Mandelson - Third Time Lucky

I haven't commented on Mandelson returning to the Cabinet, mainly because everything that needs to be said has pretty much already been said. That fucker has more (political) resurrections than Lazarus on speed during a zombie epidemic; however, given his total inability to avoid resignation issues, it can't be that long before he is returned to that political grave where he appears to be most at home.

That said, I can't help but hope that Mandelson does manage to make it until 2010, and Labour's seemingly inevitable kicking at the feet of the electorate. There would be something wonderfully cyclical and karmic about watching Mandelson, who was there at the beginning of the Nu Labour dream, also being there when that false dawn finally unravels completely and passes into the dustbin of history. Mandelson was one of the architects of Nu Labour - I really hope he is there, on site, at the very heart of both the Labour party and the Labour government, when it finally gives up the ghost and the edifice crumbles away into nothing.