I saw this a fair while back but wanted to highlight it here. Julie Burchill has in the Spectator,done a magnificent character assassination of Tony Blair’s former Press Spokesman Alistair Campbell.

Entitled ‘The Enduring Ghastliness of Alistair Campbell’ this piece opens with a description of the funeral of former Labour political operative Derek Draper. Ms Burchill draws a cutting comparison to what she said was the ‘dignity of Mr Draper’s widow’ with the ‘ghastly bunch of carpetbaggers’ from the Blair and Brown crowd, which included Campbell, who also attended.

In describing Alistair Campbell Ms Burchill said:

Observing the career trajectory of Campbell, from pornographer to podcaster, it’s hard to believe that showbiz success rather than public service wasn’t what he craved all along – even if seeing him gauntly entreating us to let him entertain us is like seeing Beria attempting to join The Great British Bake-Off. He is everywhere and has been ever since he hung up his wet wipes after his stint as Tony Blair’s Groom of the Stool. He is on television more than the weather symbol for rain. He’s certainly ‘driven’ – though no wordsmith (it was I who coined the phrase ‘The People’s Princess’) last year he published his 18th book (poignantly, his 2015 publication Winners And How They Succeed was swiftly available from Amazon for 98 pence) heroically entitled But What Can I Do? – ‘a call to arms to people to get more engaged in politics and to fight back against the wave of populism, polarisation and post-truth.’ What a joke. Every institution in this country has been captured by critical race theory and gender woo-woo, and this clown’s bitching about populism. Is he aware that he is the disease, not the cure? Populism exists because elitists like Campbell really believe that they know better than the rest of us; this from a fool who has made more bad calls than an Amish-targeting get-rich-quick phone-scammer.

Ms Burchill sums up what a lot of people feel about Campbell. He and his sort are indeed as Ms Burchill said ‘the disease not the cure’. Our currently less than admirable national situation have at least some roots in the government with which Campbell with almost forever be associated with.