18-07-2003 19:13									#1
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Yesterday, British PM Tony Blair adressed a joint session of Congress. And it was an absolutely amazing, brilliant speech.

full trancript here:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/17/bl...ript/index.html

	18-07-2003 19:17									#2
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Blair rocks. Debating that elsewhere.

Bush and Powell next run, with Blair taking over Powell's spot.
Powell running after Bush's 2nd term.
Now there's a dog that will hunt.

	18-07-2003 19:19									#3
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Blair

	18-07-2003 19:33									#4
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Blair looks worryingly at home with a giant US flag behind him...

	18-07-2003 19:48									#5
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Well, Blair better change citizenship and try to run for US office cause his future in Britian is looking less secure by the day.

	18-07-2003 19:48									#6
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What would the state code for England be?

	18-07-2003 19:51									#7
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I don't think Blair even CAN run for another term. can he?

	18-07-2003 19:52									#8
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It's quite amusing really. If Blair was American you'd be calling him a communist.

	18-07-2003 19:54									#9
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Yes, but now he's our communist, End.

	18-07-2003 19:54									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel I don't think Blair even CAN run for another term. can he?

Its a parlimentary system: as long as he heads the Labor party and the labor party rules, he is PM.

Yes, Tony is very leftist for the US, but all the gun nuts would vote for him just for Iraq, and then rue the day they did...Hey, maybe it would not be a bad idea?

	18-07-2003 19:55									#11
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He needs a big cowboy hat.

	18-07-2003 19:58									#13
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I'll give him a cowboy hat, if that's what it takes.
I'll give him the one I was going to give Che.

	18-07-2003 20:01									#14
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Well i doubt he'll be in office here for much longer (my bet is on end of october, beginning of November for the government to collapse), so i am sure they'll be happy to ship him over. Rush him through a citizenship porcedure, change some rules...

	18-07-2003 20:02									#15
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You think the govt will collapse? Labour are still pretty strong due to the lack of competition.

Who's gonna elect a baldy or a ginge? The conservatives and the liberal democrats are screwed.

	18-07-2003 20:04									#16
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quote: Originally posted by red_jon He needs a big cowboy hat.

We gave him a nice one when he came to Calgary last year for G8.

Bush got the same one.

	18-07-2003 20:04									#17
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Yeah, but labor doesn;t have to keep Blair as its head, now does it?

	18-07-2003 20:05									#18
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Labour will stay in power, but not under Blair. There'll be a leadership struggle of some sort, and Blair will lose, as he's lost a lot of the Labour grassroot supporters. Brown will probably replace him, for better or worse.

	18-07-2003 20:06									#19
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I reckon Ken Livingstone should be empero... I mean, legitimately elected Prime Minister.

	18-07-2003 20:13									#20
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Tony Blair will not be deposed.

Gordon Brown won't challenge him and any "stalking horse" would be trounced.

The labour party are notoriously stupid in things like this but not even they would give Robin Cook or Claire Short more than 20% of the votes in any contest.

He will carry on until the election, If and its a big If the Tories reduce the majority to under 40 then he might go.

He may decide that the Labour party are are bunch of whining class warriors and leave to join Clinton on the lecture circuit though.

	18-07-2003 20:16									#21
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I'm just waiting for the Lib Dems to become the opposition. Hopefully the next Tory leader will be a bald authoritarian too.

If they had any sense, they'd go right-liberal, with whatsisname.

	18-07-2003 20:18									#22
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quote: Originally posted by GePap Yeah, but labor doesn;t have to keep Blair as its head, now does it?

I don't think that he has any effective challengers at this point.

I'don't see his government falling by fall, but you never know with the British parliment.

	18-07-2003 20:27									#23
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I don't see him falling unless and until there are elections or atrocious-looking polls that impair the governing authority of the party.

	18-07-2003 20:33									#24
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At one point, Blair said, "And what you can bequeath to this anxious world is the light of liberty."

I wonder how many congressmen had to pull out a dictionary to find the meaning of the word "bequeath"? After all, it is not a word that we Americans use very often.

	18-07-2003 20:36									#25
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quote: I'm just waiting for the Lib Dems to become the opposition

	18-07-2003 20:39									#26
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Well, they're always growing slowly. I might be 80 by the time it happens, but at this rate it will

	18-07-2003 20:40									#27
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Now it is getting very mysterious.

David Kelly, Counsellor of the govermnent and Weapons Expert, but at the same time apparently one of the critics of the Iraq Dossier seems to have been found dead near his house in southmoor.

He told his wife that he wanted to take a walk and never returned. Now the Ploce has found a body near the house which matches the peronal appearance of Kelly (although it isnīt yet clear if it is really Kelly).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3076801.stm

Now, this is good stuff for all those conspiracy theorists

	18-07-2003 20:54									#28
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red-ken as PM, chirst that'd be time to leave the country

blair will be ok until the next election, but with reduced credability, after the election it's anybody's guess...

	18-07-2003 20:57									#29
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quote: Originally posted by *End Is Forever*

Every time I think the Conservatives can't get any more out of touch with the public they surprise me.

I'm sure their core support must be starting to die off due to old age now.

	18-07-2003 21:16									#30
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quote: Well, they're always growing slowly.

They're not though; the Liberal Democrat share of the vote - even with the woes of the Conservatives since 1992 - hasn't actually increased at all in over a decade. Their increase in seats is largely due to an improved attempts to have completely different policies in different constituencies target resources in key constituencies.