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By jump the ladder (Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 06:04:46 AM EST) (all tags)

Yep, it's no longer Prime Minister Blair from later on today. Neville Chamberlain had a very sucessful economic record in the pre-war period from 1937-39 and Anthony Eden got rid of rationing but they are known today for their disastrous foreign policy and the same will go for Blair. Not too sure about Gordon Broon... seems too broody, humourless and scottish for my tastes. We shall see...

Are we still going for a beer at the Anchor on Friday?

Poll: sad to see Blair go?

TV

Watched meejaman-at-the-beeb's TV programme where he worked as Production Co-Ordinator, Last Man Standing which will be on Discovery in the US as well for our Usian friends to watch also. Basic premise is 6 athletes, 3 from the UK and 3 from the US (this is so that BBC could get funding from Discovery), go to all these various tribes and join them and play their traditional sports which are on the whole very violent.

The first episode was in the Amazon and involved wrestling with an Indian tribe. Lots of shots of topless and comely indian girls. The guys had to wrestle all these indian warriors who had been doing this all their lives so basically beat the crap out of the 6 contestants. Three of the contestants had to undergo a intiation ceremony which invoved their legs or arms been scraped by a pirinha tooth comb til they bled and the wounds being rubbed with salt and chillis. Nice :)

Not a bad programme and a lot of fun for meejaman as he got loads of trips to exotic places from it.

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Still cycling a few times a week to work. Went back to a longer route which took ten minutes less as it has half the number of traffic lights of my shorter route.

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Not sad to see Bliar go by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #1 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 06:36:43 AM EST

But sad to see GTLSB step up. I have noticed that the BBC is getting more strident in their condemnation of him though.

Who will be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer I wonder?

Interesting that that Tory MP defected though.

re: telly - looked a bit like loaded dice there as the rules seemed counter to a lot of Western style wrestling. I didn't see any chokes or attempts to place stress on joints, and you lose if you're on your back.

I missed the first bit; do any of the athletes have any fighting experience? And why did only 3 of them have to do the initiation rite?

: One had kickboxing experience by jump the ladder (4.00 / 1) #2 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 06:40:40 AM EST

The chief picked the three best ones after watching them train and they were the ones who had to go through the iniation ceremony.

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Hilarious by Phage (4.00 / 1) #3 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 06:56:30 AM EST

Or possibly ironic

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Just how little I am bothered by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #4 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 07:11:04 AM EST

about the handover to Brown is probably an omen of how little difference it's going to make.

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It's political correctness gone mad!

: Yeah by jump the ladder (4.00 / 2) #5 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 07:37:39 AM EST

Kind of like replacing Bush with Cheney :)

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: I'm not so sure by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #14 Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 12:38:18 PM EST

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Blair by anonimouse (4.00 / 3) #6 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 07:46:48 AM EST

Is a mixed bag in terms of results, like all leaders. His foreign policy has not been the greatest, but some of the issues that he was elected on have seen great turnarounds. The NHS still has issues, but is much better funded, resourced and respected than it was in 1997. Education similarly has received better funding. I suspect Defence has been underfunded but its hard to tell. Northern Ireland is another area where good progress against the odds has been seen, but that is really taking the credit for a path started by John Major's government₁.

The economy remains sound despite our initial doubts, but there are definitely issues around pensions, stealth taxation levels, loss of manufacturing....

Government is less strident, and with the possible exception of Iraq, the government has been less pig headed when wrong that the Conservatives.

As for Home Office policy... we have full jails, more laws to less effect ... I could go on but there is not enough space.

_{1. About the only thing JM got right}

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL

Far too fair and correct by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 08:01:37 AM EST

I was expecting rants in the diary...

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: Sorry to disappoint... by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 08:12:57 AM EST

...I won't be voting for Labour in the next election, but I'm not so biased that I can't recognise Blairs successes as well as his failures. I think I'd feel more at home in Camerons vision of Britain, which I think (hope) will be less controlling, than a Labour version. I have some reservations as to whether the Conservative party has truly turned over a new leaf in the social policy area, or whether it is just saying the words.
Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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Foreign policy by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #12 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 11:48:09 AM EST

I do get a little peeved that Kosova, Sierra Leone and ongoing success (and bloody-minded commitment) in Afghanistan goes unrecognised. The mess in Iraq deservedly gets more attention, but we'd probably understand what he was trying to do a bit better if attention was paid to Blair's past successes. They just seem to have been forgotten completely.

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A similarity between US and UK by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 08:51:42 AM EST

Is how politicians run for President/PM on their domestic policy, and are often judged on the foreign.

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_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

Mostly not in the case of the UK by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #10 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 08:57:14 AM EST

Don't think we've been involved in such a controversial war as Iraq since Suez. Mainly domestic policies bring PMs down here.

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Thatcher is a prime example. by Phage (4.00 / 1) #11 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 09:16:06 AM EST

Falklands to the Poll Tax.

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: Country was largely united by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 12:02:50 PM EST

For the Falklands war. Admittedly the sinking of the General Belgrano caused a little wobble for support in the UK but by and large the populace were behind the war.
Poll tax, now, fair enough. Although riots and civil disorder were enough for the Tories to about face.
Not so this government; millions protesting on the streets to not go to war in iRaq, millions protesting ID cards - and yet the government blithely ignores the populace.
That's usually the time for a democratic regime change. Will GTLSB bring on the elections early, before interest rates climb to problematic levels?
Already the 2 year forward rate's at six percent...

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promoting a good technician has two effects: by Dr H0ffm4n (4.00 / 1) #15 Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 12:42:03 PM EST

lose a good technician
gain a crap manager

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