Asking the tough questions
Lord Hattersley asks a difficult question in the Guardian:
Blimey, that's a tough one. Maybe, perhaps, possibly...because they know he's unelectable and unless he goes the game's up.And why do senior ministers give broadcast interviews that can be interpreted as criticisms of Brown?
As Hattersely writes himself:
Er, yes. That's the point. They don't want to lose. It's the opposite of a non sequitur.The cabinet should remember that if Labour loses in 2010, most of them will never be heard of again...
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Marcus Cotswell
July 24th, 2008 12:19pmIt was earnestly to have been hoped that following th Labour defeats of 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1992, Lord Hattersley (having strutted and fretted significantly longer than his hour upon the stage) would be heard no more.
Alas ...
Austin Barry
July 24th, 2008 1:33pmI've always had a lot of time for Hattersley and he can serve it in whatever prison for the terminally smug will take him.