Duckin' and Divin'

He doesn't help himself with the ubiquitous baseball cap!









The story of William Hague and his 'special advisor' is one of the strangest political tales in recent times.  I don't find it strange that they shared hotel rooms - I have shared hotel rooms with female colleagues on business trips and male colleagues have done the same.  No, what I find strange is that someone who was Hague's driver suddenly becomes a 'special advisor' - what does this mean exactly?  However, strange as it may seem I agree with Anthony Seldon in the Guardian today that none of this is in the public interest.  It is another example of our seemingly national interest in the private lives of our politicians.  How can we restore interest and faith in politics for the average voter if we pay more attention to rumour and speculation than to what they stand for and how good they are as MP's?


To quote Seldon   'It's in the interest of journalists trying to sell newspapers, but not the public interest. When are we going to grow up as a country and judge people on their honesty and decency, and not on matters of public prurience?'  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/)



I'm sorry to bring up Tony Blair again but I just have to talk about this book of his.  I gather it is full of revelations about his political relationships but I also hear that there is an account of a passionate night with wife Cherie!  Eugh!  As BBC Political Correspondent Nick Robinson observed there is a lot in the book we want to know but also some things we don't!