Labour Sources : Blair to Quit Sedgefield Seat
++ Getting Ready for a By-Election ++
Yesterday evening rumours reached Guido that Tony Blair will step down from parliament as a constitutency MP by applying for the Chiltern Hundreds this week. Cherie has in any case reportedly started moving furniture out of their constituency house. Labour staffers have been primed for a second campaign (besides Ealing Southall). The party machine is moving in for the by-election. Staff have been ordered to pack their bags and head for Sedgefield on Thursday.With his new role as Middle East facilitator it is hard to see how Blair would commute between Jerusalem and Durham, one minute sorting out lost welfare benefit claims and the next minute pacifying the Palestinians.
Sedgefield is a safe seat, and dual by-elections will stretch the LibDem machine into two operations.
Many Labour left-wingers might think that the result of a Sedgefield by-election would count as a "Labour Gain".
31 comments:
Not only is the useless bastard a joke, he actually looks like the Joker.
Rumours still persist that Blair's resignation honours include a seat in the Lords for neighbouring Darlington MP Alan Milburn, too.
Three campaigns, just to be on the safe side? It's the prudent thing...
Would hamper his green card too
Thanks for carrying the Sedgefield poster, Guido. Until I saw that, I never noticed Blair was black.
Anyway, he'll be in good company in the Chiltern Hundreds. John Stonehouse was one of his predecessors.
He won't live long enough to need a green card.
What odds have you been offered on this one, Guido?
Anon 8:41 AM said...
What odds have you been offered on this one, Guido?
Assassination or resignation?
And, when Tony Blair is no longer the MP for Sedgefield, who here thinks that he would ever visit the miserable shithole of a town again, ever???
Middle East facilitator...
How did he get this job? Self-appointed save-the-world fruitcake?From whom does he take his instructions? To whom does he report? How often? Was he elected? Appointed? By whom? Who is paying his salary - and, doubtless, enormous "expenses"? How much? What are his terms of reference? Who drew them up? Who approved them?
Questions, questions... Been out of touch for a few weeks so just asking...
What an interesting picture you have there.
The accompanying Diplomatic Passport that Toady will receive as Quartet Envoy (a four faced shit?) will neatly sidestep any US qualms about him being a fugitive from justice in connection with BAE and subject to Blair's own ridiculous extradition treaty with the US. I always thought he was a cunt. I never thought he was a dim cunt.
How long he will keep the job once Diplomatic Immunity for life kicks in....Levy - you're fucked. Anyone else for tennis?
Eeyore (in Winnie the Pooh) "I don't care who you blame, as long as you don't blame me ..."
It is not fair for all the Voters of Sedgefield to be blamed for Mr Blair
Yes, most of them should be blamed because they voted for Mr Blair, time after time, after time, however dismaying his policies ...
but sympathies must go to Sedgefield Voters who wanted Mr Blair gone, to Amerika, to Palestine, even as el Presidente of Europe (presumably a long-standing ambition of Cruella), even Australia or Cardinal in Charge of the Spanish Inquisition .... as long as it be not in the United Kingdom
when good folk of such good sense and desperation knew that they were massively out-numbered by Durham Dummies who would vote Labour, however much (or rather little) Mr Blair would do for Durham Miners or for Manufacturing Industry in Britain
No, No, Guido - you have it all wrong.
He has denied standing down as MP for Sedgefield.
Just like he denied he would be converting to Catholicism...
Love that picture of him - the 'tache makes him look like a cross between Hitler and Peter Mandelson..Nice..
keith dovkunts [applause, applause]
Guido, you should run.
Blair based in Jerusalem?
Bethlehem, surely?
With his new role as Middle East facilitator it is hard to see how Blair would commute between Jerusalem and Durham, one minute sorting out lost welfare benefit claims and the next minute pacifying the Palestinians.
Don't you know that Tony can walk on air?
PS, notice how the teeth follow you around the room - I think that was an early MacPaint job using Cherie's mouth and Tony's face.
PS in the original that is not a moustache. It is just shading. he does not look old enough to grow one in the pic. This was when he wanted to pull out of Europe and get rid of nuclear weapons, wasn't it?
If you betray your country, as Blair has done with the latest EU treaty, isn’t he a traitor, and can’t he be tried for treason. If some lawyer was willing to take him to court, I’d certainly contribute towards any fund that pay’s his fees.
did these rumours reach you from dizzy's blog?
Can multiples take the hundreds together? Prezza and some say Beckett also gagging for the Lords. Four by-elections would utterly screw the Lib Dem machine. Two is enough, but three or four or five is even better.
Im gagging for a cock up my arse.
Should we now e-mail the Prime minsters of Israel and Palestine with THAT photograph which shows the real 'tosser without'?
anonymous: "did these rumours reach you from dizzy's blog?"
*snigger*
"This is not a moment for sound bites but Tony feels the "hand of destiny" on his shoulder" For such a man Sedgefield is too small a stage
Warhol's take on Blair?
from another place:
What is that keeps Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson stuck together as if by super-glue? Or, to put it even more directly, does Mandy 'have something' on Tony?
It is well known that the 'gay' Mr. Mandelson and Mr. Blair have been very close friends from their very early days in Labour politics. Just how close is a matter of speculation.
We are left wondering whether there is any connection between all this and a little story which appeared in The Mail on Sunday on August 8th [2004]. This concerned the nickname 'Miranda' which our Tone somehow earned himself when a young lawyer in the 1970s. One of those then acquainted with him was barrister and later-to-be cook show hostess Clarissa Dickson Wright. In the MoS story Miss Dickson Wright was reported as saying that the name originated in the Prime Minister's "then boyish good looks and effete mannerisms."
In addition she said:-
'He was either referred to as Miranda or sometimes Antonia. The implication was that Blair was not quite as masculine as he appeared. He was effete and a bit of a dandy. He loved expensive aftershave and was always very fragrant.'
Masculine as he appeared? Miss Dickson Wright is surely not serious! But maybe she just chose her words carelessly. The point was nevertheless made. Photos of Labour's future leader in his student days rather underline it.
I joined the circus when but a weeboy. I fell in love with one of the performers there but she said our love was doomed and ran away to join a different circus.
Heartbroken, I have tried for twenty years to relocate her. Thanks to Guido for posting a picture of my dear bearded lady to which I have taken the liberty of downloading and printing out a number of flyers in support of my quest to find her.
sort of a cross between the laughing cavalier, al jolson and marlene dietrich
god i want him!
He looks like a kid who's been gulping down undiluted ribena.
I wonder if the Middle East envoy job may yet fizzle out? After being heavily trailed as a shoo-in, things are a little quiet. Perhaps the Russians are not playing along...
I would say it is aking to putting a paedophile in charge of a children's home, but Labour had a track record of that when Margaret Hodge was in Islington!
Post a Comment