The One-Party State of Britain, Part 94

In senior positions behind the scenes, and thus conveniently outside the parliamentary process (unless, which cannot be ruled out, peerages were created in order to confer Ministerial office), any Cameron Government would certainly now feature:

Matthew Taylor, Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Blair, and mate of Ed Vaizey’s;

Julian Le Grand, a former Blair adviser on health policy; and

Ken Anderson, another old Blair adviser on health, now based at UBS.

It would also very probably feature Geoff Mulgan, a former Downing Street Director of Policy, before that Director of Demos and a writer for the Independent, and throughout it all, right up to the present time, an utterly unrepentant old Trotskyist.

(Like my distant cousin Alistair Darling, well remembered in certain circles as a privately educated purveyor of newspapers outside Edinburgh’s Haymarket station, back in his days with the International Marxist Group. The answer to my aside some months ago “Whatever happened to the International Marxist Group?” is clearly “It ended up as Chancellor of the Exchequer”.)

There will be more. Many, many, many more.

It is inconceivable that any of these people either would have been approached or would have accepted without the permission of Blair and those behind him: Mandelson, Campbell, and all that crowd of old Communists, Trotskyists and fellow-travellers; the European Commission, of which Mandelson is now a member; Murdoch, who now employs Campbell; and the old Trots at the American Enterprise Institute and the Project for the New American Century.

Whether in intent or in effect, there is absolutely no difference whatever between what we now have and the physical rigging of elections by such means as the stuffing of ballot boxes.

It’s a fix, such as would provoke riots in the streets if anything remotely like it occurred in, especially, football.