As a keen subscriber to Channel Four’s Snowmail service, I immediately opened its email promising “breaking news”. And the news? Tony Blair has “just touched down on Teeside prior to a speech in his constituency” where he’ll announce he’s leaving. As he did in Oct04 and in Sep06. Spare me. We have six weeks until he leaves No10: this is a stunt. The Tories finish their quarry in days – Labour leaves it to limp to the end. Perhaps Blair was so taken by Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ that he wanted to stage a political equivalent? Just as I couldn’t watch that film, I’m afraid I won’t be watching any more of this after his speech finishes.
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