"In December Mr Blair became the first sitting Prime Minister to be questioned as part of a criminal investigation into claims that wealthy individuals who lent money to bankroll Labour’s 2005 GeneralElection campaign were later nominated for honours.
Last night left-wing Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn said: "Many members of the Labour party are finding these episodes deeply embarrassing and very damaging. The sooner that Tony Blair sets a date for his departure, the better for all of us.""
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Just Because He Has A (Moderate) Spine ...
... doesn't mean Blair's not venal. My prediction is that by the end of this the American MSM will have everyone believing that he's just another corrupt right-winger (instead of the leader of Britain's equivalent of the Dems). Can't break the story line about the snow-white purity of the newly-elected Dems...