A website (which I am unable to locate) has been launched by two failed and discredited Cabinet Ministers, one a minor toff, the other a major chav, and both utterly unrepentant old Marxists from the days when it mattered. Its purpose is to make life difficult for Gordon Brown, and to try and encourage the ridiculous David Miliband to stand for Leader of the Labour Party. It really has come to something when the BBC describes Alan Milburn as a "heavyweight", or suggests that Miliband is a credible candidate for Prime Minister. Nick Robinson might be a Tory, but even so!
However, credit where it is due: Milburn does at least make Miliband look like a substantial politician (and that is quite a feat), a favour done to Milburn, in turn, by this new website’s apparent media cheerleader-in-chief, Stephen Byers. And only one figure is so lightweight and ludicrous as to make even Byers look statesmanlike. I refer, of course, to the man surrounded by the eye-poppingly undistinguished collection made up of Byers, Milburn, Miliband, Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell, Patricia "Mary Poppins" Hewitt, Tessa "Carmela Soprano" Jowell, Harriet "Tin of Baked Beans" Harman, Hilary "Eva Braun" Armstrong, Michael Levy, Carole Caplan (although she is positively Churchillian compared to any of the rest of them), and so forth, with the cake iced by George Bush.
Step forward, the nonentities’ nonentity, the late Tony Blair.
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