Blair: already exploiting the terror. posted by Richard Seymour

What a fucking scumbag. The bodies aren't even cool yet, and the Prime Minister is already exploiting this series of atrocities for political capital. He said in his speech:

"It is particularly barbaric this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa and the long term problems of climate change and the environment."

It is no more barbaric today than it would have been yesterday, or tomorrow, or next year. The sole purpose of such a sentence is to try and slip a self-congratulatory word or two past your bullshit detector. I've never thought that Blair had much of a moral compass, but this demonstrates that he doesn't even have much self-awareness these days. What a loathsome man.