Alistair Campbell on Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle

Alistair Campbell has decided to wade into the debate over heartwarming Britain's Got Talent and now Youtube 'sensation' Susan Boyle.

The former spin doctor, responsible for intimidating hacks, writing saucy stories for Penthouse, swearing even more than Roy 'Chubby' Brown and, er, pulling the wool over our eyes in the run up to the Iraq war is impressed at her success.

For those not in the know, Ms Boyle, (pictured left) the 47-year-old spinster from Scotland, has won a legion of fans around the world, with her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserables on the ITV show.

The number of viewings of her clips on Youtube has hit 25 million and is rising rapidly.

Campbell, on his blog, basically praised high waisted trouser wearer Simon Cowell for managing to once again tug on the public's heart strings and create a popular phenomenon.

His take on the success was that because Ms Boyle was 'authentic' the public warmed to her, and suggested Gordon Brown and co could learn something from that.

Mr Campbell knows all about 'authenticity'. After all, who could forget the infamous 'dodgy dossier' which was presented by the government in the run up to the Iraq war.

It had loads of helpful information about weapons of mass destruction in it, and suggested Saddam was getting a nuclear capability.

Later it transpired that it had been knocked up by the Number 10 press office, cutting and pasting anything they could find on the internet, and had not even been looked at by the intelligence services before it was published.

Campbell and Cowell - now there's an Axis of Evil.

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