Why are you so quiet now, John Major, when you could come out against Mugabe’s knighthood?

In the past year ex-PM John Major has been speaking a few times to the press, mostly to bash Gordon Brown and the government and try whitewash his own time as PM.

He lists his favourtie ‘acheivements’ in power as setting the path for economic growth and his word in Northern Ireland. As far as I’m aware he pumped billions into propping up the pound in the ERM, before we got chucked out and interest rates and inflation were in double figures (once you hit the bottom, the only way to go is up - not the best theory for setting out a path to economic growth) and in NI he messed up anyway, according to someone involved in the peace process.

So it’s hardly a stunning record. Recently he came out against 42 days, citing the IRA as examples of terrorism that didn’t need 42 days. Without wishing, or needing, to bring up internment, it showed a man sadly out of touch with the 21st century and the demands of keeping apace with terrorism.

Fast forward slightly to today, and we have Benedict Brogan blogging on the Daily Mail site, saying that Team Cameron contacted John Major about Robert Mugabe’s knighthood. It seems Cameron has been reticent to demand that Mugabe is stripped of his knighthood because it was the Conservative party who gave it to him in the 1990s. As such he wanted Major to come out against it so he could too.

Given the fact that John Major seems to want to make people reassess both himself and his time as Prime Minister, you’d think he’d welcome the chance to right a wrong. But no, supposedly he viewed it as a matter for the Queen at the time and therefore it’s nothing to do with him now.

How pathetic.