Andy Letcher

One of the many things that I despise about this rotten, wretched, media-obsessed government of ours, is the way that when the chips are down, and their popularity is flat-lining, they launch a full-frontal attack on some wholly inappropriate target. They are masters of legerdemain, their mantra of spin is 'distract and rule'. When the reasons for taking us to war evaporated what did they do but turn on the BBC for the heinous crime of suggesting that the dodgy dossier was 'sexed up' (how can it be that the man who paid the price for war was Greg Dyke for God's sake)? And now, at a time when we feel as betrayed and ground down by the New Labour project as ever we did under the Tory reign of terror, they launch an attack on the judiciary and the legal system.

Tough on the causes of crime, my arse.


I cannot find the words to describe the contempt I feel for Blair and New Labour, the sheer sense of betrayal.