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George Monbiot's opinion
May 13, 2003, 10:32
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/comment/0,9236,954806,00.html

She was useful to the government because she behaved like someone guided by impulse rather than calculation. ... Her outbursts allowed the control freaks to pretend that they were not control freaks...

Within her own department, where her decisions made a real impact on people's lives, she was more Blairite than Blair. She would emote with the wretched of the earth for the cameras, then crush them quietly with a departmental memo...

She was forced to resign yesterday not because she had rebelled, but because she had destroyed her credibility as a rebel. Having squandered her old Labour credentials, she was of no further use to the New Labour government.

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Brilliant article with Monbiot's trademarks of clear thinking and meticulously researched shocking detail to back it up. Check it out for some horrifying examples of what she did as a Minister.
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