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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Let's concentrate on this rat first and once he's faced justice we can move on to other deserving people. I keep hearing mandleson being compared to John perfumo, utter bs imo, Perfumo died with his reputation restored to my mind and he is something rare for me, a politician who I actually admire, one who committed a terrible offence and spent the rest of his life trying to make up for it whereas this is the third time mandleson has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, he's just a serial pos
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Quite agree, in fact I’d go further, John Profumo’s ‘terrible offence’ was to have an affair with a model (his wife stood by him, so take from that what you will), and; what at the time was seen a totally unacceptable; lying to Parliament when he denied having an affair with Christine Keeler. Now Keeler was also sleeping with a senior person at the Soviet embassy, so you can see how it looks(ed) bad; but there was never any real evidence that his actions did any harm to national security.
Profumo resigned from the Cabinet and immediately stood down as an MP. For the rest of his life, he never made any public statement about the events and instead devoted himself to charitable endeavours.
A person who appears to have made a terrible, stupid mistake and voluntarily paid the price, kept his head down and tried to make amends.
So, yeah, exactly like Mandelson......!
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