Browne Resigns Amid Rumours of Gay Kiss and Tell
Peter Mandelson and his Reinaldo feature in the story too...
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The story on the Smells on Sunday website next to the Browne story:
"Have the Cruises persuaded Posh to take up scientology?
Victoria Beckham has apparently agreed to study Scientology, it has been claimed. Her decision comes after relations with new friends Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes cooled over the Beckhams' apparent lack of interest in the religion"
Poor Posh, she'd only recently learned to spell MAMMON.
Oh dear, that will bring out all the homophobic twats that read Guido out of the woodwork..
I nearly had a heart attack until I saw it was BrownE !
BrownE and Brown have always been close. How close? Time and some of the MoS money may tell.
For about 3 seconds my heart leapt! and then, damn it, I read the story.
Not Only is Mandelson in the story, so is Blair.
"Browne, a close friend of Tony Blair, may now face a charge of perjury, and possibly jail."
"• Tony Blair discussed with Lord Browne his plans after he steps down as prime minister at a dinner on 8 June 2005, arranged by the former Downing Street gatekeeper Anji Hunter, who"
Blair Browne and Mandelson
As anonymous 4.35 I read the headline and my old ticker missed a beat....fucking hell I thought, Brown, Mandy and Reinaldo in a love triangle. My dissapointment to find its only the CEO of BP.
Who gives a toss? He can shag goats as far as I'm concerned...
Guido are you trying to futher the rumor of the Gordon Brown / Mandy gay tryst, with MI5 having the offending pictures...
Do the gay Tories who control CCHQ think that they will be exempt at some future date?
I dont see where the story is.
He is a business man not a hypocritical politician , I know Im hardly the most liberal of people but I think that this is just rotten ,why humilliate the man , if he wanted to be out he would have done it himself, it serves no use other than to titilate.
What with all this support for Gordon Brown and now this ,plus their reporters stalking me ,I think I may just go back to the Telegraph.
Sorry, but all this makes me think is what a nasty little piece of work that Chevalier (ha! the irony) man is
Who gives a toss? He can shag goats as far as I'm concerned...
Agreed.
Do the gay Tories who control CCHQ think that they will be exempt at some future date?
What's the problem? None as long as they aren't lying about it or leaving themselves open to blackmail.
Times on line say " The former boyfriend has also claimed that Lord Browne used his links with Downing Street to benefit the company."
That is why it is a story
Delicious!
The Will Hutton/Polly Toynbee Axis of Drivel will rejoice at the defenestration (oh, look it up) of arch-globaliser, climate-changer, anti-Christ John Browne.
Then they'll start whining and agonising about homophobia driving a blameless person out of work because of his private life.
Loads of contortions until they disappear up someone's fundamental orifice. As it were.
By nightfall, George Bush will be to blame. As usual.
From the judgement:
There was another dinner with the Claimant, Mr Chevalier, Ms Hunter, Peter Mandelson and the latter’s Brazilian boyfriend at the time (referred to as “Reinaldo”), which was held at one of the Claimant’s homes,
Mandelson's boyfriend at the time - so now he's past tense......?
But in his witness statement he said had met Mr Chevalier by chance while exercising in Battersea Park.
Glad to see they've moved up a tad from Clapham Common lavatories
It's not being gay that's the issue - it's pretending you're not and therefore implying being gay is a problem.
According to Radio 4 PM
The injunction is on a business story allegedly about a conversation between BP Browne and Chancellor Brown
Now Lord Browne could be free to be next PM. He'd make a much better job of it than Buggins ever will...
I hope the whistle blower meets a very sticky end.
Mr The Hitch -
perhaps you'd better make sure you have some more clothes on the next time Peter Hitchens comes calling.
This is a sad end to a fantastic career. Lord Browne has been a brilliant ceo and has created tremendous value for his shareholders. It's a real shame for it to end like this.
anaon 5:22
if i see lord browne cycling up my path I will know that I am really in trouble.
anonymous 5.22: I always thought that that was a pathetic excuse for not answering the door. The cheeks of his arse were all a quiver...
Can we get past the Browne has done a great job propaganda, please?
(1) er, the oil price has gone up rather a lot - BP would have done pretty well under any CEO
but, in fact,
(2) BP has underperformed the world oil index by around 30% over the past 10 years - so Browne has underperformed his peers
I've never personally felt any desire to shag another man, but can someone please explain in language I can understand why being gay disqualifies someone from running an oil major? I don't see it.
5.56 It does not. What does is telling lies to the Court (even if you retract them within a fortnight) and having a judge accuse you of attempting to 'trash the reputation' of your former partner. This started as a business story - Browne has brought this upon himself by lieing to the court - it would have ended up the same if his former partner was a woman.
well well well Brooon and Mandy...
So what does Mr Anji Hunter aka Bunter Boulton have to say ? Didn't Reinaldo get a student visa so Brazil would not have to embrace him back ?
Now Browne's concubine gets a Student Visa to avoid deportation....isn't that what those language colleges sell to Nigerians....student visas to extend expired permits ?
So I wonder what kind of meetings Anji arranged for BP Browne and Bobby and Gordo....and Cool Tony.....did they discuss Sakhalin ?
What other arrangements did they have apart from putting Anji on £250.000 - how many other deals were cut with EU Commissioner Peter Sutherland as he perambulated through Goldman and BP ?
Hirst I recall from your self serving tedious little blog that you justify your behaviour because you enjoyed a few hard ass rammings courtesy Of Dr Bernardo.
Why didnt you call the police then?
I think that you probably loved it.
Was it just ass rammings or did they make you chug dick?
If he told a lie on oath that is perjory.Us lower mortals would get prosecuted.
I bet he will never be prosecuted!!
I bet he will never be prosecuted!!
Judge Eady said he wouldn't refer it to Goldsmith because at least one of the Blair Crowd should be free on an indictment
Funny, there's nothing about this on Iain Dale's website. Are you sure it actaully happened....?
,,They are all getting exactly what they deserve.
This really is an MSM story!
Anon 5.56
Being Homosexual does not disqualify Browne from running BP but he may find it just a Tad difficult from inside Pentonville.
No wonder Nulabour are building more Prisons, they are fast becoming the number one potential customer.
Mr Hitch..Why do you always fall into the trap of adopting a rational line of arguement with JHL?
There are many adjectives that could be used for people who have a propensity for taking hatchets to little old ladies but I wouldn't have thought rational was one of them.
So next time please try to adopt the mindset of a self justifying moronic imbecile before answering. I'm sure you'll find it works better.
The fact that Brown & Blair talk to the CEO of one of Britain’s biggest companies should be no surprise. Oil firms are not ‘clean’ in any sense of the word.
If you wanted to criticise the Great Economic Illusionist’s record on oil, you might want to read Chevron’s CEO, David O’Reilly, comments about Brown’s taxation of North Sea oil revenues and the impact it had; ‘worse than Chavez’.
With the oil majors being scared away, even economic luddites like the SNP, might appreciate the impact having only low-tech ‘wildcatters’ prepared to run the fields have on long-term revenues.
Finally, on subject of energy policy, you might want to look at those ‘asset sales’ so beloved by treasury. S+d the loss on gold sales, why was Westinghouse Electric sold? Work out the present value of that piece of economic genius
Guido, there's a spelling mistake in this post - you've added an extra E to the chancellor's name.
I understand Guido did a lot of that in the early 1990s
Few CEOs weould survive regardless of sexual preference, if it appears that they were misusing company funds, abusing their position as CEO and purjurying themselves in court.
Browne would have not reached the top if he was short of ability, the timing of the story is interesting especially if there is more on nulab sleeze which could bugger up Blair's succession.
anonymous:4.27.
I thought that all homophobes had been nagged out of existence by Polly Toynbee,or at least been driven so far back into the closet that they dare not venture forth again.I believe that it may still have a foothold in some chav communities however.
Try Islamophobia if you wish to appear an up to date member of the sanctimonious classes,or better still be on the cutting edge and invent a brand new phobia.I am sure this is just what the country needs.
Civil Procedure Rules
32.14
(1)
Proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against a person if he makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth.
(Part 22 makes provision for a statement of truth)
(2)
Proceedings under this rule may be brought only –
(a)
by the Attorney General; or
(b)
with the permission of the court.
2.2
The form of the statement of truth verifying a witness statement should be as follows:
‘I believe that the facts stated in this witness statement are true.’
Blairaqophobia .......
Just a thought
Mr. Fawkes.
You really had me going for a minute.
I thought to myself "I wonder which one it is?". Is it Des or is it Nick?
I was so disappointed to see that it was neither.
Oh well! Back to my knitting.
These Gay kiss and tells are always soooooo sad - The Great & The Good reduced to Pills & Lube.
One thing is for sure though Browne can expect a great big bouquet from Elton & David by the morning.
Pass the sick bucket.
Hmmmm
I smell spin and newspapers here.
Wednesday's news headlines covered with BP!
Why, they should be up for charging 98p a gallon, not because the man got rumbled in the sack by Lunchtime o'Booze!
Not good. He shouldn't have lied, but if it had been Joe Bloggs; he'd have been sent to Belmarsh by now.
Similar rules apply to lots more politicians so it seems.
Watching this from now on...
Bollocks,
That should have read 98p per litre!
Sod it!
Mandelson: Blair 'too keen on spin'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/tonyblair/story/0,,2069662,00.html
Whatever next?
Casanova: Don Juan 'too keen on totty'
Stalin: Mao 'too keen on personal control'
Brown: Browne 'too keen on buggery'
Although not surprised that http://suitedandbooted.com/ have taken their website down.
I am surprised that an English Lord, A close Friend of the British Prime Minister and Head of one of World's top companies decided to recruite his Mate and Confidant from such a place
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://suitedandbooted.com
A greater example of 'letterbox lips' you are unlikely to see..
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=1354
You might wish to note that the BBC is committing a criminal offence on this website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/
There is an injunction in place against naming how they met. The MSM need to be more careful, or Mr Peston could end up taking his toothbrush to court with him
Anonymous at 9:56pm...
Here's another photo of Lady Slotgob for the family album.
Hmm... Is it just me that suspects pestoni might have, ahem, inside information...
Anonymous said...
Oh dear, that will bring out all the homophobic twats that read Guido out of the woodwork..
Homophobic?
Arse bandits don't scare me except for what the fucking perverted cunts might pass on.
Perhaps cock suckers like you should reappraise your definition of a phobia and how you define someone as as phobic.
Did you see Mears on "Nightsnight"
I make no comment
No, I will make a comment - it was like looking at a rabbit in the headlights of a car (but Paxo could have done better)
mr shotgun
it is yet a nother way that "liberals" twist our language , the fuckers have even stolen the word Liberal
Once upon a time it meant you were easy going , then it meant you liked to wear hush puppies, take it up the shitter and shoot great danes now its means that the person is a marxist.
where wil it end?
Peter Mandelson and his Reinaldo feature in the story too...
Not any more.
Can you imagine the confusion at New Scotland Yard yesterday "OK lads, go out and arrest that Browne chap, you know the one, the closet homosexual who thinks he's god's gift to money and has a large unwashed barnet", and the boys in blue chiffon headoff and pitch up at No. 11 rather than No. 1 St James's Square.
shotgun and hitch - you oh-so-obviously petrified closeted cunts sound like a fucking marriage made in heaven!
On Browne:
I'm not sure it was ONLY his private life he was trying to protect.
The other aspect of the story - which the judge has said has to remain private - is the details of the conversations at the cosy dinners Browne and this guy had with Blair, Mandelson and so on. That might have been quite interesting to hear about, don't you think?
Is Browne a "People's Peer" or a "People's Princess" ?
I doubt those conversations will remain private for ever. The MoS has been prevented from reporting them, but, purely hypothetically, what if the information were to mysteriously find its way into the hands of the UK premier political blogger ?
Then again, Iain Dale hasn't shown much interest in the story so far..
Time for a Michael Crick biography.....or even a Tome Bower
Hmmm..I wouldn't recommend that young Canadian laddie go for any long walks in the wood by himself...
Nothing whatsoever to do with this story, but I got an interesting leaflet from UKIP through my door yesterday. The bulk of it was about the undemocratic, taxpayer funded regional assemblies that already exist in England, such as the South East's in Guildford. But I discovered that if the EU's INTERREG IIIa Programme goes ahead, I'm going to be in France, not Kent. I thought this might be of interest to Guido fans.
Don't know about 'homophobia', but there seems to be a fair bit of NuLabophobia and Broonophobia ... oh, sorry, they can't be phobias, they're rational fears.
A couple of things
Does BP stand for backing puffs
&
Listened to today and the way they spun this. A reasonable mistake to make that has cost him dear.
He has committed perjury and gets his boyfriends from "escort" agencies.
Its been widely known he is gay for years, he apparently took this bloke on business trips.
I imagine the furory over other public figures if they committed perjury and allegedly used prostitutes. This is worse than the Archer saga ( he only paid one off allegedly)
Why is there an injunction on publication of correspondence between Lord Browne and Gordon Brown? And why are Mandelson. Reinaldo, and A N OtherGays involved?
Some journalist know more, much more, but will have to release it by hints and nudge nudge wink wink at the moment.
There's a real can of worms out there
Guido - forget the SpAds - who cares?
Get digging on this one...
Will Gay Gordon order the Queen to strip Gay Lord Browne of his peerage due to perjury ?
When will these people start telling the truth? Of course he is gay, he even looks gay - it's obvious, but why lie about it? That's the sin and as such should not only have his peerage removed, but he should face charges for perjury and the prison sentence that goes with it.
Will it happen? Of course it won't, not in this two-tier society of ours.
Didn't you have a nice photo on this blog of Lord Browne at a Sith Institute meeting not so long ago?
"Exercising in Battersea Park" looks set to become one of the 21st century's great euphemisms.
On a par with "Ugandan discussions" etc....
Oh for god's sake, boys, you're English: You're all a little gay.
The best headline for this story was on Fark.com: "Oil Exec Disciplined Over Canadian Drilling Operation". They forgot a hyphen.
BP stands for Back Passage
Well at least it wasn't a public loo or clapham common.
Just got ole fashioned peculation of comnpany money and an attempted cover up.
You would have thought that Browne, a world class business boy, might have learnt a few lessons from such as Mandy, that it is all-right to come out the closet, it saves grief later when the hands are caught in the till.
When will these people start telling the truth?
why do you need to know?
I'm in trouble now - if I get arrested my computer is going to have male escort contacts all over it. But I couldn't resist this one:
"Comments - Guido has a great body and uses it to full advantage. He is often seen in videos and magazines."
Note: the picture wouldn't load, so I've had to use my imagination. Fortunately, a Mr Montana's picture was available as a stand-by.
But what happens if they send round a short bloke who looks like SuperMario instead of the advertized product? Can you go to Trading Standards and get your money back?
simpler to have had the rent boy topped , browne must know some interesting russians
Mandelson, Reinaldo, Browne and his little boy all having dinner together...god knows how that ended up after a few bottles of bubbly and Mandy getting the Amyl nitrate out....
I believe the court explained they progressed to discussing 'Chinese textile quotas'. Depressingly for Reinaldo & Jeff, this was probably true. The powerful are often convinced their conversation exerts an aphrodisiac effect, but actually if you stare in to their eyes whilst they discuss classical endogenous growth theory or proposed voting procedures in accession states, you can feel the will to live slipping away. The boys were damn lucky to make it out of there without their brains dribbling out of their ears. And I do mean ears. Why do you think these people have to resort to escort agencies in the first place?
raincoaster
"Oh for God's sake,your English:
You're all a little gay"
In the Diocese Of Ferns?
Who would have been responsible for visa arrangements when all this was going on? The Man with the Dog?
So did he need all that oil for lubrication? And is the company now to be known as BPJ ... British Petroleum Jelly?
Which PR firms is Browne using to spread the message of his glorious being ?
He might want them to tone down the spin it is getting nauseating as we await Blair's departure.
Is it Peter Parker's young lad, or Stuart Higgins, or Lowe Bell - just who is pushing this line of Browne- The Last Pharaoh - around the media ?
It is becoming comical
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