WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2008
Times Push Polling to Push Osborne Out
Most of the Conservatives I have spoken to have said that Osborne should leave by the weekend. What do you think?’
Nothing leading in that line of questioning at all.Mandelson "Gatecrashed Microsoft Boss's Yacht Party"
Same Time Microsoft Appealing EC €497m Fine
Guido's man on the high seas tells him about a party thrown by Steve Ballmers Paul Allen on his yacht last year in 2005. Peter Mandelson was brought to the party by a third person - uninvited.
He was not a welcome guest and was avoided by many of the other party-goers who were only too well aware that the European Commission had fined Microsoft a record €497 million on competition grounds. Microsoft was engaged in a bitter legal battle to have the fine overturned.
With billions at stake it was surely inappropriate for the trade commissioner to meet socially with the second largest shareholder in Microsoft when it was in a fierce battle with the Commission. Over to you Peston...
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
A Guido co-conspirator who is a Conservative District Councillor has just been contacted by the Times about whether they think that Osborne should "go". The Times hack said they were phoning round the Tory ‘grass roots’. The journalist then said that
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