Alastair Campbell (campbellclaret) seems to be writing this from somewhere close to the end of his tether, furious that the current government has tainted politics so thoroughly that voters might feel it best to disengage entirely ✒️ Nick_Duerden
, both of which adopted the perspective of: politics is broke – here’s how to fix it. Now comes, a book whose entire text should have been printed in italics to give a better immediate sense of the exasperation contained within.
Campbell seems to be writing this from somewhere close to the end of his tether, furious that the current Government has tainted politics so thoroughly that voters might feel it best to disengage entirely, for ever. “Don’t,” he warns.Tony Blair , he seemed less Machiavellian than, say, Dominic Cummings, and instead determined – often belligerently – to do the right thing by his country, even if half the country was convinced he was wrong. But then, such is politics. Despite quitting in 2003, he’s never really left the field because he can’t. People, he suggests, are always coming up to him, either to blame him for New Labour’s failings, or else to ask what “we” can do to improve things. His book is, in part, an answer.
Though he never liked Margaret Thatcher, she never sank this low. Boris Johnson, however? “I have considerable experience of prime ministers,” he writes. “Whether Tory or Labour, none were liars. Johnson was, and is. Fact.” Referencing the rise of the far right across the US, Brazil and Italy, he draws parallels with fascism, with Hitler, and uses the phrase “to hell in a handcart” when describing at least one likely outcome for the future of the world if we don’t act quick.
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