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posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 05:10pm on 09/11/2005
Wonders will never cease:

Blair Defeated Over Terror Laws

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4422086.stm

And not a small defeat either: 322 to 291 votes.

Is this the beginning of the end of Blair?
Mood:: 'ecstatic' ecstatic
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posted by [identity profile] brixtonbrood.livejournal.com at 05:26pm on 09/11/2005
Particularly amusing is that Brown will be absolutely livid. "For this you dragged me back from Israel? 'Oh, Gordon you absolutely must come back, it'll be such a close thing, every vote counts'?".
 
posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 05:40pm on 09/11/2005
Indeed... He was ostensibly brought back to persuade people to back the plan. One wonders how hard he tried at that...

What are the rules for electing a labour leader? Is a stalking horse being groomed at No. 11 at this very moment?
 
posted by [identity profile] brisingamen.livejournal.com at 05:32pm on 09/11/2005
Is this the beginning of the end of Blair?

One can only hope. I'm not sure he's going to take defeat very well.
 
posted by [identity profile] daveon.livejournal.com at 05:36pm on 09/11/2005
In his speach the other day he was sounding very like another former "dear leader" who lost the plot.
 
posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 05:41pm on 09/11/2005
It seems to come to them all... And the more I read about No. 10 in the last few years (see eg. the extract from the retired US ambassador's memoirs in today's Guardian) the more it seems like the heady days of late-Thatcher when they were completely divorced from reality.
 
posted by [identity profile] lonemagpie.livejournal.com at 05:53pm on 09/11/2005

Not unless they also staked him in his coffin and performed a full exorcism...
 
posted by [identity profile] orangemike.livejournal.com at 07:42pm on 09/11/2005
Blair should just cross the aisle and admit he's more comfortable with Tory policies.
 
posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 08:37pm on 09/11/2005
I suspect that if he did that, the Tories are so desperate they'd happily make him leader.
 
posted by [identity profile] orangemike.livejournal.com at 08:43pm on 09/11/2005
Precisely!

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