Rueful expression replaces Blair's permasmile
Photo courtesy of the Telegraph
It's over for Tony Blair; and, in his heart, he knows it. His end might be protracted, of course. He has plenty of disciples urging him to stand and fight. He will find allies, too, among those who fear for their careers under a Gordon Brown premiership.
He still has the machinery of the Labour Party at his disposal, to say nothing of that of the British state.
He can, in other words, keep going for a while, just as a fighting bull will sometimes charge for several minutes after the matador's steel has found its aorta. But the death wound has already been dealt.
What is the point of Blair? He should quit
Mark
7 comments:
Tony looks pretty grim... Think it's time to 'hang it up'.
From the article:
It is that Mr Blair has made expediency his ruling principle; that, instead of treating election success as a means to government, he has treated government as a means to further election success.
Isn't that usually the way of the majority of today's politicians? Statemen are nearly extinct now.
US Iconoclastic Patriot:
Doesn't he, though! I have hardly ever seen him before without that grin on his face!
Always:
Statemen are nearly extinct now.
Yes, they are. The last two I can think of were Reagan and Thatcher. Oh, for the good ol' days!
Anton:
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Bld:
Why is it that politicians end up like this?
Because they never know when to retire. That's whay! They never seem to understand that they should leave office while the going is still good. Even Mrs Thatcher didn't understand this.
Is it because they are bouyed up with self-belief and patronising cronies, who will slink off and desert them when the hang-man starts constucting the slip-knot?
Probably!
I thought Blair was right to stand with the Us over Iraq, but too many exposed facts have sullied the reasoning for that war. It bodes badly for the morale of our soldiery.
I did, too; but the reasoning didn't hold water, did it? No weapons of mass destruction were found. Though I should add one caveat: They might well have been transported off to Syria to get them out of the way.
How can he resign with Iraq hanging round his neck like the proverbial mill-stone?
He'll probably have to leave office anyway before this problem in Iraq is solved.
Do we really want a Scottish book-keeper for a replacement?
No, we don't! Certainly not!
Does it really take a Cabinet of 22 men and women all on a basic salary of £122,000, to make such a mess of it all?
It appears so. The saying is this: If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Well, these people are certainly not paid peanuts. But what have we got anyway?
Thank GOd we have been lucky enough, so far to have avoided the malaise of the Euro- economy. But for how much longer?
One can only wonder.
If the PC police chief now ensconced in his millionaires' Thames-side appartment has as much success at dealing with the terrorist-threat, as Tony has had with his bonking, fiddling, bare-arsed tale-telling, back-stabbing Cabinet Ministers, then God help us all.
So colourfully put, Bld!
Oh, dear ony ol boy, do youself a favour and take a long holiday. Hey but you can't be seen down Tuscany way with your old friend Burly Burlosconi, can you?
No, he can't depend on a freebie there anymore. Anyway, have you heard that Berlusconi is thinking of moving to Switzerland, to the Engadine?
What does he [Berlusconi] know, that we don't?
Good question!
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