Just seen a clip of Big Dawg being interviewed at the Ryder Cup.

[Joe Chi Minh]

He said he was proud of his country's team, and thought it was better to stand by them when they were losing than when they were winning! What a man!

How did he ever get into politics, or get the name Slick Willie? Blair would have died to be seen with the winning British team. I can only imagine he had some extraordinarily high, over-riding political priority, or perhaps an advisor suggested that it might be just one sadly, transparently shallow photo-op too far.

[Kagemusha]

1. Ummm Blair has the Labour party annual conference...

That's high, over-riding enough for you? This is his last conference too. His farewell tour officially begins now.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. I'm tickled by your prefatory, "Ummm"...! It obviously is for you!

Tee hee. You like him, do you?

Why wouldn't what's high and over-riding genuff for Tone be high and over-riding genuff for me? Now you mention it, I think I heard one of his female minions in the background, on the TV, lauding his government's - no don't laugh - tremendous record of achievements!!! He couldn't get enough of that sort of stuff.

I had to laugh at the crafty cynicism of the suggestion by the MPs who want him to skidaddle pronto that he should do a farewell tour of the country to receive the ecstatic adulation of the adoring British public! Sugaring the pill, the carrot to precede the stick of his own Thatcherian bum's rush. The servant isn't greater than his mistress.

It was reported in the papers that he will not be able to live in this country, on his retirement, for security reasons, so maybe it wouldn't be such a good idea.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. I'm sorry, Kagemusha. Maybe you mainly wanted to inform me,

and I took the smart-ass "Ummm..." too seriously.

As a matter of fact, I was thinking more in terms of his attending some prestigious international forum or summit, strutting the world stage as putative statesman. I didn't watch it or hear more than I mentioned, but I suspect Blair would have been relucant to attend it, knowing that so many of them can't wait to get rid of him.

He's actually and egregious cuckoo in the Labour Party, never mind its leadership, being an extreme corporatist and extra hostile to the real Labour Party, which was Socialist and founded by the trade unions. His right-wing policies have been more extreme than Thatcher's or Major's, and he is currently in the process of privatising the National Health Service.

[samsingh]

3. it's better for us the more we see of him

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. How do you mean?