Alastair Campbell
2003-08-29 20:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blufiveSo, as half the damn world is reporting, Alastair Campbell has quit as Blair's Director of Communications. I can't say I was ever remotely fond of him.
Hang on a minute, though. Haven't we been getting rumbles in the press for at least the last month (or six) about how he was going to leave the job more-or-less imminently anyhow? The last few weeks have seen the start of whispers about how his political memoirs are now being polished up for publication, a step generally delayed until after someone's frontline political career is over.
Anyone else find the timing of this resignation, seemingly just at the right moment to take some of the heat off Blair, just a teensy bit suspicious?
Hang on a minute, though. Haven't we been getting rumbles in the press for at least the last month (or six) about how he was going to leave the job more-or-less imminently anyhow? The last few weeks have seen the start of whispers about how his political memoirs are now being polished up for publication, a step generally delayed until after someone's frontline political career is over.
Anyone else find the timing of this resignation, seemingly just at the right moment to take some of the heat off Blair, just a teensy bit suspicious?