New Labour: Sleazy from the get-go

I wish I had the chance to see the John Major interview in full this morning, but I was out training after finding out I have a London Marathon place :-). I will try to take a look at it over the next few days.

I think Major has a point about sleaze - the sleaze under his Government was down to individuals rather than the Government as an institution. Unfortunately that has not been the case with New Labour.

I think it goes a little beyond what seems to have been said this morning. The sleaze under the Conservatives largely happened towards the end of their 18 years in Government. New Labour have been sleazy from the moment we had the misfortune of having them come into Government.

What seems to have changed over the last year or so (probably thanks to David Cameron) is that when Blair and Co were found to be sleazy the blame from the voters was directed towards politicians as a whole so every political party suffered. Now people are recognising that it is New Labour that have the problem not everyone else.

I just hope that the exposure of New Labour is followed by similar recognition that the Lib Dems continue with their highly disreputable campaigning methods.