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New Britain: My Vision Of A Young Country

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Blair's book is a wonderful insight into British politics. He talks a lot about where he sees England going under his leadership. This book is a must read for anglophiles!

Prime Minister Blair, a great leader who not so long ago mesmerised the entire Britain, the Europe and the America. And who is capable, as yet, to lead the people to the political climax of ecstasy with his words, with his ideas, is a legendary figure of our époque yet to be discovered.
His book is an outstanding account of Political Science; the transformation of power to the new World. I see it necessary for all académicien and scholars.

Even the cover has something slick and slimy about it - the carefully classless shirt, the used-car salesman grin. Politician's promises and buzz-words are cheap. The Claridge Press's "Blair's Britain", also available through amazon, tells of what the promise has turned into - a dark cultural decline beneath a smug veneer.

Dreary, depressing, plodding "essays," speeches, and newspaper articles penned by Britain's latter-day Pilate. I dare you to read this one and not be shocked by the narrowness of his thinking.

The "thoughts" of the most cynical, unprincipled man ever to hold public office in Britain, and who continues to do so only because his opponents are even more despised than he is.

Blair's complete inability to think other than in soundbites is mercilessly exposed in his own words.

"Young country"? Far from it. Britain is a very old country, and therefore far too grown up for this oik, who has absolutely no respect for anything old at all. I was about to say he has no respect in principle, but then he has no principles at all as far as I can see.

The whining, smug, ever-flexible "credo" of a constitutional vandal and sleazy second-hand car salesman.

It is a tragic truth of history that some people who have offered so much have paid such a high price. The supreme example is Christ. By contrast, others offer only destruction and deceit yet are rewarded. Over thirty years ago Kissinger planned the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in which well over 1,000 young men were killed and their relatives still have not been able to bury their remains. Later on Kissinger became the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (a prize named after the man who invented dynamite and held in the country which helped the Nazis in the war). Now after causing the deaths of thousands of innocent people (and precipitating a civil war in Iraq which may well cost thousands more lives)it was sickening in the extreme to see scenes of Blair with his elated smirk waving effeminately at his supporters after being reelected.
There are so many children in Iraq who will never again know the pleasure of playing with other children, of walking and running, of smelling wild flowers, seeing the colours of nature and feeling the warmth of their mothers' touch, let alone other lesser pleasure like entering an Amazon site and then reading a book or listening to music. Blair and his war-mongering collaborators have deprived these little children of all these joys and also of their lives! They died, like the British soldiers sent to Iraq, for nothing!. There were no weapons. Blair knew that all along (indeed if there had been weapons of mass destruction in Iraq the bullying super powers would been too afraid to attack - and this is the very reason why no such cowardly attack has been made against China and why Iran might still be safe). The Iraqi children died just so that Blair, for his own political reasons and ambitions could suck up to his American counterpart. Blair's protestation that 'I really did think there were weapons and I honestly do believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein' is hypocritical. Not only is such an excuse insincere, but it is not satisfactory to overlook the fact that it was the Americans and British who had imposed this leader on the Iraqi people in the first place.
Britain and America have got no right to intervene in and exploit situations in other countries. Would Britain like it if a super power attacked London so that British troops could stop occupying Northern Ireland? Would America like it if a hypothetical power superior to their own gave weapons to the 'American' Indians to recaim their former homelands?
Britain and America both fought bravely in the Second World War to overcome tyrrany. Now the situation is very different!
Perhaps the result of the British election is not so surprising after all. It is true that Blair has committed so many crimes. Not only did he plunge his country into a war (thereby exposing British subject to a future equivalent of the 11th September) but he also perverted justice by harbouring the war crimial and mass murderer Pinochet. He has also destroyed wonderful welfare institutions like the National Health Service and made it more difficult for poor people to claim supplementary benefits and pensions. Due to this selfish policy, of course the British economy is flourishing - less is spent on social needs : health care and education etc. Thus for the wealthy voters who already have a lot of pounds, these pounds (unlike the falling dollar) retain their value against the Euro. British holiday-makers can therefore put the 'unpleasant' subject of the war behind them when they go abroad and enjoy the fact that they get a good exchange for their pounds; in fact such a good exchange that they can probably afford to go abroad again a little later on in the year. Yes, some people have faired very well under the Blair regime. As the saying goes, 'I'm alright Jack!' This is the selfish motto: What does it matter if there is a civil war in Iraq as long as I am alright.
It is possible that, just as I find those fawning reviews about Blair nauseating, some readers (who naiively believe Blair to be a good friend to America) may well be be nauseated by my own review. I would just like to ask a simple question to anyone who condones Blair's actions (and the question is rhetorical). It would be frightning to consider if you would still admire Blair if it were YOUR son getting killed in action in Iraq? And perhaps it would be even more frightening if someone was the sort of person who said that they WOULDN'T mind. Please don't waste money on buying this book, nor precious time in reading it! There are so many good books available through Amazon. Blair is already stinking rich and would not appreciate any extra money from the royalties. He does not care about poor people. It would be better to donate the price of the book to a charity to help children in Iraq whose limbs have been amputated or to families of soldiers killed in their prime for this selfish man and his unscrupulous colleagues. There are so many other things you could do with this money and so many people who could be helped. Before you turn off the computer just check the news headlines. How many young soldiers have been killed today? How many Iraqi civilians have died? Maybe they were just going to vote in some pseudo-election (without the safety of American-British escort) or perhaps (after such a long period of unemployment) they have gone to be recruited as police officers (again without the protection of occupying troops) and have been bombed. Or perhaps yet another British or American technician has been kidnapped and may well die a barbaric death because his president (or prime minister) does not care enough to intervene on his behalf. Yes, Blair must share a great responsibility for all such deaths that have occurred and for all those innocent victims who will continue to die.