No Mandate Brown has almost finished rearranging the deckchairs on the SS New Liebour and so far successfully produced a cabinet that promises to be as ineffectual, incompetent and sleaze-ridden as the last one. More so, in fact, thanks to the addition of Peter Mandleson.

Mandleson has already had to resign from the British government twice – once for allegedly taking a dodgy loan and a second time for allegedly abusing his position to get passports for two of his mates. He then did the only thing a corrupt, criminal politician can do – he got himself an unelected job in Federal Europe.

Mandy’s appointment was described by David Blunkett, who also resigned from the British government twice for abusing his position, as “a masterstroke”. Too right it’s a bloody masterstroke – not because Mandelson is anything other than a corrupt little shit but because it’s deflected attention away from what a corrupt little shit El Gordo is.

There are some positives, other than those I mentioned yesterday – Tom Watson, the MP for Glasgow South, has been evicted from the Department for Transport which makes way for an MP elected in England to take his place. Transport is devolved in Scotland so Watson’s constituents in Glasgow South were largely unaffected by what he did as a Transport Minister.

The Flint woman has been made Europe Minister where she can’t do too much damage and Ed the Millibeast has been given the new Energy & Climate Change Ministry where he can happily waste days and days coming up with pointless and futile climate change policies that will piss off more and more people and hasten the demise of Liebour.

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