Interesting article by Peter Hitchens on Peter Mandelson in the Daily Mail today. Hitchens has obviously been influenced by the book "Peter Mandelson: And the Making of New Labour" by Donald Macintyre. Essentially, Mandelson, far from being the progressive centre-left NuLab moderniser he tries to present himself as, actually has a past which includes a serious amount of time participating in Communist activism, something many Labour MP's with a more traditional working class conservative (small 'c') outlook abhorred as unpatriotic and dangerous in the olden days.
read more at: http://www.oberonhouston.com/2009/08/communist-architects-of-new-labour.html
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