I'm still not sure if my leg was being pulled or not, but a Tory MP friend of mine reports that Labour MPs are being herded into minibuses and shipped off to the Labour Fuehrerbunker so they can celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Dear Leader's 1997 election victory by indulging in a bit of flagwaving outside their Victoria Street HQ. It really is reminiscent of the film DOWNFALL where the Fuehrer emerges from the bunker to shake hands with the Hitler youth to reassure them that everything is really going terribly well.
Meanwhile a message arrives from the Brownshirts on the northern front assuring the Fuehrer that a rescue is I sight.
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Errr... "It really is reminiscent of the film DOWNFALL..." - you mean it is reminiscent of the fall of Berlin. It actually happened like that, that's why it was in the film.
Actually, the comparison is good though, as Stalin's tanks are indeed rolling in.
Does that mean we've got a 50 year brutal Conservative occupation to look forward to?
Great analogy... you really should have no problem now getting selected as a Tory MP with that sort of sense of humour.
... and have you seen the hatefest that is the BBC website's "Have Your Say" on Mr Blair's "legacy"?
What a ridiculous and bad taste comparison. Good work. Keep it up.
To strech this metaphor to breaking point, the head of the leather clad gustapo (aka John Reid) is assuring the great leader that he is still the greatest, whilst everyone else, including Heir Miliband, has given up the pretence. Wait, there's still Mandy, the propoganda maestro. He isn't actually Joseph Goebbels in disguise is he?
Evil genius Propoganda Minister- Mandy
Leather clad Head of the SS/ Gustapo- John Reid
Big fat ugly buffoon- John Prescott
Incompetant General who doesn't know what he's on about- Des Browne
Wait a second Iain- looking at this- surely Hitler's lot haven't been moonlighting as the labour cabinet these past ten years?
nice story. but it's not true.
It is beginning to look like a deliberate Labour strategy to prevent any other parties getting air time before the local/devolved elections. Not to improve the Labour vote - 20,000 volts wouldn't raise that ( though the Leeds Labour party is trying is own methods).
They want to stop us communicating with the electorate - as we might start to get real buy in and win hearts and minds, rather than just benefit from protest.
What it shows is that spin is still supreme for Labour - Democracy is something they just pay lip service to and is only important when it lets them win.
We'll miss him when he's gone. What a terrible indictment of the Labour movement that there isn't anyone other than Brown to lead the party!
I think casting John Prescott as Hermann Goering is just perfect - gross, vain, incompetent, silly...
History does indeed repeat itself as farce, if we wait for long enough.
Doesn't sound true. Maybe a few years ago, but not now. Conservative M.P.'s being mischievous - is it possible?
Yes we will miss him when he has gone not
What in indictment of the Labour movement, that the succession to leader and PM was agreed in a restaurant in Islington in May 1994.
They treat us with contempt.
You would see more democracy in North Korea, at least they get to vote for the leader there...
Sir,
It is my considered view that future generations of the 21st century will look back on the Blair premiership with similar opprobrium to that shown to Neville Chamberlain in the 20th, albeit for wholly different reasons. I fear that they will be dealing with the consequences of Iraq for very many decades to come - the storm is gathering.
Difference between the Conservatives and Labour is stark.
When MrsT was dispatched it took a while for the tory MP's to say "oh god what have we done", Labour MP's are already saying that before Brown's coronation!
Actually, the comparison is good though, as Stalin's tanks are indeed rolling in.
Really, the casualties were enormous but Stalin didn't care. The Reichstag yielded 6000 POWs after fighting room by room.
Not a good analogy really in view of the brutality of that event in history.....a few dainties playing politics always like military metaphors because politics is so bitchy, so childish, frankly so feminised
The only analogy with Berlin 1945 that is apt is the drunken partying with the prostitutes in the Friedrichstrasse as they awaited the end
Will the Brownshirts be there?
"It really is reminiscent of the film DOWNFALL where the Fuehrer emerges from the bunker to shake hands with the Hitler youth to reassure them that everything is really going terribly well."
It really isn't.
Pogo said...
... and have you seen the hatefest that is the BBC website's "Have Your Say" on Mr Blair's "legacy"?
...and have you noticed that the BBC seem to have stopped publishing new comments at 0956?
I suppose it really would be too much to do a Photoshop job sticking Blair's face on the film's Hitler...?
But who is Labour's Comical Ali?
Are we about to witness the last days of the "Liemaster"?
Is this the end of the "Liemaster Republic"?
Will he be made a saint?
Bliars place in history is assures!:
A Liar, incompetent, a traitor, a megalomaniac, the worst Prime Minister in history!.
Keep an eye on him and his pen at the coming EUssr summit.
I do hope Blair has time for a quick glance at comments from well wishers and others on this blog and the BBC News website's 'Have Your Say' section.
At last count, 99.9% of contributors dub Blair as various combinations of the following: 'liar ~ corrupt ~ spin addicted ~ warmonger ~ worse PM in living memory ~ can't wait for the b****rd to go ~ ruined my life ~ ruined my country ~ ruined Iraq ~ responsible for the deaths of 100,000s innocents ~ pauperised me ~ made sure he had a huge pension before he stole mine"
I hope you have a bloody miserable day, Blair and and that your life after number 10 is hell, because you've ruined around 3652 of my days in one form or another and all but destroyed my beloved country.
Auntie Flo'
ed said:
We'll miss him when he's gone
Go and have a lie down, ed
Auntie Flo'
I'm just waiting for Antony Beevor's next book:
"Blair - The Downfall 2007"
I just hope the Conservatives do not commit similar atrocities to the Red Army ;-)
Chris Paul:
You're almost as pathetic as Jo Goebbels in your attempt to defend your glorious leader with your desperately weak sarcasm.
Why don't you just give it up and stop making yourself look like a prat?
(Or have they threatened to harm you unless you stay at your post till the last?)
"Meanwhile a message arrives from the Brownshirts on the northern front assuring the Fuehrer that a rescue is I sight."
The BNP are working with Labour now? Wouldn't surprise me, they're both statist control freaks.
"What a ridiculous and bad taste comparison. Good work. Keep it up."
Get off your high horse. Nobody but a few hypersensitive people would be offended by that. Hitler has always been a great source of humour in popular culture.
I hope the analogy doesn’t run too close. I would feel a bit cheated if we don’t get to put b’Liar on trial first before his execution.
Pogo,
Have you seen the Telegraph's version? "What has ten years of Blair meant for you?"
At the last count there were over 500 responses. Let's just say that those who view the Soon-To-Be-Ex-Dear Leader's record favourably are in a distinct minority.
What is truly mind-boggling from my perspective is, he cannot read the writing on the wall. All of Britain is shrieking its hatred of this vain, vacuous, incompetent ideologue, and he goes around smiling and waving and making comments with what he mistakenly believes is easy charm. As though anyone on planet Earth is interested in anything he has to say, with the exception of "Goodbye forever."
I hate him for what he has done to my beloved country and I want him to suffer. I am hoping for some personal tragedy of some kind - I am not fussy as to what - and temendous loss of face and disappointment in the US.
I don't want him to die, though. I want him to linger, reaping what he has sown in my dear country. It would be lovely if someone could find a way to use his vile Human Rights Act against him.
I started comparing him with Nicolae Ceauçescu around two years ago. May he step out on a balcony to enjoy the adulation of the crowd.
Hold on.
Let's all be very fair and totally objective - if we can - for a second.
How does the hatred for Blair and Labour oozing from every corner honestly compare with that for Major in 1997?
Was it *this* bad for the Conservatives in 97? Or was it just that people were glad to see the back of them, but not so angry?
I can't honestly remember. But I don't recall *this* much hatred and loathing for the Conservatives in 1997 - I just remember people saying "thank god they've gone, it was time for a change".
Seemed much less acrimonious in 97.
No?
It's not just Blair, they're all utterly incompetent, nearly every major Ministry is a shambles.
Anyway, what about the suggestion that Blair will hang on as long as he can to keep out of the clutches of Plod?
Go and have a lie down, ed
Auntie Flo'
It was, as you probably guessed, typed with tongue firmly in cheek. Having said that do we really want Brown's wrecking ball clunking fist to be in charge for a full three years?
"shrieking its hatred"... no Verity, I think that's one thing that you've got a monopoly over...
"But who is Labour's Comical Ali?" ....
they all are.
Chris Paul, I trust that you are making the same point as we speak to the Guardian, since today's Steve Bell cartoon makes exactly the same comparison:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stevebell/index.html
K Harvey Proctor - another weak man who cannot argue rationally in the presence of an opinionated woman and hides, instead, behind personal vituperation.
K Harv - may I call you K Harv? - it's silly and weak to resort to personal abuse. On the other hand, perhaps you are a silly and weak person. I wouldn't venture a guess.
Ed - No. Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I have two thoughts:
1. I really do not think Blair is going to go. I just do not believe anyone is going to pry his cold, febrile, greedy hands off the reins of power. He will manufacture a reason why he "has" to stay on until some problem or other, is solved. This, we should remember, is the man who appointed ignorant town councillor Nag's Head Beckett as the British foreign secretary. He is too drunk on power. He will say his work - he destruction of the United Kingdom and hundreds of years of history - isn't finished yet.
Alternatively, once Brown is in, Dave's shadow cabinet may be able to create a crisis necessitating a vote of No Confidence and eject the governbment almost immediately.
Behind Curtain Number Three would be the coup d'état option, but given what the Queen has allowed to happen to her country, I don't see that happening. Indeed, I think that having presided over the demolition of our civil fabric and our union, she has demonstrated that there actually is no role for royalty any longer. (I say this as a former royalitst.)
Dear Verity,
On a semantic note, I wonder how it is possible to have hands that are both cold AND febrile?
Judith - You are correct.
OK, skip the cold - although I always think of his skinny fingers as being cold and lifeless - but his brain is feverish and deranged. I'll cut cold and go with the febrile.
That was a good spot. I hadn't realised the incongruity myself.
Judith, I just responded to your post, saying it was a good spot. I got an error saying my response hadn't posted, but also a notice saying Se ha guardado su comentario y podra visualizarse una vez que el propietario del blog lo haya aprobado (the things I go through to get a post up!)which leads me to believe it went through. If it didn't I'll reissue my apology.
Remittance man - The Telegraph's readers' views on Blair is up to 700 now.
point of pedantry. I think it's the Volkssturm, not the HJ, though one grew partly out of the other and the increasingly desperate need for cannon/tank fodder.
Steve Bell has been flogging the 'Downfall' theme all week in the 'If' strip. His main cartoon today is stupendously good too.
Why does Guido continue to print those dreary, badly drawn 'things' from 'R and M, the advert men' btw?
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