Canada and the Tories have made the break, but Blair is still in thrall to the US president<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tPeter Preston<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMonday October 3, 2005<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tThe Guardian <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00ab The member of parliament for Henley, one of modern Conservatism’s stellar intellects, has reformulated his opinion of the 43rd president of the United States. Henceforth, and in brief, George Bush is simply a cross-eyed Texan warmonger. Any previous formulation such as the recent extended one that also found him unelected and inarticulate is hereby revoked.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Oh come on, you say. It’s only Boris Johnson, the blond bombshell from Doughty Street, blasting away in his Telegraph column. What does he count for? Three Spectator words out of place about Liverpool and Michael Howard had him for breakfast. Why get excited about another spasm of vulgar abuse? Two reasons: one slightly parochial, the other a modest mould-breaker. Boris is not some marginal Tory. He’s probably the best bumbling wit who hasn’t stood for leader yet. So why on earth does the party of Churchill and Macmillan and Thatcher, the party of the transatlantic alliance and super-special relationships, let him bash Bush unabashed?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb That’s easy. Because Michael Howard isn’t welcome at the White House. Because Ken Clarke will be even less welcome. Because any new leader who emerges from December’s mists must denounce Iraq as Tony Blair’s American mistake. Because (Boris again) Blair sucks up to this supposed ignoramus. In short, Churchill’s heirs now jeer at the White House and raise two fingers to the west. They don’t, if they’re like Boris, love Europe or any of its works. They’re deep-dyed sceptics. But they’re Bush phobes as well, Republican rejectors. They’ve brilliantly carved out a position where they have no friends left, over the Channel or over the ocean.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb And there, writ large, is the deeper message of Boris’s bombshells. Times like Bush times can move parties and nations. They’ve inchoately moved the Tories, and carelessly outraged America’s friend in the north. They are, rightly or wrongly, redefining us everyone except, perhaps, the Blair of Brighton last week who, for all his eloquence, seemed to find nothing new in a curiously static world where the cross-eyed man remains king. No more vulgar abuse, please: but now delineation is the name of this great, changing game.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 5 octobre 2005 \u00e0 09H50<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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