How dare Tony Blair call us unpatriotic

The Sun ^ | June 2, 2003 | Richard LittleJohn

[ejdrapes]

	How dare Tony Blair call us unpatriotic HOW dare he? How bloody dare he? It was the most despicable speech ever made by a serving British Prime Minister. Blair got on his hind legs in Poland and trashed everyone who has the audacity to believe that Britain should be an independent, sovereign nation. Opposition to surrendering what is left of our right to self-government, he declared, is not patriotic. Come again, son. Not patriotic? We’ve grown accustomed to his lies, his evasion, his distortion of the truth. But this one took the Jaffa Cake. It wasn’t spin, it wasn’t just another way of selling a policy. It was a monstrous slander on the people he is paid to represent. Blair crossed the line. He has forfeited the right to lead our country. How does sticking up for the right to defend our borders, pass our own laws and run our own economy make us unpatriotic? That is the very essence of patriotism. Presumably, in 1939 Blair would have thought the patriotic thing to do would be to hand the keys over to Hitler. Believe it or not, I have always tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. Since 9/11 I’ve backed him all the way in standing with the USA in the war on terror. So have lots of other good people who in the normal course of events are not natural Blairites. But his remarks in Warsaw put him beyond the pale. What kind of Prime Minister goes abroad to deliver an ocean-going bucketload to his own people? How can he urge the Poles to vote for the European constitution while ruthlessly denying the British a referendum? More than half of us, according to the latest polls, want to get out of Europe altogether rather than cede any more power to Brussels. Are we all “unpatriotic”? Quite the reverse. The British people are just waking up to the nightmare of the disastrous entanglement in Europe begun by the disgraceful Grocer Heath. What is it with Blair? He hates this country and most of us who live here. He is hell-bent on destroying 1,000 years of history. Blair is ashamed of his own people ... which might explain why he thinks it's such a good idea to dismantle our borders and import a whole new people But why? Was it something that happened to him at public school? Was he bullied, roasted — or worse? Goodness knows. I have been wrestling with the question of what makes Blair tick for years. Greater minds than mine can’t work it out, either. The simple solution would be to put it down to the madness which engulfs most Prime Ministers after a few years. The WW set the controls for the heart of the sun some time ago. Maybe Blair’s caught up with her at last. But this has been his endgame all along. I simply don’t understand why anyone goes into politics to destroy their own country and hand it over to foreigners. I first floated the President of Europe theory a while back. But surely he must realise that he’ll get kippered by the Franco-German axis. The French even turned off the air conditioning yesterday to make Blair look sweaty and shifty at his press conference. These are not people you can do business with. And while we’re on the subject, what was Blair doing giving a Press conference at the very time the congregation was turning up at the Abbey to celebrate 50 years of the coronation? Why wasn’t Blair in London at the service? It was only a short plane ride away. I’m sure no one in Evian would have minded. Why was he sucking up to Jacques Chirac instead of paying proper respect to Her Maj? He may not like the idea of royalty, but tens of millions do. And his job is to represent those people. His rank bad manners towards the royals are in danger of turning even me into a monarchist. Certainly, given the option, most British people would rather live in a free, benign kingdom nominally ruled by a kindly old granny than in a federal susperstate run by foreigners, with their tidy minds, armed with their railway timetables and oppressive “human rights” laws. That makes them “unpatriotic” in the Orwellian Mickey Mouse world which Blair seems to live in. (Probably one too many metaphors, but you get the drift.) Blair is ashamed of his own people. We have let him down. Which might explain why he thinks it’s such a good idea to dismantle our borders and import a whole new people. It is Blair who is out of step, Blair who is unpatriotic. I repeat, how bloody dare he?

[Drango]

But this one took the Jaffa Cake.

I hate it when that happens, whatever it is.

[MEG33]

This is a mistake ,Mr Blair.

[11B3]

I've posted this before, but it bears repeating:

If Blair signs the EU Consitution giving away Britain's sovereignty, then the British people must have a revolution. Your military will support you, as would ours.

The EU Must Be Stopped, By Force If Necessary.

[Cheapskate]

In the immortal words of Jim Morrison(the lizard king)
"he wants the world and he wants it now"

[David Isaac]

Blair is far from the only head of state who is a blatant internationalist. The two presidents preceding W., were. Now, with Blair's seemingly contradictory behavior, I have to wonder about some of our other presidents.

If the battle is to be won against the Union of European Socialist Republics, it will be the British and the "new" Europeans who will carry the load. That is, if the New Europe can get other its fixation of being "included" with the old (and very tired, as well as tiring) Europe. But, as with us, they will have to work past what passes for their leadership.

[G.Mason]

Take your "Bloody" blinders off, Richard Littlejohn.

"A thousand years of history", indeed.

Don't look now but London isn't "English" anymore.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I hate it when that happens, whatever it is.

I know what Jaffas are - they are a chocolate spherical candy with a thin orange flavored crunchy crust. Quite good. (That is, if you like an orange/chocolate combo.) Jaffa cake -- orange/chocolate cake? Dunno. Just guessing.

[alnitak]

What you have described *is* a Jaffa cake; Jaffa is just a shortened version.

A jaffa is also a seedless orange.

A jaffa is also a cricketing term, for a ball that is pretty much unplayable, perhaps because such a delivery is considered "juicy" - see orange.

BTW, The expression means to take the mickey.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I just remember buying the Jaffa candies and heading off to the cinema (particlarly the ol' civic cinema before it was remodelled), and stomping my feet on the wooden floor (along with other uni colleagues) and rolling our jaffas on the aisles. The midnight showing of Ben Hur was so very cool in terms of audience participation.

[Drango]

BTW, The expression means to take the mickey.

HUH?

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From Lisa Russell-Pinson: “While I was an exchange student in England, I heard the phrase to take the Mickey, meaning ‘to tease’. Do you know where this expression comes from? Does it have something to do with disdain for the Irish? Is it a euphemism for to take the piss?”

It is, yes. It dates from at least the 1930s in various forms; the oldest version recorded in print, from 1935, is to take the mike out of, as in this from a book with the title Cockney Cavalcade: “He wouldn’t let Pancake ‘take the mike’ out of him”. It’s said to have its origin in the rhyming slang to take the mickey bliss, that means to take the piss. Mickey as a diminutive form of Michael has been common for many years, but how it got together with “bliss” is unknown, so we’ve no idea whether it is a reference to an Irish Mick. As the form first recorded is already elliptical, either the rhyming slang is actually older than the 1930s or some other source has to be looked for. In the 1950s a mock-genteel version to extract the Michael became briefly fashionable.

[gcruse]

" The French even turned off the air conditioning yesterday to make Blair look sweaty and shifty at his press conference. "

And Blair wants to merge England into a society controlled by such petty pissants.