What is the point in going on?
I think Roy Hattersley speaks a lot of sense today - Blair has always couched his use to the party in electoral terms and the man is now an electoral liability. Hattersley is particularly good on Charles Clarke, whose behaviour in all of this has been even more strange than that when he was at the Home Office, though one of the Sunday papers suggested it may have been a rather late-night intervention.Anyone with a modicum of intelligence - and the slightest concern for Labour's future - should benefit from an examination off Charles Clarke's conduct last week. He gave a master class on how not to behave. While the would-be assassins paid tributes to Blair's achievements, Clarke abused Brown. What did he imagine would follow from such a display, except his comments being used by the Tories to discredit the man who, almost certainly, will be Labour's next prime minister? By complaining about Brown's smile, Clarke made himself absurd.
posted by Matthew @ 9/11/2006 11:41:00 AM
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