Alistair Campbell Diaries: Five Live interview with Edwina Currie and Iain Dale
This is the audio of an interview on Radio 5 Live this morning about Alistair Campbell’s diaries of “The Blair Years”. I have left listener responses on the end.
The interview is with Iain Dale and Edwina Currie, and is interesting for at least three reasons:
1 - Why did they choose 2 representatives from the Right?
2 - Iain Dale’s states that “a lot of people will not buy the book because it us written by Alistair Campbell”.
That is where I stand. I will buy the book for what it is worth to me - about 50p - or borrow it. And I will not obtain it in a way that will give a penny to Alistair Campbell. I, for one, am not ready to reward a poisonous bully and liar - no matter how good his diaries may be.
3 - For the reference on the phone-in to “Currie and that nonentity”.
Now - who was it that said Bloggers are the new opinion leaders? I can’t remember the name. Sorry.
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Thanks for that - not being in the UK, I found it really interesting. I, too, would like to read the book but will not line AC’s pockets. Yes, intriguing that they chose 2 Tories to discuss it.
By the way, it’s Currie, not Curry. I suspect they chose us because Edwina has written a diary and I have published them in my time!
I did say you were on my RSS and this is why.
STB.
>By the way, it’s Currie, not Curry.
Oops. Conditioned by “Curried Eggs”. Will correct.
Perhaps I’m a very different kind of Tory from you and Iain, but I rather like Alistair Campbell. OK, he’s morally questionable, but I can’t help admiring someone with that much brass neck.
Thanks for the comment Bill.
I’d think at least twice before accepting the “Tory” label - “anti-New Labour” is closer at the moment. I’m not a member of any party.
The type of things that I find really unforgiveable about AC (and TB) are the politicisation of the Government Information Service, the loss of Cabinet Government, the removal of others from policy making within the party and so on - the stuff that damages the democratic process.
Also - for AC in particular - I find the personal abuse inflicted on anyone in his way, the willingness to manipulate anything, the lack of any common courtesy, and the total unwillingness to apologise for anything somewhere between distasteful and disgraceful. And that’s without getting into the David Kelly case.
Paul Linford (close physically but not especially politically) has an account based more on personal experience.