If only Tony and Gordon had paid more attention to Blake's 7

Selected points from a most amusing list ALL I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM BLAKE's SEVEN directly relevant to today's Labour leadership:


* Trust is only dangerous when you have to rely on it.

* It is frequently easier to be honest when you have nothing to lose.

* The art of leadership is delegation.

* All that patience gets you is older.

* Show me someone who believes in something, and I will show you a fool.

* He who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.

* Dignity, at all costs, dignity.

* The choice is very simple -- either you can fight, or you can die.

* In the end, winning is the only safety.

* Power usually makes its own rules.

* Nobody is indispensible.

* Everyone's entitled to one really bad mistake.