Blair’s Conference Speech

I don’t understand why people are going on about the speech Blair made at the Labour party conference this year and saying it is his best ever. It’s not his best ever, unless you define best as patronising, lying, manipulating bastardishness. Out of all the speeches Blair has made, its this one that came the closest to inducing vomiting in me.

I want to make this absolutely clear. Blair is NOT a great communicator. In order to be a great communicator, you need to be actually communicating something worth hearing. I listened to the speech I noticed he actually said very little of any worth. Blair is not a communicator, what he actually is…is a manipulator. Throughout, the speech constantly little pangs on your heart strings, “oh my sons”, “oh the ebil terrorists”, “oh the scum who dare to suggest its foreign policy related” (on which point he is LYING and knows it, by the way…either that or he’s an idiot), “oh I love the party” (which is why he ripped it to pieces in his personal quest for power at any cost), “oh Gordon Brown’s great” (so insincere its almost impressive).

I grew up with emotional blackmail, I learned to recognize it in its many forms and now have a kind of automatic bullshit detector running. Blair’s speech set it off continually. It was a continuous stream of bullshit. A veritable river of bullshit, if you like.
So…let me be the first to say good riddance – I hope Blair’s departure can finally bring some honesty back to politics, but I doubt it.

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