Wounded Prime Minister limps painfully on…
One of the wisest pronouncements made on political life was that “all political careers end in failure”. Yesterday, at Prime Minister’s Questions we witnessed this being played out before us as Tony Blair struggled to save the remaining shreds of his ebbing leadership.
There was a genuine feeling, across all sides of the House, that here was a Prime Minister who had lost respect and credibility as the leader of the country stumbling his way through the first big event of the new Parliament.
At one point, I thought someone would have to call the RSPCA as the humiliation and torture for Tony was more like “bear baiting”. Bearing in mind that Blair has said he will not be Prime Minister in a year’s time, why prolong the agony for himself and the embarrassment for the rest of the Labour party.
Throughout Parliament, after that performance, there was a feeling that Blair should go now.
Will Tony finally take the hint, or do we have to endure the sight of more such performances? Even Gordon yesterday must have had mixed feelings!