What Britain lacks today is leadership. It seems that our present leaders no longer inspire us with confidence, but reading your opinions here I have to disagree, John is a great man. The methods sadly used these days to win elections is by flattery. In other words, they telling us what we want to hear, not so with John, he speaks his mind.

Even more disappointing, for many decades our leaders have lacked the wherewithal to write their own speeches and develop their own insights, no so with John. Recently Labour ministers have not only surrounded themselves with spin doctors, but they have become dependent on writers and social scientists. These people have dominated national policy with a mish-mash of disjointed and unproven academic theories -- like achieving peace by negotiating treaties with aggressive dictatorships, or adopting a trade policy that disables our own industrial economy in the face of foreign competition, could you see John standing for that ?

Our ministers lack greatness. They lack vision and leadership. But even more alarming, the British public may have forgotten what a great leader is like. Look back at the good John did for this country.

History provides us with many examples. But there is one Labour minister, above all others, who merits our applause, and it's him. He was the first of his kind -- a man who served as a model for all those who would later employ eloquence in the service of democratic patriotism. John has a likeness to Churchill in his approach.

John is the type of man who sees danger before others apprehend it. As a statesman he opposed bad compromises and false optimism. He is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and international politics, something Tony Blair depended on.

In this context, most of you have not noticed that a great leader appeared in our country, and you did not recognize him. Could you follow his lead? I somehow doubt it.