The 2020 Vision: Blairy Vision Soft Contacts

Hugh Muir's Guardian Diary covered the Clarke/Milburn Brown spoiler "Blairy Focus Group" thusly:

Surely everyone can see by now that Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn are up to something deeply sinister. We have not been taken in and we know that while everyone was watching Miliband, the "Alan Milburn Support Listing and Website" moved quietly into post-Blair battle mode. Its 16 members are a "small but ever expanding group" of girls and they specialise in downloading dreamy pictures of the MP for Darlington. But come the bloodletting, they'll be there.

And their friends in high places thusly:

And who else have Clarke and Milburn got on side? Who's pulling the strings? Well, at the top of the list of links on their website, the2020vision.org.uk, they have the Policy Exchange, which is a centre-right thinktank close to David Cameron. At the bottom of the list we find the Smith Institute, a thinktank famously close to Gordon Brown. Now come on, you don't have to be Einstein.

Their Links didn't touch the ground. The utterly Tory Policy Exchange has been bumped down the list and Brown's friends at The Smith Institute have been removed. I'd guess at TSI's own request.

Graphic from FT of early September 2006.