The moment I turned against Blair
PJM raises an interesting point about Tony Blair.

Like most of the rest of the country, I had high hopes for Blair. By 2003, for obvious reasons, I'd lost that. But my disenchantment was political - I disagreed with a lot of his policies - but it was not personal.

That changed after the 2004 tsunami. You may remember that the Archbishop of Canterbury was reported as saying that events like that led him to question his faith. It was a misquotation, but that's beside the point for the moment.

Still, in that context, Blair was asked whether natural disaters made him question his faith. And, without blinking, he said that they did not.

Not a moment of thought. No question. No intellectual humility. No struggle to retain a belief or reconcile it with events. Nothing. Just a flat-out denial, as if the thought had never crossed his mind.

And that was the moment when I realised that not only did I object to Blair politically: I also objected to him as a human being. Because, frankly, with that answer, he made me doubt whether he was a human being at all.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 12:07, 4 replies)

This
For the QOTW win.

Well said, sir. Well said.

_{I'll definitely be buying you a beer}
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 20 Mar 2009, 12:13, closed)

Smite him!
Fuckin smite him hard! You can do it!

*follows Enzyme for the week*
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 12:29, closed)

Takes Off My Left
shoe and joins in......
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 12:46, closed)

You still had faith in 2004?
In a man who was willing to kill tens, possibly hundreds of thousands, for a series of complete lies. You still the slightest shred of hope that he had even an atom of human decency at that point? Now that is faith!
(Bam Bam McPenis will change all this when he is fuhrer., Sat 21 Mar 2009, 11:36, closed)