I've just read the article "Tories are terrorists" on the anti-Blair website BackingBlair. I certainly agree with the analysis in this article. It is clearly true that Blair's favourite rhetorical device is the "false dichotomy". This is the idea that there can only ever be two sides to any argument. If you disagree with me, you are obviously wrong and obviously support my enemies. If you disagree with the war in Iraq, you clearly want Saddam back in power. If you don't support Blair, you are a Tory. If you don't support Blair's reforms of public services, you are part of "the forces of conservatism" and so on. So, the article goes on, if the terrorists are against Blair, and the Tories are against Blair, the Tories are terrorists.
Of course, the Tories and terrorists are alike in one respect - I can't stand either of them!
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Did you know that George Orwell's real surname was Blair? Don't know if you saw the film adaptation of 1984 on channel 4 a few nights ago, but that's the kind of country we're becoming.
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