"Appointing Blair would be a hostile act" - Hague | 60 comments (60 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Blair's Chances Take a Nose-dive (4.00 / 3)

Part of the problem here may be that no one knows how to campaign for a post that doesn't yet exist, which has yet to be clearly defined, and for which there are only 27 electors. I would have thought the way to do it would have been to conduct private contacts with the relevant Heads of Government and their key advisers listening carefully to what they want to new President to do.

Press campaigns/media spin can be counter-productive and may have resulted in the Conservative and other backlashes. Certainly there appears to have been a major miscalculation by Blair's backers, and they seem to have forced people to define what they don't want.

Given Mary Robinson is not a peer she may have to wait until they call her rather than the other way around.

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Thu Oct 22nd, 2009 at 11:08:47 AM EST
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Re: Blair's Chances Take a Nose-dive (4.00 / 4)

I would have thought the way to do it would have been to conduct private contacts with the relevant Heads of Government and their key advisers listening carefully to what they want to new President to do.

From the SPIEGEL article, it appears private consultations was the route Bliar went. However, it also appears that he thought lobbying the six biggest member states is enough...

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by DoDo on Thu Oct 22nd, 2009 at 11:52:14 AM EST
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Re: Blair's Chances Take a Nose-dive (4.00 / 7)

Several articles have indicated that Jonathan Powell was (and why not is?) running Blair's lobbying campaign, and Sir Kim Darroch handling the "diplomacy".

I think it's quite counter-productive to consider Blair over and done with. The media campaign to make him look inevitable didn't take on in the non-English-speaking media, and it got broken by the opposition to Blair in Britain itself. That doesn't mean the bid is not ongoing, with less public drum-banging, since that seems to set off a strong contrary reaction.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Oct 22nd, 2009 at 12:33:43 PM EST
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Re: Blair's Chances Take a Nose-dive (4.00 / 5)

Hey. But declaring his bid dead is OR media campaign :-)

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by DoDo on Thu Oct 22nd, 2009 at 02:00:01 PM EST
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Re: Blair's Chances Take a Nose-dive (none / 1)

OUR.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Oct 22nd, 2009 at 02:06:13 PM EST
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"Appointing Blair would be a hostile act" - Hague | 60 comments (60 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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