politicians at le mans.. whatever next?

[fagey]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7082833.stm

[Robspot]

What, Lord Drayson who mysteriously donated £500,000 to the Labour party in 2004 after his elevation to the House of Lords.

Not like a Labour peer to be involved in controversy 

[Lorry]

What, Lord Drayson who mysteriously donated £500,000 to the Labour party in 2004 after his elevation to the House of Lords.

Anybody that drives a DBR9 can't be all bad.

Did anyone spot the spin?  He said he came second in British GT.  Well the car probably did, but they each have two drivers, so he was 3rd.

Anyway if he can spend half a mil on a posh name, what's he going to spend on Le Mans?

[termietermite]

We had the French Prime Minister flying around the place in a Courage in July.  He wasn't half bad at it either!

[Robspot]

Talking of French politicians did anyone see Have I Got News For You a couple of weeks ago. They had a video of Sarkozy giving a press conference after an obviously very liquid lunch with Vladimir Putin. He was hammered.

v. funny

[BigH]

Yes Rob, I saw on some current affairs prog, it was a corker, once I'd stopped laughing I went straight down to the off-license.
You've got to hand it to him, he was obviously having a great time for free, and didn't care what anyone thought. The most exciting things our lads in Westminster seem to come up with is a bit of cottaging and groping in the gents lavs, disappointing really.
What's wrong with a skinfull and a nice murder?
H

[nopanic - neil]

Talking of French politicians did anyone see Have I Got News For You a couple of weeks ago. They had a video of Sarkozy giving a press conference after an obviously very liquid lunch with Vladimir Putin. He was hammered.

v. funny

Thought he had just come back from DFH party on the friday night Le Mans, 

[Andy Zarse]

The most exciting things our lads in Westminster seem to come up with is a bit of cottaging and groping in the gents lavs, disappointing really.
What's wrong with a skinfull and a nice murder?
H

I must dissent from the consensus here. Paul Z and myself I attended a luncheon some years ago in Southampton and the guest speaker was the late Rt Hon Stephen Milligan MP. Two weeks later he was splashed all over the papers in a "Tory MP in Sex Mystery Masturbation Death Probe".

As we all now know, he'd gotten himself involved in the good old auto-eroticism and unfortunately he "over-did the trick". Sitting there at the lunch table, looking at him and listenning to his views on the local economy, it never once crossed my mind that what he'd really prefer to be doing is w*nking upside down whilst hanging from a clothes rail wearing stockings and suspenders with a pair of womens' tights wrapped tightly round his neck and an Outspan orange stuffed down his gullet. I honestly never saw that one coming, I really didn't. Nor did he I guess.

Anyway, I later spoke to a senior copper on the investigation team checking into possible foul play. He told me they'd in fact found a Weetabix shoved up his anal passage and that they were looking for a......







cereal killer.

[Nordic]

I wonder which history will judge to be worse.

A. w*nking upside down whilst hanging from a clothes rail wearing stockings and suspenders with a pair of womens' tights wrapped tightly round his neck and an Outspan orange stuffed down his gullet.

or

B. Being a member of Tony Blairs Govenment.

[mgmark]

It's a shame - a good bloke, rapier sharp brain, sees through bullshit, asks difficult questions and tries to do the "right thing".  Not a politician by background, but a successful businessman who made a pile and has raced in historics as a hobby for a while; was brought in to do what he has been doing around 2 years ago, and is now on his way to fulfil his dream.  The real key is, I suspect, what is alluded to in the last paragraph of the article, from the heading "Fatigue" onwards.  And that is all I shall say on the matter.

MG Mark

[Leftie]

It's a shame - a good bloke, rapier sharp brain, sees through bullshit, asks difficult questions and tries to do the "right thing".  Not a politician by background, but a successful businessman who made a pile and has raced in historics as a hobby for a while; was brought in to do what he has been doing around 2 years ago, and is now on his way to fulfil his dream.  The real key is, I suspect, what is alluded to in the last paragraph of the article, from the heading "Fatigue" onwards.  And that is all I shall say on the matter.

MG Mark

He might be a good businessman in 'private industry' and screwed  £m's out of the taxpayer with his 'special' pharmacuticals. But from what I have seen, he's done sweet FA in his position at the MoD. This is proven by the REAL lack of suitable equipment supplied to our troops they are still buying their own frigging gear for God's sake. The REAL lack of suitable/habitable accommodation, etc, etc.

I could go on and on.........................................

He may be able to drive quick, but a rat is quicker getting off a sinking ship.

[Kpy]

Talking of French politicians did anyone see Have I Got News For You a couple of weeks ago. They had a video of Sarkozy giving a press conference after an obviously very liquid lunch with Vladimir Putin. He was hammered.

v. funny

Is this it?

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=AfO7-PeRne0

[Robspot]

That's it Kpy. Priceless. 

[jpchenet]

That's it Kpy. Priceless. 

Absolutely!!!! 

[Brad Zarse]

I spoke to a press officer at the MOD yesterday - Seems that the fun they've had with the media has been reasonably amusing over the last few days.

First they held a big conference to tell people that Lord Drayson was going on Holiday, then revealed that actually that holiday was going to be very long, and eventually told them that he is stepping down to go racing in the ALMS - apparently the journos wrote about 3 different stories each before they got to the truth....

The vision is to race at le-mans in a Bio-Ethonol Aston, and very successful it is too, won the fifth round of the BGT, and seems the be very competitive - an interesting twist in my eyes, and I wish him the best of luck!