Blair's maiden speech: Socialism stands for cooperation, not confrontation; fellowship, not fear ..

mogster

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Mon Aug-20-07 02:08 PM
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Blair's maiden speech: Socialism stands for cooperation, not confrontation; fellowship, not fear ..

Blair stated in his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 6 July 1983: "I am a socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for cooperation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair

I'd say that's a full miss all around the spectrum as regarding your reign as PM, old boy. But you were maybe promoting socialism at it's worst, or maybe not socialism at all ...? Maybe you were just extra full of wind that day in '83?

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RaleighNCDUer

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Mon Aug-20-07 03:17 PM
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1. I've always suspected that Bushco was holding

his mother in a basement somewhere...

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mogster

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Mon Aug-20-07 04:16 PM
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2. LOL!

I always thought they were joined at the hip. Bush and Blair, that is ;-)

2004

2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tony_Blair#Relationship_with_President_George_W._Bush

But about his speech; it's a stretch from 'fellowship, not fear' to the terror-related speeches of today?

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