Comparing Peter Mandelson to Richelieu?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s7d6

Apparently, Jonathan Freedland will be doing precisely this on 14 July 2009 9.00 am and 9.30pm.

I do believe that Peter Mandelson is the only one capable of saving the Labour Party now, and indeed even this country.

The Labourites do not like him, it seems, but I believe he is a man more sinned against than sinning, and that he has been misunderstood and traduced.

Doubtless he would have had to step on a few toes to make the shower that was the Labour Party electable as New Labour, and it seems they have not forgiven him for that.

I believe he will need a girlfriend and perhaps even a wife to make the British people warm to him.

I willingly offer myself as a candidate should none more suitable than I be found, for I cannot now tell whether I am more in love with the idea or with the man himself. I am more than happy to find out, and commit to my project of saving the British people from David "PR" Cameron and his lily-livered Etonians.

I would have no trouble in settling into a ménage à trois so Reinaldo Avila da Silva need not fear me as a rival. I have said elsewhere online that I would happily consider a polygamy (on the grounds that many hands make light work), provided the male concerned is "alpha" enough, and I get along with his other wives.

In fact, I have always wanted to be part of a ménage à trois.

Will this fairy tale come true for me?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/05/mandelson-brown-labour-leadership

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10858

http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/?p=352

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6493525.ece

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090509/Revealed-The-attacks-Gordon-Brown-Mandelson-did-want-world-know.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/william_rees_mogg/article6719695.ece