Monday, November 28, 2005

Brought To Book…

I’m currently reading a scary book called Web Of Deceit by a journalist called Mark Curtis. It essentially charts the role of the UK government as the point man for US barbarity all over the globe. It’s the sort of book every voter in the UK should read to counter-act the endless lies and spin-doctoring that has become the main legacy of the Blair government.

Ahh Blair… I remember sitting knackered in a pub in 1997 after spending an enjoyable night watching the Tories get booted out of office and hoping it would get better. There was such optimism… But how wrong we were…

‘Education, education, education’ soon became an empty slogan and Blair’s major concern soon seemed to be making chums with big business after big business rather than helping out all the poor buggers who put their faith in him.

But after two terms of disillusionment he soon found a way to top all of that – namely sending British soldiers to war to fight for US business concerns in Iraq.

What a first-class coward. Bottling out of his election promises when he had a huge mandate for change, bottling out of his supposed socialist principles and finally bottling out of his duty to only commit British soldiers to conflicts where Britain was under threat.

Anyway, Mark Curtis’ book charts this far better than I ever could and it’s definitely worth a punt. Probably won't be popular reading at No.10 though...

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