On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:26:05 +0000 (UTC), Knight Of The Road was popularly supposed to have said:
Hopefully we should get something of the same sort of response, especially given the political climate that we're in at the minute.
Bliar has publicly stated that he will resign before the next election, but not when. The Unions are by now extremely upset with New Labour; they've paid Labour the usual thinly disguised bribes, and gotten nothing back from them. So, the Unions want shut of Bliar.
Numbers on a swizzle stick 1168The difference is that drink driving has been shown to impair a driver's ability to a greater or lesser degree. Most drivers will have slower reaction times at least, and...
The electorate wants rid of him too. So does Gordon Brown, and all those politicians smart enough not to want to be seen cosying up to Bliar in his final days in power. And the dear deluded leader is up to his old tricks with cabinet re-shuffles too. Home Secretary not thick enough? Not as many steps to the right of Attila the Hun? Fine, bring back sleazebag 'Security' Blunkett again so he once again has a brainless secretary-shagging lackey who can once more be trusted to dive into whatever hare-brained abuse of civil liberties the dear leader wants him to do.
The problem for New Labour is this: they can see what's coming. What will at some time happen is that the great Tony Bliar will bugger off.
When he steps down (buttisted by someone's size 12, I suspect), we will see a Soviet-style takeover. Anyone who was buttociated with Bliar will be buttumed to be untrustworthy under the new Great Leader, and since the muttering backbench ranks will be near-rioting at that time, Gordon will be in no mood to trust anyone of suspect loyalties.
In short, anyone who is too friendly with Bliar now is buttured of backbencher status to come later. So nobody will be too friendly. Tony'll like as not get to handle this one all by himself, indeed he'll be encouraged to take personal command of things, in the sure knowledge that it'll keep him out of the way of the Brown camp and will make him look a prat in public.
All in all, Tony will not come out of this one smelling of roses.
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