Friday 27 October 2023
Thank you, Tony Blair
Gail MacDonald has a neat TCW piece on the link between devolution and ego.
Devolution equals ego inflation
TWENTY-FIVE years into devolution, and the outcomes for health, education and the economy don’t so much scream success as whimper to be put out their misery. But leave aside the big devolved political mess, and It’s not all bad. Nicola, Alex, Humza, that Welsh guy and Sadiq Khan have been having quite the time, and now we can see what happens when devolved powers go to the head. An exponential rise in ego is what happens.
Short, but the whole piece is well worth reading. When it comes to pushing policies of the permanent administration, strutting egos are happy to make them their own.
So you throw a little power around and before you know it, ego inflation is rampant. Thank you, Tony Blair, you Frankenstein you. Now your grandiose and pompous monsters are running around the world, attacking your UK government. A little power to sort out some things and what happens? Egos blow up and people get carried away with themselves.
Put them on Celebrity Big Brother to feed their souls. We owe them that much. But someone please end this vanity project once and for all before someone gets hurt by an exploding head.
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Tony Blair looked around him and decided there was a shortage of tin-pot dictators (probably to distract attention from his own efforts).
Them Tin-Pot Dictators has got all the spondulicks. Polish their egos and a little gold dust falls your way.
By the way, 'n' that, what has happened to Mrs. Blair?
DJ - yes, he knew he'd look good against them.
Doonhamer - I assume Mrs. Blair is quietly becoming richer like Tony. I hope not but it's the way of the world.
I remember Sadiq Khan tweeting:
"Building bridges between the different communities in our city, between London and the rest of the country, and between City Hall and the Government. It's in this spirit I promise to lead London."
And Londoners queuing up to tell him that Hammersmith Bridge would be a good start.
Sam - I hope he isn't intent on building a bridge between London and Derbyshire.
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