Good haters, bad democrats
DALE STREET reviews The Blair Years — Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries “Some twat with a Trot poster came up to me on the way in (to the conference) and yelled ‘Butcher! Traitor!’ at me,” writes Campbell in his diary entry for 29 April 1995. “I stopped and mustered as much visual contempt as I could, then assured him that if we win the general election, then don’t worry — thanks to wankers like him, there will always be another Tory government along afterwards. These people make me vomit.” There are many people in Campbell’s diaries who make him want to vomit. Roy Hattersley is “a...