“…Mandelson has finally managed to put himself beyond the pale.
Not only has the bulk of the Labour Party decided that he can safely be regarded as a pariah …
… but even his friends have joined the sniping.
“This may seem an odd admission from someone who once embodied New Labour’s reputation for spin and control freakery,” Lord Mandelson says in the first paragraph of the introduction to his “frank, honest and revealing” memoirs …
… “but almost everything about this book is different from what I had imagined it would be.”
Tell that to his friends, his enemies and everyone else in the Labour Party.
They expected bitchiness, self-serving justification and cant … and The Third Man gave it to them;…
… they expected score-settling, distortions of the truth and a rewriting of Labour history … largely to the detriment of the author’s many enemies …
… and he did not let them down.
Or, rather, he did.
Irretrievably.
Mandelson has come a long way within Labour: he has suffered general opprobrium and two cabinet resignations.
But he did contribute to three election victories.
Once, colleagues were conflicted about the Prince of Darkness – appalled by what he stood for, yet grudgingly appreciative of his talents.
But now, after a week of all-out in-fighting …
… they feel free to revile him wholeheartedly…”
go to source/story>>>Mandelson: Author of his own downfall … – UK Politics, UK – The Independent
