Can Carter do for Mandleson What Bush did for Obama?

The section of people across the world that would take with most excitement the announcement of the Nobel prize for peace to the first black American president, Barack Obama would be the moderates. The expression moderates refers to those people that are not hard core advocates of heavy industrialisation, aggressors or racists.

The last man in the world who would not let go a chance to celebrate the victory of a so called moderate is the broadband expert at Broadband Suppliers, Chuck Doherty. He has highlighted his celebratory mood with a statement that Obama’s contribution to nuclear disarmament and multilateralism is the thing that claimed the prize for him, despite his short nine-month tenure.

This view of Doherty is apparent in the stance of the Norwegian Nobel Committee thatObama was chosen by it for the covetous prize, for his tremendous efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples, and particularly his efforts to rid the world of nuclear arms.

However, Doherty does not restrict himself exclusively to this line. “Before say a few years, one could not even imagine this colourful journey of coloured American to presidency, and beyond to the Nobel prize. It has been magnificent. Still I cannot be at peace without saying that somewhere, I have this strange feeling that if his performance as the American president cannot be judged owing to his short tenure, could not be the striking contrast posed by the aggression of George Bush, his predecessor against his soft diplomatic advancements that had hit the Nobel jury flat for him?”, opined Doherty.

“If I can call this the Bush effect, something akin to that can be witnessed here as well in a very short time. Here refers to the UK broadband sector, and the players here are none other than the current business secretary of the UK, Lord Mandelson and the former telecommunications minister Lord Carter”, predicts Doherty. “Particularly, when weighed against a euphoric backdrop of the ringing of success bells for the universal broadband concept put forward by the Digital Britain report published in June by the then outgoing telecoms minister Lord Carter. Since then, Lord Mandelson who took over the charge virtually from Carter, has played his cards reasonable well, but for an estimation mistake in the hasty anti-filesharing legislation proposal by him.”

Doherty affirms that he had always thought that Mandelson had rooted his eye on the communications, technology and broadcasting portfolio that is said to be under the culture department, headed by Ben Bradshaw, even when Carter was firing on all cylinders with his Digital Britain propsals, and today Mandy is making sure that no errors are being made. According to him, the business secretary that seems resolved to impose the 50p broadband tax on the phone lines in the country, besides calling for the BBC funds to finance the 2Mbps broadband for all plan, has also reached a considerable extent in resolving the radio spectrum distribution dispute between the five leading mobile broadband networks in the country.

And once the 2Mbps broadband for all plan is successfully executed, Mandy will definitely be in a position to claim the prime post after the forthcoming elections, providing Labour wins. At least, such a development could help Mandelson gain that elusive elected MP status for himself. And all thanks to who, the man that presented the whole thing and deserted the field, posing himself as a weakling.”, said Doherty.

That says Mandelson will be another soul that would be secretly thrilled at the Nobel prize announcement for Obama, with an expectation that Carter does the same thing for him that Bush had done to Obama.