Recently started blogging again Take it as Red has a good encapsulation of why Blunkett was so horrible and what did him in:
Apparently Tony, the expert on integrity and honesty – where are those WMD, Mr Blair?- thinks Blunkett “…is a force for good”. No, no and again no. He’s a selfish, selfish man whose first loyalty is to himself and no-one else. Everything he has done has been about how he himself feels; he has shown no consideration towards his duty to the country, let alone any human concern for his ex- mistress or putative child or even his existing family, and his main concern all along has been that he escape the consequences of his actions. Why else would he appear on BBC2’s Newsnight last night, looking for the sympathy vote and telling the world “It was all worth it for that little lad”? He does not even know the child is his, except by some magical sixth sense, and even if it were he is merely the biological parent. How ironic if the DNA test proves the child is the husband’s.
The BBC has been enjoying this a lot, and I don’t blame them one bit. As I said in an earlier post, it’s the Establishment that will do for New Labour, and now the Establishment has the smell of blood in its collective nostrils. The letters and emails that have come to light would never have done so without the co-operation of the civil service; the story wouldn’t have had legs if Blunkett, in his hubris, hadn’t continued to bombard the BBC with constant protestations of his honesty; in doing so he gave the BBC and Civil Service just the ammunition they needed.
Indeed.
