Mandelson & Osborne?

By Mike Newland

After a decade of increasingly blatant contempt for the views of the voters, it may just be beginning to dawn on the Great British Public that the three major parties are really one party. We tried we really tried!

 

The ‘major’ parties are, of course, the ones accepted by the media and ‘decent opinion’ as those entitled to rule Britain. Size of membership in itself will not make a party officially ‘major’ and their ranks are largely now in any event filled by those seeking opportunity within the power structure rather than believers in a particular way of doing things. They are not parties at all in fact but business associations.

 

The reality, which should have been grasped decades ago, is that the ‘parties’ are simply poisonous factions within a ruling class who rather fancy the trappings of office, the respect and the giant sums of money available when they have had their bit of fame. Your welfare is irrelevant. It’s interesting that perhaps the worst of the lot but not by so great a margin, Tony Blair, is now apparently the role model for the Tories.

 

So we should not be surprised to learn that the leading schemer in Blair’s entourage during his time in power and before, Peter Mandelson, has formed a close political association with the person tipped to be Cameron’s successor.  One might describe Mandelson as a cackling old witch boiling up spells – but he’d take it as a compliment.

 

If you imagine things are bad now with the present incumbent of 10 Downing Street, you may soon be looking back on a Golden Age. Some months ago, a leading member of the House of Lords resigned after being accused of snorting white powder with a prostitute. Almost unnoticed went his resignation comment that Cameron was the shallowest Prime Minister ever to have occupied the office.

 

The writer, Peter Oborne, is a little naïve occasionally but his account of George Osborne’s new friendship in the Daily Mail can broadly be trusted. He wrote a biography of Alastair Campbell – another nasty piece of work in Blair’s inner circle.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3287203/PETER-OBORNE-surprising-dangerous-love-un.html

 

Labour is of no use any more to Lord Mandelson. Such things are only vehicles to such people for as long as they are useful. The Blairites are being purged and Labour has no chance of getting power. Some say they don’t want it by conventional means. The idea is to make voting so discredited that people come to accept something else eventually. Nothing really new there of course. That’s the communist route to power and why the communist left don’t stand in elections. Mandelson himself has spoken of a post-democratic future but Labour is now too unimaginative to pull off such a coup.

 

Where should a man like Peter Mandelson now look for advancement and the opium of power? Cameron is on his way out. Where else but to the heir to the throne whose credentials have been polished by a self-created myth of having brought on a miraculous economic recovery with falling national debt?

 

Osborne will be well aware of how the great prize slips from the grasp of so many when it seemed a certainty. He needs all the help he can get and no one doubts the low cunning which a man like Mandy can bring to his assistance.

 

Osborne’s greatest rival, Boris Johnson, has once too often shown himself too clever by half and this has been noticed. It’s best not to be seen too often putting up a finger to see which way the wind is blowing before expressing an opinion. Theresa May has serious health problems and a dismal record of direct failure concerning immigration. But there are others who can present as fresh new faces after a few more years of public disillusion with the Tories.

 

The substance of the plan, as Oborne analyses it, is to delay the referendum on the EU until the EU President Juncker announces new integration of the EU countries turning them effectively into a single superstate. Britain will then be allowed not to proceed any further – or at least that will be the temporary pretence. The voters will then be so grateful at being promised no further entrapment that they will accept the status quo where we are already tied hand and foot not even controlling our own borders.

 

Britain remains in the EU and Osborne sweeps into Downing Street draped in laurels having organised success in the referendum as well as being Britain’s economic saviour.

 

Does anyone still believe that these people and the others like them at the top of the pole care anything about you or me? Unfortunately rather a lot although many more are now wavering.