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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Confidence Man

David Cameron is stealing his cassock, but the Vicar of Downing Street is putting a plucky face on things. He faces "tough times", he admits, but nevertheless he feels a "tremendous sense of confidence" that everything will be all right, at least for the Vicar of Downing Street.

"In the end political leadership is about making the decisions that are right for the country," he said. The question of how the rightness of these decisions is determined does not seem to have come up. Perhaps a tremendous sense of confidence is enough.

"Step by step," the poodle of power continued, "we are implementing the agenda that the public wants to see, that we were elected in May (sic)." Assuming optimistically that all those who voted Labour in May want to see Tony's entire agenda implemented, Tony disqualifies from the British public sixty-odd per cent of the voters, to say nothing of our ever-growing Abstention Party. After all, if people can't be relied on to vote for what is "necessary to improve and modernise this country for the 21st century", they can hardly expect Tony to bother his head about them. One day, when we all find out at last what Britishness means, perhaps this poor self-destructive majority can somehow be re-integrated into society, if not exactly taken to our hearts.

Tony also explained why he is a "different politician" from when he invented New Labour in 1994: "politics in the end, is about the long term interests of this country and following it through." In order to follow anything through in the long term, naturally one must change one's mind about it, as when the long-term occupation of Iraq was carried out first because of the weapons of mass nonexistence and later because Saddam Hussein tortured people in places like Abu Ghraib. We're following that one through, to be sure.

Again, the sources of Tony's insights into the country's long-term interests, or the prescience by which he gains knowledge of future circumstances, are not revealed. But he has a tremendous sense of confidence, so that's all right.

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