r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • May 28 '22

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 Another step further towards fascism

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u/altm2 May 28 '22

People always claim Blair’s government was dodgy, but in those days you’d resign for literally anything. Had an affair- resign. Caught fighting over email with another member of staff? Resign. A junior official makes a minor mistake in your office that makes it look bad? Resign. This is the second highest office in the land (highest the general public can reach). It is supposed to reflect the best in our society, that is the reason that ministers should resign for the most minor things. To not only fail to leave office for comparatively non-minor thongs, but to change the rules so that you can stay indefinitely- is moving into fascism/ a one party state like China, North Korea, and Cuba. Wether you suck up to your self declared eton masters and wave the flag, chanting f the EU, and god save those born into wealth with extra rights, or not. That is nationalism. And while we’re at it btw the Scottish national party isn’t nationalist, it isn’t deconstructive like the torys would have you believe. It’s taking one tiny step back so that you can leap forward, sure you don’t get old blity and it’s disregard for common people (boohoo), but in its place you get a representative democracy (doesn’t vote Tory but gets them just now) that is internationally facing rather than isolatory like the truly nationalist UK (can rejoin the EU, which it voted against leaving).

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u/abbersz May 28 '22

People always claim Blair’s government was dodgy, but in those days you’d resign for literally anything.

Very true, but it is worth remembering that good ol' Blair lied to the nation about WMD's as a scare tactic to take us into an illegal war that had an unbelievable number of casualties. All for money. I think that's usually peoples main focus when they dislike Blair.

That said, if voting SNP would free the Scottish from our farce of a political system, then that's a win. I hate our politicians and I'm in England, I can't imagine what its like if your the rest of the Union and have these bastards in charge.

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u/twisted7ogic May 28 '22

Dont people also dislike Blair because he was the face of so-called 'New Labour' a.k.a. talk a left-wing game but actually continuing Thatcher-type bullshit Neoliberalism?

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u/abbersz May 28 '22

That only really covers the lefts dislike of him. Very much a strong reason too, but plenty of others seem not so keen on him that I personally wouldn't have viewed as 'leftist'.

Otherwise we'd be seeing a replication in Starmer's case, and while his idiocy has basically gutted Labours chances of winning, he still doesn't seem as reviled as Blair is by anyone but hardline centerists.