Two Matthews

In left wing mythology it was always going to be a right wing President who started a nuclear war. To those of us on the right it was always going to be the communists who would do so. It was also the view of the right that the Labour party had some looney members propagating crazy ideas and that those members who were not looney did not have sufficient numbers to keep the loonies in check at times. We did not expect either Blair or Brown to be loonies themselves but early on in his government we learnt how fragile Brown's mental state seemed to be. Despite his claim to have felt the hand of destiny on his shoulder Blair and his acolytes hid his self delusion from public view but it is now out in the open for all to see. So much so that Matthew Norman in the Telegraph and Matthew Parris in The Times have both written articles today about Blair which I would find acutely embarrassing if I were Blair. I guess Lincoln's dictum that you can fool all of the people some of the time and only some of the people all of the time does work out in the end but it took a long time coming in the case of Blair. Sadly he ran away from office before the country could say goodbye to him in the most appropriate way - voting him out in a general election. He left us in the hands of Brown, a man which all the Labour bigwigs, other than his own clique and J K Rowling, knew was totally unsuitable to be Prime Minister. How the media fawned over Blair and how the media failed us.