Prince of Propaganda

Niccolò Machiavelli

It may be argued that Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli's reign in his role as civil servant to the Republic of Florence was one of an arch political backstabber, and I doubt we'll ever discover any more about the man than is already known. However it has become customary to refer to him in the pejorative, when we look about today and see his likeness wafting through the shadowy halls of Westminster in the form of another servant over which there can be little room for argument at all, when we refer to Peter Mandelson.

Peter Mandelson is without doubt, a Machiavelli incarnate.

I'm seldom that surprised when I listen to or read about another of Mandelson's political tricks,  to find myself  spending more time thinking about the exploits of Niccolò Machiavelli than  I spend listening to what Mandelson actually has to say. Though I think this is my own  fault  and not Peter Mandelson's, as I'm sure he wouldn't actually want to be likened to an historical character,widely considered to have been the arch enemy of honest politics.

Peter Mandelson

Imagine my own surprise then when I came across another of Mandelson's weekend disclosures in The Times this morning, where he's  laid bare the possibility of Gordon Brown 'not staying on as PM' if he manages to command enough votes to gain government. i.e. Like Blair, Mandelson is indicating (despite it's up to Gordon), that there could in fact already be a deal made for Gordon Brown to do what he can to win another term for Labour but to dump the job as soon as he can before the country goes f*cking bananas.

The question therefore is not that the men in grey suits could have had a word with him, it is WHO would he pass the chalice to? Peter Mandelson perhaps?

Secondly, I note him laying on the charm about David Cameron. (sic)

Poking fun at Cameron's locker room style of management where no doubt he has a close circle of friends who think not to let on he's a tosser in case he fires them, but  saying that his Cameron's "plastic" character can in no way be measured against Brown's Iron Hand character when dealing with 'a crisis'.

Oh, did I hear Mandelson admit there was a crisis there?

I thought everything was fine with Gordon at the helm?

Would you like to tell the country 'why' we are in 'crisis' and why we will remain in crisis even after the election no matter who is in charge?

I Wonder if the unelected Prince of Propaganda would also like to tell the country what steps have been taken to mask over this crisis in the intervening period between either Plastic Cameron (who Mandelson is devil enough to call a "Nice Man" whilst thrusting in his dagger), or Brown (who he indicates without confirmation, could step down mid-term, since he was no doubt his other propaganda victim).

Rolled into office yet another time by the despicable electoral system which we call First Past the Post here . A system that lets a minority politician like Brown who has scant public support into office. The man  who is the cause of the crisis Mandelson is referring to from which he says he can save us, or the chinless wonder Cameron. Either of which will continue to ruin Britain , either of which will continue with their propaganda of hate against the British people, will continue to destroy democracy, will continue to destroy our British culture, our jobs, our economic wealth, and a whole list of other things here unless the system is changed so that the person in charge our destiny as a people, can actually have been put their by a majority of the electorate.

That system change will have to wait I guess until the majority of British people decide to ally themselves with truth and honesty and to their freinds and countrymen in the British National Party, otherwise I doubt the Samaritans will be able to cope much longer, if yet another Labour Leader is defaulted into office as British Dictator by a propagandist and an unthinking public, many of which would stick their cross next to a donkey if it wore a red or blue rosette. Eee Haw! Eee Haw!