by nabidana | Aug 31, 2010 | Labour Leadership, politics
Lord Mandelson, former First Secretary, has warned that the Labour Party risks slipping back into being ‘a party with policies and positions based on principles and political convictions’, should members elect Ed Miliband party leader next month. Speaking...
by nabidana | Jan 6, 2010 | Hoons, politics
Clause 7: 1 Party officers 1A Leader and deputy leader (a) There shall be a leader and deputy leader of the party who shall, ex-officio, be leader and deputy leader of the PLP. (b) The leader and deputy leader of the party shall be elected or re-elected from among...
by nabidana | Sep 15, 2009 | Hoons, politics, stupidity
Fiona Apple has a song, ‘Limp’ which, although directed at a former lover, might well be usefully directed at our old friend Lord Mandelson of Hartlepool, Mortgage Application and Passport Protocol. In the past, if Mandy gave a major policy speech, the...
by nabidana | Aug 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Peter Mandelson, First Secretary of State, Lord of the Realm, used to be much better at the smear-and-run stuff. This week he’s seizing on the opportunity to attack Tory backbench MEP Daniel Hannan as some sort of crypto-racist and crypto-facist. Mandelson, the...
by nabidana | Aug 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Peter ‘Dodgy’ Mandelson’s increasingly bitter and nasty attacks on George Osborne are entirely off script: the timing of his comment that Osborne’s claiming of ‘progressive’ for the conservatives, right at the end of his Today...