Visao: “Hello”

Bliar: “Hello”

Visao: “I would like to start by stating that your declaration of religious faith is to declare that you are unfit to hold public office in a modern democracy”

Bliar: “How dare you say that, you have offended everyone who is religious”

Visao: “Good; all religion can be used to galvanise hatred and segregation. Religious faith is at best an indulgent delusion and at worst a destructive dogma.”

Bliar: “I completely disagree, some religions are of course more given to destruction than others such as Islam”

Visao: “Really Anthony; what about the Christian crusades, or The Sendero Luminoso, or Northern Ireland?”

Bliar: “Well there are obviously certain exceptions such as the few people given to violence in Northern Ireland”

Visao: “Northern Ireland is complicated, however during a conversation I once had with a Northern Irish protestant, Danny, I asked him if he had been beaten up by Catholics as a boy and he replied that he had been. I then asked him how these boys were able to distinguish him from other Catholics to which he replied that they used to hold him down and make him recite Catholic prayers and when he failed to do this they beat him up. Thus we can deduce that if the dogma of religion was removed from education we might in time see an end to the epidemic hatred that faith harbours in Northern Ireland. It would be better if we had an atheist liberal prime minister promoting such action rather than a closet fascist and demented zealot such as yourself.”

Bliar: “How dare you call me a demented zealot?”

Visao: “Because, Anthony, you have started an illegal war which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people and yet when you are on screen, between bouts of barrister spin, you walk around with a fixed inane grin on your face, the grin of a madman.”

Bliar: “I find that very insulting and why the hell are you calling me Anthony?”

Visao: “Because the day that you decided to call yourself ‘Tony’ was the day when what little integrity you once had parted company with you for good.”

Bliar: “Right this interview is finished…”
(tape recorder is switched off)
Bliar: “…and I warn you that I may have to poison you until you are a vegetable”.