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Giok is speaking for a fairly narrow segment of UK opinion. Clinton in his visits over here - Oxford, Birmingham, Belfast, Labour party conference, etc - has been hugely impressive and made an enormous impact. Any comparison with Thatcher (or Blair who's as bad) is frankly absurd.

If Giok went just the few hundred miles to Paris he would find himself in a world where dalliances and indescretions on a scale far eclipsing anything we know about Clinton or - to mention some UK tories - John Major, Tim Yeo and David Mellor, are treated as personal and private matters.

The indiscretions of Joe Ashton, erstwhile Labour MP for Bassetlaw, were of a different order, but the puerile UK tabloids are incapable of judgment and merely fuel popular over-reaction with their hysterical, hypocritical rants.