I’ve long-known
that politics is a business in which friendship and loyalty count for little,
but I was still surprised at the candour of Peter Hain’s description of the
events surrounding the replacement of Ron Davies as Labour’s candidate for
First Secretary.
Hain was completely
convinced, he tells us, that Rhodri Morgan was the right man for the job; right
for Wales
and right for Labour. However, instead
of supporting Rhodri, he ran Alun Michael’s successful campaign. He did this, he says, because Alastair
Campbell told him that it was ‘what Tony wanted’.
Perhaps Hain expects
Rhodri, Labour, and Wales
to forgive him, now that he’s been so candid - the repentance of a sinner, as
it were. I suspect that it will just
make his ‘friends’ – if he has any left – even more wary about their
backs. With friends like Hain, they
hardly need political enemies.
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John
Friendship and loyalty count for everything.
These are the keystones by which men are judged.
Those who have failed you have more than failed themselves
Just confirmation that Hain lost whatever principle and conscience he ever had many, many years ago.
I don't think that Peter the Grate has many friends left in Welsh Labour anyway.
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