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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Tony Blair Seeks to Curb Cameron's Standing Ovation
How very strange that Tony Blair should conduct a live press conference on developments in Northern Ireland as soon as David Cameron's speech was finished. Wonder why that would be then? Could the old ham-actor be just that little bit 'frit'?
29 comments:
Anonymous
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No! He's going. Flip Osborne getting it wrong again on Daily Politics.
Yes this is vintage Blair and New Labour trying to control the news .
This is a bunch of people who want power at any cost and will go to great lengths to keep it.He did look old and tired though and sounded as if he suffering from a cold.
He is looking more and more like yesterdays man.
I wander which party all your 'anonymous ' people support? Obvious isn,t it.
Never forget that it was a conservative prime minister that got all the players together for the Northern Ireland Peace process..blair just followed that path!
He will try to claim this as his 'legacy' the man was just lucky!
As for today, of course he would. didn't he do something similar last year and before???
The man has lost it and will soon be a distant memory, albeit a bad one.
anonymong, I'd never heard the term spin until Blair and his cronies got in. you have all the attributes to be part of that venomous spinning machine. Barefaced cheek and total ignorance being the most desirable.
It is great that he said it, but did you get the sense from the audience that they agreed with him. Do you think that matters? Will they be campaigning on that on the doorstep?
Wherever there's an audience going begging there you will find a Blair. He'd have made a good cooking utensil sales presenter. His talents have been wasted working as a Prime Minister. Thankfully, not for much longer.
Never, ever, ever underestimate the NuLiebour capacity for dirty tricks. The messianic one has even tried to upstage the Queen, so this is just everyday spinning.
That slimy creep Andrew Neil has been doing his best to sabotage the conference all week. As William Hague got into his stride on Foriegn Affairs, Neil decided to interview Michael Howard on Tory Party funding. The tone of The Daily Politics was hostile and negative in its coverage from start to finish, concentrating on:"Why no policies? Why no tax cuts? Where do you get your funding?" Typically, the show ended wth Neil getting Roy Hattersley to rubbish Cameron's speech as we cut away from the standing ovation. Then, as the credits rolled, we got the oleaginous smirke and his rehearsed line: "We come to the end of four days and still no policies." Does anyone know where the man lives?
Anonymous 4.02: Haven't you got some work to do, surely the Labour party don't pay you to sit around writing this kind of crap do the - or do they???
Iain, i'm never one to knowingly defend the Slime Minister, but he did actually wait until Peter Hitchens started slagging off the speech! He was probably watching Sky and then as he saw Hitchens came on TV it was either puke or go talk to the press about Northern Ireland!
Fantastically positive coverage of the conference on ITV news at 6pm, then over to Channel 4 and twenty minutes into the news and they are still on about Northern Ireland and people smuggling.
What has he got to be frit about? He's off and doesn't give a toss. More likely he's pissing on DC's bonfire just because he can (which may not be entirely admirable, and might have made a better theme to explore in your post).
C'mon Iain, you know you can do better than this. BTW if this is the standard of nonsensical spin that 18 Doughty Street is going to start broadcasting in a few days time, you really will become a FoxNews for the UK, and get the respect and credit that such a channel would deserve. But I'm still hoping for rather better.
It's politics. Do you honestly think Cameron wouldn't have done the same thing? Or if Davis was in that position and you were his chief of staff would you have said, 'No boss, best to let Blair have the news cycle today'.
No, wants to get it out of the way so as not to deflect attention later from the 'Mother of the Nation'.
Cherie will be using the ever-loyal BBC to answer peoples' questions later http://southpawpunch.blogspot.com/search/label/Blair%20Cherie on one of her many areas of expertise - breast cancer!
Perhaps if Cameron's speech had more content than "NI parties still full of stubborn twats wishing they were still allowed to bomb each other", there would be more news coverage?
Didnt Blair do the same to Brown after his speech at last year's [or one before that] Labour Conference? I remember how some IRA 'news' story took over the news aganda - an anouncement of the findings of a report that had been sitting round for months
A bit rich calling Tony Blair a ham actor in the same sentence as talking about Cameron's speech.
Come on Iain, apart from the passage on gay and lesbian relationships - welcome as it is - and a firm promise of removing our human rights legislation - unwelcome as that is - what did young bum-face actually say?
As predicted we got a second rate PR man talking to an aged audience about nothing. There were more shaking heads than nodding ones at certain parts of the speech (see above) and what came across on TV as canned applause at the end of every sentence.
I think the Tories must know now they have made a terrible mistake, yet again. How the hell is Cameron going to fare when Gordon has been in power for three years if they can't even get ahead in the polls after all the Labour bloodletting over the past two weeks?
Never mind substance vs style - Brown will dismantle Cameron.Deep down you all know it.
Basically what the problem is is simple BUSH and his poodle YO BLAIR have declared war on muslims. And this is simply part of the propaganda campaign. If you asked a policeman to guard a paedophile and the same policeman had a member of his own family abused by a paedophile in the past then you would not post that policeman for that particular duty. This policeman felt he had issues with this posting ( issues we can all agree with ) and the YO BLAIR's buddy PC BLAIR decided to leak the story to the sun which is after all new labours version of pravda. The policeman who leaked the pc's name to the press should be charged with data protection offences and thrown out of the force. As far as i know it is illegal for the identity of diplomatic protection officers to be made public by the metropolitan police or anyone else. Only another few months of YO BLAIR to go so hopefully the country can mend.
29 comments:
No!
He's going.
Flip Osborne getting it wrong again on Daily Politics.
He probably thinks that developments in Northern Ireland are more important than a speech from a spin doctor looking for a new job.
Come on, that's just a *tad* tin-foil hat...
Yes this is vintage Blair and New Labour trying to control the news .
This is a bunch of people who want power at any cost and will go to great lengths to keep it.He did look old and tired though and sounded as if he suffering from a cold.
He is looking more and more like yesterdays man.
I wander which party all your 'anonymous ' people support? Obvious isn,t it.
He did it just to prove that the two of them (He and Dave Icke-Chameron) are not actually the same being?
Never forget that it was a conservative prime minister that got all the players together for the Northern Ireland Peace process..blair just followed that path!
He will try to claim this as his 'legacy' the man
was just lucky!
As for today, of course he would. didn't he do something similar last year and before???
The man has lost it and will soon be a distant memory, albeit a bad one.
anonymong,
I'd never heard the term spin until Blair and his cronies got in.
you have all the attributes to be part of that venomous spinning machine. Barefaced cheek and total ignorance being the most desirable.
It is great that he said it, but did you get the sense from the audience that they agreed with him. Do you think that matters? Will they be campaigning on that on the doorstep?
www.disillusionedandbored.blogspot.com
last thing posted in the wrong comments area
The're playing spot the difference.
Wherever there's an audience going begging there you will find a Blair. He'd have made a good cooking utensil sales presenter. His talents have been wasted working as a Prime Minister. Thankfully, not for much longer.
Never, ever, ever underestimate the NuLiebour capacity for dirty tricks. The messianic one has even tried to upstage the Queen, so this is just everyday spinning.
Perhaps Blair thinks he's English and is getting his own back for Camerons anti - English rant in Glasgow.
Len Welsh.
"The IRA has given up criminal activity" type of developments ?
Why wouldn't they, HMG appeased them then surrendered years ago.
tone dont like to be outshone
That slimy creep Andrew Neil has been doing his best to sabotage the conference all week. As William Hague got into his stride on Foriegn Affairs, Neil decided to interview Michael Howard on Tory Party funding.
The tone of The Daily Politics was hostile and negative in its coverage from start to finish, concentrating on:"Why no policies? Why no tax cuts? Where do you get your funding?"
Typically, the show ended wth Neil getting Roy Hattersley to rubbish Cameron's speech as we cut away from the standing ovation. Then, as the credits rolled, we got the oleaginous smirke and his rehearsed line: "We come to the end of four days and still no policies."
Does anyone know where the man lives?
LOL! Anon at 4:02pm, how sweet that you actually believe that! Have you missed the whole history of NuLabour?
Anonymous 4.02: Haven't you got some work to do, surely the Labour party don't pay you to sit around writing this kind of crap do the - or do they???
Iain, i'm never one to knowingly defend the Slime Minister, but he did actually wait until Peter Hitchens started slagging off the speech! He was probably watching Sky and then as he saw Hitchens came on TV it was either puke or go talk to the press about Northern Ireland!
Fantastically positive coverage of the conference on ITV news at 6pm, then over to Channel 4 and twenty minutes into the news and they are still on about Northern Ireland and people smuggling.
Bliar's shit. It's as easy as that.
What has he got to be frit about? He's off and doesn't give a toss. More likely he's pissing on DC's bonfire just because he can (which may not be entirely admirable, and might have made a better theme to explore in your post).
C'mon Iain, you know you can do better than this. BTW if this is the standard of nonsensical spin that 18 Doughty Street is going to start broadcasting in a few days time, you really will become a FoxNews for the UK, and get the respect and credit that such a channel would deserve. But I'm still hoping for rather better.
It's politics. Do you honestly think Cameron wouldn't have done the same thing? Or if Davis was in that position and you were his chief of staff would you have said, 'No boss, best to let Blair have the news cycle today'.
No, wants to get it out of the way so as not to deflect attention later from the 'Mother of the Nation'.
Cherie will be using the ever-loyal BBC to answer peoples' questions later http://southpawpunch.blogspot.com/search/label/Blair%20Cherie
on one of her many areas of expertise - breast cancer!
One or two 'Turf D'Astro' very, very early on here Iain!
Panic in Chateau Reidipus/Brownicant/Boilierre yet again!
'Oops - better stand up and say something now chaps....ummmmm...ahhh'
Come Iain - lets not be cynical ! The IRA have given up violence (again) and Blair just wanted to say it (again).
By the way I think Blair lets himself down, again and again, when he fails to recall and credit the role John Major played in gaining the cease fire.
Perhaps if Cameron's speech had more content than "NI parties still full of stubborn twats wishing they were still allowed to bomb each other", there would be more news coverage?
As soon as I heard it on PM, I thought the same
Didnt Blair do the same to Brown after his speech at last year's [or one before that] Labour Conference? I remember how some IRA 'news' story took over the news aganda - an anouncement of the findings of a report that had been sitting round for months
A bit rich calling Tony Blair a ham actor in the same sentence as talking about Cameron's speech.
Come on Iain, apart from the passage on gay and lesbian relationships - welcome as it is - and a firm promise of removing our human rights legislation - unwelcome as that is - what did young bum-face actually say?
As predicted we got a second rate PR man talking to an aged audience about nothing. There were more shaking heads than nodding ones at certain parts of the speech (see above) and what came across on TV as canned applause at the end of every sentence.
I think the Tories must know now they have made a terrible mistake, yet again.
How the hell is Cameron going to fare when Gordon has been in power for three years if they can't even get ahead in the polls after all the Labour bloodletting over the past two weeks?
Never mind substance vs style - Brown will dismantle Cameron.Deep down you all know it.
Basically what the problem is is simple BUSH and his poodle YO BLAIR have declared war on muslims.
And this is simply part of the propaganda campaign.
If you asked a policeman to guard a paedophile and the same policeman had a member of his own family abused by a paedophile in the past then you would not post that policeman for that particular duty. This policeman felt he had issues with this posting ( issues we can all agree with ) and the YO BLAIR's buddy PC BLAIR decided to leak the story to the sun which is after all new labours version of pravda.
The policeman who leaked the pc's name to the press should be charged with data protection offences and thrown out of the force. As far as i know it is illegal for the identity of diplomatic protection officers to be made public by the metropolitan police or anyone else.
Only another few months of YO BLAIR to go so hopefully the country can mend.
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