The Eyes Of Tony Blair
Apr. 29th, 2005 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI wasn't going to watch the big election broadcast last night, but the remote chance of seeing Blair publicly humiliated was too tempting to miss. Of course, in the event, the man's glibness and self-belief carried him through. He saw off questions from the public with bursts of trademark sincerity, and only Dimbleby, the professional interviewer, managed to get under his guard with a question about why he had refused to debate the other party leaders face to face. Obviously Blair hadn't expected that one and for a delicious, lengthened moment he went blank and glared furiously at Dimbleby's crotch with his teeth bared. But then he recovered with a laugh.
Blair used to be good-looking in a boyish sort of a way. Seven years in power have turned him into a goblin. Steve Bell, the Guardian's premier cartoonist, has picked up on something mad and strange about his eyes and gives him a right that's tiny and dull and a left that's the size of a soup plate. Certainly there's a discrepancy. They don't quite seem to work together. It's as if one of them (but which one?) were glass.
He looks tired. The leaking of the attorney general's pre-war advice on Iraq must have been a big blow. It gives us the dots and tittles on how he and his gang finangled the evidence. He wants to talk about the economy and schools and stuff like that but the war is the defining event of his premiership and he can't escape it. Even if he wins the election- and he probably will because the opposition is so god-awful- there's a comfort in knowing he'll go down to history as the Man Who Lied.
Blair used to be good-looking in a boyish sort of a way. Seven years in power have turned him into a goblin. Steve Bell, the Guardian's premier cartoonist, has picked up on something mad and strange about his eyes and gives him a right that's tiny and dull and a left that's the size of a soup plate. Certainly there's a discrepancy. They don't quite seem to work together. It's as if one of them (but which one?) were glass.
He looks tired. The leaking of the attorney general's pre-war advice on Iraq must have been a big blow. It gives us the dots and tittles on how he and his gang finangled the evidence. He wants to talk about the economy and schools and stuff like that but the war is the defining event of his premiership and he can't escape it. Even if he wins the election- and he probably will because the opposition is so god-awful- there's a comfort in knowing he'll go down to history as the Man Who Lied.
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Date: 2005-04-29 05:15 am (UTC)And his eyes! How odd (but a soup plate? I must go look!)
We got Bush last night, who is continuing to shove his social security plan down our reluctant throats. And he keeps saying nucular, which infuriates me for some illogical reason.
No, it's not illogical: he can't be that dumb. So can't he sit down for thirty minutes with a speech coach and learn how to say an important word?
His numbers are now under 50.
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Date: 2005-04-29 06:19 am (UTC)Blair has said he'll step down as leader within the lifetime of the next parliament. And Bush is on his final term. We'll soon be shut of them both.
Then what?
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Date: 2005-04-29 06:47 am (UTC)Darth Sidius for you?
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Date: 2005-04-29 07:41 am (UTC)Actually we'll probably get Gordon Brown- who is currently Chancellor of the Exchequer. He and Blair hate one another with a passion, but have to pretend they don't.
He's been an exemplary Chancellor and might- just might- be an outstanding P.M.
One can dream......
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Date: 2005-04-29 06:49 am (UTC)And he does have one eye bigger...
(And has he gained weight? My elf illusion is now totally shattered.)
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Date: 2005-04-29 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-29 07:45 am (UTC):)
:)
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Date: 2005-04-29 07:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-29 09:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-29 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-29 02:12 pm (UTC)It was fun! Silly! Just like Adams.
I loved it.
The special effects were thrilling, the photography excellent, the acting very good, and the whole effect was very much Monty Python-ish.
I heartily recommend it!
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Date: 2005-04-29 02:41 pm (UTC)I'm not a HUGE fan, but I've enjoyed THG in all its various incarnations to date- radio show, TV show, book and I've been wanting the film to be a success.
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Date: 2005-04-29 05:30 am (UTC)Even better, he actually lied about something important.
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Date: 2005-04-29 06:21 am (UTC)But the alternative- the rag-bag Tories under the slippery opportunist Michael Howard, would be far, far worse.
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Date: 2005-04-29 06:52 am (UTC)BTW, I love your flip flops. If I wore flip flops, I would want a pair just like that!
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Date: 2005-04-29 07:49 am (UTC)