It’s one of those ridiculous side-spats to
everything else that is going on in the world – including the cynical slaughter
in Syria while the West – distracted by the Brexit disaster and the Trump
abomination – fiddle halfheartedly with how to stop Putin-backed Assad.
Michael Wolff, american author of Fire and Fury, accused Blair of lying when call-me-Tony denied sucking
up to the Trump’s son in law for the Middle East Peace Envoy job. (Yes –
I’ll pause while you pick yourself up off the floor. T’is the same Blair that
obliterated Iraq and destabilised – THE MIDDLE EAST).
OK - Wolff did take the trouble to put pages between
covers to tell us what a disaster Trump’s first year in office has been, so he
clearly likes to be paid to state the obvious. A lot of people could have saved
a lot of money. They need not have bought the book to know that having a
misogynistic, narcissistic, lazy, semi-literate moron as president– would be/is
a disaster just as I did not need the radio to tell me it was snowing this
morning. I could just look out of the window…
Nor did anyone need to be told that Blair is a liar
or – as Wolff helpfully put it “a complete liar”.
In many ways whether Wolff or Blair is lying about
this minor detail is a moot point. We know Blair wanted that job. We know that
he was willing in 2003 to unleash Armageddon in order to suck up to G.W.Bush.
Hearing that Blair sucked up to the entourage of the next Republican president
is about as surprising as finding I have toes at the ends of my feet.
It’s as surprising as hearing that Boris Johnson – our clown foreign
secretary – has made another racist comment.
It is as surprising as learning that Jeremy Corbyn is still trying to
spark another general election because he thinks a Labour PM who has no
coherent position on Brexit would be better for Britain than a Tory MP who has
no sane position on Brexit.
It’s not news.
From time to time Blair and various of the
mainstream media outlets – always the BBC – try to rehabilitate the man who
talks as if his testicles were stapled to the back of his throat when he was 13 and he is quite happy with the
situation (a lot of men of his ilk in British public life sound like this!!!) They
interview or otherwise give him a platform to deliver his latest sermon. It is
as if they and he think that EVERYONE is anaesthetised by soap operas, reality
tv, cooking/gardening/house improvement programmes, facebook etc etc etc.
Surely they must realise by now – as he pops up to pronounce on the Middle East
or Brexit via his global ego-corp or vicariously through his old cohorts – that
someone somewhere has a memory. Someone is going to pipe up and remind folk that he illegally started
the war in Iraq and is responsible for endless misery and innumerable deaths.
He achieved this by lying to the British people
and ignoring the largest most diverse mass anti-war demonstration this country
has ever seen.
If you want to surprise me – tell me that the self-obsessed
maniacs of the world have put their hideous grasping and grabbing and
positioning on hold to try to help the children of Syria.
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