
Judging by the Great Dissembler's performance on Hard Talk he is not likely to last out until the next general election.
As a fellow Type 2 diabetes sufferer I know that John needs to avoid stress otherwise he is going to pop his clogs very soon.
The 13 years of the Blair/Brown era will be remembered for spin, its incompetence with our money on failed social experiments, the "dumbing down" of our society, the scandalous fall in literacy of our younger people and the disastrous erosion of our freedoms. The centre-right consensus has to keep these people out of office for a generation while they rebuild a liberal conservative society.