Alastair Campbell's goldmine

Asked why he had chosen to remove entries that dealt with the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Alastair Campbell said:

I’m not going to deny there were times when relations were pretty tense and some pretty harsh things were said; they were. What I’m not going to do is publish a book that leads David Cameron to think that he’s got a goldmine to use against the new Prime Minister.

This, of course, is an admission that the behaviour was so bad that if Alastair had published his true record they would have been a goldmine.

Comments

[Simon Stephenson]

Not quite so, Daniel, is it?

Mr Campbell could say that there isn't ACTUALLY a goldmine, but that he's decided to erase the sections dealing with the Blair/Brown relationship because he doesn't want anyone creating a "virtual" goldmine by misrepresenting what he has written. Sort of "no matter what I write, you're going to take it the wrong way. So I won't write anything."

This sounds fairly Campbellesque, doesn't it?

[Munin]

Perhaps. Or maybe he's just pumping the sequel.

[adam]

..or maybe he'll put the Blair/Brown stuff in a subsequent edition to make people buy a second copy of the book.