Forget..

Tony Blair's "SHOCK, HORROR except not really at all" resignation, the important news today is that I've decided on whom I want to win Eurovision - Georgia. It's actually not a bad song by competition standards at all, which means it's bound to die a quiet death whilst something gimmicky or truly awful wins. Judge for yourself;



The last time the UK won was in 1997, when our European brothers and sisters appeared to thank us for finally voting the Tories out (you doubt a song contest gets that petty and political? - you have never watched the Eurovision results). Oh, those happy days, back when expectations where so high and everyone thought we'd be getting on with Europe again. Even Tony himself couldn't help but sound terribly nostalgic for those pre-Iraq and pre-Bush days.
Maybe, as he said, the expectations were too high? I certainly remember drinking champagne outside the Festival Hall, watching the sun come up and really believing that this was the dawn of a better era - and it went pretty bloody well for a short period of time.

Then came Iraq, GP contracts, Iraq, the return of internal markets to the NHS, NASS, civil liberty disasters, Iraq and um...Iraq. And it strikes me that all the other cock ups and mismanagement would have been far better tolerated by the electorate - and better judged by history even - but for one foreign policy decision. Hague said today that Blair was the most formidable opponent the Tories had ever faced. Now, my friend J says I underestimate Cameron, but to me it seems that the only person who was ever able to defeat and discredit him was Blair.