BRIAN SEDGEMORE

The recently defecting Brian Sedgemore, for whom New Labour is now beyond the pale, has had a few things to say about his former colleagues. On the day of his defection to the Liberal Democrats he had an article published in the Independent. This is what he had to say about Tony Blair:

‘Blair is shameless. He used to act at school and he uses that talent now; every time he speaks, for example, at the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, you can here someone saying, “Cue broken voice, quivering lips, dropped shoulder, tear in left eye”.

Blair used to be a constituent of mine and run around saying, “We have got to get Tony Benn elected”. He stood for secretary for the local party. He got old ladies in the cars to vote for him, and he lost. It was only later when he used Mandelson that he began to learn the organisational skills he used to take over the party and surrounded himself with secondraters or cronies’.

Not too many people were aware that Tony Blair was a Bennite in bygone days. This helps to explain the reason why he is so keen to promote the neo-communist politically correct agenda.