Oh Lord It's Hard To Be Humble

I hear 'Staying Alive' is top of the hit parade in Iraq. It seems to be an affectionate and respectful tribute to Tony Bliar.... or does it mean something else?

I think you are all being a bit premature in believing that Tony will simply step aside gracefully when the time comes for Gordo to assume the mantle and trash Tony's place in history.
I can think of several scenarios that would require our Tony to continue in post ,in the , you know , national interest.
The most obvious of these is that Gordo has to get to the start line , there being no other real contenders.He doesn't look a well man these days ,,,Night Fever,,Too Much Heaven ,,Tragedy, ,Stayin'Alive!

From the BBC report on Naseed Hamed being stripped of his MBE:

"The Cabinet Office, which administers the honours system, said on Monday that awards could be annulled if evidence of wrongdoing came to light."

Just imagine the carnage in NuLab if Yates gets his way...

Ho Ho Ho

Yep. Nothing would represent a greater state of 'National Emergency' than the brutal assassination of a Prime Ministerial incumbent by 'Al-Qaeda' or similar New Labour bogeyman.

"The Cabinet Office, which administers the honours system, said on Monday that awards could be annulled if evidence of wrongdoing came to light."

LORD Archer? Oh wait - he's not a moslem.

OT

You guys should post more in 2007, at least once a day ....... to say the least.

There are some great commenters on this blog and it would be great to see this blog climb up the stratospheric highs of the British blogging scene (especially as this is Tony's swansong year).

Best wishes for 2007.

Good riddance if it turns out to be true. Hazel Blears seems to be absent from the list though, which would be a travesty if she also wasn't given the boot...

Seconded!

jono

Blairwatch suckered again !

A ten year-old intellectually-challenged kid might manage NOT going on hols with hasbeen popstars as being a great political seachange.

Who is BROWN ? Or what ?

He has underwritten every Blair policy, from IRAQ to PFI/PPP, and I'll mention it before Tonys A Killer, he's been APPROVED by Bilderberg !

I would dearly love to be wrong .

But there have been numerous occasions for a COVERT Socialist, or even a brit Nationalist, watching out for the ordinary PEOPLE like old de Gaulle,for the frogs, to disassociate himself from Blairism, but none have been taken.

SO, now we have another Organisation Man, beholden to many --- but not the poor Brits.

In the PRESS, I've seen him held up as an Intellectual Powerhouse, as TB was recently lauded as a 'Political Colossus'.

Well, bollocks to that ! If boring us to death is a virtue, Uncle Joe wins over Gordie.

One thing lacking in BW is an attention to "Deep Politics".

Of course I enjoy the day by day exposure of the scum. It is necessary. They are scum and they deserve it !

However, taking a longer view, their replacement by others answerable to the same masters will change nothing.

The Yanks have seen this in their recent elections.

I hope Hutton is out, working out his inverted oedipal problems on the most vulnerable people in society would be laughable if it weren't so grim.

Suckered? Not on this one, unless it is me that is confused.
Sorry frog, I think you have missed the point here, if your point is that Blairwatch is in anyway backing Brown as a credible or reasonable alternative to Blair... I may be mistaken, but I don't think there has been anything positive said about Brown by any of those of us who post here in the last 1500 posts or so. And I think you would be hard pressed to find much in the comments either.

I know I can speak for Quarsan, and I think Davide and Tom too if I hand over to George Galloway to provide as close as we come to an official BW position on the Brown Blair thing when he describes them as "two cheeks of the same arse"...

re the lack of "deep politics" here - a fair point, but the "depth" of blogging comes with time available to those of us who run the site. People have lives, kids, jobs and other commitments, so posting can be erratic. I've hardly been here for the last 6 months. Also, there will doubless be a queue of people lining up to point out that the lack of depth of political coverage reflects the calibre of the bloggers... and maybe they have a point...;)

i think it's simply a case that brown is less shit than blair, despite his name. of course, that's like having to choose between a dog turd and a cow turd when forced to eat one. you go for the dog turd because less of it - it still smells like shit and tastes like shit. brown is an improvement on blair, but barely.

Agree with ringverse re: Brown - he's had ample opportunity to distance himself from Blair, by resigning over Iraq, for instance, and has chosen his own ambitions (and hiding when the going gets tough, then leaking covertly against your party leader, of course) ahead of a fairly straightforward moral choice. That damns him, in my mind, as any kind of improvement over Blair.

When even an adulterer like Robin Cook is ahead of you in the moral stakes, it's time to quit, IMHO.

Anyway, it's not like Brown's record has much going for it - PFI and tax credits don't shout 'Prudent Chancellor' to me (it's a better record than Blair though, who's personally associated himself with the worst policies).

Just to continue discussing something completely irrelevant: you'd be much better off eating the cow turd. The faecal matter of carnivores contain many more unpleasant types of bacteria than those of herbivores.

misleading tabloidstyle header from me. APOLS !

My whinge is with all of us, and the bleeedin press, not having a sharper eye on the Brown. a KNIFE EVEN for a little vivisection...

Whatifs time.

IF Brown had been PM in 02/03 would he have gone to War ?

We are told he is an "atlanticist", and there is evidence of 'grooming' from the other side.

Is that a silly question, or a useful tool to concentrate the mind ?

I pose myself the same one here with regards to Sarkozy, who was still publicly brownnosing US policy a few weeks back when it was obviously failing at a disastrously increasing speed.

Tom -- not so sure about the 'better record' ...

I thought "Blairwatch, Suckered Again" was a great tabloid headline frog, indeed, it would make a great t-shirt...:)

Casting my mind back to pre '97, wasn't Brown the Atlanticist, and Blair the European...

re going to war, Brown is on record as saying that he wouldn't have done anything different to Tony.