Mandelson and Whelan and the battle for Labour's soul

Verityred

Mandelson is slowly coming apart at the seams like a seedy old teddy bear. The endless contradictions that plague Labour are out in the open and add in the thug Whelan, and you have a battle of the bullies.

John Moss

Still think Brown could resign, "on health grounds" with Mandelson giving up his peerage and stepping in to fight Kirkaldy and running for Labour leader himself.

paulg

Its civil war! the brownites are beginning to see that Lord Mendaciousons & Alaister Campbells handling of the election campaign, is so inept it can only be a deliberate attempt to stop Mr Brown getting re-elected.

These trecherous twosome are deliberately sabotaging Mr Brown- disgraceful really!

Mazza1230

The Story so far:
Gordy was forced to fire Charlie as his spin-doctor by Ali. Charlie had alledgedly leaked information to the press that caused one or other of Mandy's resignations.

All these four ferrets are now back in the sack, trying desperately to prop up the collapsed edifice of Labour.

Is it any wonder they are fighting....?

AAE

What soul would that be then?

mike

That's what we Labour voters worry about, Labour's soul, you're havin' a laugh James. We worry about proper things, like if that lot you support win will they give a rats about us poor folk, Maggie never did, Maggie out, happy days. Well it's time for this Labour supporter to pop down to the pub, it'll be a pint, a pie, and a heated discussion about Labours soul, only kiddin' Jimmy, it'll just be about the footie.

Nicholas

The trouble is that unlike the Conservatives where differences are about issues the extremes of the Labour Party are ideological, like two ends of the same piece of authoritarian string where neither end knows where to tie the knot.

Within socialist hearts there always lurks the soul of a hardline communist, as our trolls regularly demonstrate. Pretending compassion but actually full of spite, envy and dogma towards anyone who refuses to sign up (leading to the killing fields and a bullet in the back of the head where given full rein). You would think that this would bring them together but it is the battle of suppression to keep the hard left cloaked from the public in order to secure votes that vexes them. Blair managed the deceit but couldn't keep the communist nutters off his bandwagon. Now they are threatening to take the bandwagon over. It remains to be seen whether this happens before or after it hurtles over the cliff.

Alexander Pelling

Nice one AAE. The problem with Nwew Labour was that it never did have a soul. Or a heart. Or even much of a brain. It was a sort of political Frankenstein's monster.

Boudicca

So we have The Dark Lord versus The Forces of Hell.

It's a bit like Labour's version of Lord of the Rings, isn't it. Overlong, tedious, too many really unpleasant characters and Gordon Brown starring as Gollum.

Bob

Nicholas; I would just like to add that everyone seems to have forgotten that Socialism and Communism are the same thing. Its just that the former are supposedly gradualists and the latter believe in imposition by violent revolution. Socialism will always need to be imposed and maintained by force because as a prescriptive philosophy it requires an all knowing (arrogant)elite to run it.

Paddy

Have just seen Mandelson being interviewed.

Who does he think he is - spitting venom.

Does he think we have forgotten his past?

jon dee

Brown must have had a gun put to his head, for Whelan to be excluded.

Funny how the power drains away from Brown as the queue forms to give Charlie a good kicking.

Perhaps a phone call to Tony ...........

Dysgwr Cymraeg

Dear Paddy, we haven't forgotten mandelson's past, but he will have by now. The selective memory abilities of these reptiles is beyond belief to ordianry folk. After all, he's clad in ermine isn't he? so he HAS to be specially talented and the knower of all.

Dysgwr Cymraeg

Thank you Bob, and we all know the trouble with socialism: eventually you run out of other people's money to spend!

SteveRogers

Reply to Alexander Pelling

Yes, Blair was Baron Frankenstein - now we're left with Igor!

Major Plonquer

Mandelson and Whelan are to go at each other are they? I'm confused. Which one is the bitch?

Tim Carpenter LPUK

I thought Mandy was a guest of Hotel California (Lords)? - he can check-out but never leave.