Bankrupt Legacies

Posted on March 1, 2008
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When Mrs Thatcher was playing Oliver Hardy to Ronald Reagan’s Stan Laurel, everyone thought their time had come.

We were all going to live in lands flowing with milk and honey and riches and comfort would befall us all the days of our lives, even if we were going to have to behave like ravening wolves to achieve it.

To nobody’s great surprise, it did not quite work according to plan. Things just went on pretty much as normal, with the rich getting richer and the poor picking up the bill.

We all woke up to find we had been conned.

Then along came Tony Blair selling the same old claptrap and everyone got fooled again.

As that heavyweight of political thought, George Bush, would say:

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”

No, it doesn’t make any sense, but you can see what his poor little brain is aiming at.

We all know that these bankrupt ideas have made a very few people repugnantly rich and the world in general a poorer place. As Polly Toynbee writing in The Guardian shows, people are now wise to all this nonsense.

The problem is, how soon will it be before the politicians catch up?

Tony Blair’s legacy is that he was a pantomime Mrs Thatcher in drag who managed to take the farce on tour for one long, last show before all the costumes and props unravelled and collapsed on the rickety stage and everyone saw the horror of the real ugliness of the players beneath the peeling and running greasepaint masks.

Not much to show for ten years in power.

What will Gordon Brown’s legacy be for the couple of years he will have at the big top of the political circus?

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