Diane Abbott On Blair.

sandyRoe | 10:08 Thu 07th Jul 2016 | ChatterBank

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"...his reputation has bled to death in the sands of Iraq."
A nicely turned phrase, would it be her own or a reworking of something she'd read or heard?

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Baldric

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Looks like it dates back to 2003 Sandy http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jul/14/foreignpolicy.iraq1 /// I predicted before the war that Iraq would be the political death of Tony Blair, and it is now almost Shakespearean how the pain from his self-inflicted wounds is written across his face. It is as if he is physically diminishing before our...

10:16 Thu 07th Jul 2016

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Old_Geezer

She's got rid of her reputation ?

Old_Geezer

Oh on re-reading I see it means his. Well it works there too.

He's got rid of his reputation ?

Baldric

Looks like it dates back to 2003 Sandy

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jul/14/foreignpolicy.iraq1

/// I predicted before the war that Iraq would be the political death of Tony Blair, and it is now almost Shakespearean how the pain from his self-inflicted wounds is written across his face. It is as if he is physically diminishing before our eyes as his authority bleeds into the sands of Iraq.///

Bertrum

That woman never had an original thought in her life

retrocop

Bertrum
"I thought Eton and Harrow were just secondary moderns down the road".

Gromit

She stole it from Galloway. Of all the people to plagiarise.

Bertrum

They ought to elope together orbiting the moon sounds good

Baldric

And Gromit stole it from me @ 10:16

Jackdaw33

Does anyone pay the slightest bit of attention to the ramblings of that silly moo?

trt

I have never trusted or liked that woman, and wonder what other schemes has she used to better her self?

Bazile

^^^

probably the same as most other politicians of whatever hue

Peter Pedant

what about

Tony Blair sent young men to their deaths in Iraq whilst old men in London shook their heads and wondered what to do ?

last time I wrote that , a passing mod clearly a blairite shot it .....

bodeker

I never did like the woman, but the way she shows a blind allegiance to Corbyn is embarrassing. I know she had a relationship with him years ago but I still gringe.

jambutty

She's heard it somewhere, definitely !

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