Tonight's Entertainment in Manchester *UPDATED*

Given such a stellar line up can you suggestthat they do a Nationawide tour...

At a 2005 election speech in Blackburn, Murray spoke in graphic detail about torture, murder and decapitation, with children as young as four and five on the front row. Many of them looked considerably disturbed, but he didn't seem to give a damn.

This is Blairwatch to a frigging tee. There are seismic shifts in power at the top of the Labour party and government. Blair is at his mendacious and spellbinding best delivering a speech that is half Seinfeld and half JFK. And Blairwatch feels the most blogworthy event of the day is a collection of tatty malcontents in a church hall fetishing about the Middle East. Again.

er, no. This wasn't the most blogworthy event of the day, Blair's speech was, and I would agree that he was at his most mendacious and spellbinding best.

But I didn't get the chance to post on his speech before I went out tonight, and I don't know if you've noticed, but the rest of the world is talking about little else...
I did however go to a fringe meeting in a church hall this evening [I wasn't invited to Blair's speech for some reason] with what you describe as a collection of tatty malcontents, and which almost nobody else will even mention.

So you will just have to cope with waiting to hear what we have to say about Blair's speech... But I'm sure you'll manage.

So bleeding what? Whose Blog is this, anyway? The owners can/should post whatever they want.

As to the Blair valedictory panto, frankly I couldn't bear to watch more than a few minutes of the ghastly orchestrated and entirely sycophantic spectacle - the close-ups of adoring and enraptured family members being particularly nauseating. It may have been his best speech ever, but it was no more than a wave as he disappears through the doorway to riches, a discredited waste of space. In short it was an attempt to rewrite and manipulate the entire history of his personal moral turpitude.

'What's important' (and how often have we heard that meaningless piece of NuLabSpeak in recent years?) is what is being said and done behind closed doors - and there are plenty of them. The deals and stitch-ups being formulated by these power hungry monsters. You can bet that the real action is taking place well away from public scrutiny. This is 'Open Government' at its very best. Forget the speeches and the circus in the auditorium. Take a long hard look at who is talking to whom....and then prepare for the worst.

I agree with all of Chuck's points.

The speech was dripping with so much slime that I could only watch a few minutes at a time before a sickening feeling enveloped my body. You could tell that that every part had been planned in advance; how he would say each word to give it's full emotive effect, yet failing to deliver anything of value at the end of it. We've heard it all before.

But we digress from the post...

Blair and Murray, and most of the aforementioned luminaries, are essentially the same. Before 1997 animals were being slaughtered in terrible conditions; they were subjected to experiments, skinned for their fur, and hunted for 'sport.' Nothing has changed. If anything, the overall achievement of the Blair era has been a whole scale diminution of trust in politicians of all persuasions.

This is Blairwatch to a frigging tee.

Hold hard - we've been running on half (or possibly three-quarter) power for a while - I've been moving house and was offline for ten days, and ringverse has been away too, to my knowledge. We're not full-time professionals at this, yer know. If we were, we'd have been quaffing champagne with Cherie.

Anyway, having had only the MSM for company for ten days I need to steep myself back in some differing and enlightened opinions. Then I'll have the ammo to put the boot in.

Some video:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ChrisEdwards2004