Spin doctor or historian?

 Alistair Campbell has revealed in his diary that MI6 had warned Tony Blair that France and Gernany were looking to exploit differences between him and Gordon Brown.

The diary also reveals that Ed Balls, the current shadow Chancellor, and Brown had stopped Britain’s direct involvement in the Greek Euro crisis.

Blair, it is claimed, had wanted to take this country into euro.

All this is lovelly, but last week this country had a distinct echo from the past, a one-day strike over pensions by the public sector, it was the type of gathering that we have not seen since, well Thatcher, the last Conservative Prime Minister to experiment with this nation’s ecomomy. Then, as large parts of the country were calling for a lead from the oppostion, no less a man than Tony Benn – yes, Tony Benn – found himself embroiled in the internal ranglings and goings-on of the troubled Labour Party.

Arguably, this country has never been the same since.

Perhaps,  Alistair Campbell and that other prince of the dark arts, Peter Mandelson, should stop putting forward their version of recent history, and look to the future in formulating a strategy to tackle this country’s  trillion pound deficit with out creating,  armageddon.