MORE GUFF ABOUT THe TB/GBs

Bet you all can't wait for yet another TV film about the Blair/Brown years. The ever sycophantic David Aaronavitch is the one Chosen to interview Tony about his 10 years in Number 10. Yawn yawn yawn. It all sounds like a re-hash of old stuff to me and just confirms what we all already know. They loathe one another.
But tellingly, in the programme Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler apparently accuses Blair and Brown of acting like a "revolutionary cell" inside New Labour and attacks Blair for refusing to consult the Cabinet about a Govt decision.
"[Mr Blair] said to me: 'They will all agree'. I said: 'That's not the point, we have Cabinet government in this country, it is a big decision and people will expect the decision to have been taken by the Cabinet.'"
Blair tells Aaronovitch: "I didn't want any argy-bargy. If you'd had a Cabinet discussion and people saying it's a bad idea and that had come out, the Government would have ended before it began." One wonders why he didn't go the whole hog and just abolish the Cabinet. Well, actually, in real terms, he did.