Listen my fellow train spotters, I know my manifesto has turned us into a bit of a laughing stock. And that our support of Bush, Blair and The War Against Terror has made us look like knuckle dragging Islamophobic bigots or apologists for Israeli war crimes or god help us Melanie Phillips. But I think I have a solution. Look, they love us in Sierra Leone:
To say Tony Blair is popular in Sierra Leone scarcely does justice to the intensity of feeling towards him in this small tropical corner of west Africa.His decision seven years ago to send in British troops at the height of a brutal civil war is widely seen by Sierra Leoneans themselves as the critical moment in their country’s salvation. It turned the tide in the conflict and helped bring an end to an 11-year nightmare.The village of Mahera, for example, would almost certainly have been overrun in 2000 by rebels with a well-earned reputation for chopping off the limbs of children had British paratroopers not stood in their way.
Tony Blair and Tony-Blair Kamara
Read the rest and watch the slideshow. I think we could easily hide out there until the mess in Mess O’ Potamia is sorted. It shouldn’t take more than twenty or thirty years of lying low. What do you say? Shoould I call Easyjet and book us a few seats?
Regards
Norman Geras
PS Don’t tell Mel. She’s an utter loon.
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