It appears that Tony (Road to Hell paved with his good, honest, well-meaning intentions) BLIAR is a serious potential candidate for the Presidency of the EU once that pesky Constitution - Oops I mean Treaty - has been successfully ratified.
Could news that the Blairs are house hunting again have any connection to a certain lack of affinity with their Connaught Square neighbours pictured here?"The Blairs would enjoy the exercise, companionship and honest exchange of views"he says.
"The Blairs would certainly add a degree of tawdry glamour to the occasion, but the Security Service would have to background check our guests and I'd be disappointed if half of them didn't have something to hide. Also, the presence of so many loaded guns in the hands of non-country folk would make people a bit twitchy."- Quite so.
"This is not a day for soundbites ....."hesitate, hesitate, lower lip tremble then, the daddy of all 'sound-bites':
".... But we feel the hand of history on our shoulders"The Royal "we" being characteristic too.
“It makes you wonder just what names got discarded in the obviously-nothing-better-to-do brainstorming session that came up with it. It’s hard to think of anything worse. The ‘cat’s cradle of calamity?’ ‘Trellis of terror?’ ‘Minestrone of mayhem?’”Just a taster from Justin McKeating's laser accurate assement of the state-of-mind of our rapturing prime-minister as he sets off for his summer jollies in Barbados.
It seems His Toniness paid a visit to the Home Office yesterday.".... the Glorious Tony came and gave a "morale-boosting" speech to us plebs in the Home Office today. It was exactly like Young Mr Grace from Are you Being Served telling us "you've all done very well".Patronising crap in other words.
Some possiblities:
Hat-tip to Beau Bo D'Or
The extradition arrangements between the UK and US are enshrined in a treaty signed by David Blunkett in March 2003 and incorporated into UK law in January 2004. The new treaty was promoted on the basis of the need for 'a streamlined Extradition process to deal with the new global terrorist threat after September 11th'.
As expected, the Sunday papers were full of His Toniness' and Bruiser Reid's latest lectures on the inadequacies of 'The Criminal Justice System'. Most highlight the absurdity of it all (see for example the Telegraph, Times & Guardian), so I won't labour their well made points.
"Prime Minister Tony Blair called on the world community to unite to promote the "global values" of liberty, democracy, tolerance and justice" < Guardian>
See Here for about 30 examples of his past appeals to these values, which he is very selective about applying in his own back yard.
And just what is 'The world community' supposed to be - if not all 6.5 thousand million of us (or maybe just the PC ones, the remainder being clearly 'beyond the pale') paying homage to the bold selfless inspired leadership of His Toniness?
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Acutely aware though I am of perennial Establishment mendacity about the purposes of our military - as between aggressive empire-building and legitimate self-defense - in the shadow of Albert Stewart Barrow of "Shires and Provinces" fame, it nevertheless seemed a suitable pseudonym for an English countryman with a passion for horse and hound.
