A SACRIFICE WORTH MAKING

As we watch the Murdochs suffering acute amnesia under questioning, whilst their employees go to the wall, and Jeremy Hunt cling to his cabinet post, as his special advisor, Adam Smith, resigns, it makes one realise how fortunate we are to have  leaders who are willing to make such sacrifices.  It does however remind us rather of Harold Macmillan and “the night of the long knives”.  Macmillan sacked seven members of his cabinet in an attempt to save his own skin, provoking, from Jeremy Thorpe, the line………." greater love hath no man than this, that he should lay down his friends for his life."