Mandelson spins for Brown

Lord Mandelson is a slippery character and I shivered when I heard he was returning to Government as his brand of spin and scheming had been the one element that had entirely disappeared from the Brown Government. Interestingly, the attempts at spin were still there it was just that Brown and his comrades were dreadful at the art. A classic example was the recent Brown view that if we go on giving factually incorrect figures then eventually every one will believe what we are saying. This had worked as a tactic when Brown was Chancellor but as we discovered this week, when he got caught out lying about Conservative spending plans and spinning how he would make spending grow when this was not the case.