AND STILL THEY WONDER WHY...

I know I said I would try and steer clear of anything to do with Thursday`s General Election, but I`m afraid the photo above proved irresistible. It shows, of all people, Tony Blair on the steps of a summerhouse in Redditch on Bank Holiday Monday. He was there to support New Labour`s campaign for the re-election of the Redditch MP, Jacqui Smith.

So, we have the almost Chaplinesque spectacle of a disgraced, warmongering, misleading, money-grabbing poseur of a former Prime Minister actively encouraging people to vote on Thursday for a disgraced, expenses-cheating, hopelessly inadequate former Home Secretary.

Blair`s crimes and misdemeanours are, of course, as well known as those of Ms. Smith, whose real claim to fame was to have us believe that a bedroom in her sister`s flat was her `main residence,` as opposed to the family home in Redditch where her husband pursued his penchant for taxpayer-funded porno films. But perhaps one of Blair`s most disingenuous remarks actually came on the summerhouse steps on Monday, when he quite seriously declared that, "Jacqui is one of the finest and most decent people I know."

Says it all really and yet they still wonder why we hold them in the utmost contempt.