Mandelson Go Home

Populist and self-serving Angels may be, but protection of our standard of living is what is wanted and required. The free trade, dated, economic past its sell-by date, cheap theorising of the awful Mandelson globalist freak is a conceited pretence that what happens elsewhere in the world has any claim to override the importance of our enjoyment of Ferragamo shoes, French dresses, Sander working clothes, proper hair cuts, Florentine parfumiers, food whose origins is known (is, indeed, often a former acquaintance, or at least supplied by a current acquaintance), books of choice, decent furniture, a place to retire to from visitors, and a place to be sociable, wine to drink or pat in its racks; a countryside tended and sleek under local owners' care, cities maintained in their various splendours, mountains to cool off in and seasides to paddle through.

All must have their particular priorities of course, (personally gazing at pictures is winning over listening at concerts right now, but doubtless that will change), and the Rowntree Foundation has consulted focus groups (fancy) to discover what is wanted by representative sectors of our society in a basic survival kit.

As an aside some of the things rated essential wouldn't be consumed free if offered, and some of the things essential to survival were not even mentioned. Why are focus groups thought to be representative of anything but themselves? Except in a collectivist, authoritarian mindset of course.

But to continue on the rejection of global economic growth and its centrality to our well being, what is essential is to live with well-designed, competently-built, decently priced goods, in a civil society that respects its members as sovereign and keeps its citizens in properly groomed public surroundings, both urban and rural, and in their infancy and in their dotage; and in the Schengen area too.

Goods from outside the Schengen area are of no interest, nor travel outside it of much either, (though hope springs eternal that Australasia might be visited, and perhaps the Trobriand Islands). What we have not got we will trade for, but not trade, and exposure, for growth of itself. Nor is the idea that Zimbabwe or some other despoiled part of the planet is for us to rectify acceptable, let alone mounting unwarranted war and lesser attacks, and creating entire countries ruined, and new enemies, all out of the evils, falsities and personal ambitions of Mandelson, Blair, Brown and their ilk.

If it is also the ideology of these new Labour degenerates to run riot over the history, culture, economy, living standards, well being and political morality of a United Kingdom foolish enough to have put them in a position of power, that has become our terrible mistake and misfortune. But in Europe no-one wants them or will allow them to be foisted onto our lives here.