The 2.6 million word Chilcot Report into the 2003 Iraq War comes out on 6 July, and although its remit doesn’t include deciding if the invasion was legal, the UK’s favourite war criminal, Tony Blair, is working hard to avoid indictment.
The world’s media are obediently supporting his efforts: first, an op-ed in the New York Times of 24 June ‘Brexit’s Stunning Coup’ where he bemoans anti-globalisation for the Leave Vote and savages Labour’s Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who in his eyes is the prime mover of the Left’s hostility. Coincidentally, Corbyn is calling for Blair to stand trial for misleading Parliament in the lead up to the war as the Report is rumoured to deliver an ‘absolutely brutal’ verdict on the former Labour Prime Minister.
Then in The Telegraph of 2 July he makes the jaw-dropping assertion that his skills of ‘serious statesmanship’ would be crucial to the ongoing talks with the EU. Despite failing to become EU President in 2009, he’s still trying to carve a place for himself in Europe and inviting himself to the negotiating table and another major career role. “To allow us to come safely through this we need to be adult in our politics, to proceed with calm, maturity and without bitterness”. Really? Is this how you decided on the war in Iraq Tony?
The world’s media are obediently supporting his efforts: first, an op-ed in the New York Times of 24 June ‘Brexit’s Stunning Coup’ where he bemoans anti-globalisation for the Leave Vote and savages Labour’s Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who in his eyes is the prime mover of the Left’s hostility. Coincidentally, Corbyn is calling for Blair to stand trial for misleading Parliament in the lead up to the war as the Report is rumoured to deliver an ‘absolutely brutal’ verdict on the former Labour Prime Minister.
Then in The Telegraph of 2 July he makes the jaw-dropping assertion that his skills of ‘serious statesmanship’ would be crucial to the ongoing talks with the EU. Despite failing to become EU President in 2009, he’s still trying to carve a place for himself in Europe and inviting himself to the negotiating table and another major career role. “To allow us to come safely through this we need to be adult in our politics, to proceed with calm, maturity and without bitterness”. Really? Is this how you decided on the war in Iraq Tony?
To accompany US Financial Journalist Stephanie Sprague’s scathing commentary on Blair’s NYT op-ed ‘The Poster Boy for Globalisation Has No Clothes’, (reprinted in full in previous blog) I decided it was time to write about the various faces of Blair. When Cool Britannia swung into power in 1997, his face reflected the more positive aspects of his Wood element shaped face, the face of choice for Government in Chinese Face Reading. It’s the face of the leader with the potential for far-sighted and judicious decision making. He sold New Labour to us with his pronounced lower lip of the fast-talking lawyer and salesman. His wide forehead, in contrast to Thatcher’s narrow-forehead-narrow-viewpoint, promised a broader social vision.
But as a Face Reader, I could see the warning signs: the difference in the left and right eye became more pronounced, often focusing in different directions - the inner and outer aspects of his personality don’t work in tandem. He finds it hard to pull it all together and stay “calm and collected” as the Queen urged MPs today.
His left eye has a frozen, numb look indicating he could get trapped in a fixed 'Messiah' idea, or obsessive and delusional behaviour, and emotions don’t move between the left and right sides of his brain. His cold right eye shows various emotions from hostility to disdain. Hence his decision making and planning would become incongruent and unpredictable under stress, leading to outbursts of anger, and control freakery, (or fools rush in).
Why have his eyes gone like this? Because instead of waiting to be recognised for his insights and keeping his leadership skills attuned to the rhythms of the electorate (he ignored 2 million people marching against the war in 2003), he lost touch and led the country into disaster. He feels that being powerful means charging around trying to prove himself: the relationship with George W Bush is a case in point. Remember Yo! Blair? He's still on this tack years later, trying to muscle in on EU diplomacy, and dispensing unasked for advice about Brexit and the Labour party in the UK media.
His left eye has a frozen, numb look indicating he could get trapped in a fixed 'Messiah' idea, or obsessive and delusional behaviour, and emotions don’t move between the left and right sides of his brain. His cold right eye shows various emotions from hostility to disdain. Hence his decision making and planning would become incongruent and unpredictable under stress, leading to outbursts of anger, and control freakery, (or fools rush in).
Why have his eyes gone like this? Because instead of waiting to be recognised for his insights and keeping his leadership skills attuned to the rhythms of the electorate (he ignored 2 million people marching against the war in 2003), he lost touch and led the country into disaster. He feels that being powerful means charging around trying to prove himself: the relationship with George W Bush is a case in point. Remember Yo! Blair? He's still on this tack years later, trying to muscle in on EU diplomacy, and dispensing unasked for advice about Brexit and the Labour party in the UK media.
Additionally - and this was captured beautifully by the cartoonists of the day - his protruding and poorly shaped ears signify a weakened true core energy. This is the energy of true power which gives the strength to follow through on policy and promises. Without it, politics becomes ‘the spider and the fly’.
This split within his psyche leads to extreme compartmentalisation, lack of self-awareness and remaining somewhere in the middle politically and personally. It left him open to being ‘hypnotised’ by the hawkish George Bush and, even now, he’s convinced that his ‘understanding of the complexities of Brexit negotiations’ need his fractured perception and input — even when he’s totally against it! Wow, talk about the Poster Boy taking an illusory moral high ground out of one of those compartments!
I thought in 1997 that he might turn out to be one the most unpopular recent Prime Ministers. News today, 3 July, is that the Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court will examine the Chilcot Report for evidence of abuse and torture by British soldiers but have already ruled out putting Tony Blair on trial for war crimes. I hope the Chilcot Report is not a whitewash!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/30/tony-blair-hints-at-role-as-brexit-negotiator-in-eu-talks-that-w/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/tony-blair-brexits-stunning-coup.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/02/outrage-as-war-crimes-prosecutors-say-tony-blair-will-not-be-inv/
Stephanie Sprague www.movewithinyoga.com www.up-comm.com
Yoga in Blue Jeans blog 'The Poster Boy for Globalisation has no Clothes'
Copyright Stephanie Sprague 2016 All Rights Reserved
This split within his psyche leads to extreme compartmentalisation, lack of self-awareness and remaining somewhere in the middle politically and personally. It left him open to being ‘hypnotised’ by the hawkish George Bush and, even now, he’s convinced that his ‘understanding of the complexities of Brexit negotiations’ need his fractured perception and input — even when he’s totally against it! Wow, talk about the Poster Boy taking an illusory moral high ground out of one of those compartments!
I thought in 1997 that he might turn out to be one the most unpopular recent Prime Ministers. News today, 3 July, is that the Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court will examine the Chilcot Report for evidence of abuse and torture by British soldiers but have already ruled out putting Tony Blair on trial for war crimes. I hope the Chilcot Report is not a whitewash!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/30/tony-blair-hints-at-role-as-brexit-negotiator-in-eu-talks-that-w/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/tony-blair-brexits-stunning-coup.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/02/outrage-as-war-crimes-prosecutors-say-tony-blair-will-not-be-inv/
Stephanie Sprague www.movewithinyoga.com www.up-comm.com
Yoga in Blue Jeans blog 'The Poster Boy for Globalisation has no Clothes'
Copyright Stephanie Sprague 2016 All Rights Reserved