Blair Launches "Faith Foundation"....

[Rrose Selavy]

No mention of atheists in this brave new World order...maybe cause we're not killing each other. Thanks for nothing.

Former prime minister Tony Blair has launched a faith foundation to tackle global poverty, challenge conflict and unite the world's religions.
Mr Blair, who is a Roman Catholic, unveiled the foundation in New York. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has three aims: to promote faith as a force for good, improve awareness between religions and tackle poverty and war

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7427809.stm

 

[Moochie]

From the folks who brought us Monty Python...


M.

 

[Sunstealer]

“What faith can do is not tell you what is right but give you the strength to do it.”

Astounding. No wonder we screwed up by going into Iraq.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2050848/Tony-Blair-on-mission-to-'unite-religions'.html

 

[Rrose Selavy]

"Religious faith will be of the same significance to the 21st Century as political ideology was to the 20th Century.

It may be, too early to say but a sad reflection on the lack of elightenment of the Human Race if such regressive fantasies persist and motivate behaviour on a massive scale.

 

[Kopji]

Tony Blair has argued that faith has to be rescued from those who would use it to divide and those determined to write it off as an irrelevance. By stressing the values of respect, justice and compassion which the great religions hold in common, he believes faith can help unite the World and shape its direction for the better.

http://tonyblairoffice.org/

I suppose that if he's going to waste his time, this is a better place than politics.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

I always suspected that Blair was a lot more religous than Bush. He seems to honestly believe he will be judged in the immortal upstairs.

 

[plumjam]

I wish Blair would just eff off as quietly as possible so we don't have to witness any more of his fake sincerity, nor wonder about what seems to be some kind of nascent Messiah complex.

 

[Sunstealer]

I wish Blair would just eff off as quietly as possible so we don't have to witness any more of his fake sincerity, nor wonder about what seems to be some kind of nascent Messiah complex.

You're not alone with those sentiments and the messiah complex is spot on. I am of the opinion that Blair is a sociopath. Unfortunately it is only now that the British people are waking up to the fact that they have been hoodwinked.

 

[albion]

Former prime minister Tony Blair has launched a faith foundation to tackle global poverty, challenge conflict and unite the world's religions

Wow...just wow.

 

[Rrose Selavy]

He recently becamer a Roman Catholic - an attempt to end up on the "winning" side in the "next" life. The clearly inferior god of the Official Church of England not being able to pull the right strings , it seems...

 

[The Grave]

Yes nice to see he has joined the ranks of the illustrious Roman Catholics, against war e.g. Hitler who allegedly had the support of the then R.C. pope... but then that could be hear-say {st-aves off a law suit!}

Funny how he intends now to unite religions when not long ago we were (UK & USA) off fighting ANOTHER religious crusade against those heathen scum... oh, simply because they have a different set of religious beliefs {oh and some oil!}

But then didn't Jesus like to have his feet washed with precious oil!

Wasn't it the Romans who killed Jesus? Then stole the rights to his life's work!

There was a young lad name of Jesus
Who said he was going to save us
He spent his time hanging in town
Wearing a painfully thorny crown
Which gives blisters oozing with puss.

I think Tony's after the big one. You know... HIS job... upstairs!

 

[Furi]

I think Tony's after the big one. You know... HIS job... upstairs!

What Derek in Childrens Services?

or do you mean running for God, well I suppose it beats going for UN, or Europarliament. or is he trying for the Nobel prize in smarm and false sincerity, and needing media attention.

 

[The Grave]

Not running, but creeping and crawling!

 

[Henners]

You're not alone with those sentiments and the messiah complex is spot on. I am of the opinion that Blair is a sociopath. Unfortunately it is only now that the British people are waking up to the fact that they have been hoodwinked.

Not British, English.

The Scots and Welsh had him nailed from the get off.

 

[Jaggy Bunnet]

Not British, English.

The Scots and Welsh had him nailed from the get off.

That would explain why Scotland elected 56 Labour (the party head by one Tony Blair) MP's in 1997 out of a total of 72 in 1997? And why they also elected 56 Labour MP's again in 2001? And then elected 41 Labour MP's (out of 59 this time) in 2005?

Or why the Welsh elected 34 Labour MP's out of 40 in both 1997 and 2001? and 29 in 2005?

If they had him nailed from the get off, they had a funny way of showing it!

 

[Henners]

That would explain why Scotland elected 56 Labour (the party head by one Tony Blair) MP's in 1997 out of a total of 72 in 1997? And why they also elected 56 Labour MP's again in 2001? And then elected 41 Labour MP's (out of 59 this time) in 2005?

Or why the Welsh elected 34 Labour MP's out of 40 in both 1997 and 2001? and 29 in 2005?

If they had him nailed from the get off, they had a funny way of showing it!

Easy.

Not a single one of them voted for Mr A. Blair, and...

It was the English suckers that put A. Blair in power because they finally realised that they had been diddled for years by the Tories, and thought that they might like to be diddled by someone new.

Now they are prepared to believe in the Tories again.

Cameron, Johnson, Eton schoolboy tug-your-cap, know-your-place, deserve-what-you-get, serves-you-right.

Bleed-my-heart?

Laugh-out-my-guts, more like.

 

[Jaggy Bunnet]

Easy.

Not a single one of them voted for Mr A. Blair, and...

It is also true of more than 99.9% of the electorate in England did not vote for Blair (in 1997 Blair got 33,526 votes out of a total cast in England of 36.5m.)

It was the English suckers that put A. Blair in power because they finally realised that they had been diddled for years by the Tories, and thought that they might like to be diddled by someone new.

Labour share of the 1997 general election vote:

England 43.55%
Scotland 45.55%
Wales 54.72%

So a LOWER percentage of the English electorate voted in such a way that it put A Blair in power than was the case in either Scotland or Wales. Looks like a larger percentage of the people in England saw through him from the start than in Scotland/Wales.

This was also true in 2001 and 2005.

So your argument is that despite voting for his party (and therefore putting him in power) in larger numbers in every general election, and despite returning a higher proportion of Labour MP's (and therefore putting him in power) in every general election, the Scottish & Welsh electors had seen through Tony Blair while the English voters, less of whom voted for his party and who returned a lower proportion of MP's for that party had not?

That is an "interesting" interpretation of the facts.

 

[Mashuna]

I guess it's a difference from the US Presidential system. Scotland and Wales are traditional (old) Labour strongholds. There's no way to vote for a party without voting for the leader of that party.

 

[Henners]

So a LOWER percentage of the English electorate voted in such a way that it put A Blair in power than was the case in either Scotland or Wales. Looks like a larger percentage of the people in England saw through him from the start than in Scotland/Wales.

This was also true in 2001 and 2005.

So your argument is that despite voting for his party (and therefore putting him in power) in larger numbers in every general election, and despite returning a higher proportion of Labour MP's (and therefore putting him in power) in every general election, the Scottish & Welsh electors had seen through Tony Blair while the English voters, less of whom voted for his party and who returned a lower proportion of MP's for that party had not?

That is an "interesting" interpretation of the facts.

Clearly your "presentation" of the "facts" is what is interesting.

Scotland and Wales had been turning out a distilled, 140 degrees proof, or thereabouts, of Labour MPs for years.

When Tone cracked it, it was because he converted the English into voting for him.

Fair enough, though. He saw them coming, so they can hardly complain.

 

[Henners]

I guess it's a difference from the US Presidential system. Scotland and Wales are traditional (old) Labour strongholds. There's no way to vote for a party without voting for the leader of that party.

That is true.

However, I would argue that the poll ratings since the departure of Tone indicate that the English were voting for Tone all the time.

There is no way to vote for the leader of a party without voting for the party.