Tony Blair didn't rate Gordon Brown - shock horror revelation

From THe Mail comes the all but unbelievebale news that Tony Blair didn't think too much of Gordon Brown, wow who would have believed that!

Anyway, back to the story, these are some of my favourite phrases from the story arising from an interview with Cherie Blair's father, Tony Booth:

"Mr Booth says the two men's relationship reached such a low while they were Downing Street neighbours that Mr Brown once refused to let Cherie Blair carpet his half of the corridor linking No10 with No11... "Once she was having new carpets fitted in No10. But when the fitters got to the corridor dividing No10 from No11, they were told to stop halfway leaving the other half, to No11, uncarpeted. "Brown said they couldn't put anything down in his half. I have never met such a mean man."

Yes, that sounds petty enough for Gordon Brown to have done. A tough choice who to support in that stand-off though; Gordon or Cherie...



""The truth is both Brown and Smith treated Tony like a junior partner and contemptuously called him 'the boy' as they prepared for power," he said. "Even at John Smith's funeral Brown tried to humiliate Tony. "When Tony arrived he found himself in a pew behind a big pillar while Brown and the rest had prime positions in full view of the TV cameras and so on.""

Gordon Brown petty enough to humiliate a "friend" at a funeral; sounds about right.



""Tony thinks Brown's a 'blinker', someone who blinks in a stand-off. "Tony never blinks, no matter who he meets. But Brown's different. I don't want a Prime Minister who blinks first, and I don't think Tony does, either.""

Gordon Brown a "blinker", maybe that's why Ed Balls does that rapid blinking thing, he's trying to curry favour with his master.


Of course officially Tony and Gordon are best friends, hence this:
"Mr Blair's spokesman said the ex-Premier dissociated himself completely from his father-inlaw's remarks.

He said: "Gordon Brown has Tony Blair's full support - he neither knew of, nor agrees with, these remarks."

A source close to Mr Brown said: "We're not going to be distracted by this rather undignified sideshow."