Self-Deception

Tony Blair, quoted here: "I think in many ways actually, the last eighteen months has been our most radical, most bold on the domestic agenda."

Not entirely sure you can ever use the words "radical" and "bold" in the same sentence as the words "Tony Blair". "Self-absorbed", "deluded" and "pointless" would be better words, I think.

Although I concede this - the last eighteen months, with cash-for-peerages, Prezza dipping his wick with anyone who isn't his wife, Charlie the Safety Elephant being sacked and John Reid doing even worse at the Home Office, have been the most entertaining months of Nu-Labour. In that awkward, "can't take my eyes off the car crash", kind of way. It is odd, but if the last eighteen months of our terrible excuse for a governement had been a plotline on The Thick of It then we would probably all be praising the genius of the writing. The problem is Nu-Labour is it is actually happening rather than being a story on a sitcom...