Rod Liddle says that the Prime Minister’s Christmas jaunt to the Middle East epitomised his confusion about what happens when people who hate you get the chance to say so in elections
As our Prime Minister is someone whose confused political instincts stretch little further than a belief in democracy and freedom of choice, it is heartening to enter a new year knowing that he is, if anything, even more deeply committed to such fundamental — but fragile and tenuous — concepts.
On his annual Christmas trip, in a one-horse sleigh, to the Middle East, Tony Blair insisted that the Palestinian people be afforded another general election as soon as possible. This is a commitment to the democratic principle which easily exceeds my own. The Palestinian people had an election only 11 months ago, you see; I would have thought they could wait a few years before having another one.
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