Peter Mandelson

In America their solution to ease the Credit Crunch is a $700bn bailout bill. Gordon Brown's solution? He brings back Peter Mandelson! A little desperate, dont you think? Then again Gordon is sorely in need of some slicker news management with a more ruthless, sinister and calculating edge and as we well know, Peter is 'not a quitter'. Why not bring back Alastair Campbell as well, as Minster For Truth perhaps. Or resurrect Neil Kinnock's verbose and long-winded charms to batter people into opinionated submission with.
No one spin. the end of spin, Gordon cried forlornly. Some people believed him. Yet the spin has never really gone away. It's just that he wasn't very good at it, so now he's dragged someone back who used to be good at it.
It is bound to end in tears and quite a few people might appreciate the sublime irony of one of New Labour's most sinister architects being present at both the birth and the final death of his own project. A perverse symbol perhaps of New Labour lavish indulgence of super wealth, and being out of touch with ordinary people, that it regards the return of one of its most over-rated and underachieving ministers as some sort of redeeming saviour. Desperate.