The Mail vs Tony Blair

Fflaps · **Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:49 pm

bluebellnutter wrote:

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

They probably keep their poppies to use again next year (I know someone who actually did that...)

My grandparents do that, and they actually recieved a fair bit of help from the 'Legion after the war, and still get the benefit of their shop / centre thing in a nearby town to go to for lunch. Same poppy for 20 years.

I smell a possible Mail article there along the lines of those 'My fridge/TV/lightbulb/sheep's gut condom is still going strong after 150 years' type stories they occasionally run.

Waterstones · **Joined:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:26 pm **Posts:** 298

The point I was trying to make was if the Tories had been in power in 2003 the Mail wouldn't have given a shit if the UN and half the country hadn't had wanted to go to war because it was the Tories doing it and as we all know the Mail is a Tory backing newspaper and if David Kelly had topped himself on the Tories watch the Mail wouldn't have cared in fact they would have more then likely joined in in the hounding of him but because Labour did those things in Mail Land it's diffent unless it's there 'guys' doing it.

AOB · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:27 am

I saw Falklands war veteran Simon Weston on tv this morning. He described the donation as "incredibly generous". No point in me attempting to post that on the Mail's moderated comments.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7318

Ahh but you forgot the Mailite scoring scale:

His Welshness cancels out the War Hero bit with interest.
Besides it wasn't a proper war, against Germans, and he's not very photogenic.
But to cap it all his last statement indicated that he's been turned by the bolsheviks.

shyamz · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:46 pm

Fflaps wrote:

bluebellnutter wrote:

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

They probably keep their poppies to use again next year (I know someone who actually did that...)

My grandparents do that, and they actually recieved a fair bit of help from the 'Legion after the war, and still get the benefit of their shop / centre thing in a nearby town to go to for lunch. Same poppy for 20 years.

I smell a possible Mail article there along the lines of those 'My fridge/TV/lightbulb/sheep's gut condom is still going strong after 150 years' type stories they occasionally run.

It's exactly the kind of thing you know they'd normally get enraged about, the idea of cheap bastards reusing their poppies year after year and taking money from the Legion as a result.

In fact I'm amazed that in all their years they haven't managed to weave a whole article out of it.

I wonder why they aren't bothered by it? :wink:

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:50 pm

Because they do it themselves?

Nah, they'd be more hypocritical than that...

Paul · **Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:53 pm

Labour braced as Blair prepares to trash Brown in first major TV interview since he quit as PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l#comments

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When the history of the late 20th and early 21st Century is written by IMPARTIAL observers, Tony Blair as PM. will rank higher than Maggie Thatcher & Dave Cameron.

- Anne, West Midlands, 31/8/2010 22:44
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go on wind them up, you know it makes sense!

Fozzy · **Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:21 am

Interview on the lefty commie BBC trashing Brown? That must be confusing the Mailites nicely.

AOB · **Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:35 am

Mail furiously wanking themselves over everything to do with Tony Blair today. Funny that they are selective in what the choose to believe. Criticism of Gordon Brown = unquestionably the truth, everything else = lies.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:46 am

Indeed.

I'm wondering which number under 50 Littledong is going to pluck out of thin air and claim that's how many books Blair has sold.

AOB · **Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:59 am

Some amusing comments on that if you click on the "worst-rated". Winding up that lot is #like taking candy from a baby#.

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2074

This classic on the "gordon drove me to drink article":

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Usually biographies are very interesting, no matter about whom they are written; but this one, it seems, would be better written post mortem.
- mike, woking, 1/9/2010 9:33

It's an autobiography, Mike. Which would make writing it post-mortem somewhat tricky...

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4251

crabcakes_windermere wrote:

This classic on the "gordon drove me to drink article":

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Usually biographies are very interesting, no matter about whom they are written; but this one, it seems, would be better written post mortem.
- mike, woking, 1/9/2010 9:33

It's an autobiography, Mike. Which would make writing it post-mortem somewhat tricky...

Fantastic.

storygirl · **Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:49 pm

How long before the Mail suggests Blair to replace Cameron?

AOB · **Posted:** Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:47 pm

The Red Arrow wrote:

I'm wondering which number under 50 Littledong is going to pluck out of thin air and claim that's how many books Blair has sold.

I think he'll be keeping quiet on that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010 ... est-seller

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A Journey is already Waterstone's fastest seller ever in the autobiography and biography category. The chain said the book had "unprecedented" sales on its release this morning.

"We've never seen anything like this for a political book. It is rewriting what we expect this sort of book to achieve," said Andrew Lake, Waterstone's politics buyer. By 3pm yesterday, A Journey had sold more copies than Peter Mandelson's book, The Third Man, in its first three days. And the chain predicted that by the end of the day Tony Blair's book would outsell The Third Man's entire first three weeks.

"Mandelson's book was, at the time, the fastest selling political book Waterstone's had ever seen, but has now been eclipsed by Blair," said Lake.

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