Tony Blairs new book

[Mrjeezy]

http://www.guardian.c...gordon-brown-disaster

Apparently he berates Gordon Brown, calls the queen "haughty" and cries that his drink of gin and tonic was verging on alcoholism.
Like him or hate him, does his minds workings intrigue you? Will any of you be buying his book?

[Mrjeezy]

Tony Blair was just quoted on the news as being "very gossipy" so maybe he actually bares all and tells the truth for once, or maybe just an illusion that he's being truthful in order to cover some of his other actions with a smokescreen?

[jake-the-peg]

Is anything here surprising?

Blair and Brown spent years fighting with each other - He's hardly likely to come out saying how wonderful Gordon was.

I think being "haughty" is pretty much in the job description for a monarch isn't it?

And what with Alastair Cambel's diaries and all the various inquiries is there really anything new here other than the fact he liked a drink - he'd certainly have a way to go to drink Winston Churchill under the table

I shan't be reading it but I'm not a fan of Autobiographies - I guess if you read political biographies it's a must have - if not - well we'll have to see - I reckon it'll be half price by Christmas and in crates in the "Works" by Easter

[Mrjeezy]

Political biographies are certainly not a favourite of mine jake but it would be interesting to hear how he thinks though i reckon you'd get just what he wants you to hear by reading his boo and would probably get the truth only if he were with him on one of his marathon G&T benders.

[youngmafbog]

Jake, a miriacle has occurred. I agree entrily with your post !

[jake-the-peg]

Yes well considering Churchill's legendary drinking and I doubt Maggie was a stranger to the drinks cabinet it might be more interesting to list the absteimious PMs.

Gordon I'd imagine and perhaps Major needed to stay sober for Edwina,

I'd like to see them all drunk in the same room - that I would pay to see!

[ABerrant]

Half price by Christmas! It was less than that within minutes...

http://www.telegraph....price-at-WHSmith.html

[Pinkypie]

Ye, think I will!

[missnemesis]

I'll be giving it a miss, it's nothing more than self indulgent B.S.

[sandyRoe]

does he reveal if he and Bush did meet and decide that Saddam was going to be deposed long before the UN votes?

[jomifl]

He won't go down in history as a great prime minister, perhaps he is hoping to go down in history as a great autobiographer, as long as he stays down I don't give a monkey's

[sp1814]

I'm the only person in the country who thinks that Tony Blair looks really hot (as in fanciable, rather than temperature).

[lardhelmet]

If anybody buys it for me my birthday/Christmas, it's going straight into the charity shop bag. Can't stand him

[birdie1971]

I heard that Blair seriously thought about sacking Brown but chose not to do so because he thought he'd be more damaging a back-bencher than as a deputy Prime Minister...

What???


Is Blair for real? He's expecting us to believe that he thought that Brown could do more damage as a back-bencher? So Blair thought it through and came to the conclusion that rather than be barracked from the back-benches by Brown (who would have no real power), he'd keep him on, knowing full well that Brown would one day become PM?!?

Blair is a coward and a liar. His new book is nothing more than a retrospective finger-pointing exercise to attempt to exonerate himself from the most unpopular, disastrous episode in recent British political history.

I can barely believe I am writing this being a former Labour supporter. Blair's legacy will live on for a long, long time as being the most dishonest, untrustworthy and warmongering one there has been for several generations.

[sp1814]

birdie1971

Brown could definitely have been a greater threat as a backbencher.

Remember what Geoffrey Howe did to Thatcher?

Destroyed her...

(Good man).

[Old_Geezer]

That assumes one would want an insight. Maybe one just wants to draw a line and start sorting things out from where we've reached.
Not that I'll hold my breath whilst politicians are (supposedly) in control.