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Row
over Blairs mental health
July
18, 2003 - Source
of this article:
timesofoman.com
Tony Blair is not mad, his spokesman said this week, after a leading
magazine branded him a psychopath who was capable of
extraordinary self-delusion.
The
term potty, I think, is, if I may say so, potty,
Blairs spokesman said after the New Statesman magazine asked
psychologists and psychiatrists to give their verdict on the prime
ministers mental health.
Blairs
popularity at home has been sagging in the wake of the Iraq war
as controversy rages over the way his office allegedly doctored
intelligence to bolster its case for a pre-emptive offensive.
One
view emerged strongly: there appears to be something worryingly
adrift in the mind of Anthony (Tony) Charles Lynton Blair, a man
who doesnt really know who or what he is, the New Statesman
said.
More
technically, he is diagnosed as a psychopath capable of reinventing
himself with remarkable dexterity, like an actor, the magazine
said.
What
most people call spin, the routine lubricant of all
political gearboxes, is, in Blairs case, eloquent self-delusion
a heroic scale...
He
is one of the few politicians who has never told a lie because his
belief in whatever he says about public transport, hospitals,
schools, weapons of mass destruction is total, the
magazine continued.
Blairs
office denied the report.
You
have got to look at what the prime minister has achieved in the
past six months in terms of handling major international issues
like Iraq, in pursuing the goal of progress in the Middle East settlement,
in pursuing public service delivery at home, his spokesman
said.
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