positive that in 2010, you don’t have to be Right Wing to loathe New Labour….and you don’t have to be Left-Wing to loathe globalist, Bourse-financed capitalism.
Grrrrr.xx
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February 3, 2010 at 11:17 -
Is that a picture of Jeremey Paxman?
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February 3, 2010 at 11:40 -
Perhaps he should do a Victor Kiam and buy the company: he can then employ who he wants, where he wants, just like British Leyland.
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February 3, 2010 at 12:22 -
So Pouting Peter was looking for “…more specific commitments in the next three to six months” was he?
No, I don’t get it. Why would an out of work Cabinet Minister be involved later this year in anything to do with Kraft?
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February 3, 2010 at 15:05 -
’cause – JohnRS………….Mandy thinks the Big Cheese?
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February 3, 2010 at 15:07 -
oops – Mandy thinks he’s the Big Cheese?
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February 3, 2010 at 15:13 -
Mandy& all his works usually smell like the Big Cheese.
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February 3, 2010 at 15:14 -
P.S Is that picture Mandy in drag or just his latest toy boy?
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