The Burden Of Power: Countdown To Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries - Plot & Excerpts
The New Year’s message got big coverage, but there was no doubt I had allowed my own somewhat gloomy view of events to colour things, so the coverage was pretty much on the ‘we’re all doomed’ lines. As Mike White said when he called me to discuss it, ‘Don’t jump.’ Fiona and I were both pretty down about the thought of going back. Partly it was the weather, partly the thought that actually the tone of the message was pretty much where things were, and also the fact that TB, whenever he phoned, went on and on about what a marvellous time they were having, and how energising it all was for him. I said there was a time when I felt natural warmth to his irrepressible enthusiasm and zest for life. But it can sound unbelievably irritating and selfish when he’s basking in sunshine and we are swimming through floods. He was mulling over the various pressing problems and they were pretty much the same as a year ago, if a bit more advanced and a bit more difficult in some cases – US–UK, terrorism, MEPP, Northern Ireland, public services, Europe and the euro.
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