It demonstrated
yet again (not that we needed a further demonstration) Blair’s unerring ability
to present his own opinions as incontrovertible fact and everyone else’s as
fantasy. He knows that he’s right; no
evidence is therefore required (although if really pressed, he could probably
find someone to draw up a dossier ‘proving’ his case).
He lambasts
those who would fight an election on a manifesto similar to that of 1983 when
Labour lost the election, demanding instead that members support one of the
three candidates offering a version of the highly successful 2010 manifesto, on
which Labour obviously won the election (although I must have missed that
result somehow).
My favourite
passage was this one:
“It is like a driver coming to a
roadblock on a road they’ve never travelled before and three grizzled veterans
say: “Don’t go any further, we have been up and down this road many times and
we’re warning you there are falling rocks, mudslides, dangerous hairpin bends
and then a sheer drop.”
The three ‘grizzled
veterans’ are obviously Blair, Brown and Kinnock, but another part of history
that I seem to have missed is the bit where all three of them in turn tried the
Jeremy Corbyn route and found it wanting.
The tricks age plays with the memory, eh? But in the version of history that I seem to
remember living through, all three of the grizzled veterans ‘knew’ how bad the
road was without ever needing to try it.
I can
understand his frustration though - why, oh why do these people not simply
believe what they’re told by those who’ve never, ever been caught out making
anything up?
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Maybe the task is to make the road safe
I seem to remember that the roads travelled by Brown and Kinnock were pretty rocky, and both ended suddenly when their battle buses drove off a cliff.
“Fun” is the key word here, and I hope Brother Corbyn (BC) wins on a canter; he will be a breath of fresh air and will provide many hours of fun, as his policies are completely tonto.
Veterans like old Generals are always wanting to fight the last war, but when BC wins his policies will not be a threat to the State, as they will find ways to neutralise him, but what is perplexing the chaps in the clubs down in St James is, will he abide by the agreed conventions that everybody in Parliament seem to sign up to, or will he upturn the boat and blab about the effectiveness of the Head of State – Oh, dear.
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