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https://www.europesays.com/britain/46274/ Chamberlain won the Battle of Britain — and saved Australia too? #AUKUS #Auspol #Austin #BankOfEngland #BattleOfBritain #BentleyPriory #Britain #ChainHomeRadarNetwork #China #Daimler #Defence #DefenceCapability #DowningStreet #Dunkirk #ForeignPolicy #FrankOwen #GuiltyMen #Hurricane #JosephLyons #MerlinEngineProgram #MichaelFoot #Munich #NevilleChamberlain #PasDeCalais #PeterHoward #PineGap #RobertMenzies #Rover #Skoda #Spitfire #TenYearsRule #VinceHooper #WW2

RE: https://masto.ai/@RobertJackson58585858/116011817398068285

This snippet from #GoreVidal quotes #MichaelFoot defending Peter #Mandelson on the grounds that Peter was the grandson of #HerbertMorrison, a huge figure in the #LabourParty in the 1930s and 1940s.

Is that why Labour not just tolerated #Mandelson, but turned a blind eye to his apparent corruption?

It's like a left-wing version of how snobbery opens doors for the aristocracy. Peter Mandelson was New Labour's aristocracy, a man whose exalted birth excused him from the normal rules.

RE: https://masto.ai/@RobertJackson58585858/116011817398068285

This snippet from #GoreVidal quotes #MichaelFoot defending Peter #Mandelson on the grounds that Peter was the grandson of #HerbertMorrison, a huge figure in the #LabourParty in the 1930s and 1940s.

Is that why Labour not just tolerated #Mandelson, but turned a blind eye to his apparent corruption?

It's like a left-wing version of how snobbery opens doors for the aristocracy. Peter Mandelson was New Labour's aristocracy, a man whose exalted birth excused him from the normal rules.

RE: https://masto.ai/@RobertJackson58585858/116011817398068285

This snippet from #GoreVidal quotes #MichaelFoot defending Peter #Mandelson on the grounds that Peter was the grandson of #HerbertMorrison, a huge figure in the #LabourParty in the 1930s and 1940s.

Is that why Labour not just tolerated #Mandelson, but turned a blind eye to his apparent corruption?

It's like a left-wing version of how snobbery opens doors for the aristocracy. Peter Mandelson was New Labour's aristocracy, a man whose exalted birth excused him from the normal rules.

RE: https://masto.ai/@RobertJackson58585858/116011817398068285

This snippet from #GoreVidal quotes #MichaelFoot defending Peter #Mandelson on the grounds that Peter was the grandson of #HerbertMorrison, a huge figure in the #LabourParty in the 1930s and 1940s.

Is that why Labour not just tolerated #Mandelson, but turned a blind eye to his apparent corruption?

It's like a left-wing version of how snobbery opens doors for the aristocracy. Peter Mandelson was New Labour's aristocracy, a man whose exalted birth excused him from the normal rules.

RE: https://masto.ai/@RobertJackson58585858/116011817398068285

This snippet from #GoreVidal quotes #MichaelFoot defending Peter #Mandelson on the grounds that Peter was the grandson of #HerbertMorrison, a huge figure in the #LabourParty in the 1930s and 1940s.

Is that why Labour not just tolerated #Mandelson, but turned a blind eye to his apparent corruption?

It's like a left-wing version of how snobbery opens doors for the aristocracy. Peter Mandelson was New Labour's aristocracy, a man whose exalted birth excused him from the normal rules.