i'm just bewildered now.

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

That's life, that is.

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

Shyamz had the same problem a while ago.

I cannot remember her solution.

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You may say I'm a dreamer.... but I'm not the only one....

You missed the - character off the front of -FnmnuDiVno.

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You may say I'm a dreamer.... but I'm not the only one....

Blair in 2005:

Economy was in good shape.
7/7 hadn't happened yet.
The opposition was shambolic and charisma-free.
Blair had charisma in spades.
The media wasn't quite so full of right wing lunatics.

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Ten seconds... the pain begins.

Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

I would like another crack at being PM says Tony Blair as he claims to be better equipped for Downing Street



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... treet.html


Mail readers

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"Fanaticism is the only form of willpower to which the weak minded and irresolute can rise."

If it wasn't for a few little problems, like Afghanistan, Iraq, faith schools, being a religious maniac and PFI, I'm sure he could. He's a clever and talented politician, and streets beyond anyone in any of the parties today. He's just managed to taint himself beyond redemption.

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

For all he says that he wants to play a big role in domestic politics again, it's hard to see how, practically, he could. Unless he goes to the Lords at some future point in order to come back into a future Labour cabinet, following the example of Mandelson.

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

He wouldn't get far without the (holy?) trinity of Rusbridger, Powell and Campbell back in play. He says he's learned things, but so have we.

Of course, he does already have Murdoch on-side, and is no doubt feeling incredibly bolstered by Cameron's spectacular crash and burn, alienating virtually everyone but his own elite class, just two years into a shared government where the dominating party only got 36% of the vote.

The remarks on CiF from people in their late 20s and early 30s claiming they never had it so good under Blair, and now they want those times back, must make galling reading for long term Tory planners like Policy Exchange.

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"...now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness..."

Jokes aside.... flinging shit at an ex pm is one thing.

Doesn't this need reporting?

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You may say I'm a dreamer.... but I'm not the only one....

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"Fanaticism is the only form of willpower to which the weak minded and irresolute can rise."

Sod Tony, can we have Gordon back?

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Please note: this badger is up to date with her vaccinations. She did not give your cows TB, and as such anyone attempting to kill her will be tied to a chair naked, covered in jam and positioned over a nest of very angry ants.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175197/Former-PMs-claiming-100-000-year-EACH-maintain-luxury-lifestyles.html

How Blair and Brown are each claiming more than £100,000 a year from the public purse to maintain luxury lifestyles
Payment is made to all former prime ministers
John Major and Margaret Thatcher also claim the taxpayer-funded allowance


This surely has to make some of their heads explode. They want to get angry at the horrible lefties Blair and Brown........but hang about....the same applies to Thatcher? What to do! Although the comments section seems to focus very much on the first 2 and pretend Thatcher wasn't mentioned.

I'd imagine a fair amount of that has to do with security arrangements. It's not just former PMs - ex-NI Secretaries and others also qualify.

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Ten seconds... the pain begins.

Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

Doesn't Thatcher claim the highest amount?

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.