by Heid the Ba » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:25 pm
[rant mode]
Our Prime Minister has finally decided to fuck off and make money on the lecture circuit rather than using a variety of grubby and underhand means to feather his own nest. The only good thing you can say about his greed is that his wife is worse. Hopefully he will take his cronies with him, though I expect Broon wil have to chisel them out their sinecures.
This would be a good time to bail out of a loser length post, don't say you weren't warned.
Our problem is that most people will vote for a party regardless of the candidate, so once in it is very difficult to get a PM out.
So for 10 years we have been lied to and patronised by the smug bastard, the only reason he has lasted this long is the economic growth which has been despite him rather than because of him. Gordon Brown has been the architect of that and he is now PM, hopefully he will be able to resist being corrupted by power unlike his predecessor.
A brief overview of his tenure:
He wanted a dedicated plane at his disposal because US presidents get one. A media outcry made him change his mind.
He over-ruled a planning decision by a cabinet minister about developement in Bristol and then it turned out he had bought 2 flats in the area affected shortly before. Of course being Blair he fucked it up and they didn't increase in value.
His wife (who is a successful lawyer) ran her practice from an office in his official residence and charged the Legal Aid Board for this, so a government body paid rent to an individual for an office the government owned. He said it was his wife's business and not his or ours.
He lied about WMD. Then he said he had seen the evidence so we didn't need to. Then he lied about lieing.
He has been catholic in all but name for years (not that anyone cares) but wouldn't formally convert in case it affected his "legacy". He is expected to convert in the next couple of weeks. It came as news to virtually everyone (including me) that we have never had a catholic PM.
If you're still reading this, I won't give you another warning: Go. Now.
He always tacks a meeting with a foreign politician onto a 3 week holiday so he can charge the flights to the government. E.g. 3 weeks in a Tuscan villa loaned to him by a Labour donor, hour long meeting with Berlusconi, = holiday for 6 for 3 weeks for virtually nothing. On the rare occasions he has to pay for flights he pays economy knowing BA will have to upgrade him free for security reasons. Charlie Wingnut does the same.
His friend Peter Mandelson was forced to resign from the cabinet twice due to his conduct, but still given another cabinet post with unseemly haste both times. Plus who in their right mind would appoint a camp, openly gay man to referee the neanderthal morons who pass for politicians in Ulster?
Vanity projects like the Millenium Dome, cost somewhere in the region of £800 million, used for a year and then given away to a company that expects to turn a profit from it.
Trident, oooooooooh can we spend billions an a system we don't need to keep a seat at the Big Table. Apparently we can. See also Iraq.
Afghanistan; not necessarily a bad idea, but obviously he has never read history, or Kipling, or remembers the 1980s.
And another thing . . . [/rant mode]
This is an apolitical rant, it has nothing to do with his party, everything to do with him being a shallow, vain, weak, selfserving arse.
And now a return to your scheduled programme.
(Fash is an old Scots word for worry, with apologies to Douglas Adams.)