New (Labour) Speak
April 29, 2007
Here is what it sounds like when a New Labour shitrag speaks. Bear in mind, this is the editorial from the Observer, pride of the sophisticated British liberal media. If there is any irony in the following, I fail to detect it. What makes this embarassingly sycophantic eulogy amusing is the dash of Islamophobia insinuated just to make Dear Leader’s opinions appear normal. In speaking of the ”jihadi world view of Muslims”, the Observer sages forget that in continuing to endorse Blair’s campaign of mass murder in Iraq, they go far beyond merely the “crusading world view of Christians”.
Now for the nuggets (comment, fortunately, is superfluous):
Since most Britons are enjoying unprecedented prosperity their impatience to punish the government is strange… Britain, it seemed, liked having Mr Blair in charge, faute de mieux…At his best, he is capable of a sort of visionary pragmatism. It is a rare quality in a politician…
Still, the choice to join Mr Bush’s war in Iraq was defensible on many grounds: the genuine belief, at the time, that Saddam was a threat; the moral case for unseating a brutal dictator, the long-term importance of unstinting loyalty to the transatlantic alliance…
That does not mean Tony Blair’s rule has been authoritarian…
The two political constituencies that have been most hostile to everything Mr Blair does are the unreconstructed left and the misanthropic right, one nostalgic for class war, the other pining for a fictitious idyll of little England.
Mr Blair’s government has given millions of people unprecedented freedom to live as they choose and given them the wealth and security to do it.
Britain is better off after a decade with Tony Blair in charge. Wealth has been created, and wealth has been redistributed…build a vibrant market economy with a generous welfare state; economic freedom and social protection. That is Blairism.
So on Thursday millions of voters will go to the polls intending to bury the Prime Minister. In time they will find many reasons to praise him.
How MIdrees can stomach it I do not know.If the Observer were on my breakfast table I would’t be able to keep my cornflakes down.
We stopped taking that overpriced rag when it endorsed the Iraq attack.At this point one wondered why on Earth we’d been taking it in the first place.
Yet as a barometer of liberal establishment thinking the paper is instructive.They are utterly adrift from public sensibility and actually hold their readers in contempt.
Blair’s “visionary pragmatism” they appear not to notice has brought the democratic process to its knees with public disillusionment with their elected representatives at an all time nadir.
His military forces are imbroiled in far away places where they have no business to be;where guerilla resistance is exacting a heavy toll on overstretched largely immobile manpower.The Chiefs of Staff are leaving a mess on the No.10 carpet knowing their troops,far from exacting revenge for defeats long ago in both Afghanistan and Mesopotamia,are on the brink of another ignominious military reversal.
Blair’s credibility is in shreds with melt-down in local polls imminent his party will turn on him with a vengeance in the next few days.
As for the Observer’s vision of a Blairite state where economic opportunity flourishes and freedom reigns.Well this is a corporate vision of a state latterly become their fiefdom,courtesy of the Dear Leader,to which they would now with little confidence and some uncertainty desperately cling.
Maybe the establishment readjustment they’re about to be forced into will make humorous reading come next Sunday!
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