Don't Accept That You Are

There Are Many Reasons For The Decline In Royal Esteem. One Is That So Many Of The Royals Are Thick.

All Of This Is Happening Because There Has Still Been No Reckoning Post The Financial Crisis. So Governments Have Fallen, One Bloke Has Been To Prison, The Banks Have Gone Pretty Well Back To Status Quo, The Rich Are Getting Richer, And The Poor Are Getting Poorer. And It's Fuelling Anger. And Somehow [donald] Trump, Who Represents The Worst Aspects Of Capitalism, Has Persuaded People He Can Deal With That.

As Tony [blair] Said In His Book, Gordon [brown] Was Brilliant And Impossible. If He'd Just Been One Of Those Things, The Options Are Obvious.

Paul Keating Told Us Before We Were Elected That You Can Do Deals With [rupert] Murdoch Without Saying You Were Doing A Deal. Did We Do That Kind Of Thing? Maybe. But From Around About The Turn Of The Century, I Felt Strongly That We Had To Do Something About Media Ownership And Self-regulation. Tony [blair] Disagreed.

This May Sound Arrogant, But I Believe That If We'd Done Teamship Better, We'd Still Be There. Where We Fell Down Was The Inability To Hold Together. We Should Have Learnt From The Great Football Teams. The Players May Not Like Each Other. They Have Egos, They Have Their Own Ambitions, They Have Different Personalities, But They Are Still Bloody Good Teams.