Blair and Brown exposed
IT IS difficult to know which is more irksome, the knowledge that Gordon Brown continues to draw a parliamentary salary despite not having contributed to a Commons debate for a year or the sight of Tony Blair greasing his way towards a top job in Brussels.
Blair’s description of scepticism towards the European Union as a “virus” is breathtakingly arrogant and offensive to millions of voters.
He is clearly itching to board a first-class compartment on the EU gravy train but he needn’t expect the rest of us to wish to pay for it.
Not since the days of Edward Heath have former prime ministers behaved with so little dignity. If Blair copied
Brown’s vow of silence and Brown copied Blair’s decision to leave Parliament, the nation would be far better off.