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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
For idealists and politicians everywhere, 21 Dec 2004
For me, this is the book of the year. No book has so incisively contrasted all the pre-1997 of the Labour party in opposition with the actions of Tony Blair et al once they got into government.Every politician should read this book. Everyone thinking of forming a new party, or thinking of standing for the most minor committee post on a parish council, should read this book. You think you can solve the world's problems? Read this. It's essential to compare the idealism you can display when you have no responsibilities with the pragmatism needed once you think you are responsible for everything. The irony is that Bremner, Bird and Fortune are writing from a left-of-centre perspective. They are no friends of the Tory Party whatsoever. But the Tories and the Liberal Democrats should certainly read this in their preparation of their election campaign materials. Apart from one very short chapter, the authors offer no solution to the problems they so ably point out. They are even more effective in pointing out the inconsistences between what people say and what they do, or what they say one year and then say the next year. As you might expect of a political book published in 2004, it majors on Iraq. With luck, when future historians try to assess the Blair governments, they will use this book as one of their prime sources.
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