That fine man of religion

The the moral and intellectual squalor of the world of politicians, like the banality of evil, is so tedious and repetitive that I had not intended... OK, one more time, and then never again.
The Prime Minister, according to the lead story in the Guardian, is completing his tour of duty as Baroness Thatcher’s second son by trying to reprise the al Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia. In return - it’s like a fairy story - Blair has to do three things. He has to send back a couple of Saudi exiles for torture and beheading - no problem there, unless those fucking (Anthony’s word) judges interfere. He has to call off the Fraud Squad’s investigation into the Saudi/BAE corruption case - the same one which might eventually get round to exposing the Maggie/Mark/Saudi corruption issue; so Anthony will be doing double good there, as long as those fucking (God-loving, Creation Theory supporting Anthony’s word again) judges don’t lay their shrivelled stinking libertarian necks on the line over this one. And, completely trivial, the prime Minister has to make BA start landing in Riyadh once more. Terrorist threats? Tony lands in Riyadh quite a lot, so what’s the problem?
My main puzzle over this is not that Blair should behave in such a way. Not at all. That is Blair, the whole Blair, and nothing but the Blair. The puzzle is that I know decent, and I mean this seriously, good people, the kind of people who will not invest in shares because they don’t believe in capitalism, who still support Blair, or at least support his government, as if the majority of Labour MPs, who keep Blair in power and will no doubt today give him one of those unbelievably demeaning and ridiculous standing ovations - as obscene as were they to shed their clothes, face their idol, and masturbate in unison - as if that fawning rabble were any better than the mere negative of their boss.
The reason these good people, who work hard for Amnesty and believe in Human Rights and Civil Liberty, give for such apparent moral schizophrenia is that this government has put much more money into hospitals, schools and so on than the last government. So they have, but only it seems to fatten them up for private sector profit. That is happening and will continue to happen at an accelerating rate. When it has happened, when we are in the condition of America, Old Labour Blair supporters will say, “We did not understand, because they said they wouldn’t. Patricia Hewitt said she wouldn’t privatise the National Health, so how were we to know that she was lying?”
How indeed?
It is assumed that when Blair leaves Government, the remains of the Labour Party, and perhaps our shores, he will become immensely rich. How is not specified, but both the above ventures should be worth a few tens of millions to that fine man of religion.