I forecast a few years on the back benches, followed by leaving politics in an official capacity but continuing to be a mover and shaker in Blair's disgusting cabal of unelected, unaccountable "advisers".
Prostitution. In a couple of years Blair will be hounded out of politics atogether by scandal, when he's discovered to be one of Blunkett's most regular clients.
I don't ever remember having three votes as a Party member, a trade union member, and a Campaign Group member back when I used to be involved in the Labour Party back in the days of beer and sandwiches in smoke-filled rooms..
I'm not. He made the PM look bad. All the warm tributes coming from Number 10 are just what happens at times like this, and in reality it was lucky for him that he wasn't directly sacked but had the opportunity to resign.
Making the PM look bad is not the kind of thing which is likely to get you on the fast track to forgiveness in the political world.
Absolutely. Far better politicians make decisions based on their own possibly shaky grasp of, say, economics or civil engineering than get advice.
I'm not sure why people expect political advisors to be elected. It's like expecting to vote for who gets to be the government's chief medical officer, or head of the Office of National Statistics.
I haven't been following things closely, but what I've not liked about Blair is that the advice coming from the advisers often doesn't seem to be generated or discussed in an especially public and peer-reviewed manner.
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Date: 2005-11-02 12:28 pm (UTC)Making the PM look bad is not the kind of thing which is likely to get you on the fast track to forgiveness in the political world.
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Date: 2005-11-02 12:31 pm (UTC)I'm not sure why people expect political advisors to be elected. It's like expecting to vote for who gets to be the government's chief medical officer, or head of the Office of National Statistics.
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