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  4. Why don’t you say what you really think George?

    “I have known Peter Mandelson since his emergence- from the TUC – as another shitlord, Neil Kinnock’s, indispensable handmaiden as Labour’s Director of Communications. So, that is more than 40 years ago.
    I watched his rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall from a ringside seat as a Labour official, a Labour MP, an expelled MP and finally a broadcaster in exile in China.
    I’d be a liar if I pretended to any feelings but elation as I watched his arrest on charges of misconduct in public office this afternoon. For me he has been guilty of the most consistently malignant conduct in public life that I have ever witnessed and I have been up close and personal with the chamber of horrors that is the British Parliament across five different decades.
    It is with contempt however that I turn from him to those now more deserving of my ire. Mandelson is finished, good riddance to a very bad smell. I hope he gets what’s coming to him.
    His enablers sycophants promoters apologists are still with us however. Still calling shots in British politics still promoting wars still condemning our people to poverty under-achievement and hopelessness. It is they too now who should pay the price.
    Lord Kinnock is now a putrefaction, a half-dead windbag carried into TV studios infrequently to fulminate against all the things he once claimed to support, support everything he once claimed to oppose. He is a figure much reviled indeed ridiculed. But he invented Peter Mandelson. Indeed Mandelson was co-author of the “Project” often attributed to Kinnock, namely the liquidation of the Labour Party as a working-class vehicle, and the destruction of Tony Benn as the last hope of socialist politics in Britain.
    But it was Tony Blair who brought Mandelson from the shadow to the front of the stage.
    On the very morning of John Smith’s untimely demise as parliament and people reeled in shock at our loss Mandelson was hard at work promoting Blair as his successor and smearing Blair’s supposed friend Gordon Brown. This I personally witnessed. I watched as Mandelson sought to turn my colleague the somewhat traditional Jimmy Wray MP against Brown on the basis that Gordon “hadn’t the full package”.
    What do you mean asked Jimmy, he’s got one ball in the Albert Hall?
    “No”, said Mandelson himself as camp as Christmas “he doesn’t have a wife Jimmy, and he will NEVER have a wife and if he ever does she will be a beard”.
    That’s the man who helped Tony Blair knife his best friend and mentor.
    And Blair would go on to spill a river of blood, still running fast,with Mandelson holding his hand every step of the way.
    Mandelson was as close to Blair as any conjoined twin could be and is jointly and severally responsible for all the crimes the two committed against our country and the world.
    But the journalists who fawned at his feet, beguiled bedazzled imbedded are deserving of the deepest contempt. Those who cheered every “comeback” advocated every promotion attacked every enemy of his he identified. Where are they this evening. Where is Emily Maitlis where is Jon Sopel? Where is Andrew Marr where is Robert Peston?
    Perhaps as Petey himself would do, has done in my company, they would answer my questions with the words:
    “Peter Who?”
    George Galloway
    Leader of the Workers Party
    Shanghai
    China”

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