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EMPEROR BLAIR'S LOSS OF REALITY IS NOW TOTAL

HE is FINISHED but WILL HE GO?

Emperor Blair’s loss of reality is now total.

PETER OBORNE

ON POLITICS AND POWER

[WE WELCOME] in the words of the

Daily Mail

of Saturday, September 23, 2006

PETER OBORNE

‘Provocative. Impeccably informed. Britain’s premier commentator joins the Mail.

BRITISH politics this weekend is defined by one gruesome paradox.

TONY BLAIR IS FINISHED.

Yet he still commands, or at any rate makes, regular appearances on the stage. There is endless, lively speculation about how much longer he will remain

PRIME MINISTER.

Some surmise that he will amaze everyone and announce his resignation at the party conference speech in Manchester next Tuesday, [September 26-2006].

Those who care for Tony Blair, and want him to preserve his health and in due course regain his sanity ought to be urging him to take this wholly sensible precaution. It would guarantee him waves of affectionate applause from delegates and save him from some of the dark, personal traumas that otherwise lie ahead.

A much larger group, however, contends that the Prime Minister will cling on through conference,

through Christmas, deep into the New Year and forward into the local government elections next spring.

This group maintains that two animating factors have come to dominate the Prime Minister.

One by no means to be underestimated is VANITY. He and his wife desperately wish to stay in Downing Street until the tenth anniversary of their famous landslide victory of May 1997.

The other factor, more potent by far is HATRED.

Last week, a senior aide to the Prime Minister revealed Blair’s strategy, and illuminated his state of mind, at a Westminster dinner:

‘He will stay until the end of May and perhaps by then we will find someone who is capable of beating David Cameron.’

Tony Blair and those close to him are determined to prevent Gordon Brown reaching Downing Street and in the likely event that they fail, they are determined to ensure that the Brown premiership is a disaster.

THOSE wishing to understand contemporary politics simply must read the great French novelist Honore de Balzac, who fundamentally understood the primeval brutality of simple, untamed emotion.

[Hatred: Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.’ Balzac. ]

Balzac shows again and again how minor resentments, when nursed carefully and accumulated over time, can come to dominate and horribly distort the mental life of a human being. We have reached this monstrous stage at the heart of

BRITISH POLITICS.

The LOSS of REALITY is now TOTAL.

Although neither Tony Blair nor his entourage can bring themselves to acknowledge as much, the Prime Minister no longer counts in GOVERNMENT

-except for the admittedly noteworthy and striking reality that he can continue to call himself

PRIME MINISTER.

The Tory premier Anthony Eden found himself in the same straitjacket during the short period that elapsed between the British invasion of Egypt on November 5, 1956, and his resignation on January 9, 1957.

As Eden learnt, and poor Blair must now be discovering, this impotence is a terrible humiliation, made infinitely worse by the vivid recollection of an earlier period of respect.

There have been two outstanding examples of total loss of authority over the past fortnight, one involving foreign and the other domestic policy.

THE FIRST: was Tony Blair’s curious visit to the Middle East in an attempt to move forward the ‘peace process’. It achieved NOTHING and could NEVER have

DONE SO.

The Prime Minister, with the minutes ticking down to his departure, has become, leaving aside the agreeable prospect of the U.S lecture circuit, an

INTERNATIONAL NOBODY.

His promises, which were never to be relied on at the best of times, are now wholly without value because he will NOT be around to ACCOUNT for THEM.

The demonstration of hopelessness abroad was matched at home last week when Downing Street suddenly announced a series of ten-year strategy groups aimed at giving badly needed direction to domestic policy [after the unprecedented disasters of almost 10-years of BLAIRDOM].

None of them could gain any support, and all were shelved within a matter of days.

It is well worth bearing in mind that these humiliating episodes are by no means

UNIQUE.

Downing Street is snubbed or slighted a hundred times or more a day in minor, unpublicised ways.

For some time, civil servants have been asserting privately that

BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Is in paralysis – a state of affairs that will persist until Blair finally bows to the inevitable and is replaced by a

NEW LEADER

With a

MANDATE and AUTHORITY

To take a fresh grip on affairs.

When I first became a political reporter in the early 1990’s, there was a venerable Conservative MP called Sir Bernard Braine. He retired at the 1992 General Election, but suffered from memory loss or some other disorder and could not comprehend he was no longer an MP. So every day after lunch he would make his way to Parliament and march confidently into the Members Lobby.

Only when he got to the actual door of the Commons chamber itself, and was trying to make his way in, did the authorities intervene. I used to watch as the policeman took Sir Bernard aside and led him away. Sometimes, one of his former colleagues would take pity on him and buy him a cup of tea.

There is the faintest hint of Sir Bernard’s bafflement as the Prime Minister gets used to constant rejection around the

CORRIDORS of POWER.

And this is the situation as Labour starts to gather for its annual party conference: vacancy at the centre-disaffection on the periphery; an undeclared battle; a prime minister who has long since lost sight of the distinction between the

NATIONAL

And his

PRIVATE INTERESTS;

NO AUTHORITY; GATHERING CHAOS.

The future trajectory of politics, for the first time in 12 years, is impossible to predict.

And YET it would be wholly wrong to feel gloomy. Although the BLAIR’S years have seen a disastrous experiment in POLITICS, the are coming to an END.

The NEW LABOUR project was built around DECEIT and MANIPULATION, has systematically

UNDERMINED the GREAT DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS

Of the

STATE

-and has done terrible and lasting damage by destroying

TRUST in POLITICS.

In future columns I will try to show that although a period of

POLITICAL ANARCHY

- now lies ahead of us, this could yet be turned into a creative and memorable period in our

- NATIONAL LIFE.

Sadly, as I shall also argue in future columns, not one of Blair’s putative successors has yet shown the he or she understands the nature of the contemporary political predicament.

BOTH Gordon Brown and David Cameron have, for undisclosed reasons of their own, chosen to present themselves as the natural successor.

BOTH USE BLAIRITE TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGEMS.

BUT

BRITAIN

Is crying out for a

POLITICIAN

With the vision and the courage to utterly reject Blair’s rotten method of government –and

START AFRESH.

[Unfortunately the signs are not great but Gordon Brown has mentioned the word that puts SERVICE to one’s VALUES and to COUNTRY above ALL ELSE an instinctive natural reaction by those who place the

GOOD of their COUNTRY

Before personal aggrandisement and POWER.

As we have so often we will quote the words of Lord Acton (1834-1902–the erudite historian –

a Regius professor of Modern History at Cambridge

A man of his time in international understanding –

The inspiration and driving force behind the

Cambridge Modern History.

‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are always bad men.’

We fear that now the true extent of what can be achieved by a man who had no time for history or for the cherished institutions of which he was the guardian and prime minister with the majority of his MPs and those of the so-called Opposition who certainly did

NOT PROTECT ENGLISH VALUES

and the centuries old

CHECKS and BALANCES

to prevent a

DICTATORSHIP.

The failure was not only Tony Blair’s and his Scottish clan and English traitors it was EVERY MP who allowed it to happen.

As MPs have tasted the forbidden fruit of unlimited POWER they can no longer be trusted as the future guardians of our

ANCIENT CONSTITUTION

Without changes to the way that MPs can no longer be assured of a long TENURE in YOUR

HOUSE of COMMONS

We advocated some time ago that Members of Parliament should not be chosen as MPs after they have already served a period between General Elections but could be selected on each alternative full term of Parliament.

This would make the MP not so keen to follow the Government or even the Opposition line if they felt it was against the nations interest.

At present the possibility of being deselected is a barrier to independent thought and action. The vote for the Iraq war would not have been passed as many more members would have not supported their leaders.

Let them prove their Integrity and Freedom

TRUE DISINTERESTEDNESS

by supporting the needful changes which will take away the unlimited POWER

of the

EXECUTIVE.

A written CONSTITUTION

to protect our

ANCIENT

Rights and Liberties.

And

The withdrawal from the European Union

-which is incompatible with the history and manners of our PEOPLE.

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[Font altered-bolding & underlining used –comments in brackets]

We include a few quotes from:

HONORE DE BALZAC

(1799-1850)

With you know who in mind.

Amusements:-

‘If those who are enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the SPRING and YOUTH, the former from the year, the latter from human life.’

[We in our day have suffered from the politically-correct idiots –

The Health & Safety cranks and much more and we can see all around us the LEGACY of Tony Blair which regrettably may remain with us until sense returns to POLITICS]

EVASION:-

‘EVASION is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.’

BALZAC

[What we have in mind is the use of ‘doubtful words to deceive’ as characteristic of the loyal ventriloquist dummies which abound in Blairite ranks. We hope their master may find a place for them in his coming masterpiece

HOW I DECEIVED THE PEOPLE THREE TIMES AND THEY DIDN ‘T KNOW IT. ]

Shakespeare - however has some advice for Tony Blair on the matter of

DELAY.

‘In delay we waste our lights in vain; like lamps by day.’

And finally in the word we are all concerned about with Tony Blair and his bunch of clowns;

THE END.

‘Let the end try the man.’

[We all hope so]

Shakespeare.

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[We and no doubt millions watched Tony Blair’s speech at the Labour Conference in Manchester on the afternoon of Tuesday 26^th September -2006.

It was an impassioned speech which only Tony Blair could carry out with conviction. It was a tragedy that such a man could have done so much harm to his country and yet as the epitome of spin was able to give the audience the impression that he was always right and that they must never forget what difference he had made to their lives and others particularly in Africa and keep up the ‘good work’ which his foresight had engendered since his first election victory in 1997..

Towards the end no doubt some hoped that he would mention the word of his imminent exit from the world stage –but which expectedly it was not to be. ]

‘A man who does not know what has been thought by those who have gone before him is sure to set an undue value upon his own ideas’

M. Pattison.

‘All our hopes of the future depend on a sound understanding of the past.’

Frederick Harrison,

The Meaning of History

‘He who has learnt to understand the true character and tendency of many succeeding ages is not likely to go far wrong in estimating his own.-

Lecky, Value of History.

‘The question which is at the bottom of all constitutional struggles, the question between the national will and national law.’

Gardiner Documents

‘LIBERTY, in fact, means just as it is realised, the right man in the right place.’

Sir J. R. Seeley –Lectures and Essays.

[Regius professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge]

[In the dangerous years of the early 21^st century we need such a man urgently –

Not in a year –

Not in a few months –but yesterday.

The nation’s reputation and its peoples are bleeding and we need the right pilot to guide our nation with JUSTICE and TRUTH

with determination in the dangerous and difficult years ahead.

As one of the most difficult and greatest dangers is facing our country from within – it is in the matter of beliefs we quote from the philosopher A. Sidgwick on ‘Distinction and Criticism of Beliefs.’

‘We may seek for agreement somewhere with our neighbours, using that as a point of departure for the sake of argument. It is this latter course that I wish here to explain and defend. The method is simple enough, though not yet very familiar.-

It aims at conciliation; it proceeds by making the best of our opponent’s case, instead of taking him at his worst.’

And to those who deride morality and say it has no place in politics:

‘Think not that morality is ambulatory; that vices in one age are not vices in another, or that virtues, which are under the everlasting seal of right reason, may be stamped by opinion.’

Sir Thomas Browne, Works, iv. 64.

History, says Froude, does teach that right and wrong are real distinctions. Opinions alter manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. And if there are moments when we may resist the teaching of Froude, we have seldom the chance of resisting when he is supported by Mr Goldwin Smith:

[And as we all know in 2006]

‘A sound historical morality will sanction strong measures in evil times;

selfish ambition, treachery, murder, perjury, it will never sanction in the worst of times, for these are the things that make times evil –

Justice has been justice, Mercy has been mercy, Honour has been honour, Good faith has been good faith

Truthfulness has been truthfulness from the beginning”

[Except in Blairdom]

The doctrine that as Sir Thomas Browne says, morality is not ambulatory, is expressed as follows by [Edmund] Burke, [the great 18^th century parliamentarian] who when true to himself, is the most intelligent of our instructors:

“My principles enable me to form my judgement upon men and actions in history, just as they do in common life; and are not formed out of events and characters, either present or past. History is a preceptor of prudence, not of principles.

The principles of true politics are those of morally enlarged; and I neither now do, nor ever will admit of any other.”

Much of the above content from Lord Acton’s

THE STUDY OF HISTORY

And

LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY

We await the man of the hour –if he is the chosen one –

for time is not on our side and a new epoch and direction are vital to our survival as an independent and stolid force for good in the dangerous years ahead as our past history has in the main shown until the last nine years when our reputation has been despoiled for ambition and power and corruption and treachery have been unpunished and the

RULE of LAW

And our

CONSTUITUTION

- flouted and damaged and diminished before our eyes.

We await the day when

‘Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other

PSALMS [84:10]

At a time of hope in our past troubled history at the rebirth of a nation - in the words of one of our greatest poets

John Milton (1608-1674)

‘Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep , and shaking her invincible locks Methinks I can see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full midday beam…

An extract from Areopagitica

‘Speech for Liberty of unlicensed Printing,’

to the

Parliament

ENGLAND

‘Milton’s “ speech” is one of the best examples of his prose, but aside from its literary merits it is memorable because of its influence on Erskine and other great Englishmen and Americans who were inspired

by it to make the struggle for the freedom of speech which they regarded as the prerequisite of a higher civilisation.’

The last few lines of the speech of the extensive poem:-

‘Give me the liberty to know, , to utter and to argue freely according to conscience , above all liberties.

FREE SPEECH AND

ENGLAND ARE ONE.

To Blair’s successor we remind that individual of the words of our greatest poet:

‘Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country’s, thy Gods. And truth’s.-

Shakespeare.

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SEPTEMBER/06

Q&A: The Lisbon Treaty-2008

Leaders of the European Union's 27 member states meet in Portugal this week to sign what will now become known as the Lisbon Treaty.

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The abolition of Britain
by The Reform Treaty
- Second Reading-Passed by majority of 138

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Veteran parliamentarian TONY BENN speaks of the absolute necessity of a

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