BAA – Si Senora?

A comment on the BBC News website about the takeover of BAA, which runs most of Britain’s airports, by a Spanish building firm:

Blair is dismantling Britain and selling us out.
Peter Barry, Yeovil, United Kingdom

I love the image. A grinning Blair boxing up Westminster heirlooms to flog on ebay, before setting up the table he uses for wall-papering in some Essex field to sell of parts of Yorkshire to buyers at a carboot sale.

Again, I apologise for my generation – we voted the Labour party in because we’d only grown up under Thatcher and Major. We thought we were going to achieve what our hippy parents had dreamed of – a new revolution. We were wrong. They’re all the same – just more modern suits and haircuts.