Revenge Of The Undead?

All the talk is of Blairite plotting against Gordon Brown. The names are predictable enough: Reid, Milburn, Byers, Clarke. I'm sorry, but are these people still alive? Seriously, are they really going to contest the next Election? Reid for one has already said that he isn't going to. And he (like Mandelson) is an old Communist Party hand from the Cold War days, deep into his adult life. Clarke was one of those pseudo-Labour hangers on of the Communist Party (just as Blair was, of course, on the Hard Left), while Milburn and Byers were Trotskyists. None has ever expressed a word of remorse. Compared to that, give me sons of the manse any day.

Meanwhile, what of those who are in receipt of public money in order to oppose this increasingly bizarre Government? If the Tories win the next Election, then it will have been "because of Cameron", just as Labour's 1997 victory is even now depicted as "because of Blair" rather than as the foregone conclusion that it had in fact been ever since September 1992. So that will be the end for supporters of national sovereignty, family values, real education, and so forth (who got nothing out of Thatcher or Major either, of course).

New Labour hasn't even made good John Smith's promise that employment rights should begin on day one of employment and apply regardless of the number of hours worked, which was hardly nationalising the top 100 companies, was it? Now think of something comparably moderate in its Toryism. A Cameron or successor (Osborne? Gove? Vaizey?) government wouldn't even do that. No wonder that the BBC loved Blair. And no wonder that the BBC loves Cameron.