Pundit defends Cook funeral jibe

I think he was right to say it.

Personally I think that Robin Cook was a disastrous Foreign Secretary whose "ethical foreign policy" was just pure cant. However, he was the first Labour Foreign Secretary for 18 years and Blair's first in office. He also stood by Blair for a full term as Foreign Secretary. You wonder what history would say had Cook been Foreign Secretary when Blair proposed taking us to war?
For Blair not to go to the funeral was outrageous, he should have given time. For someone whose judgement has often been his saving grace he got it wrong here. But as the racing critic said, Blair does not care about public opinion any more because he is never again going to stand for election. In the right circumstances does that not make him dangerous?

I agree that whether the time to say these things was the funeral is debatable but I applaud the fact the McCririck said them. I do qualify this by saying that clearly he is a Tory and I hope that was not why he said it.

As he said, if Thatcher could go to Heath's funeral.........