The Dark Prince RETURNS

This is how to sell a book folks, the Dark Prince Lord Mandelson is really going after Gordon Brown, why in the earth did Gordon Brown bring back Mandelson to the Cabinet. This is New Labour at its worse, Tony Blair must be tearing his hair out, makes him look bad in the long term.

The Dark Prince ( Lord Mandelson ) vs. the Brown Camp

The Sunday Telegraph: The bitter feuds of the Blair/Brown years has come back to haunt the Labour Party with the publication of autobiography of Lord Peter Mandelson. The Dark Prince can forget getting an job in another Labour Government, in the Labour mind the Coalition Government is on the back foot and this book only brings back the bad days of the political cancer at the heart of New Labour, the political feud between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. The destructive relationship was political lethal for Labour, for over ten years of Tony Blair in 10 Downing Street you had the open and covert warfare between Blair and Brown and their allies. By the time Tony Blair was pushed out in 2007 by the Brown Camp had become a spent political force, in his turn Gordon Brown faced numerous coup attempts, the defence for Brown was Lord Mandelson, without Mandelson Brown would have been toast a lot sooner. What is new is the fact that Lord Mandelson could see that Labour was going to lose and was looking to parachute out of Labour back in to Europe, this seems to have opened up the old wounds, thus the lousy Labour Campaign of 2010. Lord Mandelson can expect a lot more arrows in his direction from Labour, Tony Blair in some respects must be laughing his head off, Labour was only a major political force when he was leader, after he left Labour returned to its losing form.

Here Gone tomorrow Politician!

Alastair Campbell Blog: AC is defending Tony Blair again over his visit to Kosovo, the master spin is has his back up over the lack of UK press interest in the visit by ex PM Blair to Kosovo, Mr Campbell writes the following sarcastic remark, “ Tony, you know that Iraq is the only country you had anything to do with ”. Yes to give Mr Blair his due he was part of the solution to the Northern Ireland troubles and saved the people of Kosovo, but at the end of the day he was another Eden, the UK has been thrown out of Iraq for a second time, the War in Afghanistan is not going well, the economy left by Labour is in the toilet. Its about time AC saw that in many respects he was part of the problem for Mr Blair. It can be postulated that in the future when you think of Mr Blair you will think of Iraq and the post failure planning after the War. Also Mr Blair left the UK with Gordon Brown, that was beyond the pale.

A Coalition AFTER 2015?

The Daily Mail: Reports that UK PM David Cameron has suggested that the UK Coalition could go carry on after the supposed 2015 Election. This would be a major revolution in UK politics folks, if the Conservatives and Lib Dems could agree not to attack each other at the next election and offer the UK a future Coalition Government and if the voters supported such a revolution the Labour Party would be out of power for a generation. Its the reverse of what Tony Blair really wanted after the 1997 election but could not due to having a such a massive majority. One can postulate that Tony Blair is smiling somewhere, it would show that he was right when it came to the politics of getting a deal with the Lib Dems but that Labour Party would not get in to bed with the Lib Dems once they smelled power.

Gordon Brown = Leonid Brezhnev ?

Guardian: Reports on a speech by David Miliband the former Foreign Secretary and leading candidate for the Labour Leadership, Mr Miliband stated that PM Gordon Brown sent the Labour Party “ backwards and left it lacking a central creed. ”. In essence Mr Miliband wants to place the blame for the election defeat at the door of Gordon Brown, he wants to move away from New Labour due to the fact that his own brother Ed Miliband and another candidate for the Labour leadership has moved to the left. Thus it must be sad day for the founders of New Labour, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson and the Spin Master himself Alastair Campbell to their creation buried and scorned. The question for the Labour Party is NOW WHAT ? It was New Labour that got Labour elected, if they throw out New Labour and return to OLD Labour they might get spirit back but never win another election. Thus a warning to the Labour Party, DON’T SCORN YOUR PARENTS, Blair, Brown, Mandelson and Campbell.

The Feud that would NEVER Die !

Telegraph: Reports on comments by the former Labour Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, Lord Mandelson states that the former Labour PM Tony Blair had to do battle with his Chancellor and future successor Gordon Brown from the moment Mr Brown made way for Tony Blair to be elected leader to his departure in 2007. This is not breaking news, the Alastair Campbell Diaries show a brooding Gordon Brow, also the constant view that Lord Mandelson was up to something and how Tony Blair had to deal with these over the top egos. One at times feels sorry for Tony Blair, why he didn’t sack Gordon Brown in 2005 after the General Election is the one issue that remains a mystery in till the next book by Mr Campbell.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has announced the name of the second UK Soldier to die in Afghanistan on Thursday, the Soldier was “ Marine David Charles Hart from 40 Commando Royal Marines, serving as part of Combined Force Sangin ”. Our thoughts are with the family of Marine Hart.