This morning husband was asking, 'd'you think that these Blairites were always like that (we were talking out to keep power and position no matter what), or have they become like that since they got elected? On cue Kim Howells came on the radio saying that yes, Iraq is a mess, but it's a mess that won't invade Kuwait or drop a nuclear bomb on Iran. So there was the answer.
I knew Kim Howells in Pontypridd - he sponsored my application to join the Labour Party in the days when you had to speak in front of the local party saying why you wanted to join. He used to give me lifts to meeting, he tried to stop my eviction from my flat. He was a good bloke, he seemd as 'Old Labour' as they came. I cannot imagine the man that he was voting to get rid of clause four. He'd worked down the mines, for goodness sake!
And now he's a Blair lackey, and I suspect for the same reasons Alastair Campbell does what he does. They're terrified of the return of the Tories, because they think it will be as disastrous as it was with Thatcher. They haven't noticed that they've become what they hate.
I share your dismay at how New Labour have gone collectively insane since gaining power in '97 (with my help, I'm ashamed to say).
If there is any justice, Blair, his disgusting Cabinet and his other toadies will go down in the history books as one of the worst and most dangerous governments Britain has ever had. Sometimes I think that Blair has, as has been suggested often, actually gone insane with power and has lost all sense of judgement and justice. I noticed a disturbing change in New Labour as far back as '98, long before 9/11.
I thought the Thatcher era was unsurpassable in terms of the damage it did to the UK (especially Scotland), but the Blair era really takes the cake - and it's not over yet