Thank You Tony

Mmmmm, I’ve had a few hours to reflect on the news about London wining the 2012 bid. And maybe all those people being paid to fill the Internet with a positive spin on the story are right after all. Maybe a New Era has dawned. And if it has, there’s one person we all have to thank for that. Yes …

Tony Blair

In just the last couple of months Tony has:

• Secured an historic third term for a political party with the word ‘Labour’ in its name
• Initiated fundamental and necessary reform of the European Union
• Taken the necessary steps to abolish global poverty
• Put measures in place that will ultimately save humanity from the threat of global warming
  
• Maintained the coalition that is bringing democracy to the Islamic World
• Bagged the 2012 Olympics for London, solely through the power of his charisma.
• Generally brought the UK ever-nearer to becoming the New Eden

And, I must confess, until today I’ve been blind to all of this and of all Tony’s other achievements. I am a jaded, negative person whose only hope may lie in painful electrotherapy, self-flagellation and extensive drug taking; though that’s what may have got me this way in the first place.

I have thought of a way to achieve redemption though. A quick Google search indicates that nobody has yet had the sense to set up a Tony Blair Appreciation Society. I may be still able to make amends by getting one going, call it something like ToBASco and put together a member’s pack including a Tony badge, Tony wall poster and a quarterly Tony Fanzine. He deserves it ...

(category: political stuff)