Posted 11:18 AM by Paul
Blair Hits New Levels of Sadness

Many people have commented on the insensitivity of Tony Blair going ahead with his family holiday in the Caribbean idyl of Barbados whilst British troops and UN workers are being blown-up in Iraq. Many people feel uncomfortable about the Blairs sunning themselves whilst the Hutton inquiry rolls on, revealing startling evidence about the background to the tragic suicide of Dr. Kelly, the Government's pre-eminent chemical weapons expert. I don't hold that view. Everybody deserves a holiday with the kids, even if they are the most reviled British PM since the last one. But weirder news has emerged from the Caribbean.

It seems that the Blairs are staying at the mansion of Cliff Richard, that most sad and kitsch pop icon from the 60s and 70s. OK - he has had hits in the modern era but one of them involved him intoning a version of the Lords Prayer to a slow electro beat. And to think - Blair seemed so young, so fresh. It's as if you found out that Clinton had secretly been hanging out with Pat Boone and that JFK had preferred the company of Liberace to Tony Bennet.

This is the end of Cool Brittania. The New Labour Government and its ageing leader are officially SAD Labour.