Piers Morgan Book

mkpdavies · 15-03-2005, 04:29 AM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...xartright.html

This book sounds like it might have some good bits in it.

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"The reason I counted up the number of lunches, dinners and private meetings I had with the Prime Minister - 56 - was that I thought everyone would be aghast that he would have had that much time to spend with someone like me. Even I thought afterwards that there was something wrong about that.

Quote:

As I read the book, though, I cannot but conclude that there is something fundamentally trivial and morally squalid about the Blair government - especially, I suggest, in the way the Prime Minister himself sucks up to the editors of the red-tops. "I wouldn't dispute that. But I think there is something terribly snobbish about the view that Tony Blair should only hang out with Harvard professors because they are the only ones who can bring intellectual firepower to the debate. Look, Tony knew he needed the support of The Sun and the Mirror more than that of The Times and The Guardian."

This is what our PM does with his time. Cosy little dinners, paid for no doubt by the tax payer, gently kissing the butts of the tabloid press. Is this what we want from our PM? Did previous PM's court the media to such an extent? No wonder we get no news anymore!

Quote:

I saw a lot of similarities between Cherie and Diana, who were both from damaged backgrounds. I loved Diana. She was intoxicating. But she was also difficult. She treated her domestic staff appallingly, was emotionally unstable, and froze people out: Fergie, her mother, Elton John. Terrible behaviour towards anyone who got too close."

Not quite the Queen of hearts she was made out to be then!

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