02-10-2026, 03:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-10-2026, 03:37 PM by Derek Hardballs.)
The media didn’t create this problem the PM and his advisers did. The decision to employ Mandelson was idiotic given what was known even with a cursory Google search. Trying to be too clever and duplicitous by employing someone equally dodgy as those he was meant to work with in the US.
On a wider point he found himself under pressure from fellow Labour MPs because of the divisive way he’s ran No10 alongside his advisers and aides. If you’re on the left of the Labour Party and disagree with the leader you can expect sanctions, even the whip taken away, however if you’re a right of the Labour Party as was Mandelson you can be sacked twice, then appointed to one of the most prestigious jobs in the diplomatic service and even when forced to resign you are allowed to be in the Labour Party until it threatens to undermine those in No10.
From the countries point of view, he’s offered no real change, just more Sunakism, more concerned with trying to garner votes from those who will never vote for him than those who he has politically abandoned or thrown under the bus.
I’m sure in the next few weeks, he will try and bring the different factions he’s helped if not being the driving force behind creating back together, but for how long and will it be just words?
I appreciate its easy to blame algorithms (yawn), the press, whilst describing those who think the PM is the architect of many of his own problems as ‘thick’ but in reality if No10 had spent more time listening to the whole Labour Party, rather than spend all that energy on alienating half of it, then maybe it could defend itself as a united force for good against it’s critics, rather than giving justifiable reasons for people to be critical.
On a wider point he found himself under pressure from fellow Labour MPs because of the divisive way he’s ran No10 alongside his advisers and aides. If you’re on the left of the Labour Party and disagree with the leader you can expect sanctions, even the whip taken away, however if you’re a right of the Labour Party as was Mandelson you can be sacked twice, then appointed to one of the most prestigious jobs in the diplomatic service and even when forced to resign you are allowed to be in the Labour Party until it threatens to undermine those in No10.
From the countries point of view, he’s offered no real change, just more Sunakism, more concerned with trying to garner votes from those who will never vote for him than those who he has politically abandoned or thrown under the bus.
I’m sure in the next few weeks, he will try and bring the different factions he’s helped if not being the driving force behind creating back together, but for how long and will it be just words?
I appreciate its easy to blame algorithms (yawn), the press, whilst describing those who think the PM is the architect of many of his own problems as ‘thick’ but in reality if No10 had spent more time listening to the whole Labour Party, rather than spend all that energy on alienating half of it, then maybe it could defend itself as a united force for good against it’s critics, rather than giving justifiable reasons for people to be critical.