"What if "Messenger Dan," a Blairite to the core (the sort of person you've relentlessly denigrated for years here) is a complete flip-flopping twit?" - Shaw

Well if he WAS a twit Shaw it would be ever so easy for someone of your self-proclaimed education and intelligence to refute or disprove what said "Messenger Dan" says. But you can't do that can you Shaw? And I would guess that in being in a position to comment and observe what is going on "Messenger Dan" is far better informed and clued up than some loutish, posturing liar down in Cornwall.