Farewell Mr Blair
At last it happened - he is out!
Can’t say I am surprised - the long awaited departure is of no surprise to anyone. Undoubtedly it’s been a remarkable period in history primarily for its cynicism, lies and deception. Don’t get me wrong on this as I am not a Conservative supporter (A plague o’ both your houses! as far as I am concerned, and actually to be precise on all three of them). The problem with New Labour is the width of the gap between the moral stand they take and the course of actions they follow. If their opposites the Conservatives almost openly declare essentially corrupt policies they can follow these policies with relative ease whilst Labour had to live with an enormous discrepancy between their electoral promises and their political deeds. And inasmuch as they can’t match these two sides they can’t match their accounts too. This ultimately lead them to an almost proverbial cash for honours scandal. Remarkably, some trying to make sense of this debacle suggest that it was more acceptable and even reasonable to raise cash selling lordships than borrowing from the Unions. This seems to be completely off the target I am afraid. You can’t raise any cash for yourself selling something that does not belong to you. Listen to the sound of it: cash for honours! When honour is on sale there isn’t much left to keep a falling politician afloat.
So there goes one and I can almost hear the sigh of relief over the country. But should we expect the new one to be any better? Did Gordon Brown know about these shady dealings of his party? Bad for him if he did and equally bad if he didn’t. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer and an almost eternal Prime-Minister-in-waiting did not know about his comrades lead by his friend Tony selling the honour of the country behind his back he is simply incompetent. As I don’t believe our prudent chancellor to be stupid or completely blind I have all reasons to think he’ll just follow the steps of his predecessor. And where this path leads we all know too well. There will be another Stelios honoured as Easy Sir and if you allow me another prediction I expect another lengthy and costly litigation similar to the Orange one but over the colour Brown this time.
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