Peter Mandelson

The Self Preservation Society.

June 6, 2009
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‘Hang on a minute lads, I’ve got a great idea,’ Croker said – but we never found out what it was. Yesterday the Prime Minister announced that he was shuffling the cabinet round in an attempt to stop the Downing Street coach from sliding over the cliff edge. The nation is holding its breath. This [...]

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Le corps politique est une ‘corpse’ qui est ventilé artificiellement.

June 3, 2009

Labour MPs watched in silence as Gordon Brown was returned to 10 Downing Street after PMQ’s today. William Hague said yesterday that the government are ‘a row of political corpses now’. If that is so, then someone somewhere is artificially ventilating the Brown cadaver, for by all the laws of putrification he should be decently [...]

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Swine Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

May 1, 2009

The chattering classes are flocking onto the wires, emboldened by Guido’s successful raid which knocked out the guard dog, they sense the opportunity to finally rid themselves of the ‘cuckoo’ Prime Minister that was planted in their nest by the departing Tony Blair. True to Labour form, we are fed a major scare to keep [...]

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Life on the open blog…….

April 20, 2009

Blogging is the quintessential egalitarian occupation. It is free, open to all, and the anonymity allows for the perfect meritocracy. It should come naturally for Nu-Labourites with their espousal of the creed of a classless society. Yet it doesn’t. Labourlist was not ‘Derek the Pyjamahideen’ in his bedroom, it was state – and union – sponsored astro-turfing. Senior [...]

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What every young McBride should know before marriage……

April 19, 2009

It won’t make a vas deferens now, but perhaps someone should have warned the young McBride that ‘cooking up’ stories with ‘tough as old boot leather’  Balls, he was liable to get his fingers burnt. The Sunday Times today is printing ‘heavily denied’ allegations that Ed Balls was the mastermind behind the  “dark arts” operation [...]

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Would you buy a used car from this man?

March 14, 2009

You may have to soon! The government is considering giving credits of 2,000 pounds to new-car buyers who turn in their old cars, The Times reported on Saturday. Business minister Peter Mandelson is looking closely at the plan, called scrappage, and it could be announced in April’s budget, The Times said on its website. Citing [...]

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Old Lady gives Mandy a slap………

March 12, 2009

Whew! Managed to resist writing ‘Old Lady gives Queen a slap’……far too misleading! The Old Lady in question is of course the Bank of England – growing tired of shouldering all the blame, she slapped the young upstart back into line. Delicious! The Bank of England rebuked business minister Peter Mandelson in a statement on [...]

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