Blunkett Strikes Familiar Theme with 'None of It Was My Fault' No Wonder This Politician Now Attracts so Little Sympathy

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FOR reasons that now escape me, I once bought a book by David Blunkett. No, not the diaries that have had so much space when serialised recently in a newspaper that should know better, have featured on television and - goodness me, fancy that, who'd have thought it? - as Radio 4's Book of the Week.

This was more a book outlining how a Sheffield lad overcame his blindness and planned world domination. He didn't put it in precisely those terms or I wouldn't have bought it, even as part of the three-for-two it must have been.

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Blunkett Strikes Familiar Theme with 'None of It Was My Fault' No Wonder This Politician Now Attracts so Little Sympathy

But with hindsight, world domination, or at least taking over at No 10, was obviously what he had in mind. All the stuff about social equality and what he had achieved as a Sheffie...

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