As the chairman and chief executive of Starbucks, the international caffeine empire now knows…you don’t mess with Mr Mandelson.
This is a man who has been reviled and hated by almost 86% of the country (a totally made up figure just to appear slightly credible), resigned twice from Cabinet, managed to get on a boat with a sleazy oligarch and make Osborne look worse for wear and get off scott-free.
So when Mr Schulz talks disapprovingly of the UK economy in the presence of Mr Mandelson, the Mandelsonian inner PR cogs get whirring as the machine roars into overdrive.
Who the F***k is he? Mr Mandelson thundered, using expletives to get in with the great unwashed and attacking a Yankee to get in with the more nationalistic unwashed!
Something that has now endeared him slightly within the media and those who follow UK politics. For about 12 hours I would imagine.
Our economy is still going down the pan unfortunately and his cursing isn’t doing much about it.
Anyway, Mr Schulz apologised.
