I read Ian Durie's eloquent and colourful words with interest - but surely our anger and distrust should not be directed at Mr. Blair or even at the title of the top man, but at the hordes of sycophants who crawl on their bellies along the corridors of power, toes, belts and noses following in the dirt:

It must be true that a political party is like any other organisation, and, to progress to the top we should assume that the leader possesses enough vision, quality and talent to enable them to have an honest, valid and unbiased view of any relevant situation. However, it is " The Underlings " many of whom are talent-less and undeserving when compared, that are often quite stupid and therefore far more dangerous. They will acknowledge their lack of worth by nodding and murmuring agreement to even the most preposterous of instructions passed down from the one they serve, they will follow blindly, they will block the path of new ideas filtering upwards. Theirs are the minds that are too narrow to think, theirs are the eyes too blinkered to see and theirs are the voices too eager to agree. We should start our campaign for a free thinking and just society by demanding that these "lesser" people begin to think, decide and experience for themselves, instead of rubber necking, rubber stamping and agreeing with everything from on high. Let them accept those with ideas and talent and let us reject those that purely ride upon the backs of those with talent.

I am not a member of any party, and, looking in from the outside, I am not certain that any of them would welcome me, maybe if I was the President of the United States of America or an Imaginary Antipodean I would be far enough removed from reality to remain applauding at the other side of the water. But that doesn't mean that I am unable to understand and I do know that the pebble I toss into the lake maybe as insignificant as a single grain of sand, but without question even it's smallest ripple will someday kiss the shore.

Regards

Trefor Owens