Reactionary

On the 27 of June, Tony Blair stepped down as British Prime Minister due to pressure from the people and from within his own party. He hands the Prime Ministership to Gordon Brown. It’s been 10 years since he swung into office as Britain’s young, hip Prime Minister on a landslide victory. He was going to sweep away all the cobwebs of the Thatcher years and bring New Labour in to new heights. It wasn’t just the Labour Party, it was New Labour.

Now, a decade later he’s unpopular and out. The linchpin of his fall from grace was his odd, dogged devotion to George Bush and the mess in Iraq. He’s far from being stupid. He had to know better. He had to know it was wrong. He should have said something. He should have offered counsel and advice instead of standing by and signing off on anything that came out of Washington. All his other accomplishments, at home, in Ireland, etc will be a footnote to the disaster in Iraq of which Britain now wants no part. He’s paid for it first with his popularity and now with his job. He’s out, fired.

And still the Boy King sits in his bubble of arrogant ignorance and no one will kick him out of office, instead reelected and obsessed with his own importance. George IV of Washington, his sanity on par with the last King George to rule over these shores. His supporters in DC and elsewhere fall all around him and yet he and his puppeteer Cheney are safe in their Fortress of Solitude.

What’s wrong with us?

Goodbye to Blair, a once-promising star on the political landscape shot down by the company he chose to keep. It’s exactly how the fictional Elizabeth II tells the fictional Blair in The Queen, “It’ll happen to you too, you know, suddenly and without warning.” It’s happened.

Posted on July 2nd, 2007 under General, News •  Print •  Email • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback