New EU rules on accepting Oligarch hospitality
I see that .
I wonder whom they had in mind when they dreamt that up? Not our old friend Peter Mandelson, surely?
Lord Mandelson, you will recall, , when he was still an EU Commissioner. He was found to have spent a holiday on a 238-foot yacht belonging to the .

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At 11th Feb 2011, worcesterjim wrote:Mandelson got into no trouble at all Michael...he went on to greater things and put two fingers up to our potty ersatz left of centre commentators and political expenses fiddlers!
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At 11th Feb 2011, stevie wrote:dodgy dossiers and dodgy mortgage applications...it's all the same to Mandy...
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