He is right to defend himself, complaining that:
Sometimes Labour activists seem to believe the job of a left-wing journalist is to bolster the Labour Party and protect it from itself.But he overeggs it when he writes:
In truth, though, Labour politicians have to be able to bear a greater degree of scrutiny because we expect more of them.This seems to me typical Socialist self-romanticising. No one is asking ministers in the present government to be better than anyone else: we are just asking them to behave morally.
New Labour's emphasis on "sleaze" in the last years of John Major was chiefly a means of disguising how few policy differences they had with the Tories. But having made individual politicians' personal morality a central concern of British politics, they had better learn to live up to the claims they made for themselves before 1997.
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Fair point on self-romanticising. I guess I was falling into the same trap as the delegates in a sense -- we on the Left have a mistaken tendency to believe we are better than other people.
But the statement remains correct: we do expect more of politicians in our tribe.
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