SAS

It seems that although the extraction of our fellow citizens from Libya started off as a bit of a shambles it has now become a success story with other countries, even the US, complementing the government on having sent in the SAS to bring British and Foreign Nationals out of the desert. The story given by Cameron to the Commons this afternoon reads like a Boy's Own Story. It will be interesting in a year or twos time to read the various accounts about went wrong and what went right. It will also be interesting to read about how ineffectual that snake oil salesman Blair's interventions with Gaddafi were. It is difficult not to feel nauseous each time one sees or hears Blair speak. As a result of the perceived failings of certain ministers it is being said that Cameron will feel obliged to exercise the central control practiced by Blair. I do so hope not as the Blair idea of central control related specifically to the message rather than to the delivery of the policy as witnessed by the frightening number of anti crime bills Blair's government passed of which few worked properly, if at all. It would have been so much better to have produced a properly functioning Act rather than producing bills simply to catch a headline. Never again we hope but Miliband is still at it with his pathetic speech today on the cost of living rises. Of course people are going to be squeezed. Everyone knows and understands that but where is the humility from Labour for the part their government played in it? It was the Labour government's policies which caused the inflation we are suffering and which is squeezing the middle.