‘Rasputin’ at Downing Street ‘Rasputin’ at Downing Street

[dArKeR]

August is a time of political doldrums, when Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family jet off on vacation, this year to the Caribbean island of Barbados. Back home, however, the Blairs are getting no political respite, and this time it appears to be the doing of the prime minister’s wife, Cherie, who, at least as Britain’s acerbic media describe it, appears to have let a modern-day Rasputin — in the form of a lithe fashion-cum-aerobics guru — have the run of 10 Downing Street.

FOR THE beach-bound Blairs and their coterie of media advisers, the timing of a seven-page spread in Marie Claire magazine initially looked to be fortuitous. The prime minister held one last press conference on Friday just as “A day in the life of Cherie” hit the magazine stands, and on Saturday the family packed off to the sun-kissed Caribbean.
       But then there was that one photo in Marie Claire, which had been granted rare access to the mother of four during a busy work day as she juggled domestic life, her flourishing legal career and her duties as the prime minister’s wife.
       The black-and-white image, tucked into a flattering look at a modern-day working mother, showed Blair relaxing on the prime ministerial bed, while her “lifestyle guru,” Carole Caplin, applied lipstick to the Blair’s puckered lips.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/947966.asp?0cv=CB20

Amazing, another shit-head vacationing while his soldiers are in harms-way.

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[Maple]

1. Is there anybody in charge

of the situation over there?

Anybody?

[rasputin1952]

2. Here, or there...

only darkness presides.

:scared: