One meeting Peter Mandelson isn't invited to

jaymason

we can but hope

TrevorsDen

Don't be daft. The election is for 3 weeks not 11 months in the case of US primaries.

What you do not seem to get is the way labour hate the tories and are willing to even see the country into queer street to win the next election.
There will be no Clinton like rifts.

There is no need when tories like you are so dumb and nit pick the opposition at every opportunity.

Lord Rio and McGoebbels and Mini-me are kacking themselves at your expense even as we speak.

Good thing labour are only on 33% in the polls.

King Prawn

It is pretty obvious that the election will coincide with the return of troops from Iraq. Despite what you say about the war, Blair still won in 2005 due to the fact that he still held enough of London and the South. A lot of people in those areas respected him for the decision he made.

I do not think Brown has anywhere near the same level of respect in Southern England.

I cannot see Brown ever winning an election.

GS

What in heaven's name must Brown and his coterie feel like, to have been so humiliatingly rescued from disaster by their long-time and much-loathed enemy Mandelson.

strapworld

He has not been invited to any of the regular meetings of the Bullington Club, either! But I do not know why.

But, there again, he is a member of the Corfu Yacht Club.

You can attend too many meetings, dont you know!

Anthony

Perhaps Mandy is too busy handing £1 billion of our hard-earned cash to foreign-owned car companies to attend all these pathetic meetings.

Mike. Brighton

Regarding meetings Mr. Mandelson isn't invited to. Given Mr. Mandelson's links to Mr. Deripaska and the alleged links between the russian aluminium oligarchs and the FSB. I wonder if Mr. Mandelson has completed his Developed Vetting? As Business Secretary he will clearly handle classified economic intelligence? I wonder what the views on this are in Thames House and Vauxhall Cross?

Olaf Rye

I think that Brown is looking for any glimmer of economic hope, even if it is illusory, so that he can vainly claim immense economic competence. He must really despise Blair for lingering so long and thus allowing the 'economic miracle' that he achieved to unravel before his eyes. The vanity of this man, and the Labour sycophants that have attempted to sell the fantasy of this government being fiscally responsible and competent, have lost what they felt was their free ticket to having another term in government. Let us hope that the public is not so stupid to believe that Brown did anything more than borrow, tax and regulate in the most benign economic cycle for decades, and drove us into a deep recession and increased public debt to ridiculous levels. You can at least say that New Labour is still Labour through and through--tax, spend, and regulate !

DIS WISS

There won't be an election...Mandy wants to carry on running the country for as long as possible.

Cynic

There won't be an election. Brown might think of holding one in June when the troops come home from Iraq but he'll bottle it again because the economy will be in an even more crappy state than now. More likely he'll hang on to the last minute in 2010, and then declare a state of emergency (economy hasn't yet recovered), and cancel all elections.

Verity

Dis Wis - Interesting thought. What would happen to my Lord Rio and Rumba of Twinkly Bottom if the socialists lost the election? Would he boogie back to Brussels?