egb_hibs
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I was reading this article on the post Southport tensions and the bigger picture of Britain’s challenges. It implies optimistic futures (relative to the alternatives) which hadn’t really occurred to me, namely an authoritarian society in the model of Singapore rather than some fascist or communist style set up.
unherd.com
(Aside; the article references all this don’t look back in anger stuff Jimmy got a bit caught up in. I’m not sure I trust the Qatari media that is referenced but tbf they do name names and specifics. And it’s not really controversial or implausible stuff).
But what I found most interesting is that Tony Blair - in many ways the architect of these challenges with his government’s intentional aim to remake British society and stick it to the old labour gammons - has come to recognise his mistakes. According to this article he now rejects multi culturalism and is himself a big fan boi of Singapore’s jeffe (not his most offensive political buddy by a long chalk either).
The click thrus took me to the bold Tony, here:
Which is an except from his full tribute here (not watched yet):
Tony Blair - Constraints on a PM, Lee Kuan Yew, Deep State, & AI's 1914 Moment
It got me to wondering whether Blair has simply woken up to the society-destroying cretinism of 90s / 00s progressivism and is now moving towards the options that mess now presents us with, or whether this has kinda been his roadmap all along. I mean as they were doing it I was musing how their form of ‘liberalism’ and the 50 to 100 year problems it was creating, necessitate authoritarianism as a follow up. Whatever else he is he is a cunning old fox - did he really not see it? That said, a bit conspiratorial for my blood and I expect it’s the former; cunning or not he seems to me to have been a genuine progressive, and guided by its innate silliness. I also suspect he thinks we can be like Singapore without being like Singapore - because that’s the kind of addled thing that silliness entertains.
In any case, @Smurf and any other remaining fans, where do you stand on the man now, and his ‘journey’?
How Britain ignored its ethnic conflict
unherd.com
(Aside; the article references all this don’t look back in anger stuff Jimmy got a bit caught up in. I’m not sure I trust the Qatari media that is referenced but tbf they do name names and specifics. And it’s not really controversial or implausible stuff).
But what I found most interesting is that Tony Blair - in many ways the architect of these challenges with his government’s intentional aim to remake British society and stick it to the old labour gammons - has come to recognise his mistakes. According to this article he now rejects multi culturalism and is himself a big fan boi of Singapore’s jeffe (not his most offensive political buddy by a long chalk either).
The click thrus took me to the bold Tony, here:
Which is an except from his full tribute here (not watched yet):
Tony Blair - Constraints on a PM, Lee Kuan Yew, Deep State, & AI's 1914 Moment
It got me to wondering whether Blair has simply woken up to the society-destroying cretinism of 90s / 00s progressivism and is now moving towards the options that mess now presents us with, or whether this has kinda been his roadmap all along. I mean as they were doing it I was musing how their form of ‘liberalism’ and the 50 to 100 year problems it was creating, necessitate authoritarianism as a follow up. Whatever else he is he is a cunning old fox - did he really not see it? That said, a bit conspiratorial for my blood and I expect it’s the former; cunning or not he seems to me to have been a genuine progressive, and guided by its innate silliness. I also suspect he thinks we can be like Singapore without being like Singapore - because that’s the kind of addled thing that silliness entertains.
In any case, @Smurf and any other remaining fans, where do you stand on the man now, and his ‘journey’?
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