tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post3568989322682534707..comments2023-10-14T13:18:37.330+01:00Comments on angels in marble: Blair is Bad News for European Leadership and Hopes for a European Voicehatfield girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-31361001841967407302009-10-11T09:07:46.779+01:002009-10-11T09:07:46.779+01:00There's a lot of sidling about Brown, Scrobs. ...There's a lot of sidling about Brown, Scrobs. Most people who play football get their heads kicked from time to time, but I do wonder if he is being wholly truthful about his eyesight being damaged by someone taking the opportunity to kick his head in. His retina detatches when a young man and a reason is sought; and such a sporty, good all-rounder school boy reason, and so regularly put forward (at least for one of them, as both have done it and one been re-attached). He's as physically unfit for the jobs he's sidled into as he is unfit psychically and morally, so his incapacities are spun as courage over setback. How very New Labour - Never let a good kick in the head go to waste.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-78680583416926224352009-10-10T18:49:22.129+01:002009-10-10T18:49:22.129+01:00"The Blairite/New Labour interest is to get t..."The Blairite/New Labour interest is to get the levers of power in the UK shifted to a Blair-faction dominated European administration and, inter alia, to have the years of New Labour Blair/Brown maladministration to the point of criminality, buried."<br /><br />Perhaps the Brown element of the collusion is at stake as from today Hats.<br /><br />Much sidling into the middle distance methinks.Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-4774993402741814882009-10-10T16:17:56.574+01:002009-10-10T16:17:56.574+01:00Yay!Yay!Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-10535917893495138622009-10-10T15:31:35.624+01:002009-10-10T15:31:35.624+01:00The Blairite/New Labour interest is to get the lev...The Blairite/New Labour interest is to get the levers of power in the UK shifted to a Blair-faction dominated European administration and, inter alia, to have the years of New Labour Blair/Brown maladministration to the point of criminality, buried.<br /><br />Germany has a historically familiar mission - to reorder the settlements determined by the Second World War, just as with the settlements of the First. And, equally familiarly, there is some reason on their side.<br /><br />Temporarily those interests coincide. But the can of worms that is going to be opened by Blair facing an Iraq war Public Inquiry is as nothing compared to the can of worms opened by, for instance, unsettling the Sudetenland (as President Klaus has pointed out) or the results of Poland being a country on castors being faced once again.<br /><br />It should be remembered that Germany is not the country it was when the wall came down 20 years ago. The merest glance at the assertion of the German basic law over the Lisbon treaty, the German constitutional requirement that Germany should not run major deficits, in flagrant contradiction of EU fiscal control, the German refusal to co-ordinate with any other member state of the EU or indeed any other state at all on its response to the financial crisis, and its decision to exit now from emergency measures; its determined extinction of Sarkozy's Mediterranean countries grouping within the EU, its importance in Iran; its bilateral relations with Russia. The list goes on and on. <br /><br />Blair's war crimes? Germany has had its fill of war crimes, and has skilled brushing-away guilt and retribution techniques - just look at Der Spiegel's account of the murder of the Goebbels' children. Germany can cope with Blair and all the dead children of the Iraq war with barely a moue of distaste.<br /><br />If the cost of Lisbon and all its real aims is Blair and his war criminal past buried, the Germans will go along. We should not. This time, we should go to stand with the Czechs in time, and hold Blair and New Labour to account as well.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-30673565727044948232009-10-10T13:57:05.476+01:002009-10-10T13:57:05.476+01:00Exile, that's what must happen - for him (TB) ...Exile, that's what must happen - for him (TB) or for us.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.com