Lord Peter Mandelson UK’s ambassador to the USA

Although on reflection, whatever any of us think or say on here is completely irrelevant! Nobody gives a toss what a group of grannies say or think!

Casdon

I was correcting a typo!

The correct way dammit...

RosiesMaw2

Could I just be picky and point out that he is not Lord Peter Mandelson- that title is reserved for the son of a Marquess or a Duke.
He is more correctly referred to as Lord Mandelson - his courtesy mode of address as Life Peer Baron Mandelson , or in common with many life peers he can be referred to simply by his name - Peter Mandelson

I think that you can be as picky as you like, RM, but I doubt if many people will take note of the correct to refer to Mandelson.

25Avalon

Looks like Mandy is going to cosy up with Farage.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...

Anyone not associated with Epstein would be my choice. Presumably there is someone who meets that criteria.

petal53

Sorry

completely irrelevant

Understanding where people are coming from when they object to a choice and asking who they would prefer is not irrelevant petal53, unless you want all discussion at a superficial level.

Could I just be picky and point out that he is not Lord Peter Mandelson- that title is reserved for the son of a Marquess or a Duke.
He is more correctly referred to as Lord Mandelson - his courtesy mode of address as Life Peer Baron Mandelson , or in common with many life peers he can be referred to simply by his name - Peter Mandelson

I am surprised that some choose to call Peter Mandelson ‘Mandy’, he was outed years ago by the Tory press calling him
Mandy

ReadyMeals

I'm not sure why we chose someone that has been heard to insult the next president and has also had some controversies in his past political career (can't remember what they were but he had to be removed from a position twice). I am sure there are loads of blank slate people that have the necessary skills to be an ambassador.

My point exactly ReadyMeals.
I’m rather surprised by the amount of positive comment on here for a known slimy, cheater.
Absolutely not the right person in my humble opinion, but who cares what I think?
I know he’s clever though, a clever, devious manipulator.
He might be able to manipulate Trump, but Musk is another matter, and it’s said on here that Musk is pulling Trump’s strings. Who knows? I don’t!

Mandy and Farage?
Wow, who’d a thunk it?

I'm not sure why we chose someone that has been heard to insult the next president and has also had some controversies in his past political career (can't remember what they were but he had to be removed from a position twice). I am sure there are loads of blank slate people that have the necessary skills to be an ambassador.

Looks like Mandy is going to cosy up with Farage.

Sorry

completely irrelevant

Neither do I Wyllow, in the full and certain knowledge that it’s complicated irrelevant who Gransnetters would like to see in the role.

I don't see any harm in GN's suggesting who they'd like to see?

petal53
I think the not squeaky clean and the manipulative attributes are some of the reasons why he was chosen.
If he fails, they can be used as a reason for his failure.
If he is successful, then that says a lot about what the current government sees as good in their MPs
The same faults attributed to MPs in the previous government were condemned.

Plus ça change plus ça reste la même chose.

It’s not up to Gransnetters to suggest who should be ambassador for Britain in America Casdon. We are just grandparents and that is not up to us. It’s up to the politicians and if members of the public think Mandelson is a poor choice, that is up to them. To be honest, I would have thought that the ambassador to the USA should be someone who is squeaky clean and Mandelson is certainly not that, and for that reason alone, I would say he’s grossly unsuitable, but our political masters have decided in their wisdom that being being squeaky clean is not necessary and have appointed him and therefore sadly, we must live with it.
Having such a dishonest man, however clever, in this role, reflects badly on the UK in my opinion, but Starmer et al don’t care what I think. They clearly think he’s a smooth operator and therefore suitable. Nothing to do with me!

Harriet Harman.
but I doubt she'd ever want to do it.

Yes.

The only one I can remember is Peter Jay and that was because of the accusations of nepotism

I don’t know, they are normally quite under the radar, aren’t they?

Casdon

What I’m really interested to hear is who people who think Mandelson is a bad choice, think would have made a better choice for this role. By the nature of the role,, an ambassador can’t be a serving politician. Any ideas?

Any amongst our present experienced diplomats?

What I’m really interested to hear is who people who think Mandelson is a bad choice, think would have made a better choice for this role. By the nature of the role,, an ambassador can’t be a serving politician. Any ideas?

My first thought was "Come back Spitting Image" "Oh where are you now wonderful puppets ,? who could in a few minutes with few words just show what we think of the lot of them!! Remember Dennis Healey and the eyebrows, Douglas Hurd with the ice cream hair. . Personally I have a dream. I would like to invite Donald Trump, Putin, Assad and add to them Boris Johnson, and a few more unsavoury political characters. I will have the meeting at Ripon.,North Yorkshire, then get them all together and take them the nearest I can find to a sink hole., as there are several around there. What a great thing it would be if the hole opened up in the earth and swallowed them all!! If not I will have a word with the seismic lot who might tell me where there would be an earthquake, and the quickest way to get them there. When my son was choosing what he wanted to do for a job, I said so long as he did no harm to others and tried his best I would support him totally. The only thing he could do that would make me feel I had totally failed as a mother, would be to become a politician!!!

I was agreeing with Annma