Re-Writing History

A brilliant piece in today’s Telegraph from Jeff Randall. No wonder Jeff didn’t last at the BBC with such views.

Faced with the horror of exclusion from office for at least five years, former ministers – Ed Balls, Lord Myners and others – are rewriting their part in the policies that helped wreck the United Kingdom's social cohesion and financial solidity. Not since Shaggy's chart-topping song It Wasn't Me have we been treated to such a ridiculous attempt at self-exculpation.

We’ve certainly seen comments in this week’s press claiming that this Minister or that Minister didn’t agree with the party-line.

With the repudiation of Gordon Brown's locust years by his erstwhile henchmen gathering pace, it can be only a matter of time before one of the candidates to replace him calls for a truth and reconciliation commission.

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As for the nation's finances, only now, it seems, when the damage has been done, and the taxpayer condemned to long-term impoverishment, do we hear voices of dissent emerging from the ranks of Labour's placemen.

The Gorse Fox doesn’t feel as if he can add much to the original article – it is a masterpiece. Go read and enjoy this demolition of last few years of financial and social destruction.