Hip leftists everywhere have been saying, "What happened to you Tony Blair, you used to be cool!"
Tony responds:
When I hear people say: "I want the old Tony Blair back, the one who cares", I tell you something.
I don't think as a human being, as a family man, I've changed at all.
But I have changed as a leader.
I have come to realise that caring in politics isn't really about "caring".
It's about doing what you think is right and sticking to it.
So I do not minimise whatever differences some of you have with me over Iraq and the only healing can come from understanding that the decision, whether agreed with or not, was taken because I believe, genuinely, Britain's future security depends on it.
There has been no third way, this time.
Careful Mr Blair, you know what they call a liberal mugged by reality? The dreaded 'n' word.
Neoconservative.
Posted by Quentin George at September 30, 2004 09:34 PM