MANDELSON, JOSPIN AND THE REJECTION OF CORPORATIST EUROPE

Dateline: 29th April 2002

The former Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson is notorious for three things. He was twice forced to resign as a Minister; he seeks the abolition of the Pound, the Bank of England, the Treasury and what remains of British self-governance in favour of the new Euro-State; and he recently said "the era of true representative democracy is drawing to a close".

Mandelson of course prefers the corporatist form of government whereby State selected "bodies" are given more and more power and individual voters less. This is why fewer and fewer people in Britain (and throughout the corporatist European Union) vote at elections.

Now we see in the French elections how Mandelson's politics are rejected. For one of his heroes - Lionel Jospin - has suffered one of the most ignominious defeats in the history of French politics, letting in the National Front's Le Pen to the last round of the Presidential elections. Mandelson said of Jospin "he is a modern thinker of the Left. His record shows his ability to translate confident analysis into practical policy"

Well, now we know what electors think of Peter Mandelson's grotesque ideas about democracy and the European Union. He is as alien to the voters of Britain as his friend Jospin is to the French. Jospin's political career is finished - so is Mandelson's and so is the anti-democratic corporatism of the Blairite Labour Party which Mandelson helped to create. They will be pushed aside either by a rejuvenated Conservative Party which jettisons its own corporatist eurofanatics or by an internal feud within the Labour Party which will replace Blair with Gordon Brown.

What we have witnessed in France, and may yet see in the UK is the breaking of that circle whereby one "mainstream" eurofanatic party is replaced by the other which for electoral purposes pretended to oppose the Euro-State but which, on achieving power returns to the blind and ignorant consensus