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Old 09-04-2010, 08:38 AM   #1
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Oh-My Tony Blair Egged at book signing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...emoirs-signing


Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes at book signing

Former prime minister attacked by anti-war protesters in Dublin as he promotes memoirs
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Old 09-04-2010, 09:16 AM   #2
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I don't understand that response. . .

I think Obama is an oaf and doing great harm to not only the USA but the rest of the world as well. But it would never occur to me to throw stuff at him. He had the courage to run for office and stand up for what he thinks is correct leadership. I also think GW Bush will likely get the same level of respect from the left in the US.

Besides Blair is out of office. What's the point now? I admit Anglo-Europe seems very foreign to me at times.
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Old 09-04-2010, 10:59 AM   #5
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I don't know, I think I rather liked Tony Blair...I know the Iraq War was pretty controversial, and he did have his dumb moments, but at least he was better than the present lot, right?
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You can't ask for better publicity. TB is laughing his way to the bank.
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Old 09-04-2010, 07:41 PM   #8
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Blair is donating his revenues to charity organisations, some of them taking care of British Iraq veteran soldiers.

Which he won't miss, since he already is a multi-millionaire.

He can call himself lucky they didn't throw oil barrels or puppy dogs, which would have been both more appropriate ...
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He can call himself lucky they didn't throw oil barrels or puppy dogs, which would have been both more appropriate ...
Ah, so that is what that girl was practicing for!
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Old 09-05-2010, 07:13 AM   #10
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Any news on when the signing in Baghdad will be ? I was thinking of setting up a used shoe and rotten egg store there :-)

To those who fail to understand why he is so unpopular in the UK may I offer dozens / hundreds of unnecessary British deaths, the shooting of an innocent man by British police and the 7/7 bombings as starters.

Sorry if thats too political but the man really gets me upset AND he calls himself a socialist - must have a different dictionary to me.
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Old 09-05-2010, 07:32 AM   #11
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Ceebee, spot on !

I had thought of going to a signing and, when TB asked me if I wanted him to write something in the book, I would ask him to write " I am a war criminal". Then I discovered that to get near him I would have to actually buy a book to get near him. Stilll, a nice thought.
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I don't know, I think I rather liked Tony Blair...I know the Iraq War was pretty controversial, and he did have his dumb moments, but at least he was better than the present lot, right?
He's had his dumb moments? There goes an understatement of the year!
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Sorry if thats too political but the man really gets me upset AND he calls himself a socialist - must have a different dictionary to me.
I'm not sure he does call himself a socialist - weren't he and The Prince of Darkness, Lord Mandelson, responsible for expunging any reference to socialism and egalitarianism from the Labour Party?
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I'm not sure he does call himself a socialist - weren't he and The Prince of Darkness, Lord Mandelson, responsible for expunging any reference to socialism and egalitarianism from the Labour Party?
If you look at his earlier work before he took over the party he was an adamant supporter of 'Clause 4' which called for 'all means of production to be in the hands of the state' . He then realised that the core 'working class wouls vote Labour or not at all but aspirational voters would vote for anyone who offered lower taxes and improved services , and made sure that Hermione and Tarquin didnt have to mix with Darren and Stacey at school (generalisation). So he lost his principles and sold out for power.

Me - BITTER what makes you think that ?
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If you look at his earlier work before he took over the party he was an adamant supporter of 'Clause 4' which called for 'all means of production to be in the hands of the state' . He then realised that the core 'working class wouls vote Labour or not at all but aspirational voters would vote for anyone who offered lower taxes and improved services , and made sure that Hermione and Tarquin didnt have to mix with Darren and Stacey at school (generalisation). So he lost his principles and sold out for power.

Me - BITTER what makes you think that ?
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To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.
which actually only ever got as far as the nationalisation of some industries

As a Champagne Socialist, Blair and his ilk might have dallied with socialist ideas but the Troskyite stooges of the right opened up the way for them to abandon the principles upon which the Labour Party was founded - a path they were only too eager to go down. They were of course helped by Kinnock and his cronies, and the sainted John Smith - who checked out before he could be blamed for screwing the labour movement and is now revered.

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