The new elite

LORD MANDELSON was, you may remember an EU trade commissioner. He was appointed to this well paid and lucrative position by the last Labour government; and from the age of 65 he will be rewarded further to the tune of a £31,000 a year pension. He will also receive a parliamentary pension, as well as a nice little earner from being a peer.

            It all mounts up; the gravy train has thousands of carriages and will always remain full of people of Mandelson’s pedigree. He is part of the new upper class which is no longer tied to any particular party, only to a particular genealogy that makes his type a cut above the rest of us; as was the case with the old aristocracy. The new aristo usually has had (like the more familiar type) a parent, uncle, aunt or grandparent involved in politics at either local or national level. In Mandelson’s case, it was his grandfather Herbert Morrison, who, like himself, enjoyed two seats on the gravy train, in Herbert’s case, as government minister, and the leader the Labour group on London County Council.

            Mandelson is a modern professional politician; he exemplifies the type. He worked in public relations as well as for the media. Not for him Aneurin Bevan’s proletarian advancement from the Welsh valley. He had a more patrician upbringing that stood him well as a contender for parliament, as a New Labour candidate…and his constituency? Hartlepool no less; was as far away from the new aristocracy as one can get in terms of an ideal setting on which to climb the greasy pole – but it was a safe Labour seat where a monkey could stand wearing a red rosette.

            Labour had no Surrey constituencies, although Mandelson would no doubt have preferred to be among such people, just as others like him in New Labour would have preferred similar watering holes rather than representing safe constituencies up north, a journey that even overcame much of  the talent at the BBC.

MANDELSON REPRESENTED the first of a new class of politician. In the Conservative Party, Cameron and Osborn are his equivalent. Blair led the charge toward the professional politician -a beast which grazed rather than hunted meat. A bourgeoisie to whom political ideology mattered less than power. Power was the only purpose of politics. The political class had a compass, but it was not the same ideological one that had driven the country for well over a century.

            Blair turned his back on the socialism that had kept the Labour party from power from 1979 to 1997. In its place something called the ‘project’ was set in motion. Using the skills of the spin doctor and by bullying the media, as well as harnessing the Labour voters thirst for a return to power; Blair turned everything around for Labour. His success has had its impact on Cameron to this day. The Nasty Party, like the Marxist Party, has reinvented itself; and to prove itself, the Cameron government ring-fenced overseas aid.

            Politicians may have naively entered their chosen profession for idealistic reasons in the past. But I doubt that many of them today enter parliament for any other purpose than to advance their careers through the publicity that the modern media advances them. There is so little that now divides the two great parties, that the third party can feel comfortable ruling in tandem with either.

            We have an elite as class based as it has always been, directing our country. But the elite are the professional politicians who have had no experience outside of a law firm or university. The real world to them is either an ivory tower, or a lawyers practice, usually dealing with financial matters that can advance the rewards of a firm of lawyers considerably: or human rights legal activists like those who front Liberty.

            This elite have no longer any ideological boundaries. They operate, both here and in Europe, their very own party political Schengen agreement whereby political boarders are no longer closed to each other. Now all the main parties throughout the continent share the same liberal ‘progressive’ outlook. They are all pro EU, pro multiculturalism, and pro political correctness. They all believe in a public sector, a public sector which has unfortunately caused an imbalance in their economies with the private.

LORD MANDELSON exemplifies the argument. He is a perfect case in point of the type. To his name you can add those of the Kinnocks who has also lived of the public tit all their working lives. They, like Mandelson, will have more than one generous pension to live on, and in Neil’s case also a peerage.

            At least many in the Conservative party have, unlike the Kinnocks, worked in the private sector before they entered parliament. The career politicians are, on a continental scale, the elite of which I write. They duck and dive; they are opportunists. There is no great ideological chasm now separating them, so they are freer than ever to look to their own self interest. In Europe, as in Westminster, but on a far larger scale, the lobbyist seeks out, like some modern day Mephistopheles the professional politician; and promises him a generous remuneration of some kind for representing his cause, whether commercial or charitable, within the European parliament.

            Outside of the European parliament, they have even erected a small monument supporting the lobbying profession. If political and monetary union goes ahead, the EU will become the Mecca of corruption, attracting what were once national politicians. The European parliament will be, for them, the goose that will lay the golden egg.

A true professional politician will carry no ideological baggage. They will seek only to enter their particular kingdom of heaven, by, in the first instance, getting elected to the European parliament. Once this has been accomplished the position offers all sorts of extras and palm greasing, that surpasses even that of the Westminster parliament during the   scandal.

            The so-called ‘duty of loyalty’ pension that the retired commissioner is given, is on the understanding that they keep their mouths shut upon leaving office. In the case of Mandelson and the Kinnocks, they have nothing to fear. As was shown earlier this week when Mandelson appeared on the BBC’s Today programme to rubbish Cameron’s Europe speech.

IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING  entering politics in the very near future you must first of all adapt to the liberal agenda in every aspect. From then on its is up to you. The public purse is there for you to command: as you advance to becoming an unelected commissioner remember, only the most faithful and enthusiastic Europhiles can have any kind of chance; and even then, they have to be put forward by an appreciative prime minister…so, always remain a loyal servant to your party leader, and serve an apprenticeship as a servile government minister - I am sorry, but this is your only hope.

            A much easier way of getting a seat (in comparison that is) on the gravy train, is to be selected by your party as a candidate for the European parliament in a safe seat. It is true that only a few are given such an easy passage; but remember, you are professional politicians in the making and should be open to the challenge. For if successful the remuneration is great indeed. If you play to the rules in your first term, but are un-chosen by the electorate for a second one; then at least, if you have not wasted your time; you will have a nice little earner to help soften the blow via a generous pension in terms of the rest of the population; and also, if you have worked the lobby system to your advantage, further recompense for your ‘civic duty’.

THE ABOVE REPRESENTS an embryo of  the future, which  if we allow the professional politician to govern our lives in Europe after political and economic union in Europe, we will have sealed this nation’s fate; leaving only the European political vultures to hover over the tax payer’s carcass without any input by the once proud nation states.

            But I bet you one thing. If we are driven by political events into becoming a part of a Greater Europe, where decisions about our future are taken at the European centre; we will have entered a period compared to the later stages of the Roman Empire. Europe will have signed away its future. If a Greater Europe was to be successful and all conquering, economically that is. Then southern Europe will have to be set adrift to find its own way back. But such a ruthless attitude ill-befits a liberal ‘progressive’ elite in Europe. Not because of any sense of compassion for the Greek and Spanish people; but because the European project (like that of Communism which preceded it in  the 20^th  century) is of such importance.

Compassion is supposed to be at the centre of liberalism. But they will ignore the unemployment and its consequences in terms of human suffering in Greece and Spain because of their eternal faith in the euro. As with the liberal left generally; they would sooner see human suffering on a scale of that suffered within the Soviet Union rather than deny us the euro. To such people the euro is almost Christ like in its importance.

THE POLITICAL elite have no particular political identity any more. What they have  is a voter they believe is willing to be bullshitted by meaningless rhetoric: telling them what they believe they want to hear. This is why UKIP is making such an impact. David Cameron would never have made such a speech on Europe if his party’s many supporters had not started to drain away to UKIP.

            If Labour thinks such a seeping away of support effects only the Conservatives, then they had better think again. I and my brother are in our sixties and have been life-long supporters of Labour, but have been voting UKIP for the past two years. A long standing friend and his wife, also lifelong Labour supporters, have also turned to UKIP.

            Many traditional Labour supporters also share the same antipathy to the EU as many Conservatives do. For there is one thing both supporters have in common; they are both nationalists, and are deeply in love of their country. The United Kingdom is the bottom line. We are a small c conservative people and long may we remain so.