Ali Campbell needs to be reunited with his UB40.
Robert Harris is probably the best political writer in Britain, and this article in yesterday's Telegraph on Alistair Campbell is another brilliant piece. Basically Campbell treats Blair like an idiot puppet, for example,""How can he stop him [writing a tell-all diary]?" The tone of helplessness says it all. Mr Campbell exercises an extraordinary psychological dominance over the Prime Minister. It seems he can get away with anything. He has called him "a prat" in front of one witness, has told him to "get a f------ move on" when he believes a meeting has gone on too long, and instructed him to drop what he is doing and concentrate on something else "because it can't f------ wait"."
I didn't want to put this (though I believe it), as it always sounds a bit ridiculous, but I wanted to use the above title -- so here goes. I think he should resign.
ps it's been pointed out to me, correctly I think, that's among the sycophants it's not a bad thing for a British PM to have someone around who treats them as an idiot. Thatcher for one would have benefitted enormously from it.
posted by Matthew @ 7/22/2003 09:18:00 AM
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