Well said, Mr Benn

READING and listening to the commentary on the leadership of Brian Cowen, I am reminded of Tony Benn’s contribution to the 1990 motion of no confidence in the Thatcher government:

“I do not believe that we should attach that motion to the personality of the Prime Minister because it is the policies that she has pursued, not her style, which have led to the message from the British people.

“ I do not believe in scapegoats and it is important that we should understand that every present and former member of the Cabinet, every Conservative Member of Parliament who has trooped through the lobby night after night after night in support of those policies, every newspaper that has supported the government and every voter who voted for them share responsibility for the current situation”.