Mandelson: setting a thief to catch a thief?
Or is ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’ the cliché we’re looking for here? I only ask because Mandelson’s apparently been rehabilitated to help clear up the wreckage of the credit crunch - a mess caused largely by moody mortgages. Who better to do that that a man who lied on his mortgage application?
Posted on October 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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Just in case anyone thought it couldn’t get worse: Blunkett set to return to Cabinet
mike power´s latest blog post… Holy shit!
He really did lie on his mortgage application, didn’t he? I hadn’t realised.
God it’s going to be a hard few years. It’s turning Biblical. We need prophets, but we’re not even going to recognise them when they appear. Imagine if we had a latter-day Keynes. Imagine if he wrote, in an open letter to Gordon Brown, something like the following:
“At the moment your sympathisers in England are nervous and sometimes despondent. We wonder whether the order of different urgencies is rightly understood, whether there is a confusion of aim, and whether some of the advice you get is not crack-brained and queer.”
(Which is something Keynes actually wrote, in an open letter in a major newspaper). But what would happen now? A stockpile of information avoidance devices and rubbishing techniques would be deployed. There’d be negative briefings in the media. There’d be insinuations of insanity (or worse, eccentricity). Someone else would start asking if maybe funding for economics faculties should be cut, starting with the place where the bad attitude was coming from.
Charlie Whitaker´s latest blog post… Doha can wait
Set a Rottweiler to mind the babies.
jameshigham´s latest blog post… [lazy town] having fun is what it’s all about
What the *fuck*? I don’t mind in the slightest about Mandy; he’s a greasy slippery liar, but so are the whole shower of them. But Blunkett is a despicable, evil bastard. ‘king hell - what, bring back Charles Clarke and fucking John Reid as well?
john b´s latest blog post… Don’t bother switching banks
Mm. “Set a thief to catch a thief”? No, I don’t think so. The neo-liberals don’t seem to be rethinking the fundamentals of free marketeering in the same way, say, as the left was in 1989. I think he’s more likely there to push through the tax-payer funded bailout of the city boys, so they can get on with business as usual.
Oh god, the return of that little fascist just says everything about the idiotic times we live in…