hmm interesting

[nadinbrzezinski]

ray just got an email that mebbe Blair is here to tell bush look boy after the G-7 summit I will be tending my resignation to Parlaiment

Could it be?

If this is so, we will know in a month or so

[magellan]

1. Fascinating

Maybe Tony wants out before they drag him out in handcuffs and off to the Hague? As if resignation will save him....

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. my thoughts exactly,

[tenshi816]

3. It would be nice, but

I think Tone and the missus (Cherie, the one with the rictus grin) love being in the limelight too much. Cherie, particularly, gobbles up all the freebies that come her way - frocks, holidays, you name it - with the same kind of gusto displayed by Victoria Beckham in a designer clothes showroom.

[whirlygigspin]

4. he will resign

The Downing street memo sealed his fate.

It's TIME to draw up articles of impeachment and save America from the PNAC crowd.

[tenshi816]

6. Like I said, it would be nice

because I've always loathed Tony Blair - not Labour, but Tony Blair specifically. I can't explain it at all, not even to myself, but going back to when I first became aware of who he was, something about him struck me as false. When he became Prime Minister, I had such conflicted feelings. I was glad to see the Conservatives go, but had such huge misgivings about Blair.

At the time (1997), I felt hopeful about Labour's plans for Britain but every time I saw Tony Blair's smarmy grin on TV or in the papers, I felt like I was looking at a mask. He causes a real visceral reaction in me. If I were to give you a facetious reason, I would say "women's intuition", but that's too simplistic. Like I said, I can't explain it.

So, I'm hoping you're right and that Blair resigns but I'm afraid to think that way because I'm fed up with getting my hopes up and then having them dashed to the ground. The last presidential election taught me that.

[saltpoint]

5. I hope I'm dead wrong but a dark notion strikes me;

that Blair has already been approached privately in London about the Bush administration's intent to assault (Iran?) (Syria?) (Someplace else?) -- and Tony decided he better hop a jet to tell Dubya he's not going to play cowboy anymore, that Dubya's on his own this time.

That's good as far as it goes for Blair (finally), but not so good either since it means Bush is going ahead with his destructive impulse toward empire.

[julianer]

7. Blair's visit

Who knows what they are going to talk about.

The official reason for Blair's visit is to prepare for the G8 summit in Gleneagles in early July.

The spin in the UK is that he is trying to get Bush to agree to climate change action, and action to 'help' Africa.

[saltpoint]

8. Well I hope Blair succeeds. The Bush administration has a lot to be

ashamed of on both those points.

I prefer your scenario to mine, julianer.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi julianer!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[TomClash]

9. What will Bush do now without his poodle?

Gordon Brown will not be quite so malleable.