I re-start this blog with the nasty surprise I got a few days ago because political Nosferatu Tony Blair has reared up again, possibly revived by sucking at the arteries of Labour’s resurrected political body and with the aid of his media thralls.
As those achieving power seem to come and go
faster and have (with some not particularly honourable exceptions) come in
younger, our tired political circus is having to juggle departed but undead
politicians – post-party/ post-mortum (!) politicians so to speak – ever faster.
There are none more shudder-inducing than the cadaverous
old war criminal Tony Blair who is still – against all decency and sense of
moral fairness – platformed by straight-faced journos who clearly have
selective and collective amnesia. Or, journalism school teaches them that if
the mass murderer is a. one of their own b. a millionaire c. mates with Rupert
Murdoch d. so personally delusional that he himself does not believe that being
responsible for the illegal (ref; Chilcot Report) and entirely unnecessary
deaths of untold, uncounted tens of thousands of innocent civilians matters,
then he’s in the clear.
Tony Nosferatu has conveniently forgotten what we
all learnt in political history 1.01 - that destabilised and ruined countries
spew out fleeing desperate people by the thousand. Fear of that mass movement
of the distressed, dispossessed and dislocated, feeds reactionary fascistic
narratives as it has throughout history.
OR maybe – in the same way that the right-leaning
media serve up Alex Salmond at any available opportunity – in a way they would
not have done when he was actually leader of the SNP – ie in order to create
discomfort for the current leader of that party – maybe the legacy media see
Blair in this handy role for Starmer’s Labour. Nb. Starmer needs no help peeing
into the tent. He’s doing fine on his own…
You have to hand it to them. Reminding the public
that this scrawny old shit, was the Labour leader who took us
into the absolute disastrous invasion of Iraq while Starmer (40+k Palestinians
deaths and counting – plus hostages and the spread of the conflict – still
doesn’t seem to have a clear line on Gaza genocide, unlike the other 3 nations
of the x4-naiton union) – is a real dooozie in terms of juxtaposition. Just
what is it with Labour and feeling so entirely comfortable with the mass slaughter
of brown people?
Or does Blair really just think it’s all about him plus
his correct instinct that the legacy media do not care as long as they’ve got a
rich white bloke to share his opinions.
His latest ‘I got it all right about Brexit cos I’m
Tony’ tone – would be laughable if it weren’t so mad. Listen to anyone with two
brain cells to rub together who wasn’t David Cameron and more interested in
trying to keep his party together than doing what was right for Britain – and
literally anyone could (and did) predict the horrors of Britain’s tortuous
European exit.
Tell us something we don’t know Tone, like where you
buried your conscience.
I’d rather read Lizz Truss’s appalling book cover to
cover three times while sharing a taxi with the fascist frog-faced Farage and watching a video
of Michael Gove cocaine dancing to the sound of Jabob Rees-Mogg warbling about Brexit benefits in
one ear and Boris Johnson burbling about
fatherhood and Peppa Pig than hear Tony Blair on any topic at all. Ever.
Call me squeamish - I just cannot stand war
criminals.
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