An open letter to Peter Mandelson.

Iain Dale might have been a touch premature in deeming Peter Mandelson as the top left winger in Britain.
may be extremely powerful in government, with the most junior ministers and the longest political title known to man (Baron Mandelson, of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and of Hartlepool in the County of Durham, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Council, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills), but he still isn’t important enough to be known by security guards at Labour’s own conference:

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson …

Never. They don’t and they won’t. So why was Peter Mandelson stupid enough to say that the matter “has been resolved” when there are still questions to be answered about the conduct of Labour general secretary Ray Collins?
The public want this to be resolved, they want to know who knew about McBride’s smears and why they didn’t stop him if they found it as revolting as they claim they do. Until the remaining questions have been answered properly, the story won’t be over.
Mandelson should never have uttered the words

That is …

It is a very unimportant issue that Peter Mandelson has been pelted with green custard. A rather “trifling” matter, one could say. Which is why thwhole furore over it really makes no sense to me.
It is rather amusing though.

Flying the Union Flag upside down is traditionally a sign a distress.
Maybe it was a subliminal message being sent by Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson that they managed to fly a plastic flag upside down at a diplomatic event…
How hard is it to put a little plastic flag on a stick the right way up? Surely the Prime Minister knows which way up the flag should be flown?!

David Cameron has declared that as Prime Minister, he would publish the government’s files on UFOs:
I think we should be as open as possible, so I would be quite happy to give you a guarantee that if I became Prime Minister I would always be entirely open and frank about these things.
I don’t think any of us have any clue whether there’s intelligent life out there and it is certainly not something that any Government should seek to hide from anyone.
However, he also said:
I’m convinced we have been visited by …

Peter Mandelson is actually doing something positive for the country! I know that you’re probably sceptical of this, but it’s true – he is indeed:
Peter Mandelson is at the centre of a Whitehall row over a planned clampdown on cigarette sales which threatens to overshadow this week’s Queen’s Speech.
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, is said to have legislation which would ban big displays of cigarettes – effectively forcing their sale under the counter – “ready to go” as a key part of the Government’s programme for the next 12 months.
However, …

His double-barrelled lordship Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham has been disowned.
The people of Foy don’t like him and don’t know why he has chosen to name himself after their village, since “he doesn’t have anything to do with the place and hasn’t done since he left.”
Peter Mandelson has been rather presumptuous to select Foy and Hartlepool as part of his title, especially if he has no real connection to the place. And, like in in the rest of the …

The furore that erupted over Oleg Deripaska’s non-donation to the Conservative Party and George Osborne’s supposed role in it has now died – and the story has moved back to focus on Mandelson.
Why? Because the Electoral Commission has said that no rules have been broken and nothing wrong has been done so, and here I paraphrase, “STFU”.
And so more questions are being asked of Mandelson after he has already admitted that he has lied to us about his relationship with the Russian billionaire who he has had to deny doing …

“Lord” Peter Mandelson has been sacked twice from the Cabinet for corruption, so it’s not exactly surprising that he was passed over for the role of the Government’s Anti-Corruption Champion, despite it it “complementing” the job of Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which Mandelson was given in the latest reshuffle. Th job was instead given to Jack Straw – why it didn’t just stay with John Hutton doesn’t make sense.
Especially since the questions being asked about his relationship with Russia’s richest man keep on rolling:
Lord Mandelson …