There is a 73 year old T Blair waffling on on a very high level though about technology solving all and serving one of the worst money grubber there is It doesn’t make sense
Is it not a pity that a Party led by a former Director of Public Prosecutions should be taken in by a huxster like Mandelson? He was an advisor to Gordon Brown in 2008 when Brown’s administration was falling apart. James Purnell resigned from the cabinet and advised David Miliband, who was Foreign Secretary
to resign. If he had resigned Brown would have had to resign. He didn’t because Mandelson advised Miliband of the dangers to the government if he resigned. Instead, Brown went on to lose the 2010 election and subject the country to 14 years of Tory incompetence, inflict the Labour with two of the worst leaders in its history and years of austerity and Brexit.
If Andy Burnham wins Makerfield will he replace Starmer or will the people responsible for the current loss of confidence in the Labour government repeat the failure of 2008? When Thatcher failed to win the leadership ballot in 1990 her entire cabinet told her to resign. What will happen if Burnham beats Starmer in the first ballot of a Labour leadership ballot? Starmer is so much like Brown, both totally unaware of their position in the opinion of voters and willing to continue on to defeat to Reform in 2029.
Do you really think that Mandelson was responsible for Brown's failure to win the in 2010? If so, explain why he didn't harm Tony Blair. What did for TB was not Mandelson, but the concocted inventions about Sadam's weapons of mass destruction.
'Now it’s out in the open, Labour’s opponents are using it with absolute relish and will continue using it for – oh I don’t know – decades to come'. That includes you and the Spectator too Nick?
Mandelson is the go to guy to blame for others incompetence. He is probably one of the few competent politicians around with a very solid record of achievement. As Secretary of State for NI he negotiated the powersharing agreement. He was in charge of Blairs successful election campaigns and was duly rewarded by the totally unscrupulous Alistair Campbell by being blamed for the confected Hinduja passport "scandal"- We evidently prefer to give golden passports to Russian oligarchs instead who buy and then sell football clubs.
Between 2004 and 2008, Mandelson was EU trade commissioner and led European negotiations in the WTO Doha World Trade Round. So to imply, as you have done on the basis of his friendship with a convict and pander to the ultra rich that somehow he alone is responsible for the evident loss of popularity of Starmer's directionless government is pushing our (my) credulity to the limits. Politics is evidently a dirty game and few of its protagonists remain unsullied for long and therefore vulnerable to the facile catcalls of the MSM, particularly it's porn merchants. But at least he is competent, which is much more than can be said for many of the others on the current scene.
Is John Rentoul still espousing the gospel according to Blair and Mandelson?
Whoever replaces Starmer needs to clear out the stables and propound a new Social Democratic philosophy to take us into the 2030s
And not to forget he masterminded the remain campaign and what a great job he did.
There is one unanswered question what’s wrong with them?
As I say, they're hugely insecure
Is that it? Sorry to sound slightly disrespectful
There is a 73 year old T Blair waffling on on a very high level though about technology solving all and serving one of the worst money grubber there is It doesn’t make sense
Is it not a pity that a Party led by a former Director of Public Prosecutions should be taken in by a huxster like Mandelson? He was an advisor to Gordon Brown in 2008 when Brown’s administration was falling apart. James Purnell resigned from the cabinet and advised David Miliband, who was Foreign Secretary
to resign. If he had resigned Brown would have had to resign. He didn’t because Mandelson advised Miliband of the dangers to the government if he resigned. Instead, Brown went on to lose the 2010 election and subject the country to 14 years of Tory incompetence, inflict the Labour with two of the worst leaders in its history and years of austerity and Brexit.
If Andy Burnham wins Makerfield will he replace Starmer or will the people responsible for the current loss of confidence in the Labour government repeat the failure of 2008? When Thatcher failed to win the leadership ballot in 1990 her entire cabinet told her to resign. What will happen if Burnham beats Starmer in the first ballot of a Labour leadership ballot? Starmer is so much like Brown, both totally unaware of their position in the opinion of voters and willing to continue on to defeat to Reform in 2029.
Do you really think that Mandelson was responsible for Brown's failure to win the in 2010? If so, explain why he didn't harm Tony Blair. What did for TB was not Mandelson, but the concocted inventions about Sadam's weapons of mass destruction.
No I don't think he lost the 2010 election
That I don't know, John. I am not sure anyone does
'Now it’s out in the open, Labour’s opponents are using it with absolute relish and will continue using it for – oh I don’t know – decades to come'. That includes you and the Spectator too Nick?
Do you really trust anything written by Glen Owen? Week after week he peddles outright falsehoods and malicious gossip.
Mandelson is the go to guy to blame for others incompetence. He is probably one of the few competent politicians around with a very solid record of achievement. As Secretary of State for NI he negotiated the powersharing agreement. He was in charge of Blairs successful election campaigns and was duly rewarded by the totally unscrupulous Alistair Campbell by being blamed for the confected Hinduja passport "scandal"- We evidently prefer to give golden passports to Russian oligarchs instead who buy and then sell football clubs.
Between 2004 and 2008, Mandelson was EU trade commissioner and led European negotiations in the WTO Doha World Trade Round. So to imply, as you have done on the basis of his friendship with a convict and pander to the ultra rich that somehow he alone is responsible for the evident loss of popularity of Starmer's directionless government is pushing our (my) credulity to the limits. Politics is evidently a dirty game and few of its protagonists remain unsullied for long and therefore vulnerable to the facile catcalls of the MSM, particularly it's porn merchants. But at least he is competent, which is much more than can be said for many of the others on the current scene.
It's enough to make one believe in a global conspiracy to destroy democracy.
They are so bloody stupid