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Backing Blair; big and dangerous, small and insignificant
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 at
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Tom Watson – Vote Liberal Democrat – Get the Tories
Guido has the best response so far; As opposed to Vote Labour get Blair?
This same line of thought has prompted quite a few comments over at Harry’s Place.
We at Backing Blair knew this was coming. We also know that we can expect many people (like Gareth Davies) to switch from this to the “Ho ho ho you are so small, what you are doing is pointless!” argument when it suits them.
So – just to clear the air – I just want to state for the record that we *are* big and dangerous. And small and insignificant. Perhaps someone can paint a more convincing picture by using a metaphor with matches or something. Over to you, Labour HQ…
UPDATE – Yup, I’m a top-secret deep-cover card-carrying Tory. In fact, I’ve been working towards this for 3+ years and have yet to blow my… oh, damn!
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about 7 years ago
I’m not going to even try to bother to join the bunfight over at Harry’s Place, so I’ll say it here:Harry says, “In other words organise Saddam’s revenge at the ballot box – punish those Labour MP’s who voted for the armed overthrow the fascist regime in Iraq but reward those who voted to keep the dictator in power.”I don’t know about anybody else but I’m constantly sickened by the ability of people, and Harry is by far not the only one, to be able to tuck away the fact that tens of thousands of people have lost their lives under this government.I’ll keep saying this until I’m blue in the face – people obediently voted for Blair in 2001 and thousands died as a result. He can’t even pay them the respect of counting their bodies. I’ve seen murderers show more remorse.And yet again, we have this argument that a vote against the war is a vote for Saddam. Not exactly nuanced thinking is it? And this guy reportedly has one of the most respected political blogs out there. He seems to have a short memory that Blair could barely give a toss about Iraq before Bush rattled his cage. He certainly didn’t sign any motions condemning Halabja.I suddenly don’t mind being on the “pseudo-left” so much.
about 7 years ago
Do you believe in Blairies?
Remember kids, if you don’t vote Labour then the nasty evil Tories will get in power and privatise everything that’s not tied down attack civil liberties attack refugees for political points launch war after war after war do something really nasty we…