Sickening

Kissing the butt of a departing, failed Prime Minister still seems necessary, as these scenes from the farcical charade that is other wise known as Blair’s Last Cabinet Meeting (via the BBC) seem to prove:

"Mr Blair's official spokesman said the prime minister was given a standing ovation which only ended when he left the room."

Gordon Brown appears to have taken this opportunity to arse lick the man he has hated with a passion for the past 10 years:

"Mr Brown said people would "look back in 100 years time and see the achievements that Tony Blair has made… (he said) ‘Whatever we achieve in the future it will be because we are standing on your shoulders’"

David Miliband, however, was not to be outdone when it comes to brown nosing:

"The tolerance of the House, I'm sure, is related to the fact that it understands it takes a very long time to enumerate all the achievements of the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister… (It took) still more time to cross the floods of tears that are now trailing down Downing Street"."

The last comment actually makes me feel physically sick.

These people not only fail to live in the real world, but the real world is actually a distant memory to them – a half forgotten nightmare of what life was like before they clawed their way into Parliament.

It falls to William Hague to touch base with reality – and he does so with admirable restraint:

"He wouldn't get a standing ovation from most of the country."

Quite.