Joanna Bogle Offers Much-Needed Perspective to Americans Infatuated With Tony Blair
Joanna Bogle appears to have little patience with American notions of Tony Blair:
Email from an American correspondent who - like many across the pond - seems to think that Blair is a man of integrity who "may become a Catholic". For goodness' sake, let's get this right. Of course Blair will officially join the Catholic Church once he ceases to be Prime Minister - he knows perfectly well that it is the only Church with any power. There's no status or useful platform in Anglicanism. As a pro-abortion Catholic (he has a 100 per cent pro-abortion voting record) and a campaigner for the whole "homosexual-rights" agenda (he was chief guest at their debauched show at the Royal Albert Hall to raise cash for a militant gay-rights initiative), he will have massive scope for his new career, while Cherie will amost certainly have a role as some sort of roving ambassador for a revamped "Catholics for a Free Choice" type of organisation. Her big fund-raiser at 10 Downing Street in aid of Planned Parenthood a while back was a success: it ensured a great start tyo the scheme to distribute coloured and fruit-flavoured condoms (I'm not inventing this) to teenagers under the slogan "Lust for Life."My Comments:
Blair has played a major political role in ensuring the collapse of morals in our country. He has led us into an appalling war [ED.: This is, actually, one of the few things I believe he's gotten right - but that's me talking as an American grateful for his support] which will result in the destruction of one of the few countries in the Middle East where there were reasonably strong Christian communities, which may well now disappear [ED.: Well, I think there was a little more to Iraq under Saddam than being a "safe haven" for Christians - it wasn't so "safe" for Kurds and Shi'ites]. Our Armed Forces are under extreme pressure, our crime rate soars, and Government policies openly promote schemes to smash traditional marriage and family life. Yet deluded Americans still talk about "Tony Blair, man of integrity".....please, please look at what is actually happening, and don't have an image of Britain that is based on 1950s films!
(emphasis and editorial commentary added)
I have written before of feeling comforted by Tony Blair's strong words of support for America while Sarah and I were on our honeymoon in Scotland following September 11. For that, I will be eternally grateful to the man.
Nevertheless, I don't believe there is any arguing with Mrs. Bogle's assertion that Blair has played a key roll in the collapse of traditional values in the U.K. Despite our respect for Blair on this side of the pond for his stalwartness to the Great Alliance, in many respects, his leadership has been an absolute disaster for Great Britain.
posted by Pro Ecclesia 8:33 AM
4 comments
4 Comments:
Jay;
I would say the same thing about Lieberman. While he is very much in support of our war against the Islamist, he has done quite a bit to damage family values here.
Oliver;
spot on!
Yes, but wouldn't you say that being married to Cherie is such a stupendous penance for all his sins?
I'm British, have never voted Labour, am not a catholic - in fact I'm not religious - but I think my fellow-countrymen are absolute idiots to stand by and watch the Labour party dump Tony Blair. He has NOT presided over or caused a lowering of moral values and standards in this country. That started in Thatcher's time in the 1980s, or even before that in the 1960s. Blair's association with the other two Bs has been his downfall - Bush and Brown. I still support his stance on Iraq, though I never voted for him. I support him as our democratically elected leader, who is now taking ALL the flak for his and his cabinet's decisions. Who else am I going to support? The opposition Tories who would have done the same thing? They support Blair's Iraq policy anyway. Or Saddam Hussein? Or Osama Bin Laden?
And his old friend Gordon Brown (get used to the name, folks) has been behind all the plots and Shakespearian angst surrounding Blair. Of that, despite Brown's denial, I am sure. Blair still won't back him as his successor, despite their long-standing understanding. That tells you something.
By the way, I admire the American people's ability to understand the complexities of the terror threats facing the world. The comments on British blogs such as The Guardian newspaper and even BBC sites seem to have all been written by one brain! And a small one at that. They spew out vitriol and venom towards Blair. They forget the advances he has made to the country's fortunes, domestically and intenationally. They, almost to a man, hold our Prime Minister responsible for everything wrong in the world it would seem. And yet, they accuse him of mind-control!
Anyway, I may be on my own, but I have a blog called Keep Tony Blair For PM. Google it if you are interested. If he ever hears of it, at least he'll know he has a couple of friends left in the world.
If you are a "friend" please make a visit. I'm not publishing nasty, violent, anti-war stuff from the hang and flog Blair brigade, aka the anti-Iraq pacifists ;0)
Only intelligently argued comments please.
Post a Comment
<< Home