The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
They Work For You now have every parliamentary speech going back to 1979. Here’s a promising young man giving his maiden speech in July 1983…
I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for co-operation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality, not because it wants people to be the same but because only through equality in our economic circumstances can our individuality develop properly.
Tony, if you’ll forgive me asking, what the fuck happened?
Posted on June 12th, 2009 at 11:46am under New Labour
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Well, it turns out that Tony Blair is a massive fucking liar.
Beat me to it.
[...] Tony Blair’s 1983 anti capitalist maiden speech: here. [...]
Ha, 26 years later and his orchestrated coup de’tat (sp) by his left-overs has been quashed by broon.
Broon has passed go for the last time. It’s a throw of the dice.
On the contrary, a careful analysis of this speech highlights all the intellectual flaws we’ve come to know and despise:
“not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy”
No book-larnin’ here. No evidence-based policy. Straight from the gut, ‘cos that’s where truth comes from.
“an existence that is both rational and moral”
Indeed. Just like destroying dictators is both rational and moral.
“co-operation, not confrontation”
No room for argument or opposing views.
The thing about our Tony is he has always believed (though not through anything as vacuous as reading a textbook) that everything he does and says is touched by the divine.
Not only did he think the sun shone out of his behind, he believed it shone out of his behind.