Blair Must Go!

I was watching Question Time last night and Nicholas Soames MP was one of the panellists.

Soames is very much a Tory’s Tory. He represents the rural constituency of Mid-Sussex, he served as Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 1994-1997, until recently he was Shadow Defence Secretary and he is Executive of the 1922 Committee, a sort of latter-day Hellfire Club for whip-'em and hang-em Tories. He is also President of the East Grinstead Target Shooting Club and a Member of the Council for the Protection of Rural England.

Land, the defence industry and country ways. If ever a man epitomised what Tories see as the virutes of Englishness and the rest of us view with some suspicion he is that man.

He also has the unfortunate look of a Hogarth character who has eaten several children and is steadfastly refusing to pass them.

So basically I shouldn't like him very much. At all. Ever. But last night I found myself agreeing with pretty much every point he made about the failings and arrogance of Tony Blair.

Sorry Tony, but if things are so bad I'm agreeing with an arch Tory like Soames then it really is time to go...