Just in case anyone in the Labour party was missing him

seb

According to Guardian journalist, Michael White, Tony Blair doesn't read books. Critics say that our ex-Premier knows nothing about history. Blair once promised the nation that globalisation would deliver opportunity and prosperity for all. The fact that neither has actually turned up - at least for those of us not lucky enough to live in China - must mean, then, that know-it-all Tony's belief in globalisation is a form of faith: a largely irrational belief system unsupported by concrete evidence. Is this why Yale has hired him to lecture on both subjects at the same time?

Dirty Euro

He kept calling him the prime minister of England. Why is he so dumb?

Dirty Euro

Someone should have told him he was the prime minister of the UK not England. It annoys me. Is Jon Stewart on Mexican TV, or is it TV in Ireland. Maybe Americans do not care about geography.

Frank Pulley

Whatever anyone may despise about Tony Blair's conniving and his consummate b.s. he handles the Septics with great aplomb. Imagine Brown in that seat. Thank God the stupid Labour Party dumped Blair; had they not done so he would have won the next election and the one after that.

salieri

Septic is not a nice word for them, Frank

Frank Pulley

Cockney rhyming slang is not meant to be nice, salieri; it's meant to be argot and (mostly) humorous. Anyway, I didn't coin that; my friend furriskey did and he is one of the most humorous men alive today, as anyone who followed The Daily Ablution knows. He has also had the privilege of fighting wars with them as an ally, so that has to be taken into account. Scott Burgess (pbuh) - an American himself - didn't mind, why should you? Certainly better than calling 'em 'J Arthurs', ennit? That has another connotation and is indeed not nice.

salieri

Frank, a thousand apologies. I assumed it was a misprint for sceptics, and the possibility of rhyming slang passed me by. But to be strictly accurate, J Arthur and Septic are both verbs, are they not, whereas the noun you had in mind was probably Kuwaiti (tankers).

Frank Pulley

salieri
LOL

Actually, as you must know, when the David Hockneys get to the old rhyming slang, they don't worry to much about the peppers 'n' herbs or the ups 'n' downs - anyfink goes as long as they understand each other.

Now - I'm just off for a Ruby Murray, me old china.