Long-time readers will know I haven’t spouted politics for quite a while now but, despite leaving me somewhat unenlightened, Fahrenheit 9/11 does seem to have sparked some feelings of righteous indignation in me and my political synapses are firing more coherently than usual. So thanks, Michael Moore, for that at least.
One thing that’s been bugging me for a while is the apparent divergence between what the Labour party does and what it says. Generally, and somewhat reluctantly, I have to say that Britain appears, from my perspective, and with a couple more qualifiers in there, to be doing fairly well under Labour. My experience of the NHS in the last few years has been positive both here in lower-middle middle class Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham and in the deprived Tower Hamlets, London. Other things, such as transport, crime, etc, while not perfect, don’t actually seem all that bad. Gordon Brown seems to be doing a fairly good job of managing things, considering the expectations are unreasonable and the job very difficult. (I’m excluding Blunket’s Orwellian Home Office from this because the position of Home Secretary, it would appear, would turn Ghandi into Attila the Hun.)
On the other hand Tony Blair is a cunt.
The obvious answer is to get rid of Blair and let Brown become the prime minister he already is in all but title and the big question is why the Labour party don’t do this, now, before the next election. Then it occurred to me that were Brown to be PM he’d get slaughtered by the right wing press and in order to defend himself he’d have to become more like Blair. So while Brown gets on with making things better, quietly implementing just enough of the Labour vision without getting noticed, Blair takes all the flack, gets involved in stupid wars, spouts off bullshit to please the tabloids (that 60’s liberals to blame for crime crap really got my goat) and takes the wind out of the Tories by coming over more conservative than them.
Suddenly it all became clear. Blair isn’t a lame duck, he’s doing his job perfectly. Of course this could just be my tortured logic enabling me to vote for him with a clear conscience…
Yoy are a twat Labour is just plain wrong for this country
No you are a twat, you twat.
Hey, this political blogging is fun!
Yes he is a cunt, infact so is his money grabbing, fugly, human rights abusing wife.
Did I mention he’s a cunt?
And Michael Howard is a smelly arse.
Oh boy. Must be an election year.
“fugly”
I love that.
Glad I dropped in.
Pete, you are so right.
I’m still not voting for the bastards though.