Fuck off, Tony
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2024
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Blair trying to pick up where we left off 14 years ago with the same policy that did the most to cause the last 14 years. I'm done with this man.
LOL. ID cards are literally one of the toxic New Labour policies that turned the electorate against them last time.
Tony calling Kier, telling him to invade Iraq, introduce more tuition fees
Blair needs to stop sticking his oar in and give the new government time and space to crack on with fixing the mess left by the Tories. I'm sure ministers have better things to do than shoot down his bad ideas.
Blair needs to ~~stop sticking his oar in and give the new government time and space to crack on with fixing the mess left by the Tories. I’m sure ministers have better things to do than shoot down his bad ideas.~~ be dragged off to prison for war crimes.
Tomatyo, Tomahto.
It's why I've never been allowed to meet him, despite him being a friend of the family. I might say I'd be diplomatic as I don't wish to upset any relatives but I know I may not be able to stick to that and so does my family.
Yeah, on the other hand he's never going to face up to what he's done so you're right, he probably shouldn't have brought up the single most authoritarian policy New Labour ever proposed.
Some time around the Iraq War he passed a kind of morality event horizon.
He's pathological. He's spent 20+ years telling us ID cards are the solution to whatever the problem of the day happens to be - benefit fraud, terrorism, illegal immigration, whatever people happen to be talking about that week. Meanwhile, he's yet to give any convincing argument as to what we're all supposed to do when his ID card database - containing all our biometric information and all the government's data on us, centralised into one convenient place - inevitably gets hacked. Does he have a contract with an ID card company or something?
I don't think it'd even need a hacker. If previous performance is anything to go by, either an MP will leave it on a train or they'll just sell it to some corporation eventually.
The man is obsessed.