The other Sergeant revolt

strapworld

Well, Sergeant deserves medal. He must have been the only journalist with the guts to say NO, at that time, to Tony Blair.

I have admired him a great deal, even more so on the dancing programme, but he is up there with the best after reading this.

LondonOne

And so are the comments below his article.

Stepney

Given that TB never said anything worthwhile in briefings I'd be the first to get up and applaud JS for having the wit to stick two fingers up. Also shows how a compliant media churn out irredeemably useless information from the spinmesiters because they have white space to fill.

mac

As LondonOne implies, the comments after the article are amusing coming from Independent readers. "David", "Daniel" and other self-professed 'Tories' from hereabouts ought to get over there quick to put the record straight.

The BBC's current political editor wouldn't need such a briefing, of course - he'd already have obediently taken the shillster's written note to recite it verbatim to camera.

john problem

Bloody Hell! Is there nothing else to talk about than bloody John Sergeant's bloody dancing? Or not bloody dancing? E-bloody-nough!

adrian drummond

Good for Sergeant. He gave Blair the respect he deserved.

dilys

Well, well so all the little boys and girls on the plane had a fallout.
yawn