first rough draft

Just got an e-mail from the British Library. They apparently want to make a copy of Blood & Treasure and store it as part of their web archive.

Which in turn means that on this historic day I am now an Official Historical Source. Apparently you also get a peaked cap, a commissionaire’s uniform encrusted with gold braid and a little badge with “I’m important, me” engraved on it in finest Tanzanite. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s post.

But meanwhile, being an Official Historical Source carries with it certain obligations. I am History itself, no less, and I must Speak.

So can I just say that the outgoing Prime Minister is a pious conman; a vile, wheedling dog; an authoritarian creep; a toady of the powerful and a menace to the powerless; a man of blood and an unindicted war criminal; a damp-handed, grinning psychopath; a receiver of rich men’s gifts; a pimp of morality; a breaker of nations and a wrecker of lives; a betrayer of friends and a disgrace to his party and nation; a canting knave; a lickspittle, a wankstain and a cuntbubble; a lying sack of shit who should be encased in concrete and hurled into the Marianas trench. He leaves a country divided - divided between those who wouldn't piss on him if he was burning in the gutter and those who want to throw him in the gutter and set fire to him.

This lacks a certain nuance, but first rough drafts and all that.

Comments

[commenter]

I think Blair's great, and those who fume against him are generally a bunch of arseholes.

I feel the hand of history on my shoulder as I type these immortal words.

[Mark Wadsworth]

But what if you could piss petrol? Would you piss on him then?

[Cleanthes]

No: he'd tax you for it (or jail you for unlicensed and/or reckless distribution of a flammable substance).

[dearieme]

Ah, at least he's brought The Left and The Right together: we all despise him.

[davesgonechina]

So will comments enter the British Library too? Cuz I could throw in a bit about Bush...

[jamie]

Don't know, but go ahead. keep it to vulgar abuse though, since that's not actionable as libel.

[Alfred of Wessex]

Copied verbatim (with acknowledgement of course) on my own blog. Posted links as comments on Guido Fawkes and the Remittance Man.

[fidothedog]

brilliant, the ultimate comment I have ever heard about Blair. Well said sir, and the only thing he has managed to get is conservatives and socialists both agreeing that he needs to go.