What I never understood about Blair was his conversion to Catholicism. How could someone who apparently believed his immortal soul and judgement day tell such a bloodstained horrible lie. All my friends said I was a fool to believe him. I guess I was one of the ones with half a brain.

some of the reason I did believe him though was the vile dishonesty of the Thatcher years. It wasn't just the mines and manufacturing industry - it was education, the beggars on the street, the hard drugs industry taking a hold, the national curriculum, the inflammatory rhetoric on Northern Ireland, fund holding GP's and all the other right wing bullshit she festooned around our country - all the time with this phoney patriotism droning on in the background.

I couldn't see an alternative to Blair.