Spare us the crocodile tears, Alastair
There’s an outbreak of crying amongst New Labour. It almost seems to be a co-ordinated strategy.
Yesterday, advised by Alastair Campbell, Gordon Brown recorded an interview with Piers Morgan which will be shown next Sunday. Apparently he (Brown) is tearful as he talks about the death of his baby daughter and his son’s cystic fibrosis.He hasn’t talked about his children before. Cameron has done it a lot. I admire Brown for finally doing this. It’s not an easy decision to take, but I suspect it will tell the British public a great deal about their Prime Minister, as a person. (The “crocodile tears” in the title of this post do not refer to Brown, I hasten to add).
Also this morning we had Alastair Campbell sort of breaking down on Andrew Marr. It was a complete act. It was a sort of pram-rattle ejection moment. OK, both Campbell and Blair were stupid enough to take us into war. They believe they did what they thought was right, and still do. OK. But, it was a disastrous mis-judgment and the scandal is that they more-or-less by-passed the cabinet and gilded a whole series of lillies to lead the Commons by the nose to support war. It’s not as if there weren’t red flags raised well before the decision was made. The biggest demonstration ever in London. So it wasn’t as if Blair wasn’t given pause to reconsider. He says “I had to decide”. Rubbish. There are millions of people in this country and we have vast democratic mechanisms, much of which was telling him “DON’T GO TO WAR”. (But of course, Blair can point to the main opposition, the Conservatives, who supported the war. So when is Iain Duncan-Smith appearing before the Iraq Enquiry? He led the Conservatives then)
I thought Andrew Marr was quite right to continue pursuing Campbell even after his silly prima donna stunt. Campbell didn’t have to come onto Sunday AM and he was selling a novel, so if he got pushed on Iraq, it’s his own stupid fault.
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