Chocolate Fireguard
Now don’t get me wrong, as much as I like to rain fire and brimstone down on the New Labour project, and as much as I feel that, as a vehicle for progressive values, the wheel are pretty much off that wagon, Kemosabe - I loathe the Tories almost beyond words and measure.
I remember the hot gush of jubilation when Thatcher was brought low and will drink for a week - but not before pausing, of course, to tramp the dirt down - when she is finally consigned to that circle of Hell put aside just for her.
(To demonstrate my variance in hatred, when Tony goes I plan merely a long lost weekend)
Of course, the Tories are to blame for the state we’re in now - the New Labour project, with its obsession with installing the culture of the market in every aspect of our lives and its regard for human life as an abstract concept, being merely Thatcherism with a few 21st century knobs on. I yearn for the day, sometimes seeming close, others days further off, when Michael Howard and his misathropic, morally bankrupt bunch of feudal throwbacks finally sink into utter and richly deserved oblivion.
That said, as gratifying, nay arousing, as it is to see this shower of conceived-with-weak-sperm honkers tearing themselves to pieces right now, couldn’t they have made a show of being a proper opposition, y’know, just for a few weeks?
We’re now faced, in the coming election, with the equivalent of a Manchester United v Hemel Hemstead Over-65s Consumptives cup final. With an added, endless gloatful, braying commentary from the likes of the odious, stick-at-naught Milburn and thin-skinned cry-baby headkicker, John Reid. It’s going to be fucking terrible.
Et voila, another massive New Labour majority with all the horror that that entails.
Posted on March 29th, 2005 at 6:45 pm
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Couldn’t agree more. However there is such a thing as the lesser of two evils and New Labour are it. I am not a card carrying member yet but I am tempted to join because, at the risk of sounding as optimistic as the 10 year olds who will asking Blair questions on Ant & Dec, someone must be able to change the party’s direction. Anyone want to also join and help me try?
(Just imagining the virulent response this may receive from Chicken Yoghurt.)
I’ve heard people say this one before - that if you want change it’s best to do it from the inside.
It does make some sense, but when you consider that a number of Labour associations in the safest of seats are filled with die-hard
socialists, and the remainder are genuine left-wingers, it does somewhat make me wonder where on Earth they found Blair within the Labour movement.
Blair has inflicted a generational change on Labour by installing his Blairite MPs everywhere. They will remain in power, thus being the permanent representatives of Labour, and slowly turning the grassroots of the party their way, thus producing more Blair-clones for the future.
Blair’s legacy is going to live on long after he’s gone.
I used to unambivalently loathe certain politicians with an indescribable passion–it wasn’t recreational at all, either; it was when they were in office, doing evil things, that I was beside myself with a hot, intense, very painful hatred.
While the reflex is still very much there, I gradually began to realize that politics is determined BY other things; politicians themselves are surprisely reactive and passive.
“…politicians themselves are surprisely reactive and passive”
16,000 dead Iraqi civilians disagree.
Tut tut. You should not oppose the official Party line with spurious lies.
Remember, citizen, that the Party reacted to the clear and present danger from Iraq so that you might continue to exist.
Your name is now on our list of Enemies.