Blair's stunning performance at PMQs
It's safe to say that this was not Tony Blair's finest moment. Perhaps it was the long break, or more likely, the fact that Blair is now the lamest of lame ducks, but the first PMQs after the Parliamentary recess was not a stunning success for the Prime Minister. So bad was his performance that it has cast fresh doubt over his plans to stay in power until next summer as a chorus of MPs including loyal Blairites called for him to stand down.
“What the Home Secretary is doing, very sensibly,†said Mr Blair, “is ensuring that all those foreign secretaries . . .â€Â
The chamber went berserk at the idea of foreign secretaries being deported. Margaret Beckett, for whom deportation would be a kindness, looked alarmed. MPs hooted with laughter. “There’s not much of a recovery after that one,†admitted Mr Blair.
He was right. On the next subject, the NHS, he gave a rambling defence that sounded very tired. Then Dave asked the killer question. In January Mr Blair had backed the Chancellor as his successor. “Do you still think that today?†Mr Blair said nothing. The Tories were screaming. Labour MPs looked stunned. Gordon pursed his lips. John Reid crossed his arms and his legs. Finally, to the baying crowd, Mr Blair muttered: “I don’t resile from anything I said.â€Â
It was as real as a pantomime cow. Mr Blair then insisted that, instead, he would talk about Tory policy on the NHS. This was so rambling that the Speaker interrupted him and told him to stop. The Speaker! This is a man who is afraid to say boo to a goose. But then Mr Blair wasn’t a goose: he was a duck, and a lame one, and even the Speaker could see it.
Mr Cameron was on the crest of the wave now: “Do you back the Chancellor as your successor? Yes or no? I mean, I do. Do you?†More screams but, again, Mr Blair demurred. “I’m sure he is a lot happier talking about that than he is about policy. But I am going to talk about policy! Yes I am!†Dave shouted: “Everyone can see that this Government is divided and paralysed!†Mr Blair retorted that there was no paralysis and said lots of other words but all anyone heard was “quack, quack, quackâ€Â.
With this lousy performance, the all too obvious failure of his foreign policy, his domestic policy scarcely any better and the cash for peerages investigation getting ever closer to him, I can't see Blair hanging on until next Summer. It would be a kindness to put him out of his misery now.
Was truly satisfying to see
Was truly satisfying to see him squirm. A stunningly inept performance not worthy of sixth form debating standard.
He is without doubt an international joke now, except that thousands are dying because of his mistakes.
I can't tell if he is actually self-deluded, or just terminally stupid. What is he waiting around for - a job vacancy to come up for 'Supreme ruler of the universe' ?
He should go now, before more of our troops are sacrificed to massage his ego and placate his boss in the White House.
before anyone starts
before anyone starts spontaneously spunking all over the place at Cameron's meaningless performance, lets remind ourselves that he'll be no different from the Butcher Bliar.
The same rotton hidden Zionist 'shaping the pieces that are currently in flux' philosophy i.e. Lets false flag some Moslems, kill them, then pinch more of the their oil and land will be practiced by 'Dizzy 'bout Dizrael' Dave.
Remind me, which is the largest lobby group in Parliament again? errrmm...
www.cfoi.co.uk/
www.lfi.org.uk/
www.ldfi.org.uk/
an real axis of evil if ever I've seen one.
P.s. Take a look at the tacky lib dem site. Look at that blatent propaganda map they have showing poor little Israel surrounded by all those 'big bad' Moslem countris. Poor Israel. Lets us then not mention the genocide these Zionist killers dish out on innocent schoolgirls which must be slaughtered to defend their land grab against all those bad bad nasty Moslem terrorist countries. Oh please God, protect little Israel.
Candy Cameron says "Immigrant families who only ever meet people with the same country of origin. We need to find ways to avoid this." and darling Dave's not even got the excuse yet that his rotton views are becasue he corrupted by office!
Why doesn't someone start asking him if he will scrap the rotton destruction of law and freedom laws that Bliar introduced? So please, no spunking here. Thank you.
I wouldn't doubt your
I wouldn't doubt your central point, but in terms of evidence of a "chorus of MPs including Blair loyalists, the Independent article is the sort of idle journalistic rubbish that could have been written the day before PMQs. Let's look at the chorus... There's....
"Labour MPs said last night" and that is followed by... Shop Stewards of whom, "one said". Then there was "One senior Labour MP said.." and his friend, "A former Labour minister said". We move on to "said one ally", followed by "MPs close to Mr Brown" before giving us "Some Labour MPs are anxious".
The only people mentioned by name are Glenda Jackson, who has been calling for Blair to resign since Noah was a lad, and Ian Gibson who even this lard-arsed journo describes as I "a long-standing backbench critic of the Prime Minister".
Hardly a "chorus of MPs including Blair loyalists", I hope you agree.
I take your point Bob,
I take your point Bob, perhaps I could have phrased it better. However, the way the Indy article was written leaves one with the impression that there was a lot of very concerned MPs some of them close to Blair.
Most of the article focused on the discontent rather than what actually happened in Parliament which is why I used the Times article to quote from. I wrote "chorus of MPs including Blair loyalists" rather than "chorus of Blair loyalists" which obviously would have been inaccurate.
You may be right when you say that the article "could have been written the day before PMQs", but I took it at face value and included it with other articles (BBC and the Times) and also the video clip of PMQs so readers can make their own minds up. I think it's safe to assume that looking at Blair's performance that there would have been a lot of discontented Labour MPs yesterday on both sides of the Labour split. He handed Cameron a victory on a plate and probably re-opened the Blair/Brown saga again.
At the time of writing the piece and reading the Indy article the word "chorus" sort of sprang to mind. Another word may have been better. Anyway I'm glad you at least agree with the central point.
Howdy Bob. Yes, you have
Howdy Bob. Yes, you have identified neojournalism. Its prolific, its pathetic, and it's also paticularly persuasive to the pommie populace becasue their propensitity for critical ponderance is pathetic.