byHARRY BLACKWOOD
WHENEVER
I hear Labour Party supporters discussing Tony Blair, I always think of that
fantastic scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian; "What have the Romans
ever done for us?"
The man
who Labour Party members thought of as a Messiah is now treated like a foul
fart in a lift. So reviled is Blair that Labourites are pretty much trying to
airbrush him from history. And no bloody wonder. The Labour imposter achieved
less than zero and those who were taken in by him know it.
But it's
not the Iraq war or the other heinous stuff that Blair did that I really take
exception to. No, his big crime as far as I am concerned is when he mouthed
those immortal three words: EDUCATION. EDUCATION. EDUCATION. The biggest con
trick in political history.
Blair
pressed all the right buttons and used all the right language. He wanted all
kids to have access to good schools. He wanted all kids to go to university. He
wanted kids from council estates to go to the top universities. He wanted
working class kids to become barristers and surgeons and nuclear physicists.
Everything was possible in his new Labour dream. It was all bullshit to hide
the truth.
