I agree that his constant use of brinkmanship is rather troubling. I guess where we differ is that I really, really, really, would not risk any chance of Howard getting in. I think you are wrong about what the mass of the population think - I recently saw a report on channel 4 that thought that Blair was far more trustworthy than Howard, and remember that the majority of the public supported the Iraq war. This is not a crisis time for Blair or Labour - this is simply back to 'normal service' as far as politics is concerned (at this stage of the electoral cycle, the leader has *always* been considered an electoral disadvantage). This is the way it always was up to 1997. In the last days of the tories the party leader was losing votes, not winning them, and the encomy was in a mess.
I really, really don't want the party of Anne Widdecombe and Norman Tebbit back under any circumstances. It really isn't worth the risk. Those who say there is no difference between the political parties have worryingly short memories.
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Re: Better the devil...
Date: 2004-01-27 01:29 pm (UTC)I really, really don't want the party of Anne Widdecombe and Norman Tebbit back under any circumstances. It really isn't worth the risk. Those who say there is no difference between the political parties have worryingly short memories.