Is this how we really want these big tough beasts in the political jungle to behave? By crying I mean.
Tony Blair’s former media manipulator Alastair Campbell was apparently on the brink of tears as he defended his old boss Tony Blair’s crazed decision to go to war in Iraq on the Andrew Marr Programme. Campbell was upset that people were impugning his and Blair’s motives, and saying that Blair had fibbed to Parliament.
But didn’t he? And didn’t the always loyal Alastair offer his complete support for this ignoble deed?
Gordon Brown, meanwhile, is said to have shed a tear or two in a forthcoming interview with Piers Morgan on ITV. This apparently happened when Piers asked him about his children, a baby daughter who died shortly after birth and one of his two sons who has cystic fibrosis, still a very nasty and life-shortening condition.
Gordon and Sarah Brown do indeed seem to have drawn the short straw in the parental stakes. But why did Brown choose to talk about this now? It was a two hour interview after all and he must have known what was coming from old tabloid hand Morgan.
Campbell, I think, realises he’s lost on Blair and Iraq.
As for Brown’s motivation I’m not sure.