They were all at it. People forget that Gordon Brown left the country completely bankrupt.zip accident wrote:This isn't about Trump, perhaps oddly.
Apparently, the Epstein files contain proof that Mandelson was supporting Epstein in using USAian bankers to oppose government policy while Mandelson himself was an advisor to that government.
That should have got him fired if nothing else related to Epstein did.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kzmnr14lo
It is old news now, but if true it reads like treason to me.For a decade and a half, I have wondered about a private conversation I had with the late Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Gordon Brown, about the financial crisis.
Darling told me about a painful and angry telephone conversation he had with Jamie Dimon, chief executive of US banking giant JP Morgan, at the end of 2009 when the UK government announced plans to tax bankers' bonuses.
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But - to my utter astonishment - details of the background and the context to this call appear to be in the Epstein files released on Friday, and appear to have involved the unlikely combination of Peter Mandelson, Jeffrey Epstein and the suggestion of "mild threats" over the bonus tax.
Mandelson, then business secretary, seemingly suggested that Dimon should threaten Darling mildly over the tax.
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While Darling refused to cave, he did recall that a number of bankers rang him up with what seemed like a script to complain about the bonus tax, urging a U-turn.
It occurred with such regularity that Darling started to tell them what they were about to say before they said it, having heard the words repeatedly.
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The files indicate that Mandelson wrote to Epstein in December 2009, before the Dimon call saying: "Treasury digging in but I am on [the] case."
How did Tony Blair's son end up a billionaire? 'Selling training courses to the public sector'.
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