The video that will incense Downing Street

Don

Is he getting sacked today?

Tom Willis

First mobile the day after he left Downing Street? He said that with some regret, as if he had no say in the matter. And has he yet sent an email, or browsed the web?

How did we think it a good idea to have such a technological naif/illiterate in charge of a modern country?

BTW how do Gordon Brown and David Cameron rank in this no-mobile to Blackberry rating scheme?

Mike, Brighton

Even though he is a utter fraud and failure as PM, he is still a great stage performer.....Shame he chose to be a politician and not an actor.

Frank P

Bwaaaahaha! He's cattle truckin' incorrigible; he's got cateloupes for orchestras. Eat you heart out, Gozza.

Can you imagine our deer Premier (always looks as though he's caught in a car's headlights) and his latest crutch, Hissing Sid Meddlesome spitting tacks over this in the inner sanctum. Keep rubbing in the salt, Peter. Great post. Divide and rule! Divisive and cruel! Just what the Speccy should be.

AngloWelshDragon

Pass the sick bucket.

oldrightie

Has their been a coup? Is Phony Tony back!

Faceless Bureaucrat

Ha, ha, ha...

Nurse, another Nokia for Mr. Brown - STAT!

Hysteria

hahahahahaha - hahahahahah

fabulous - I can just see GB and PM biting the furniture !!!!

To the point about mobile phones - not sure this is really relevant for someone in that position - Brown's mobile made him look a prat at Davos anyway - which kinda answers your point Tom..?

howard

you have to give it to him - Tony has class! By comparison, Brown is just ordinary.

I guess the phone thing was a security issue. Too many journo snoopers about

George Laird

Dear All

It seems that Blair is up to his usual modus operandi, self promotion.

If people would just ignore him then this crank would be instantly forgotten.

Maybe he is hanging about to offer Obama backing for an other "blood price".

Finally, since Blair does God now, I suspect that he thought that since it was a happy occasion, he didn't want Brown to spoil it by his fake hearty good fellow act.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

perdix

Slippery Tony didn't like to text or send emails while he was in power because he didn't like anything in writing which could be later used against him.Similarly, the frequent absence of minutes of his meetings.

Andrew Cadman

I'd forgotten just how revolting to listen to he is.

He is probably angling for Obama's support for his bid to be President of Europe.

Please Heaven forbid.

Dan

I watched it all live and i have to say it was a good speech. He knows exactly what makes the American's tick. While i'm not exactly his greatest fan, Blair at least has some charisma. Gordon Brown has less than zero...

Richard

Who's the 'we' he mentions - the ones who are going to work with him?

JONNY

Just to remind us how utterly wrong Richards of the Independent was when he said only yesterday the age of Blair-like politicians was old hat and passe.
What a bloomer Richards!

He's here. He won't be derailed. He's Number One with Clinton, with Bush and now Obama. There's a bit of him in all of us. In every true and loving heart.
And who's to say Blair wouldn't walk it if he put up for PM again today?
As it is,what a fillip for Blair Mark 2 (aka David Cameron). If you think that's all he is (which I don't.)
So Blair is back - riding in on a Prayer and a Smirk.
Moral: Don't fight it. Bite it.

Frank P

old rightie asks "Has their been a coup? Is Phony Tony back!"

FFS don't say that too loud; you might give them ideas. Another three terms of NuLab with Holy Tony as the Archbish is more than anyone should have to contemplate. Y'know, he is actually their only hope and he'd get a landslide. Any electorate that was daft enough to give him the first three terms could well do it again. Imagine a Second Coming here, after than dog and pony sshow three weeks ago in Washington? Beam me up Scottie!

Liz Brown

Duck! Mobiles flying in every direction - hope too, that the clunking fist is wearing a dark suit biggest larf I've had all day

Adrian

Christ, I hate that man, I had to stop the video I can't bear to even listen to his voice. It's very appropriate for him to show up because Obama is the new Blair.

mac

Surely, any sycophantic utterance containing the words 'Mr President, Sir' and 'we salute you' needs to mention 'courage' and 'indefatigabilty'?

Thank heavens for the mercy that there was no enraptured Mrs Blair in the clip. But if it was freebie, perhaps she wasn't far away . . .

(original mac)

Verity

Aaaaaaarrggghhh! Adrian, you and me both! The acting is excruciating. The self-congratulatory little smirk after every sentence. The studied, arch 'business' ... the whole thing (actually I only watched about eight seconds, but I got the hang of it) reeked of something practiced in front of the mirror for hours. Gruesome. If it discommoded the Prime Mentalist, well, that's something, I suppose. But gag!

steveperkins

My God how long can this go on?We have suffered what must be the longest period of the most inept,incompetent insufferable poppinjays ever to embrace the world of politics and people out there are even talking that he could be elected again!pllleaase!!!

Verity

Original Mac - V good! Maybe George Galloway will sue.

Steve Perkins, I echo your plea of despair.

Frank P

Verity

"...but I got the hang of it ... and it reeked; something he practiced in front of the mirror for hours. Gruesome!"

Yerrrrss! Didn't realise that you knew him that well, gal. But the mind boggles - even though I suspected that he might be doing it in front of the mirror for hours. The hair on his palms was the clue, togther with the failing eyesight. Just as my Granny warned me about just before puberty struck.

Sorry about the slight paraphrase - but I couldn't resist it (which is what I told Granny too).

Wilhelm

Test

EC

Maybe the real reason that Gordon is looking so hacked off is that Peter the Baptist is preparing the way for the second coming.

It's more likely than the twisted mouth of the BBC's Huw Edwards announcing that David Cameron has won the a 2010 election.

Mebbe Cherie will be Attorney General this time, Patricia Hewtitt back as Chief Whip to smoke out dissenters, and then John Reid .......

Nurse, NURSE, the curtains! ....

Ten Volley

For a moment I read 'doing it in front of the mirror on all fours'

The mind does indeed boggle.

Danielle

Bet the Tories are thanking their lucky stars Labour dumped Blair. As someone else has already said on here he is their only hope of winning the next election, even Cameron could never measure up. If it was Cameron V Blair at the next general it would be Labour for another term, no doubt!

One thing though, who is the 'we' he refers to? Is it the Royal we or has no-one told him he is not the leader of HM Government anymore.

Verity

Well-spotted, Danielle! A dig at the Prime Mentalist I have no doubt.