Iain Duncan Smith won

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On the good side, the Tory party is dead forever now, they've written their own epitaph and it reads "Too old and too mad to live". And on the good side, this might in the long term mean that the Lib Dems become the opposition, causing a leftward shift in UK politics.

On the bad side, all sorts of far-right nonsense will be lent media legitimacy through coming out of the mouth of the leader of the Official Opposition.

Overall this was the result I hoped for.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1542000/1542554.stm

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[jhg.livejournal.com]

"Tony Blair is such a fucking coward that if a right-wing bigot mouths off he feels he has to follow where they lead or the National Front won't vote for him."

An exaggeration, but an otherwise perceptive insight. (Though we should expect such things from you, I grudgingly suppose).

And interestingly, seems to tie in pretty well with Paddy Ashdown's view - the view of an honest, intelligent man, who knows Blair personally quite well.

There was a very interesting intierview with him in one of the weekend papers, I forget which one. Either the Times or the Guardian. Much of it was about Mr. Tony Blair.

To coincide with volume two of his memoirs/autobiog coming out.


J