It's very queer to see Gordon Brown inserting Peter Mandelson into his cabinet by placing him in the House of Lords. What is even odder is to look at the photographs that were published in the press as the announcement was made, showing the two men as they were in the last decade of the last century.
Up to date pictures demonstrate just how old both look now. Mandelson, addressing reporters today, was thin, careworn, with the slightly hectic cheeks of the elderly. Reports that he was desperate to come home and that he could no longer hack it abroad in Brussels are borne out by his haggard jaw belying the cheerful chappie smiles and crinkly eyes behind the glasses, under the receding quiff of still-dark hair.
Brown we have been staring at as an example of the living dead for some time now.
Are these two the best the Labour party can offer to see us through the financial crisis Brown's incompetent and ignorant regime has brought upon the country?
They look as if they should shuffle off to the nearest politburo.
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One of these days Hats, I'm going to do a spreadsheet showing all these 'changes' which we have to interprete as failures in office.
How many Home Secretaries? That many Defence Secretaries? All highly 'skilled' politicians, but useless in their application.
If the sort of company you and I rely on' kept changing everyone around the'd have been bust by now....
Oh really; you could ask...
It's just so costly having a silly old man like Brown poncing about, Scroblene. And an even sillier old man who wants to come home like Mandelson.
Brown says he's installing a new kind of governance. No it's not, it's a failed and very familiar old kind of governance by appointment, crony, profit-taker and thief. And in the end people get killed getting rid of it.
He has the whole lie team back now Campbell, Draper et al.Brown is a most peculiar man, he really is .
Is he their prisoner N?
The only thing causing the Party to keep him is that there would be a general election if he were pulled down, rather than conceded place due to ill health. Is Mandelson being installed as his keeper, and the reinstatement of 'the old team', the price of keeping the title and the baubles? Once Miliband and his banana wrecked Plan A?
The alternative is Cruddas and the union barons of the public sector - and we can't afford them, not the wage rises or the pensions (though no-one is mentioning that the pensions are unlikely, yet). Nor can the progressive Project permit the loss of the election and permanent, if respectable, Opposition under Cruddas et al, again.
The 'new form of government' isn't Brown's words. Those come from the permanent power project.
To quote Richard Littlejohn, "Isn't it a bit like giving a corpse Botox injections ?"
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