Blair... sorry, Boris's fare increases.

Penny Red is ranting about increases in travel costs in London, and, of course, levels all of the blame at one Boris Johnson. I don't live in London anymore, but did so for many years under Red Ken. So when someone talks about a rise in tube and/or bus fares, by immediate thought is plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

But is was this paragraph that really hit home for me:

For the rest of us, this is what happens when we allow ourselves to get dazzled by cartoon politics: we elect dangerous smiling bastards who don't give a damn about poverty and inequality and who are quite willing to make life exponentially harder for the low-paid majority at the expense of a privileged few.

Absolutely, Penny. Abso-ruddy-lutely. On no account should we be taken in by cartoon politicians with their evil smiles again. In no way should we ever allow ourselves to vote for that grinning, preening homunculus Tony Blair again.

That's who she's talking about, right?