
All these bully claims are a load of hot air and just go to show how political correctness has gone mad! Politics is all about the hard way, either get with the program or get out the way. There's no use crying to mummy when you don't get your way. In any case, if we understand that this whole affair has been completely blown out of proportion in the first place then it's fair to say that these kind of strong arm tactics get the job done and certainly aren’t something new to Westminster. In fact, these kind of tactics are vital to the smooth workings of any group endeavor. What all this grassing up the PM does tell us is that Mr. Brown takes matters into his own hands when it is necessary and that Labour haven’t yet succumbed to the softly softy approach so beloved by Tories these days (isn't that right Davey?). Let’s be honest, if anyone was to do the bullying in a Tory government, you can be sure that Mr. Cameron is going to be on the receiving end…
Lord Mandelson seems to agree with you. According to the Guardian....
ReplyDelete"Lord Mandelson.....In a highly personal attack, the business secretary said in an interview with the Guardian that Ashcroft had Cameron 'by the balls', the affair showed Cameron was 'too weak to pick a fight with his own party' and the Tories were 'fundamentally unchanged'."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/07/peter-mandelson-lord-ashcroft-row