Political Poverty

Not being a huge fan of Tony Blair, I was quite looking forward to him going and brown taking over. he seems to have done a good job with the economy (so people say, not knowing the slightest about economics myself) and made some good noises about third world debt etc. but what most attracted me was that he didn't seem to be caught up in blair's endless spin and image control.

but after last week's labour meltdown i think he is perhaps worse even that blair. for instance, he denied being behind the attempted coup on blair when the junior minister whose resignation sparked the madness admitted to seeing brown the night before. apparently they just exchanged gifts and talked about the family. c'mon we not stupid. then he after he gets photographed smiling on leacing downing street and is dubbed the smiling assassin, he gives an interview for sky in which he talks about the death of his daughter and chokes with emotion.

surely this is politics that can't get any lower. using the death of your own daughter to repair your image is a shockingly low trick. i'm sure he did cry and i'm sure he did grieve but is it a coincedence that he has only talked about it this week????

i just hope the public see through him and vote for someone with a bit of integrity, if that is not an oxymoron for a politician.