Bliar is Out – Have a Drink

May 10, 2007

Bliar is finally on his way out. But why does he plan to stay in office until June 27?

I am afraid he has damaged his party so much, that the next election in Great Britain (ex Scotland?) will go to the Tories.

Will there now be any policy changes under his successor Brown? I can not think of any decisive trun he might take. He seems to have been in general agreement with Bliar on most issues.

Anyway – one on the house for everybody.

Posted by b on May 10, 2007 at 15:53 UTC | Permalink

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Cheers. Thank God the bastard’s gone. But now apparently he’s touting himself as World Ambassador for Peace and as Reconciler in Chief of the World’s Religions.

Posted by: johnf | May 10 2007 16:03 utc | 1

Before we drain our celbratory pints, let us just take a moment to think back on what he once replaced: a bloated, self-satisfied Tory shit-sump. It’s not enough to redeem him, but it does put him in a somewhat better light.

Posted by: ralphieboy | May 10 2007 16:21 utc | 2

Politicians suck (hick, thanks b 🙂 )

Posted by: beq | May 10 2007 16:36 utc | 3

The Powers-that-be recall politicians that have lost the ability to mislead the public, and install a fresh face with new “credibility.”
The people lose every time.
Better to keep a very lame duck in office with clipped wings, than a new face aggressively pushing new “reforms.”
No drink for me. Shallow analysis.

Posted by: Native American | May 10 2007 16:59 utc | 4

If you won’t take a drink on the house when the proprietor’s buying, you’re probably in the wrong bar.

Posted by: aubanel | May 10 2007 17:28 utc | 5

I’ll save mine for June 27. The fucker is still in power.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | May 10 2007 18:08 utc | 6

Blair was able to count on the fact that his Tory opponents were in such a shambles. His biggest threat came from his own party’s remaining leftists, but he was able to deal with them without having to worry about the Tories doing anything other than continuing to embarass themselves.
As far as I can tell, they still are.

Posted by: ralphieboy | May 10 2007 19:14 utc | 7

a lagavulin for you, b. I’ll have some shiraz.

Posted by: fauxreal | May 10 2007 19:35 utc | 8

The prophetic voice never was, and never will be, in the wrong bar.
Drink yourself full of hopes and dreams.
Some of us are forced towards longer horizons.

Posted by: Native American | May 10 2007 20:24 utc | 9

i’ll take a double shot of whatever you’re pouring b,
it’s an honor to be drinking w/the whole lotta ya.

Posted by: annie | May 10 2007 20:59 utc | 10

I’ll skip the jokes about ordering a ‘Purple Poodle’ mixed drink, but, there’s this from the ‘no shit’ dept: The Poodle as War Dog
Also see, Poodles at War?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | May 10 2007 21:24 utc | 11

fuck me dead i am being drowned in their self satisified waves of felicitation on the resignation of one amongst their number in the cretinocracy
the vulgar battallion who work the city & dumbly donk their dicks on listening to oasis or blur may have yet one more reason to down their pints at the local
to drown themselves in the vagaries of an empty empire that has to suck the dick of another empire so stupid – that it is doing in 8 years what it took their elites nearly two hundred years to construct
how they celebrate their venality – unfortunately even al jazeera is amongst them – with the odd arab critic here or there to offer some sense of the loss that these morons of modernity have created
& brown – well fuck me he looks like dennis healy swallowed aneuri bevin & shat this fat little scottish economist out – as if it will change anything & the tories who had their snouts in the murdochian & goldsmith trough for so long – they will not be able to take advantage of anything
what is this parliamentary democracy other than some form of high paid donkey club – lord this & that sir whom & whomever – ascending an aristocratic ladder that has neither taste, ethics or morality & was a bad joke it played on itself even in the 19th century – read anthony trollope to see their kind & their essential smallness & meanness read dickens to understand they have never given a fuck for the poor – especially their own – they like to wipe their shoes with them or shit in their mouths through the means of a murdoch or a maxwell or a tiny rowland or a conrad black
i hope the iranians do something tommorrow just to get it off the media – or just to show the times of old – i’d like to see thee clown blair in the middle of a fisticuffs between the not so very reverend paisley & martin mcguinnes
between the cretinic conference of gonzales & blair – it’s been quite a day for my spleen

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 10 2007 23:32 utc | 12

the gods are especially cruel today – i turn on the television & their is john bolton speaking highly of blair – i am going to have to empty my bile over the balcony

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 10 2007 23:36 utc | 13

my god – bolton is an ugly piece of material – he’s like friederich nietzsche shat out the bowels of boris the butcher

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 10 2007 23:39 utc | 14

my god – bolton is an ugly piece of material – he’s like friederich nietzsche shat out the bowels of boris the butcher

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 10 2007 23:39 utc | 15

pour vous, RGiap, avec force et tendresse:
Spleen
Les roses étaient toutes rouges,
Et les lierres étaient tout noirs.
Chère, pour peu que tu te bouges,
Renaissent tous mes désespoirs.
Le ciel était trop bleu, trop tendre
La mer trop verte et l’air trop doux.
Je crains toujours,- ce qu’est d’attendre!
Quelque fuite atroce de vous.
Du houx à la feuille vernie
Et du luisant buis je suis las,
Et de la campagne infinie
Et de tout, fors de vous, hélas!
P. Verlaine

Posted by: catlady | May 10 2007 23:42 utc | 16

shallower analysis?
I think Blair was Bliar because Jeff Gannon (who said he had some quality time with the guy in the White House) was used to make sure Blair was Bush’s bitch (which means Bush’s bitch was a poodle.)
Ye olde photo op(eration.)
Gannon was the DC Madam du jour before the DC Madam du jour.

Posted by: fauxreal | May 10 2007 23:49 utc | 17

another frothy celebration of the misanthropes, or being stuck in a never ending episode of black adder. or another reagan or ford week of the insufferable — and yet they live on and on, like zombies

Posted by: anna missed | May 10 2007 23:53 utc | 18

Sir Rodric Braithwaite, a former senior adviser to Blair, writing in the Financial Times on 2, August, 2006:
“A spectre is stalking British television, a frayed and waxy zombie straight from Madame Tussaud’s. This one, unusually, seems to live and breathe. Perhaps it comes from the Central Intelligence Agency’s box of technical tricks, programmed to spout the language of the White House in an artificial English accent…
Mr Blair has done more damage to British interests in the Middle East than Anthony Eden, who led the UK to disaster in Suez 50 years ago. In the past 100 years–to take the highlights–we have bombed and occupied Egypt and Iraq, put down an Arab uprising in Palestine and overthrown governments in Iran, Iraq and the Gulf. We can no longer do these things on our own, so we do them with the Americans. Mr Blair’s total identification with the White House has destroyed his influence in Washington, Europe and the Middle East itself: who bothers with the monkey if he can go straight to the organ-grinder?…”
quoted by Tariq Ali in Adieu, Blair, Adieu

Posted by: DeAnander | May 11 2007 0:09 utc | 19

I am not singing along with you (but I am drinking). No open thread to put this, but thought I would share it with you, since it won’t be online until later this month:
Garret Keizer, in Harpers Notebook of June, 2007 (used to be Lapham):
The pretense of not knowing what every idiot knows has increasingly come to define our national discourse. To say, by way of example, that is has characterized the protracted denial of global warming is to understate the point. It also characterizes the burgeoning acknowledgment of global warming, the willingness to grant that a crisis exists even as our key players scramble to guarantee that every systemic cause of that crisis remains intact. It characterizes our farcical debate over the timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq even as permanent military bases are constructed in that country to oversee the flow of its denationalized oil to our national snout.
The last bit refers to USUK (remembering Debs..) so it can be viewed as relating to Blair.
A martini of Plymouth Gin for me, thanks, unfortunately virtual.

Posted by: brewster_north | May 11 2007 0:24 utc | 20

Blair retires to youtoobz: Lonely_P.M._15

Posted by: Uncle $cam | May 11 2007 3:09 utc | 21

Uncle $cam
That Olbermann MSNBC piece gets Blair’s essential vulgarity so brilliantly.

Posted by: johnf | May 11 2007 8:24 utc | 22

I am sorry, but the history will absolve tony blaiar.
Apart, I believe, blair is always in cocaine o something similar.His always explendide smile and entusiasm is strange.
What do you think?

Posted by: curious | May 11 2007 11:39 utc | 23

This computer won’t let me sign into NYTimes, nor add its front page picture to my website, but if you got print version, or go in and enlarge this picture , doesn’t his smile look like that of a Gilded Age theatrical mortgage collector, as he contemplates foreclosure?
He knows being Prime Minister of England will not be a good place to be this summer, and I suspect will visit mountains (out of England by default) as he leaves responsibilty.

Posted by: plushtown | May 11 2007 12:46 utc | 24

A glass of ruby red. Thanks.
Well at least Gordon Brown won’t have to move, he’s been living in no. 10 for years. (11 is far bigger and Cherie insisted!)
Blair joined the iraq murder fest because he was determined to do so. It was his choice, his manipulation, his decision. I guess Bush – see “Yo Blair!” – was not even very keen, though the politics of support of course needed to be played out, something might be gained by the US.
Blair in fact was a kind of impediment, as he insisted on a UN resolution that would legitimize the invasion, and keep him in good standing ‘at home’. That was reaching too far. He didn’t get it, though of course Neskofi -Annan- put his seal of approval on the whole thing post hoc, thereby voiding the UN charter for ever, and putting paid to the idea that ‘illegal invasions’ could have any reality outside of US policy dictats..
Blair and the UK were thereafter disregarded and punished for his hubris, his bloodlust and servility -, as the UK got no contracts, no look in, no kudos. (Compare with Australia…) and had to keep on sending soldiers, and playing a poodle role.
Labour, new or not, did not put a stop to all this. They did nothing. They chatted with serious faces on the BBC…swore by Tony…or went into timid personal opposition.checked out…or went to eat fish and chips and mumble Britannia rules the Waves or hum the Rolling Stones or whatever…

Posted by: Noirette | May 11 2007 16:18 utc | 25

Tsk, such unkind words… Tony Blair is a hero, ladies and gentlemen, Iraq’s “president” says so.

Posted by: Alamet | May 11 2007 23:04 utc | 26

Brown is tainted meat in too many ways, PFI not the least of which.
Clare Short appeared on stage after a recent performance I saw of Richard Norton-Taylor’s play, Called to Account, about the possible legal indictment of Bliar for war crimes, and said that Brown is as up to his neck in it. Of course she omitted to state that she is in it too. No member of the Cabinet so much as protested against the war. There is not a Rizla paper between any of them in my view.
Robin Cook (who resigned), Mo Mowlem (who spoke at the 2 million antiwar rally in London’s Hyde Park on 15 Feb 2003) are long dead, and the Labour party they left behind has rotted from the head down.

Posted by: Dismal Science | May 14 2007 13:37 utc | 27

Posted by: Dismal Science | May 14 2007 13:38 utc | 28

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