Frogspawn pap and fury

I hope Tony Blair has sent a suitably stiff school prefectly rebuke to the US Congressional committee that found that Bush’s reaction to the New Orleans flooding had been marked by "fecklessness, flailing and organisational paralysis". Because we remember how furious Tony was at Matt Frei’s “anti-Americanism” when Frei, himself visibly enraged by the US government’s criminal neglect and abuse of the hungry and homeless, said exactly the same thing as the congressional committee, only a little sooner.
But Blair, you’ve got to admit, he’s a loyal guy. When Dave Cameron suggested that the Royal Prerogative might be modified so that the Prime Minister could not take the country to war against the wishes of Parliament, Blair said that this was impractical because it might interfere with our treaty obligations to NATO. Put more crudely, Blair meant that he would not have his unconditional loyalty to Bush and the United States interfered with by something as venal, volatile, unprincipled and irresponsible as the elected representatives of the British people. You can see where he's coming from - his own temperamental bent for Public School Stalinism aside. It’s the proximity thing. Just as the gaggle of Downing Street courtiers known as The Government experiences nothing but London, and thinks that the huge problems and distortions of the capital represent the condition of the rest of the country (thus their constant chatter about supposed dreadfulness of the education system), so Blair knows only the formless, malleable pap of New Labour loyalism, the frogspawn-like matter of those with an unblemished voting record, and rightly despises them as worthless, without principal or insight; certainly not fit to judge whether this country should go to war. And of course in that particular he was right. They had a chance, those New Labour parliamentarians, to do the right thing, what clearly in retrospect would have been the right thing and was equally clearly the right thing at the time, and they chose, for the sake of their mortgages and their vanity, to follow the gaseous fantasies of their leader.
One of these feckless cyphers was on the five minutes of Question Time I caught last week. I have no idea who he was but it seems Blair has put him in charge of a commission on future energy provision to fix the nuclear “choice”. His voice was the oily, wheedling, bullying yap of the salesperson who knows he only has shit to sell, he kept saying that he had yet to "make up my mind on the nuclear option” . The more he spoke of his honour... no prizes for guessing who after the election will be filling the pockets of this authentic voice of New Labour.