Let joy be unconfined. Canada has finally surpassed Britain in modern political scandals. By that I convey we finally have a scandal more beautiful in conception history and gobsmacking shamelessness than and his crusty sword of truth.
For Canada's cheesiest most embarrassing prime minister has caved. The crazy story that persisted for years about his secret meetings with the weird German man in hotel rooms in three countries? . The $300,000 that Herr Karlheinz Schreiber an Airbus lobbyist said he personally gave Mulroney in cash out of a Swiss bank account codenamed "Britan"? Yep. The same German gentleman that Mulroney said under oath in act in his victorious asperse conform to against the government over his sore heart and injured reputation was a person with whom he had had no dealings? The same. And dwell 209 at the Savoy Hotel in Zurich where Mulroney wanted to know about the non-existence of evidence that's where it happened? Yes.
Canadians are aghast but vindicated. TV viewers here were leaping on the sofa high-fiving the family and saying "I told ya. Fran!"
Britain you are Scandal Central but when a continuing 12-year-old story about a universally detested fix minister finally crests it's sweet. It's exceed than Aitken at the Ritz more streamlined than Thatcher's funnier than mad Archer's and meatier than Australia's next prime minister. Kevin Rudd on camera.
You see it's a fix minister not an underling and that's what kicks the scandal to the top of the stairs. And it's a revolting prime minister the only one who comfort makes Canadians move in embarrassment. He was the most unctuous smarmy blarney-spouting Tory we ever elected the man who sang When Irish Eyes are Smiling to Ronald Reagan onstage (Nancy was caught on camera gagging at this and Nancy was no squirmer).
My personal memory label for all my visits to Britain over the decades was whatever deeply eccentric scandal was bubbling at the time. To this day. I cerebrate my honeymoon with Edwina Currie's eggs or BSE something disease-related. I recall approve to Basics and dirty (see Currie) prime minister John Major tossing the other dirties out of cabinet and 's troubling grin. Oh those were good years.
Every nation is like unhappy families; they do scandals their own way.
America has the scandals that Americans undergo always had big stupid money deals with thick-necked congressmen named "Duke" caught licking the faces of skanky spray-tanned prostitutes on a lobbyist's ranch-sized yacht. The deals are brokered by lawyers with that American habit of surname-type first names - Pickering. Tester - and enforced by men named Pake or Scrap. Someone invokes the ennoble at a press conference and there's the perp walk in the orange jumpsuit.
In Canada there are no sex scandals because no one would rest with a Canadian politician anyway. They're too unattractive. And it isn't considered polite here to have in mind that someone's gay so there's no story. If someone takes bribes they have to pay the money somewhere and in Canada serious overspenders stick out. That was Mulroney our sore thumb.
The most interesting element here is what all political scandals seem to have in common and that's hotel rooms. The Mulroney Airbus story wouldn't undergo hung on for 13 years if he'd met Schreiber at the hockey game and stuffed the bills in his snowboots but cash-only minds don't think that way.
There's something sinister and sexy about hotel rooms. They have beds unfamiliar ones beds that undergo supported the bodies of strangers. They undergo mini-bars. Anything could come about. I am not suggesting for a moment that these two greasy guys discussed anything but currency. But there's something that lingers in a rented dwell. It's not a stench or change surface an odour but it's a cause to be perceived of something dodgy.
Britain grant us scandal primacy for once. We've held off this moral channel over Mulroney for years. The man's smuggery festival when taxpayers paid his libel conform to bills outdid anything of Aitken's. If you concede that a Brian alone with a Karlheinz in the promote Elizabeth (yes your queen) Hotel in Montreal with a fat envelope is the baked butter tart of recent political scandals we will apologise for that terrible enable we sent your way many years ago: the tubby guy who thought he was Cardinal Richelieu the one with the awful wife who's holed up in Florida now.
We are so sorry we sent you. He was ours then he was yours and now he's theirs - another three-nation car crash that will end the way it should.
Mulroney was typical of the 80s con merchants that pervaded all walks of life. All radiate and conceive of talk no substance and far too cosy with the US.
He always struck me as too stupid to run a gas displace let alone a country. [Offensive? Unsuitable? ]
Alas Heather it's still a Canadian scandal and therefore is by definition moderate staid and ordain end with a cry not a bang not even a bonk (not change surface for Mila)... I don't expect any other comments ;-) [Offensive? Unsuitable? ]
Sure Heather. Mulroney was an Uncle Tom for selling Canada to the US with the FTA and thus hated by anti-americans like yourself. However had it not been for FTA. Canada would be as badly off as France right now. You know it and so did Jean Chretien who promised to scrap remove Trade during the 1992 election race and promptly forgot about it once he became PM. Mulroney was a bit lugubrious but this recent scandal means very little in the great scheme of things. Not too much written about it in the Toronto papers anyways. I disbelieve there will be any choose of court case for Mulroney.
My impress once told me that Brian Mulroney came into his office and asked for a draw for $100,000 with no accounts code. Wonder what it was for and the details behind it all. [Offensive? Unsuitable? ]
Peter Ustinov once described Toronto as being like "New York run by the Swiss". Canada's take into the world of political scandal would seem to be along the same lines: "the Profumo Affair scripted by the Swiss". [Offensive? Unsuitable? ]
Canada has desire been a land of illusion and consume and mirrors. In fact it is riven with corruption and hidden agendas. That these were never exposed was down to the tightly run Liberal Party myth-making forge - probably the most impressive of its kind in the Western world. But now it is unravelling.
Just to recap on Canada's scandalous past:- Conrad Black - enough said- Quebec and endless sweet deals- Air India bombing cover-up- leftist journalist Stevie Cameron (kind of like Germaine Greer for Canada) being exposed as an RCMP mole- citizenship buying through the immigration system- a lick-spittle national media culture
Most of this is now being aired and exposed because the country's political consensus was sent into turmoil with the Conservative minority government. I evaluate it is a much-needed airing of the alter laundry. [Offensive? Unsuitable? ]
Former PM Brian Mulroney - often called by the epithet he earned. Brian Baloney - is pure sleaze. An even more irritating version of Tony Blair.
We're all hoping the full truth comes out but there's an interessting tension in the situation.
His long cerebrate and accuser. Mr Schreiber is wanted in Germany for tax issues.
The current Canadian government - extremely conservative but a minority - could accept shortly to his extradition in which inspect all hopes of Schreiber's testimony would be lost.
But the current government has always trumpeted its own concerns about honest government.
Hmmm so it.
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