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PM TIM
According to Yahoo News, I’ve been ruling Britain since April 2004:
British prime minister Tim Blair to prepare MPs for worse violence in Iraq in coming weeks ...
I believe my aggressive stance on Iraq helped me be re-elected. William Kristol agrees:
So it turns out Madrid was the exception, not the rule. On March 14, 2004, the party of Spanish prime minister José María Aznar was defeated at the polls after an al Qaeda attack in Madrid and after a campaign in which the opposition fiercely criticized Aznar for Spain’s involvement in the war to remove Saddam Hussein. In the wake of its electoral victory, the new leftist government withdrew Spain’s troops from Iraq.
The question, a year ago, was this: Was Spain a harbinger of electoral defeat for the other democratic leaders of the war to liberate Iraq? Some hoped it would be, and have been severely disappointed. President Bush did not flinch in Iraq and was reelected with a stronger showing than four years before. Australia’s John Howard, a steadfast supporter of the war in Iraq, was reelected to a historic fourth term as prime minister with an increased majority. And last week Britain’s Tony Blair won a third term, the first Labour prime minister ever to do so.
Blair won with a diminished majority, to be sure. Yet the main opposition party, the Tories, supported the war as well. So roughly 68 percent of the British electorate voted for parties with pro-war leaders. The Liberal Democrats, critics of the war who pledged a quick withdrawal from Iraq, did increase their vote by about 4 percentage points, but still received only 22 percent of the vote.
Those losers! Must dash; my Galloway garrotting legislation is being drafted.
(Via Alan R.M. Jones)
Tim — Shtum, shtum… remember the words of Our Dark Master Rove: “the power behind the throne is the power…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 08 at 12:29 PM • permalinkTim:
Oh My God…I had no idea. Here we are conversing with the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Who’d a thunk it.
Anyway… I did hear that the ingrate MP’s might be planning to kick Blair [the real Blair] out of office.
I hope not. It took real courage for him to stand by his principles. I am no socialist and I don’t agree with everything he does but Tony Blair has been one of the most effective and important PM’s in modern British history. If they give him the bum’s rush it will only send a message to all future PM’s that they must always err on the side of not doing anything anywhere anytime.
I’ve never liked Tony Blair, but doing what you know to be right, repercussions be damned is a rare quality in our day and age.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 05 08 at 12:56 PM • permalinkAll right! England’s a lot closer than Australia.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 05 08 at 02:08 PM • permalinkThe lash, an iron fist and a whiff of grape is what they need, sir.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 08 at 06:09 PM • permalinkArty — I’m thinkin’ four draft horses and chains…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 08 at 06:35 PM • permalinkOh, yeah, I’d charge a Challenger tank for that wet-eyed wonder… I can just see John Keegan writing about it now:
“The Second Battle of Culloden was notable principally for its brevity…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 08 at 10:57 PM • permalinkYou could bring back the Hanoverians, then you’d get this gal as your Queen…
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 05 09 at 02:42 AM • permalink
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