Tony Blair Says Something Sensible!

[Zacs-Master]

Cameron to win next election!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11187285/Tony-Blair-Miliband-has-failed-to-connect-with-voters-and-is-doomed-to-election-defeat.html

[Old_Geezer]

Old one zacs. When he was abandoning the party's left wing principles and moving the party right of centre (or redefining the centre if you prefer) someone noticed "Tony Blaire MP" - > "I'm Tory plan B".

[Gromit]

It is really i teresting to read the election predictions from various people in 2010.

The rightwingers, DT, Janet Daley were predicting a Tory majority of 45. Very few predicted a hung parliament.

http://www.totalpolitics.com/articles/4333/political-pundits-whoand39ll-win-the-election.thtml

The pundits like Blair are invariably wrong.

[Old_Geezer]

Or if you prefer without the inexplicable 'e'
:-(

[anotheoldgit]

youngmafbog

/// Agree gromit but remember ukip us also making inroads into labour votes too, too a kesser degree but in close calls those few could make the difference..///

Plus the diminishing Scottish vote.

[DTCwordfan]

"And I quote" - Your bus is on the way out, Milliband, and thank goodness, you are hopeless and hapless.

Guess they could always call for his brother, now in New York.

[Gromit]

AOG
Sorry to prick you bubble

Labour have 41 seats in Scotland. And are predicted to lose 11 seats.
The Conservatives have 302 seats. UKIP will steal votes from the Conservatives in all of them.

[Daffy6543]

Tory in Lab

[Quizmonster]

If any of you care to look at the link material properly, you will see that - despite the Telegraph's efforts throughout to make this seem to involve direct quotation from Mr Blair - it does no such thing! Just for one example, they put the words ‘cannot beat’ within inverted commas, the normal method of showing speech.
In the sentence directly under the headline and in the opening sentence of Para 3, they are compelled to use the words ‘apparently’ and ‘apparent’. In other words, this is nothing more than an “allegedly” type of story. There is not a shred of actual evidence that he said any such thing.

[agchristie]

Quizmonster - I was reading the link as you posted and there is indeed a lot of 'firm perhaps' that Blair said what is alleged!

Whilst he may have commented as most posters suggest, the article is in no way confirmation.

[ChillDoubt]

I have to say, Citizen Smi.....sorry, mikey4444 is very conspicuous by his absence on here thus far today.

[Farriercm]

Tony Blair says something sensible,says Zacs
Can you get on the phone and ask Cameron to try and do likewise,???

[Quizmonster]

The name Cameron, as well as Blair, figures in the question. Given that there is not a scintilla of doubt but that HE did say, "You don't need a Cluedo set to know that someone has been clubbed with the lead piping in the library," who do you all think wielded the club? These were his words when he discovered - days after other members of his government knew - that the EU money bombshell was about to fall on him. How 'sensible' were these words?

Hi, Ag, good to see you again. I'm glad to see you agree that the article is little more than a tawdry attempt to score points.

[agchristie]

QM, likewise.

Yes, I do agree and it's in keeping with our last discussion - about the media portrayal of Blair!

[Quizmonster]

Thank you, ma'am!

[agchristie]

The Telegraph contacted TB's office who said that 'he believed EM can indeed win....'

[ToraToraTora]

Well I don't often agree with His Tonyness but he's bang on. Ed has failed to convince the general public he's PM material and that Labour are electable.

[agchristie]

TTT - are you i[directly]i quoting Blair there?

[agchristie]

directly even.

[Quizmonster]

TTT, what's your evidence that Mr Blair said anything whatsoever on the matter of Mr Miliband's electability, never mind that "he's bang on"? Certainly there is nothing in the Telegraph article to show that he did. As I said earlier, "the article is little more than a tawdry attempt to score points"; it most certainly was not based on an actual interview or anything else 'solid'.

[lindapalmara]

Come on Mikey. Get one of your polls out of your pocket and sort this lot out. Don't get injured though (Welsh NHS)!