You tell them John

John Major was interviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show today, you can see the interview from a link here. Some key points:

"Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has accused Labour of presiding over "systemic sleaze" during its 10 years in government.
Sir John said the government had become "institutionally careless".

He cited as examples the Bernie Ecclestone affair and the latest funding row over David Abrahams.

Speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir John also accused Labour of carrying out a "McCarthyite" campaign against his Conservative government.

Sir John said Tony Blair should apologise for what he had said about the Conservatives in the 1990s, and that he had behaved in an "unscrupulous" way.

People would laugh if the government now claimed to be "whiter than white, purer than pure," he said.

He acknowledged that "lots of people misbehaved" when he was prime minister, but said they did so as individuals rather than members of the government. It was not institutional sleaze, he said.

Sir John warned that the good economy that Labour inherited from the Conservatives "is now beginning to unravel".

He blamed government policies on pensions and too many taxes for a drop in competitiveness and productivity.

"The economy is running into serious difficulties," he said.

He added that Gordon Brown's decision to sell much of Britain's gold reserves in 1999 had lost the economy billions of pounds.

And he predicted that losses to the taxpayer incurred by the Treasury's attempts to bail out the ailing Northern Rock bank would exceed those created by Black Wednesday in 1992.

"I hope this will stop Gordon Brown talking about 10 successful years, " he said."


Watch the whole interview, John Major makes a lot of sense and how much more honest a man he is than Tony Blair or Gordon Brown. He makes a very good point about the paucity of experience in Gordon Brown's Cabinet.

Well said Sir John, you were a man much wronged by your party and the UK media and I wish you well.