Gilliver's Travels
Peripatetic
Tony Blair will be attracting more criticism than ever before over the Butler Report - his latest, ill-advised wheeze to pull the wool over the eyes of the British public. But the feeling persists that none of the criticism will actually register on Teflon Tone.
One section of the public has especial cause to feel enraged. Blair seems utterly incapable of understanding just why so many people in the Labour Party loathe and utterly detest him. He certainly won’t find out from the mainstream media, so let’s air it here.
Does Blair think that vast numbers of Labour activists all over the UK gave up endless hours of their time campaigning, over so many years of their lives, just to secure the election of a nominally “Labour” prime minister who would:-
1 Debase himself as a pathetic, grovelling poodle of the most ignorant, right wing fundamentalist zealot ever to occupy the White House?
2 Cravenly follow Bush into an illegal and unjustifiable war, in arrogant defiance of all available logic, and against the wishes of his party, two million marchers and the majority of the British public? And then connive in the slaughter of 15,000 Iraqis as a result?
3 Publicly cultivate the nauseating image of sanctimonious God-botherer, all the while hypocritically deceiving his colleagues, the party and the public - even though he’s been advised ‘we don’t do God’ over here?
Forget whether Blair should remain prime minister. What is this man doing in the Labour Party? And how did he ever get to join in the first place?
One section of the public has especial cause to feel enraged. Blair seems utterly incapable of understanding just why so many people in the Labour Party loathe and utterly detest him. He certainly won’t find out from the mainstream media, so let’s air it here.
Does Blair think that vast numbers of Labour activists all over the UK gave up endless hours of their time campaigning, over so many years of their lives, just to secure the election of a nominally “Labour” prime minister who would:-
1 Debase himself as a pathetic, grovelling poodle of the most ignorant, right wing fundamentalist zealot ever to occupy the White House?
2 Cravenly follow Bush into an illegal and unjustifiable war, in arrogant defiance of all available logic, and against the wishes of his party, two million marchers and the majority of the British public? And then connive in the slaughter of 15,000 Iraqis as a result?
3 Publicly cultivate the nauseating image of sanctimonious God-botherer, all the while hypocritically deceiving his colleagues, the party and the public - even though he’s been advised ‘we don’t do God’ over here?
Forget whether Blair should remain prime minister. What is this man doing in the Labour Party? And how did he ever get to join in the first place?