Today was a good day

“…today was a good day…”
Ice-T

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That’s right, today, actually, was a very good day. Today Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, suffered the hardest political defeat and humiliation within his entire political career. His proposal to extend a period for terror suspects to be detained up to 90 day without charge was trashed at Commons, as the majorities of MPs voted against it.

So what’s the fuss, another minor defeat for Labour in Commons, who cares? Admittedly, I’d like to see more of it; the actual subject itself makes very little difference for me personally. When I moved to London 6 years ago I though it would be one of the safest places in the world, now it turns into a bad-day Bosnia. The nation of merchant bankers, accountants and musicians didn’t piss anyone off (Argentineans don’t count) and the rest of the world was relatively happy with them. Police was unarmed and it worked really well, general public was assured that safety and stability in the society were strong and solid, just like British Pound.

Since Mr Blair & Co moved into Nr10 eight years ago, we had everything changed. Good Lord, we were lucky that Gordon Brown, the real leader by far, managed to keep the economy in a pretty good shape. However, the rest turned into disaster- all that spending on NHS didn’t do much to its quality

Sorry, drifting away from the main subject. What brings the huge smile on my face is not the fact that 49 of Labour backbenches (who supposed to be Tony’s mates and do that they told) voted against their leader. What made my day is the fact that Mr. Blair got a really good kick in the teeth, a nice wake-up call.


Yuri Vlasov
London
SW19 6EN