Tony Blair was shown on TV this morning sweating heavily during a speech on the Health Service. I suspect it wasn't only the NHS that made him all sweaty. Many are expecting a further arrest in the cash for honours scandal within the next 48 hours. And following on from their depiction of Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin as pigs, Labour will seek to elevate the level of political debate tonight by showing David Cameron as a reptile in a party political broadcast. They're also launching a website called www.davethechameleon.co.uk. Perhaps the Conservatives should hit back with a website called www.tonyblairisacrook.co.uk. But that would be petty, wouldn't it. Far better to let them swing on a rope of their own making.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Tony Blair Sweats it Out
Tony Blair was shown on TV this morning sweating heavily during a speech on the Health Service. I suspect it wasn't only the NHS that made him all sweaty. Many are expecting a further arrest in the cash for honours scandal within the next 48 hours. And following on from their depiction of Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin as pigs, Labour will seek to elevate the level of political debate tonight by showing David Cameron as a reptile in a party political broadcast. They're also launching a website called www.davethechameleon.co.uk. Perhaps the Conservatives should hit back with a website called www.tonyblairisacrook.co.uk. But that would be petty, wouldn't it. Far better to let them swing on a rope of their own making.
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have to disagree with the last comment.It's about time we got stuck in.
For too long we've just been a target for irate teachers and assorted lecturer lunatics who think the country should pay them £100k p.a. and give them more holidays and that anyone who disagrees with them is a racist,because if you're not New Labour you must be.
The country as a whole will not respect us unless we show some teeth and have a go back.Look where standing there got us with the cash for peerages-within two days the issue was Tory donors.
rant over
I have just had a look at the website and although it is quite funny, isn't it a bit rich of 'new' Labour accusing Cameron of stealing ideas becuase they weren't really theirs to start with. I seem to remember a lot of them coming from Bill Clinton and his 'new' Democrats.
Secondly telling the people what they want to hear has been used by pretty much every successful politician. Look at JFK he scraped into the White House with a large number of polpular policies. They do it as it is a winning strategy.
Tom
Absolutely, Iain. You don't mention Ming the ineffectual's failure to flog his Jaguar in the four months since he promised he would though!
Labour will seek to elevate the level of political debate tonight by showing David Cameron as a reptile
Perhaps that's what the super sweating is for. "Hey look at me, I've got warm blood!"
Blair might have focal hyperhydrosis.
I thought Labour's broadcast was quite entertaining. Hardly the worst thing one party will throw at another over the next few years and had just enough of a grain of truth to make it an adequate bit of satire.
Seems fair enough to me.
'Dave' has been making a herculean effort to be all things to all men lately (a trick learnt from the Liberal Democrats), so he's fair game. Remember the Blair 'evil eyes' posters?
It is almost a compliment, in that it shows how much of a threat the Labour Party believes Cameron to be (that's Cameron and not the Tory Party).
Nice concept and well-executed.
The PPB was quite funny, really. Was cringing at first, but couldn't resist those cute animations by the end... (A certain Bristol-based, recent-fire--damage-assessing company may have had the same impact, damn'em...)
Must have been pretty pricey, mind. And not just to buy those big brass balls when it came to claiming shameless political-promiscuity... against the OTHER guy...
But most of all, I was surprised to see Labour individualising the attack on Cameron quite so soon... Not that I realistically expected much debate on town/borough/county council-influenced issues, I suppose, but it did seem a little too panicked in all its focus on the one newcomer-chief, for all his high-falutin'-media approval thus far...
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