Re: British Politics
Dear FAStT /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I make no apology for bringing in no girls, but here’s my last confession: I feel for Blair /pf/images/graemlins/angel.gif. Yes, that’s correct. Admittedly, I’ve always admired his eloquence and his unrivalled combating skills, using his opponents to mop the floor with, but also his humour and wit which made him one of the finest conviction politician of his generation. Even his body language /pf/images/graemlins/eek.gif. No shame in admitting that. After all he was a hit with women. I am not talking about Blairs babes in his cabinet. Nor those silly girls screeming at his talentless early youth rock band years. By the way did he sell any records /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif?
But now that his era is clearly and truly over he looks to have grown old, overnight, ungracefully, tired and sleepless, abandoned and powerless; easy-meal even for Glendas and Dobsons - bless him, of this world. OK, Iraq took the star status out of him and he’s looked shifty (like Bell’s cartoons /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) ever since, but, as things turned ugly so quickly, the biggest mistake of his career, I think, was his announcement that he was not going to fight another election. That killed him. Why did he do that? No need, as pressure was not as Thacher’s. And that reminds me how little appreciation and gratitude there is out there. I don’t like Brown either to take over. Grey and boring but nonetheless equally capable. I don’t really know who I favour now /pf/images/graemlins/confused.gif /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.
I sincerely hope his promise to allow next premier, time to bed in, doesn’t turn nastier and end up in tears. As far as leaving when on top goes, that’s a wishful thinking now. Damage limitation and a clever exit strategy is what he needs now. You got me, I am talking about Alastair.
Ah, have a look at this interesting comment, in today’s Guardian, by J Freddland about his politics and the politics of state. Don’t be silly, of course uninfluenced by nurse booing of the last days or Prescott’s affair with his beautiful secretary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1771346,00.html
Take care, fella, and give us a shout now and again /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif