Like many longstanding Labour Party supporters I have been alienated by the style of Tony Blair and his associates, by the Iraq war and the lies used to justify it, and by policies that harm the public sector. Yet when I look at the alternative, viz., a Tory government, I see even less palatable policies and even less attrative people. Unless I lived in an exceptional constituency, I would have no choice except to vote Labour. Anything else would be politically immature.

Pat Murphy

I realise that this isnt exactly earth shattering debate, but i have to, with a hugely heavy heart agree with you pat. God, what a state to be in when the government has lost all credability to the point where you beleive they should be tried for war crimes. At yet, at the next election you're going to end up voting for them because theyre the best option!! The situation we're in now is that if you genuinely believe that a left wing government is the only way to protect the needs of the whole of society then what options have you got? Tory-Tony or Her Howard! Jesus, what kind of a choice is that. anyway im off now to put my head in the oven...

Don't bake your head yet Pete.... I'm here to save you!!!
I'm trying to make a bid to oust Blair by standing against him at Sedgefield.
I AM the alternative. Check out my very amateurish little website and see where I'm coming from.
God help us all.
Cherri

my website didn't show in the last post so here it is: www.blairout.org

In Praise of Anthony Blair

1. Regeneration
In the brave new world of Anthony Blair
There is always a new success
An initiative here, an initiative there
Eye-watering initiatives everywhere
And all from Anthony Lyndon Blair
And we really should be impressed.

In the brave new world of Anthony Blair
The dead are on Anthony?s side ?
His soft praying hands and his soft little choke
For the People?s Princess and the People?s Pope,
The People?s Queen Mum and the People?s soft soap ?
They?re all brought along for the ride.

2. Peace in Ireland
In Ireland Anthony?s put things right
And soothed all history?s sores
With the soft-voiced man with the Armelite
And the ballot box and the gelignite
And the cold-water bath that gives traitors frights
Whom Anthony just adores.

And although Ulster?s terrorists break kid?s bones
Tony goes from success to success.
He?s placated the Yanks and he?s massaged the stats,
He?s put out the crimson welcome mats
And he?s going to subsidise baseball bats
In the name of the peace process.
3. New Britain
He?s taken this land of Satanic mills
And abolished child poverty from it.
Now all the kids enjoy good school meals
And the kids go to clubs and kick up their heels
Then go out the back and enjoy a few feels
And the streets are awash with vomit.

He?s tough on crime and the causes of crime
Laying down all the social norms,
And hires more police officers all the time
To boost the strength of the thin blue line ?
No, they?re not on the streets, but that?s just fine,
They?re hard at work, filling in forms.

There are those who say that he?s lost the knack
Of achieving a perfect con.
But Anthony says ?Let?s go forward not back
With great hospitals, schools and railway track
And I wish you?d stop talking about Iraq ?
It really is time to move on.?
4. Economic success
In the brave new world of Anthony Blair
The money don?t go very far ?
Not ordinary money, people?s money,
The money that Cherie would think quite funny
If you offered her that for her work at the bar.

But Britain is vibrant and youthful and gay
He?s told us, voice ringing with truth.
It?s reborn and new in a New Labour way
Behold and be glad at the dawning of day ?
You old fools don?t need pensions at all anyway
When Tony has blessed you with youth!
5. The War on Terror
In the war to win points from the terrorist threat
Tony Blair is ahead by a mile
How can we stop an eleven September?
(Sorry, says Blunkett, I can?t remember)
Well we?ve got to look tough, so lets simply dismember
Little things like a right to a trial.

And Tony has words to raise up our hearts,
Says we?ve nothing to fear but fear.
The sands of the desert are running red,
The weapons are missing, the scientist?s dead,
But Anthony Blair proudly holds up his head
And says he?s officially cleared.
6. The International Statesman
Tony, we all admire how brave you are,
You give evil regimes the push.
You?re truly an international saviour,
Telling tyrant?s ?Well gosh you must mind your behaviour
Or you?ll get what I gave to Yugoslavia
If I get permission from Bush.?

Now Anthony?s off on a grand new mission
To save all of Africa
Doing to it what he?s done to Britain
With splendid committees for him to sit on
With a few pop stars and some politicians
Dining on pate foie gras.

And Tony deserves an explanation
Why he?s not got a Nobel prize
For he?s talked and he?s talked about education
And talked about Africa?s regeneration
And he?s bombed the peace into several nations ?
What more can I do, he cries.

7. Whiter than White
Now Anthony Blair is a straight kind of guy ?
We know ?cos he told us he?s so,
And Anthony Blair?s never told us a lie
About Eccleston?s million or cash for the dome
Or Mandleson?s quite understandable loan
Or wee Leo?s jabs, not a lie, not a lie,
Oh certainly, certainly no.

The activists all love Anthony Blair
And they?re working like Santa?s elves.
If the people can?t be bothered to vote
(A thing that can really get Anthony?s goat)
They?ll gather the ballots like hunting stoats
And fill all of them in themselves.

And Anthony Blair is quick to correct
Any problems that need correction.
?Don?t worry about all the voting fraud,
I?ll just change the law I rammed through before
And stamp it out, you can rest assured,
Trust me, after the next election.?

8. Trusty henchmen
We got Robin Cook from Anthony Blair
Who cut through the moral maze,
Bringing FO ethics in place of strife
And exhorting us all to a higher life ?
The red-haired drunkard who dumped his wife
As they set off on holiday.

We got Blunkett too from Anthony Blair
Who filled his posts so grandly.
He did no good but he cursed right fine,
And was truly original when he resigned ?
The first one ever ? to spend more time
With somebody else?s family.

9. His political mastery

All Anthony?s acts are so energising ?
Like reforming the House of Lords,
Hereditaries out, and a new sun rising
Because Tony believes in democratising,
A whole new crop of jolly good guys in ?
And all appointed by Anthony?s frauds.

Oh Anthony Blair is devoted to God
Who he?s certain has made him prime minister.
But don?t you imagine that if you were God
You might fear Tony thought you distinctly unmod-
Ern, and looked at you in a way you found odd
And even a little bit sinister.

Anthony Blair is so very sincere,
Whether he?s happy or sad,
Gleefully grinning from ear to ear
Or wiping away an emotive tear,
And a look in his eye makes it suddenly clear
That he?s ever so slightly mad.

He?s going to stay for just one more term ?
You may think that decidedly odd,
With the fate of the nation and world at stake
And his role in history still to fake,
But he?s thought it all through and decided to take
Up a new position as God.