THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Be warned!
The saga of the the three Bs
We all know about the Queen B, George W, he whose advent as American president engraved in marble the concept of global terrorism. We know too about his bosom pal, Blair, fellow religious zealot, friend of the rich and powerful, admirer of Israel and strong-arm political swindlers everywhere.
Now we are having to come to terms with the third arm of the world's most dangerous political triumvirate, Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer in government and prime minister designate in the party of New Labour.
What have we to look forward to in the succession that both Blair's and Brown's parliamentary supporters treat as a fait accompli? If Blair is reluctant actually to place the crown on the head of his old friend, he must be chuffed to know that Mr Brown endorses all the policies that he, Blair, has turned into the seed corn of world terrorism. Look not for change, you starvelings of Palestine; you battered and weary people of Afghanistan, fed up to the teeth with lectures on democracy and friendly neighbourhood precepts that do nothing but deprive you of your livelihoods and age-old customs that few in the outside world, least of all the Three Bs, understand or care about; you citizens of Iraq who have seen your women and children murdered, your hospitals denuded, your social infrastructure destroyed by messianic infidels claiming to be your saviours but in fact bent on the theft of your wealth and the destruction of you ancient culture. The third B has been asked about these things and he has said without turning a hair, almost with pride, that his country (he is a Scot but he means the UK), has a unique 'sense of community'. He has told the benign TV interviewer Andrew Marr that Britons 'never walk by on the other side of the road'. So considerate are they, dear friends, that when he succeeds Tony (he and his friends do not admit the possibility of popular debate in this democracy of ours) the dispossessed people of Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq can jump in the nearest pond. The supreme B, Bush, has decided their fate. He 'deserves our support'. For the rest of the world it'll be the same as before, with knobs on.
You have been warned.
Win Blog
alias HVF Wiunstone, biographer of Gertude Bell, Howard Carter, Captain Shakespear, Leachman 'OC Desert', Parker Pasha; author of The Illicit Adventure, Uncovering the Ancient World, etc.
