Gee, thanks a bundle, Geoff and Patricia. You spouted just when I’d given up
whale watching, pronounced the ocean empty, packed away my binoculars and
sloped off home. As soon as Tony Blair decided to go, I wrote that a
leadership election should and must take place. It didn’t. Was I deterred?
No, I predicted the rumbles were set to grow. All through 2008 and 2009 I
wrote excited columns whenever the embers of mutiny against the Prime
Minister looked close to sparking into life. I backed Alan Johnson, David
Miliband ... anyone, because the logic of unseating this deadbeat looked so
strong.
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