Total disbelief that haigh is the best they've got. There must be hundreds of non irritating peole other than '15 pints a day' Haigh.

He's like gum disease - he's very annoying, or athletes foot.   You started feeling sorry for all these leaders after Thatch. major, IDS, Haigh, even Cameron - they've all got theses Thatcherite gang of arseholes yapping at their heels, and you do feel sorry for them. But eventually....compassion fatigue sets in.

The trouble is of course - they don't admit they spent the 1980's dropping bollocks. The national Curriculum; they should have remedied English industry by insisting on new management instead of continuing with the usual dopey old fuckers, or closing it down; monetarism; military adventures in Iraq; setting up the Taliban; the rise of Murdoch. Thatcher was an unmitigated disaster. And they simply won't face up to it. So they waited for Blair to torpedo them, and now they've got the comfortable fiction that all the problems are down to Blair (the man who claims to have an immortal soul, ho hum!).