So, at long last, Labour MPs Chris Bryant and James Purnell have apologised for their involvement in the ghoulish auctioning of a copy of the Hutton Report, signed by Cherie Blair and Alistair Campbell. See the BBC report about their regret here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5012280.stm
They had little option - their actions were indefensible. Even Mr Bliar gave a half-hearted sorry during Prime Minister's Questions (if you saw it, it was a rather pathetic, schoolboy-ish, head-down line about no offence being intended). Perhaps Mrs Blair, Campbell and the two MPs will spend a while trying to find their moral compasses.
The country has got to a pretty depressing state when leading figures in the governing part think it is acceptable to try to raise funds from a report into the death of a man who spent his life working for the betterment of mankind....
What do we expect to find at the next New Labour (I say New Labour as I'm pretty sure there are plenty of traditional Labour MPs and supporters who are disgusted as the rest of us at these events) fundraiser.....the selling off of autographed copies of death certificates of soldiers killed in Iraq....
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