Tony Blair’s memoirs are well on their way to becoming the fastest selling in British history. On pre sales alone it shares the top 3 current bestsellers with the autobiographies of Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson; we do love a good monster story in Britain.
Usually when somebody provokes such ill feeling as Blair, there are a number of reasons for it. Being hated to the point where a million march against you takes some doing. Thatcher stole industries, jobs, communities before she finally rose to full on hatred with the theft of milk.
With Blair, however, there was just Iraq. His smug smile was irritating. Hobnobbing with celebrities and pretending to be a football man both showed a man desperate to be liked, but nobody died. He was just a bit of a loser. That was OK though, people can deal with a loser when unemployment is falling, hospital queues are being slashed and the minimum wage is increased yearly.
Seeing 179 British soldiers dying to stop weapons that never existed managed to take Blair from OK loserish guy, to hated war criminal pretty much overnight.
On Parkinson Blair said he prayed to god for answers about the invasion of Iraq. He then went on to say “You realise that judgement is made by other people... and if you believe in god, it's made by god as well."
When I was at University there was a man who used to walk around the local town centre. He would collect cans, put them into a black bin bag liner and carry them to the same spot at the same time every night. There he would proceed to stamp on the bag and shout “BAD CANS, BAD CANS – THE DEVIL IS IN YOU AND HE MUST COME OUT, BAD BAD CANS!”
That man was unsurprisingly taken in for medical care after a few weeks. He was guided by the voice of god, and yet all that was damaged were a few cans.
There was also a Muslim student who used to tell people outside the student’s union bar that they were being judged by god; that bad things would happen to them in the after life if they continued down their path of sin. He was warned by the University not to go near the union unless he could keep quiet, and yet all he did was talk to us.
Strange then that when, guided by god, and passing judgement on his / her behalf, Tony order the invasion of Iraq and with it the death of 700,000 civilians, he was worried that people in Britain would think of him as a ‘nutter,’ because he was Catholic not Church of England.
Strange also that Blair would describe Gordon Brown as a man with ‘zero emotional intelligence.’ That from a man who patronised the British people so severely by stating they couldn’t accept a leader of another religion.
Usually when somebody provokes such ill feeling as Blair, there are a number of reasons for it. Being hated to the point where a million march against you takes some doing. Thatcher stole industries, jobs, communities before she finally rose to full on hatred with the theft of milk.
With Blair, however, there was just Iraq. His smug smile was irritating. Hobnobbing with celebrities and pretending to be a football man both showed a man desperate to be liked, but nobody died. He was just a bit of a loser. That was OK though, people can deal with a loser when unemployment is falling, hospital queues are being slashed and the minimum wage is increased yearly.
Seeing 179 British soldiers dying to stop weapons that never existed managed to take Blair from OK loserish guy, to hated war criminal pretty much overnight.
On Parkinson Blair said he prayed to god for answers about the invasion of Iraq. He then went on to say “You realise that judgement is made by other people... and if you believe in god, it's made by god as well."
When I was at University there was a man who used to walk around the local town centre. He would collect cans, put them into a black bin bag liner and carry them to the same spot at the same time every night. There he would proceed to stamp on the bag and shout “BAD CANS, BAD CANS – THE DEVIL IS IN YOU AND HE MUST COME OUT, BAD BAD CANS!”
That man was unsurprisingly taken in for medical care after a few weeks. He was guided by the voice of god, and yet all that was damaged were a few cans.
There was also a Muslim student who used to tell people outside the student’s union bar that they were being judged by god; that bad things would happen to them in the after life if they continued down their path of sin. He was warned by the University not to go near the union unless he could keep quiet, and yet all he did was talk to us.
Strange then that when, guided by god, and passing judgement on his / her behalf, Tony order the invasion of Iraq and with it the death of 700,000 civilians, he was worried that people in Britain would think of him as a ‘nutter,’ because he was Catholic not Church of England.
Strange also that Blair would describe Gordon Brown as a man with ‘zero emotional intelligence.’ That from a man who patronised the British people so severely by stating they couldn’t accept a leader of another religion.
As thousands working in the public sector are currently looking over their shoulders, worried that they’ll be swept away in the next wave of cuts, one wonders what word they’d use to describe Blair, the man who instigated and authorised the spending of £9.24billion on invading Iraq.
The word ‘nutter’ comes to mind.
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