http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6610623.stm
This announcemnt couldn't have anything to do with the local elections, could it ?
This announcemnt couldn't have anything to do with the local elections, could it ?
Blair says he'll announce his resignation next week
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Geoff Collier
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TAE said:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6610623.stm
This announcemnt couldn't have anything to do with the local elections, could it ?
Which announcement - the announcement of the announcement or just the announcement?
TAE said:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6610623.stm
This announcemnt couldn't have anything to do with the local elections, could it ?
It has been clear since last autumn that Blair would announce his resignation soon after the local elections.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
one wonders if he will stay on as MP afterwards.
Blair will wait until a devolved government is sitting in Stormont, 8th May 2007. Then, on 9th May, Blair will announce to the world, that he has brought peace to the 6-Counties; thus, his heritage will be fulfilled; and, he’ll announce his retirement, resignation or abdication – not sure where Blair actually sees himself in the scheme of things.
Forget the widening of the poverty gap; his association with sleaze; his failure to reform the Lords; his embracing of neo-liberalism; and, his committing the country to an illegal war, and other dodgy engagements.
Blair will insist he solved the intractable problem of Carsonia.
What a fucking cunt – I hope he dies roarin’.
Forget the widening of the poverty gap; his association with sleaze; his failure to reform the Lords; his embracing of neo-liberalism; and, his committing the country to an illegal war, and other dodgy engagements.
Blair will insist he solved the intractable problem of Carsonia.
What a fucking cunt – I hope he dies roarin’.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
Irenick said:
erm he committed us to two illigal wars acutally why does everyoen forget afgahnistan?
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
i don't see belgrade as a war persay...TAE said:
and the un sanctioned the action...
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
GO NOW! DON'T WAIT. GO, LEAVE THIS PLACE!
nino_savatte said:
I'm sure that Blair will immediately take notice of nino, unless of course, he has him on ignore.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Does anyone (besides baldwin and durutti) ever pay any attention to this numbskull, trolling, stalking fuckwit?
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
erm they kinda did it was Operation Allied Force was the second part of Operation Deliberate Force which was the war to stop the UN from being wiped out... un provided the peace keepers and nato the military power.... Blair wasn't really involved in Deliberate Force being in opposition at the time, but Britain was committed to the second part of the action Allied Force and would have found it near impossible to withdraw without withdrawing from NATO to, in effect (much tlike the war in Iraq which technically didn't end in 1991...) it was an inheritied war and although he gave the order and did lot's of showboating about the 'humanitarian war' 'humanitarian intervention' even with out him we were committed to it by the previous admisitistration.Fruitloop said:
hence i don't really see it as his war (or for that matter a war at all; war is two opposing sides we in effect were neither of the opposing sides but a thrid side who'd decided that they'd had enough of the upstarts and were going to teach them a lesson... in effect we were nothign short of bullies flexin their muscles...)
nino_savatte said:
There can be no doubt that as many people pay attention to me as they do to you, nino.
You, for example, simply find it impossible to ignore me.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
It is very announcing the annoucement of the announcement of the announcement isn't it?
The only thing I can think of is that Blair has timed this pre-announcement of his post-election announcement in order to somehow influence the vote.
Can't for the life of me think which way he's trying to influence it though.
On the one hand, it might be argued that he's now recognised how much damage he's doing to the Labour vote by clinging on to power, and he's trying to appease the electorate and drum up some last minute support for New Labour. That might seem feasible, I mean he doesn't want to go down with a drubbing. He doesn't want his legacy to be as the man who ensured New Labour was trounced in the local elections.
However, the animosity between Blair and Brown knows no bounds. You could tell he lacked sincerity, I mean he's quite good at faking sincerity, but his words of support for Brown, 'A Scot might be your next PM, I've always said he'd make a good PM' sounded very, very, very hollow indeed, I mean Blair's very good at faking sincerity but he just couldn't pull it off. I'd guess that maybe he knows that the electorate, generally speaking, isn't keen on the idea of Brown as PM. Blair must know that if he makes sure that the public knows in advance of the local elections that it's definitely going to be Brown and not Milliband or Johnson or Meacher or anyone, then a lot of people won't vote Labour.
Maybe Blair's hoping that by effectively publicly washing his hands of New Labour prior to the election the new 'Brown administration' will be perceived to have received a kicking, he's hoping that it will look as though the fallout and the unpopularity is Brown's and not his.
Blair's probably hoping for poor results, so he can say, Well, yes, I reformed the Labour party, created New Labour, made it electable, and what happens, I hand it over to Brown and all across the country local New Labour councillors lose their seats. I never liked Brown, never thought he was a suitable candidate for Labour leader, and look what Brown's done to party support, we've gone from a really popular government to one that's losing elections, you know, I was very popular, but Brown isn't and this is the result... so Brown will get blamed for poor election results, followed swiftly by a collapse in support for him in the party generally, followed by a stabbing in the back come party conference season followed by a leadership challenge and leadership election...
The only thing I can think of is that Blair has timed this pre-announcement of his post-election announcement in order to somehow influence the vote.
Can't for the life of me think which way he's trying to influence it though.
On the one hand, it might be argued that he's now recognised how much damage he's doing to the Labour vote by clinging on to power, and he's trying to appease the electorate and drum up some last minute support for New Labour. That might seem feasible, I mean he doesn't want to go down with a drubbing. He doesn't want his legacy to be as the man who ensured New Labour was trounced in the local elections.
However, the animosity between Blair and Brown knows no bounds. You could tell he lacked sincerity, I mean he's quite good at faking sincerity, but his words of support for Brown, 'A Scot might be your next PM, I've always said he'd make a good PM' sounded very, very, very hollow indeed, I mean Blair's very good at faking sincerity but he just couldn't pull it off. I'd guess that maybe he knows that the electorate, generally speaking, isn't keen on the idea of Brown as PM. Blair must know that if he makes sure that the public knows in advance of the local elections that it's definitely going to be Brown and not Milliband or Johnson or Meacher or anyone, then a lot of people won't vote Labour.
Maybe Blair's hoping that by effectively publicly washing his hands of New Labour prior to the election the new 'Brown administration' will be perceived to have received a kicking, he's hoping that it will look as though the fallout and the unpopularity is Brown's and not his.
Blair's probably hoping for poor results, so he can say, Well, yes, I reformed the Labour party, created New Labour, made it electable, and what happens, I hand it over to Brown and all across the country local New Labour councillors lose their seats. I never liked Brown, never thought he was a suitable candidate for Labour leader, and look what Brown's done to party support, we've gone from a really popular government to one that's losing elections, you know, I was very popular, but Brown isn't and this is the result... so Brown will get blamed for poor election results, followed swiftly by a collapse in support for him in the party generally, followed by a stabbing in the back come party conference season followed by a leadership challenge and leadership election...
lostexpectation
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so will they be contest? mcdonnell still doens't have enough nonminees does he? will people nominate him for the sake of a contest?
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