Execution date awaits Tony Blair
The Age
How can he stay? Think of the months ahead: Labour falling further in the polls, the Tories gloating, neither journalists nor public servants nor the world at large paying any heed to his policy statements because they might soon be undone.
Imagine a cabinet meeting where he and his successor-in-waiting, Chancellor Gordon Brown, butt heads on a vital issue: what minister is going to back the Prime Minister when he'll soon be gone?
Hear the constant talk of frozen government, panicked MPs calling for renewal to counter a resurgent Conservative Party, the tedious demand every time he fronts a microphone: when are you going?
How long can Tony Blair stay? Will he make it to Christmas? The questions abounded after Mr Blair announced on Thursday (early yesterday Melbourne time) that he would quit within a year, but defiantly resisted calls to set an exact time. Mr Blair insisted on going his own way, believing that a use-by date would leave him fatally undermined. He is already. Read more
How can he stay? Think of the months ahead: Labour falling further in the polls, the Tories gloating, neither journalists nor public servants nor the world at large paying any heed to his policy statements because they might soon be undone.
Imagine a cabinet meeting where he and his successor-in-waiting, Chancellor Gordon Brown, butt heads on a vital issue: what minister is going to back the Prime Minister when he'll soon be gone?
Hear the constant talk of frozen government, panicked MPs calling for renewal to counter a resurgent Conservative Party, the tedious demand every time he fronts a microphone: when are you going?
How long can Tony Blair stay? Will he make it to Christmas? The questions abounded after Mr Blair announced on Thursday (early yesterday Melbourne time) that he would quit within a year, but defiantly resisted calls to set an exact time. Mr Blair insisted on going his own way, believing that a use-by date would leave him fatally undermined. He is already. Read more
posted by exoplanet at 9:13 PM
3 Comments:
Very succinctly put as always.I don't know about you, Exoplanet but I am loving every moment of 'Encore' Blair's discomfiture. I'll bet you a pound he is gone by Christmas, though. As an ex-Labour supporter who was gradually outraged by the series of errors of judgement and lapses of ethics, I find a kind of expiation in all of this. I doubt if he does.
Did you notice, although the BBC skated over it, that there was a protest by the kids at the school where he made his latest non-statement on Thursday? They waved a large paper bone with the legend
'A Bonio for Tonio, Bush's Poodle'
DB is very good on the graphics - I don't suppose you have, Private Eye style, an image of this(or your own) Bone for Tone in your graphics library?
Best
M
Encore that again Tony. I wouldn't care to take you up on the bet though - I feel there is a 50:50 chance of him being history by xmas. And man, if so, we will be having a BIG 'fuckoff TB'party the likes of which has never been seen before in this corner of the universe.
Re the school protests, I know youtube has some poor quality vids, but I haven't seen any pics yet. If you find some let us know!
Tx for pos commments on graphics - we like them sometimes too. best
>I doubt if he does.
No errors, lapses - just 'incredibly difficult decisions' - hence no expiation required - so the great leader thinks.
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