Every British Prime Minister I can think of has written his or (in one case only) her memoirs. None have provoked quite the pre-publication antagonism generated in advance of Tony Blair's autobiography, A Journey, which is out tomorrow. Stand back from the venom for one moment, and ask yourself: would it not be rather odd if a former Prime Minister did NOT at some time write a memoir? Yet for this particular Prime Minister, we have people, among them artists and authors, who would describe themselves as liberals, and doubtless rush to the barricades whenever freedom of speech is under attack, attacking bookstores who have the temerity to want to stock and sell a book written by a man who won three general elections, one of them after the war in Iraq which is the single biggest contributor to the `anger' which these people say justifies the hatred.
Every British Prime Minister I can think of has written his or (in one case only) her memoirs. None have provoked quite the pre-publication antagonism generated in advance of Tony Blair's autobiography, A Journey, which is out tomorrow.
Stand back from the venom for one moment, and ask yourself: would it not be rather odd if a former Prime Minister did NOT at some time write a memoir? Yet for this particular Prime Minister, we have people, among them artists and authors, who would describe themselves as liberals, and doubtless rush to the barricades whenever freedom of speech is under attack, attacking bookstores who have the temerity to want to stock and sell a book written by a man who won three general elections, one of them after the war in Iraq which is the single biggest contributor to the `anger' which these people say justifies the hatred.
so having given his heart to one silver tongued mendacious monster, he goes in search of another and finds one. Campbell is a loyal slave, once he gives his heart, he gives it completely. Yet he is also disgustingly selfish; a manic depressive who frequently trades on how debilitating this has been for him, yet he has no capacity for the introspection necessary to see how it impacts others or disables his own capacity for judgment or empathy.
nothing Campbell says on any subject whatsoever should be considered to be a useful contribution to any debate. He is a hack, a bully and worst of all a fool who uses his writing skills and aggressive nature to enable monsters to wreak havoc. Scum. Absolute scum. keep to the Fen Causeway
There is nothing at all surprising about Blair cashing in on the memoir trail just as quick as he can. Faster than most Prime Ministers...
THIS is venom:
"As soon as he could after leaving office Blair joined a notorious global pedophile protection organization, aka, the Roman Catholic Church."
(cue Tim Minchin)
n the book and in his only pre-publication interview, Blair reveals that:* Brown personally threatened to bring him down over the loans for honours scandal in 2006, before offering to stay his hand in return for the abandonment of Lord Turner's plans to reform pensions.* He feels intense "anguish" over the lives lost in the Iraq war and failed to "guess the nightmare that unfolded".* He believes Labour was wrong to ban fox hunting and pass the freedom of information act which is "not practical" for good government.Blair nails his policy colours to the mast in his memoir by launching a sustained attack on the belief that the financial crisis means that voters want the return of the state as a major economic player. In remarks that will be seen as an implied attack on Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, Blair says voters will not elect a party which fails to offer a credible attack on the deficit.
n the book and in his only pre-publication interview, Blair reveals that:
* Brown personally threatened to bring him down over the loans for honours scandal in 2006, before offering to stay his hand in return for the abandonment of Lord Turner's plans to reform pensions.
* He feels intense "anguish" over the lives lost in the Iraq war and failed to "guess the nightmare that unfolded".
* He believes Labour was wrong to ban fox hunting and pass the freedom of information act which is "not practical" for good government.
Blair nails his policy colours to the mast in his memoir by launching a sustained attack on the belief that the financial crisis means that voters want the return of the state as a major economic player. In remarks that will be seen as an implied attack on Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, Blair says voters will not elect a party which fails to offer a credible attack on the deficit.
