'If I can come back, we can come back' Mandelson tells Labour

[oldironside]

"Lord Mandelson attempted to breathe life into a subdued Labour conference today by insisting that the party could, like him, return from apparent oblivion and triumph again.

The business secretary, in his first speech since his surprise return to government last year, admitted his own trepidation at being invited back into government as he set out his vision for a Labour fourth term.

"Electorally, we are in the fight for our lives," he told Labour activists. "But if I can come back, we can come back."

"I came into politics to help remake the Labour party as a party of government. My relationship with Gordon was formed when people said we'd never form a government again.

"It made us not just modernisers but fighters – and certainly not quitters. That spirit still burns as brightly within us now as it did then."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/28/lord-mandelson-labour-conference

As one of the posters underneath so eloquently put it, "I'd rather have him in the tent pissing out..."

[TheBigotBasher]

1. Easily transposed as if they come back

he comes back. (He was hinting he may be back under the Tories, the Lib Dems became so much more appealing as a result)

[Hopeless Romantic]

2. I'll actually be glad to see his back

[ikri]

3. The idea of a Labour comeback

Both terrifies and relieves me at the same time.

Relief because I remember the last Tory government and I can't see a future Tory government suddenly realising that Thatcherism is an amazingly shitty idea that should have been renounced over a decade ago.

Terror because I can't stand the creeping statism of this current government and cannot see them suddenly realising that the law of unintended consequences is real and results in their "for the common good" policies doing far more harm than good.

[T_i_B]

4. The next general election will be very depressing indeed

We will most likely have three main parties all with very similar platforms, all looking out for the political class over and above anyone else.

Unless there is a good individual candidate standing in your constituency it's going to be a choice of sh*t, shi*t and more sh*t.