Mandelson. Peter Mandelson is deafeningly silent while his old enemy Brown is taking a terrible beating. Perhaps Mandelson is quietly withdrawing. He knows his political career - in Britain - is drawing to a close as the Labour Party dies. He gained international credit and credibility in Brussels and has done his reputation no disservice since coming back to Westminster. He may think he is in position for the job Brown wants - head of the IMF. Now if you were hiring for that post, which of the two would you choose?
Reid. Frank Field is one voice of many who want a clear out in the Bunker and the installation of a heavyweight. Not as a department minister. As a party fixer and public image enforcer. Balls and the boys have been castrated by Smeargate. Nick Brown is clearly not doing a good enough job for all his credibility as a thug. There is a vacancy. Reid is leaving politics at the general election and although, to quote something I read earlier today, being of a different Glaswegian Labour tribe from Brown, so that he 'would not sell Brown a plaster if Brown was bleeding to death', hatred of the Tories in in his DNA and he may well want to do his horny-handed bit to ease the pain inflicted on Labour at Cameron's lily-white, Etonian hands.
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