This appears to us like the dark loyalty of a Speer, or a Molotov.But I'm full of despair at the alternative, too. Step forward Bob Marshall- Andrews, also a new MP for Labour. Old Bob is not a loyalist; Bob is a character, a new Austin Mitchell now that we are tired of the old one. Bob is lionised in TV studios around Britain, for he can be relied upon to put the humorous boot into Blair. In Westminster and on the political talk-shows, the byword for New Labour sycophancy is the MP for Peterborough, Helen Brinton. Hers seems a horrid loyalty, with its use of the approved phrase, the courtier's attention to her master's phraseology and the repeated demand for loyalty for its own sake. However frantically the two men apologise, the fans now know what their loyalty bought them: contempt.It is hardly surprising then, that political loyalty should also have suffered the attrition of cynicism.
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The deal on the loyalty card is this: if you spend more money with us, we'll make it cheaper for you. The "Mercenary Card" would be a more truthful name for this material transaction, which entirely lacks the human quality of sympathetic identification, of the abdication of self that the word loyalty implies. The loyalty card, then, is a lie.Now, even one of the few areas to have escaped this cynicism, the passion for a particular football team, has found itself under assault. What can Newcastle United fans have made of the sneering comments made about them and their gullible support for the Magpies by the chairman and vice-chairman of the club they love? These same men, whose marketing equates loyalty with the purchase of club goods, then deride the supporters for wasting their money on over-priced goods. One of the most wonderfully inappropriate (though effective) PR concepts of recent times is the supermarket "loyalty" card. Every sensible worker knows that if you have two good ideas, then you should give only one of them to your current boss, and keep the other for your next job interview.
Two decades of globalisation and we all understand that we are on our own.So do the consumers themselves. There is nothing more ironic than watching well-heeled executives turn round after years of downsizing and appeal to the loyalty of their remaining employees. As ever, it is her dad that we should worry about.Victoria apart, loyalty is now, in general terms, a much less attractive and fashionable commodity than once it was. Instead of existing for its own sake, it is increasingly subjected to a consumer-benefit test before it is tendered. Why should one accept anything or anyone "right or wrong"? What would be the advantage of declaring an allegiance and obstinately maintaining it?Companies cannot complain about this. The behaviour of former White House aide Linda Tripp, in recording the confidences of the young Monica Lewinsky (including the use of what is now known as the "Tripp wire"), constitutes as remarkable a display of personal disloyalty as I can remember. Any consideration of the ethics of Ms Tripp - who may well be telling the truth - makes one salute the actions of the young Victoria Aitken, who may have been prepared to perjure herself for her father.
