Peter Mandelson: The Real PM? In Your Dreams, Mandy!

[torygirl_no10]

With the premier of Peter Mandelson's documentary, creatively named Peter Mandelson: The Real PM?, one's sense of irony is never more exercised as by several scenes within it

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[haylon101]

This entry is so wonderful I just want to hug it!

[torygirl_no10]

Oh, thanks a lot :).

[faeries_bite]

I don't actually hate Lord Mandelson, or want to see him humiliated. But he needs to give up. Again, not necessarily because the time has come for him to leave or he can't help in any way, but because seeing his desperate attempts to find his way back into a government that his party isn't running it just humiliating.

[torygirl_no10]

Thanks for commenting :). I have to admit this is my highly partisan Tory, Osbornite side talking. On the one hand it is probably wise to keep Mandelson, like the dangerous snake he is, within sight and under watch. Better to learn from the viper than turn one's back on it and feel its' fangs in one's back.

Oh to see the look on the Labour Front Bench's face if he was made some sort of ambassador. John Prescott would probably explode with indignation.

And yes, these not-too-subtle hints he drops are just cring-worthy, and coming from the Prince of Darkness too!? Mind you, he IS getting old, suppose he has to lose his touch sometime...

[faeries_bite]

Oh, I don't dislike the Tories. In fact, I think I probably am one.
I say probably, because despite having read all the manifestos and thought about it at extreme length, I still can't work it out. All I know is that the Green Party are adamant on getting rid of private schools, so they can go fuck themselves.

I don't know. It's just agonising to watch.

[torygirl_no10]

I wasn't implying you did hate the Tories, I just know I can be highly partisan at times and that sometimes puts people off, or annoys them as my family tell me.

For me, it was really easy deciding I was a Tory. I took up Government and Politics AS last year, and when we started learning about Conservatives, it just fit me, fit everything I've believed but at the same time I know I have some more Liberal opinions and sides to me which make me more of a centre ground Tory than a right-wing Thatcherite.

Ugh, the Green party just annoys me. The problem with these fringe parties is that they have to stick to their narrow lines, because the moment they step outside those boundaries, they just look like an extremist version of the major parties. The Greens are just environmentalist, even more Marxist versions of the Labour Party, and as for UKIP, give me strength, they're just even more Eurosceptic Tories who are too blinded by their ambition to get Britain out of the EU to see the bigger picture *rolls eyes*