Further Proof of the Shameless Lord Mandelson

Peter Mandelson:

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson this week claimed there was now a "contract" between the Sun and the Tories.

Yes, because there was never a contract between Nu Labour and The Sun, now, was there? And his tetchy response has nothing to do with the The Sun now having an effective contract out on the Labour party, does it?

He also accused the paper of "bad taste and crude politicking" over the story in a BBC interview.

In fairness, The Sun does do both "bad taste and crude politicking". But - hang on for a moment - so does Peter fucking Mandelson! In fact - and let's be honest about this - the only reason why Brown brought Mandelson back from the life raft for failing Labour politicians EU is because of his rare gift for media manipulation with no regard to taste and his abilities when it comes to crude politicking.

If you really want to make the case for your political leader being persecuted by an unfriendly media outlet then it tends to be best if you haven't spent the best part of your career wooing and coaxing said media outlet in to berating the opposition. Fuck me, what next? Alastair Campbell calling The Sun low brow and not that sophisticated?