George Monbiot meets Hazel Blears
George lays into politicians. Hazel lays into George. George lays into Hazel. Hazel invites George to her constituency for a tour and an interview.
So George goes to Salford and, with a little gentle questioning, he demonstrates why Hazel Blears shouldn’t be trusted with a car boot sale stall let alone a ministerial portfolio in a government.
Watch her reaction to Monbiot’s question about backing Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan. Fair play to him for even being in the same room as her.
Posted on May 6th, 2009 at 9:41am under New Labour
He’s a good lad.
George rules.
Dear god, what an iniquitous woman. We went along with the trashing and slaughter of Iraq and Afghanistan, and she witters on about the government being full of decent people. The morality of it is stark and grotesque – if we do terrible things while believing that we’re doing good, then our souls are untainted and our consciences whiter than white. Watching it, I fantasised for a moment that I watching a psychiatrist interviewing a delusional inmate in a high security installation. And that afterwards, Ms Blears would be sedated then steered back to her room where she could do no harm to any other human beings again. One can always hope.
She’d boil George in oil in a blink of the eye, if she got her wishes come true.
Man, I’m so glad we’re governed by the best and brightest people in the country. I mean, think how fucking horrible it’d be otherwise! Right? Right?
It appears to be a basic tenet of Blairism to deny everything, even when the facts are plain, and Blears does it all the time. “We’ve broken international law? No we can’t have ‘cos we’re good” “We’re involved with torture? No we can’t be ‘cos we’re good.” “Blair told lies? No, he can’t have.”
The irony of this is that the latest FCO Human Rights Report is pretty tough on Uzbekistan, although it does cravenly/conveniently forget to mention the massacre of 2005 that has still not been independently investigated.