Mandelson's pot calls Byers' kettle black!

Peter Mandelson has some front. He calls the greedy antics of Byers, Hoon and Hewitt grubby. Here's a man who has ducked better than the most activated duck and dived better that a gold medallist at the Olympics. They say that oil and water don't mix. Well, Mandelson disproves that theory as much as he disproves nearly all the others.

New Labour is probably the most vile political vision to have been afflicted on the British people. In fact, it is something nobody should revere or praise. It is a deluding concept that turns people into rampantly greedy people, who lose all sight of reality. My big fear is that the poison that the New Labour chalice has in it will have infected too many voters come polling day. It has already befuddled the mind of Stephen Byers, who has the brass neck to suggest that his "caught-on-camera" remarks were all not really meant. Byers says he is a "cab for hire" but it sounds more like he is a car that's been "inadvertently" found in a red light district. Very seedy indeed!

Whatever Mandelson says, whatever the Labour Party does, it still signifies that this Blairite version of a quack doctor's remedy for carpetbaggers is utterly contemptible. I suggest that if any Labour candidate comes knocking at the general election they are given short shrift in good measure. My fantasy is that all of them receive ZERO votes. If only!

Geoff Hoon made a million whilst soldiers died!

The most distasteful self-enrichment is that of Geoffrey (Geoff) Hoon. This cabinet minister has been using the parliamentary allowance system to build himself a property empire. All "within the rules" no doubt. As soldiers died over the years in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hoon was not only going around defending his dodgy dealings in the run-up to the War, but he was getting rich on manipulating the system. As Defence Secretary he lived in a grace-and-favour apartment in Whitehall, yet he claimed costs for his home in Derbyshire. Those soldiers lucky enough to survive without wounds were, on their return, given the most appalling housing in some circumstances. This hypocrite always got the MoD to rabbit on about how well the refurbishment programme was coming along. But the soldiers didn't get the same allowances!

There's more about Hoon's taxpayer-funded property development business from the Daily Telegraph. All stuff he wanted us not to know. It is little wonder creeps like him tried to get rid of Elizabeth Filkin. She'd spotted their corruption but they had the brass neck to rubbish her, so she went!

Why would anyone want to vote Labour?

Hoon's Hollow Heathrow Win!

When it comes to giving elocution lessons to weasels, Geoff Hoon is the man. Highly regarded in all ways for his weasel words, he has just managed to get his Heathrow expansion vote through the House of Commons.

Just like he waffled on about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he is waffling on about opposition to a third runway as doing "serious damage" to Britain's economy. He accused the Tories of "political opportunism of the lowest kind". He should know all about that! He weaseled his way through the Iraq enquiries like a snake oil salesman.

The truth is that this third runway is NOT about loss of jobs but more the re-arrangement of jobs. It is about BAA and British Airways enjoying a superior status. It has been suggested that Birmingham's runway extension could be halted if this goes ahead. Why? Because we would all be expected to trundle down to London to fly off from there, paying the likes of BAA for the privilege!

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that Hoon is up to something. What exactly, I'm not sure. None of this makes any sense except that the government is in bed with the Heathrow expansionists. Why on earth would I want to fly from Heathrow to, say, Seattle, when I could with an extended Birmingham runway? Now that's where the jobs nonsense comes in. London airport workers OK, Birmingham airport workers - forget it!

As I've said before, the answers will not be forthcoming to any sane and rational questions put to ministers. Just look at the hapless Brown, who apparently was bringing on the crocodile tears as he pleaded for votes today. He was ridiculous in the Commons at PMQs. He doesn't answer a single question, but just repeats his gormless mantra that the Tories are "the do nothing party".

Well his do something has been disastrous for the country. The man is an utter disgrace. Time is running out and we need change now. Oh, how we need change.

Hoon hovers over Stansted and drops a bombshell!

Geoff Hoon only got his feet under the desk as Transport Secretary this week. He now comes up with the idea that expansion is a good thing for Stansted Airport. That remains to be seen, but none of this airport growth is joined up. Each airport is competing with the next for passengers, most of whom will come out of thin air in order to make the numbers game work.

If you added up all the passengers that are supposed to be rushing though UK airports in 2020 you would have around 500 million. Just like all the baloney babble that the banks have been talking about, so the airport industry comes up with the same sort of nonsense.

Birmingham Airport talks of 30 million, Stansted is slightly more conservative at 35 million, and the rest keep piling on the numbers. If it all really did add up we'd be forced onto planes just to make up the passenger totals. A kind of pressganging for airlines!

Common sense? Doesn't it tell you that in the present financial climate, people are going to cut back on air travel (just a bit?)? It's all so crazy. Airlines are going out of business, people are cutting back on holidays, but Geoff Hoon and the airport chiefs are on the yellow-brick road!