Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:29:00 +0100
From: mokey <higginsc-AT-tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: Leftist?



Ben wrote:
>Orwell is alive and well.  Politics is confusing, because polticians are
bullshit artists, whose real aim is to obscure >all possibility of real
meaning, to focus the public's attention on a 30 second infomercial.  The
words we lose today >have lost all meaning, because they've raped and
contorted into a meaningless mess.

Well it's funny you say that, because George Orwell was simply a pseudonym
for another Mr. Blair - Eric Arthur.  And it seems to me that this more
modern Mr. Blair who lives in number 10 is the most brilliant user of
Newspeak and Doublethink in the history of British politics.  Phony Tony
shapes and manipulates langauge in a way that's not been seen before in
Blighty, and his form of pragmatic politics shifts so easily that it's hard
to pin down exactly what he stands for.

Tony Blair - O'Brien incarnate - although not quite as smart.

colin