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I don't believe that for one second she was taken in by Blair - she is a politico after all, and you don't survive long in that game by being naive.
George Monbiot's latest missive here puts an intersting perspective on it.
Some of the Guardian's readers will, for all her faults, have shed a few tears at the departure of our development secretary.
Clare Short may have failed, in March, to act upon her threat to resign over the war with Iraq. But even those who have turned against her will miss that splash of colour on the front benches, the old Labour warrior who still spoke the language of feeling, and who, as if by magic, had somehow survived the control freaks and the little grey men for six vivid and tumultuous years. Westminster will be a bleaker and a colder place without her.
Well, dry your eyes. Clare Short survived because she was useful. She was as much a creature of the control freaks as any of the weaker members of the frontbench. To understand her role in government is to begin to understand the nature of our post-oppositional, postmodern political system...
Now, while I don't always agree with everything GM says and he is undoubtedly putting forward the negative side of the argument, he seems to have a point here. |
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