Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Sky spoke to Cameron about Blair's speech and DC came out with a classic quote about Blair:
"Nice to see him making a speech nobody's paying for"
A masterful sentence that says it all about Blair.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just sounds like jealousy to me, would he have said the same about thatcher?
will he do after speeches for free when he leaves politics?
the answer is no in both cases.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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But no-one has exploited his position for personal gain to the extent of Blair. I blame his greedy wife...
Will Cameron do so in the same position? maybe, maybe not - we shall see. It was certainly a very incisive quote simply because it ring so very true.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes it was a good line BarryW but perhaps quietly a bit of a homage to the master. Tony Blair was and has been up to now, the ultimate politician for the multi media age. He wiped the PR floor with guys like William Hague and as they said on BBC lunchtime news today,could probably still have been Prime Minister but for the ghastly Iraq War. This war was unfortunately entered into because of this wholly ridiculous impression that we are in a 'special relationship' with the Americans. So, even Tony Blair fell for that chestnut and it brought about his demise.
However back to David Cameron. Cameron and indeed William Hague himself have at times acknowledged the whirlwind impresssion Blair made with the British public initially as being somewhat unigue. He reinvented media assimilation and use. Cameron is wholly making use of those techniques, there can be no doubt about that.
What a politican might want to foist onto the public these days has to be PR wrapped ..packaged palatebly for easy absorbtion. Cameron and his team know that.
Brian Dixon
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seeing cheri blair comes from a working class background she learnt her lessons well.
here is a qoute i heard a while back,a drink is to wet without one.