Scathing letter written by spy author John Le Carre after Labour’s 2010 election defeat labels Tony Blair a ‘bad Scottish piglet’ and Gordon Brown an ‘unhappy Scottish hog’ (and he wasn’t too keen on Cameron, either)

A scathing letter by author John Le Carre has come to light in which he labels Tony Blair a ‘bad Scottish piglet’ and Gordon Brown ‘an unhappy Scottish hog’.

The legendary author, real name David John Moore Cornwell, slams the Labour governments of Blair and Brown for their spending ‘excess’ which left the country ‘broke’.

The no-holds-barred letter was sent by Le Carre to an American friend on August 20, 2010, three months after Labour was deposed from power and replaced by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition. Read more…