No. 61 Peter Mandelson is not a Lying Scumbag

Not at all. No sir. Not one jot! But in other news, not much seems to be happening outside of the country grinding to a halt following a heavy downpour of snow.

By heavy downpour, I mean ‘dusting’. By country, I mean ‘London’.

Nothing like the snow we used to get but because, for once, London was affected, it was a case of baton down the hatches and declare a national emergency. You’d think it was The Day After Tomorrow the way the capital’s media network simper on about the white stuff falling magically from the sky. Nowhere else really gets a look in. After all, it’s not London, is it?

image courtesy of World Economic Forum

Anything north of Watford is considered an illiterate backwater populated by toothless dullards trying to get a tune out of a punctured inner tube, whereas any sane individual knows that’s just Dudley.

In fact, anything further up the map than the M25 circle is regarded as t’North and therefore neither matters, nor probably in their mind’s even exists.

Such a blinkered attitude to the rest of the country makes London the natural home to the 19 carat, cubic zirconium tosser. They’re all there. The bankers, the stock markets, the fashion houses, the big marketing agencies, the right-wing press in all its forms, the spineless media execs (whatever one of those does), the town-houses of the landed gentry, the royal family and, of course, the Houses of Parliament, filled to the rafters (if there’s the chance they might get on television) with politicians and sleeping Lords.

Speaking of which, I wrote a post last week entitled All Politicians Are Scum. You may be forgiven for thinking that I perhaps left the word ‘lying’ out of that statement but it was in fact an intentional omission. I didn’t wish to give the impression that a certain frugality with the truth was the only fault of these burdens on the oxygen supply.

As I stated in the article last week, politicians are indeed lying scum, although I should add that this is a charge that could never be levelled at crypto-Thatcherite, Peter Mandelson. Honorary member, Lord,  key architect in Tony Blair’s successful hammering of the final nail into the coffin of the labour movement and enemy to honest, working people everywhere.

Twice resigning from government due to alleged underhand dealings and twice insisting he’d done nothing wrong, Mandelson made a return to government late last year when he was handed the post of Secretary of State for Business, presumably on the grounds that he was oily enough to negotiate with business leaders on paid-for junkets throughout the world and maybe successfully kick-start the British economy. So far he’s doing a splendid job – well the oily schmoozing at the taxpayers’ expense bit anyway.

He was also particularly vocal in condemning the recent strikes and secondary picketing by energy workers over the enforced use of shipped-in foreign labour when there’s an ever-increasing dole-queue in this country. Awfully brave to do so from his ivory tower, whilst his subjects freeze half to death on picket lines, risking their livelihoods for what they believe and facing a considerably shorter pay-packet next week.

Just another instance of government seeing fit to ignore the people who pay its wages – instead desperate to keep in with their so-called mates in Europe – and displaying an arrogance that would’ve made Thatcher and her brigade of criminals proud. And once again it’s this ‘untouchable’ attitude that pushes people towards the vile rhetoric of the BNP, who’ve been revelling in the strikes this week and doing their damnedest to score political points from them. Quite ironic for a party whose first moves, were they ever to take power (maybe not as ridiculous a notion as it once was), would probably include the criminalisation of trade unions and likewise the freedom to withdraw one’s labour in an industrial dispute.

Jeffman’s quite fed-up with it all and can’t really find the energy or passion to write anything else at the moment. “Wat Tyler, where are you now that we need you?”

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