The Dear Leader has announced that June 27th 2007 is the day we will be free of him. I will open a bot­tle of Bollinger on that day in cel­e­bra­tion. And pos­si­bly sev­eral. The sight of a nearly tear­ful Blair telling us what a priv­i­lege it was for us to serve him, Oh sorry, wrong way round — him us, was repel­lent. At least when Mag­gie Thatcher was ejected from office she had the grace to afford us the priv­i­lege of laugh­ing and rev­el­ling at her weep­ing sob­bing distress.

In the mean­time the health ser­vice is decay­ing into some Amer­i­can abor­tion where crit­i­cal care is denied unless peo­ple want to pay; civil lib­er­ties have been cas­trated into a pop­ulist farce; cor­rup­tion in pol­i­tics has accel­er­ated to new heights; Blair has engaged in ille­gal wars on the instruc­tions of a for­eign politi­cian and so on. There is no con­cept of pub­lic ser­vice; all that mat­ters is whether some­one can make a profit on pub­lic ser­vice with the peo­ple get­ting an inci­den­tal ben­e­fit in the mean­time; hun­dreds of bil­lions wasted in cor­po­rate wel­fare; always talk­ing of tak­ing hard deci­sions while in fact tak­ing the eas­i­est ones; pre­tend­ing to do what he thought was right while in real­ity tak­ing the per­son­ally most ben­e­fi­cial inter­est, and so on and on.

The Dear Leader said:

“Hand on heart, I did what I believed was right …”

Tony, we didn’t hire you to ‘have a go’. You have, arguably, the high­est job in the land, with the influ­ence power stratos­pheric salary opu­lent retire­ment ben­e­fits that are inevitably inci­den­tal; and all the pam­per­ing even the most inflated ego, bar Geeklawyer’s, could absorb. But in return we require, as your part of the deal, the effec­tu­a­tion of a great (or at least com­pe­tent) job, not your ‘best’ and most sin­cere effort — if that low stan­dard was all that was required we’d have yanked a 16 year old off the dole queue for a shot at the mar­ble throne.

We also hired you to be hon­est. And to act in the UK rather than US inter­est. You talk of doing ‘what was right regard­less of pub­lic opin­ion’ but you led pol­icy straight from the opin­ion poll or US pres­i­den­tial opin­ion & not prin­ci­ple or morals.

Fuck­wit: you have failed us and got per­son­ally vastly richer in the process. Geeklawyer reaf­firms his hope that Al Qaeda will bide their time until your secu­rity slacks off a bit and then whack you. And your wife and chil­dren. And par­ents. And col­leagues. And friends. And any­one who ever met you.

He said:

“This is the great­est coun­try in the World …”

Sick bag please.

“Sweep­ing away the detri­tus of the past.”

You are the past & putting you in the bin is one act of menial labour Geeklawyer will hap­pily under­take (though it’s be eas­ier to hire a Solic­i­tor Inad­e­quate — Ruthie?).

… I Apol­o­gise for the times I’ve fallen short.”

Apol­ogy not accepted, you cunt.

But let’s be fair — no-one is all bad, let’s look at those pos­i­tive things in his legacy:

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In the mean­time let us look out for some­one detail­ing his US speak­ing cir­cuit earn­ings. Per­haps he will do a CharonQC pod­cast? After all there is no rea­son why Charon should always have good interviewees.