European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch – 11 May | 106 comments (106 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Tony Blair: success or failure?
To start with a theme, the departing Prime Minister is Bliar, the mendacious, spin-obsessed, manipulating fraudster who lied to take us to war, undermined our independent civil service, took cash from the rich and rewarded them with peerages and favourable decisions, and suborned our politics.
This Blair is also, at best a naive, messianic prating fool when it comes to foreign entanglement, a US poodle, or at worst a war criminal who has done huge damage to international law and world peace.
At home he has been the ignorer of Parliament, the trampler on our ancient liberties, the CCTV and ASBO king, the grinning, malign Mary Poppins of the supernanny state.
Personally he is Phoney Tony, a vacuous actor with the Dome as his exemplifying monument, a freebooter, a lover of foreign trips to celebrity hideouts owned by other members of the Cool Britannia Delusionary Roadshow.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri May 11th, 2007 at 04:11:36 AM EST
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Re: Special Focus (4.00 / 3)

What Murdoch giveth, Murdoch taketh away.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 11th, 2007 at 04:52:14 AM EST
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Unless this is rhetoric for entertainment's sake, it looks like the NewsCorpse job offer is off the table.

Not that there's much to disagree with there.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri May 11th, 2007 at 06:18:05 AM EST
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I think it's just for entertainment value.

It falls to me to make the first moves in this on-page wrestling bout to contest whether the Blair premiership has been a glorious success or ignominious failure. So let me emerge from the unfashionable left-of-centre corner clutching an updated copy of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, in which Cyrano anticipates all the insulting epithets that may be or have been hurled at him on account of his unusually large hooter.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 11th, 2007 at 06:20:51 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch – 11 May | 106 comments (106 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)