Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes at book signing

[Tangled up in Blue]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/04/tony-blair-attacked-memoirs-signing

Good.I can guarantee a similar welcome if he comes to Barcelona.Should be interesting when he's in London next Wednesday.

 

[Jam_Man]

Who pelted him with shoes, and did they enjoy their walk home ?

"I went up to him and I said 'Mr Blair, I'm here to make a citizen's arrest for the war crimes that you've committed'," said O'Sullivan, 24, a member of the Irish Palestine Solidarity Movement.

AS opposed to the Palestinian Soldiarity Movement of the Irish. Splitters!

 

[Hotman]

Imagine the stench of those tree-hugging soap dodgers shoes... bloody hippies should get jobs rather than protesting.

 

[shrimpfan]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/04/tony-blair-attacked-memoirs-signing

Good.I can guarantee a similar welcome if he comes to Barcelona.Should be interesting when he's in London next Wednesday.

voted in by who ?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

voted in by who ?

Not by me.I voted Lib/Dem(for the first time in my life) back in '97.

 

[shrimpfan]

didnt say you, by who????????????????????

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

didnt say you, by who????????????????????

Obviously by New Labour supporters.But anyone's entitled to make a mistake.:)
Remember,nobody actually voted for the present coalition.:whistling:

 

[shrimpfan]

Obviously by New Labour supporters.But anyone's entitled to make a mistake.:)
Remember,nobody actually voted for the present coalition.:whistling:

old labour was where.not talkin about coalition dont turn it around.

 

[brigadista]

Imagine the stench of those tree-hugging soap dodgers shoes... bloody hippies should get jobs rather than protesting.

would that be a saturday job, or should they be working seven days a week in the sweat shop you own? :)

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

old labour was where.not talkin about coalition dont turn it around.

Actually I wasn't.
I honestly believe that the greatest tragedy that has befallen the Labour party in (relatively)recent times was the death of John Smith.He would have made a wonderful (Old Labour) Prime Minister.:clap:

 

[OldBlueLady]

Actually I wasn't.
I honestly believe that the greatest tragedy that has befallen the Labour party in (relatively)recent times was the death of John Smith.He would have made a wonderful (Old Labour) Prime Minister.:clap:

Not often I agree with you on politics but I have to say I do here. It was a travesty Blair getting in as he did on the back of Smith's untimely death and if he got a reaction like this, then I can honestly say it couldn't happen to a nicer chap. Shame Cherie wasn't caught up in it too.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

I must say I find the utter hatred shown towards Blair these days a little over the top. I've always had the suspicion that he was a level head surrounded by petty raving lunatics i.e. Brown, Mandy, Campbell, Straw, Cherie etc etc. I'm a Tory through and through, but I believe he did a great deal of good in his two full terms. For me, it went off the rails when Bully boy Brown couldn't be contained any longer. Having said that it could be argued Blair is a righty anyway.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I must say I find the utter hatred shown towards Blair these days a little over the top.

I agree. He showed his worth again against Torquay.

 

[OldBlueLady]

I must say I find the utter hatred shown towards Blair these days a little over the top. I've always had the suspicion that he was a level head surrounded by petty raving lunatics i.e. Brown, Mandy, Campbell, Straw, Cherie etc etc. I'm a Tory through and through, but I believe he did a great deal of good in his two full terms. For me, it went off the rails when Bully boy Brown couldn't be contained any longer. Having said that it could be argued Blair is a righty anyway.

No, I'm sorry. I have absolutely no sympathy for the man. Sycophant and hypocrite, and married to THAT woman!

 

[canveyshrimper]

No, I'm sorry. I have absolutely no sympathy for the man. Sycophant and hypocrite, and married to THAT woman!

Got to agree about Mrs Blair, what a razor lipped old rat she is.

 

[South Bank Hank]

No, I'm sorry. I have absolutely no sympathy for the man. Sycophant and hypocrite, and married to THAT woman!

Surely at least THAT bit deserves some sympathy!!!

 

[OldBlueLady]

Surely at least THAT bit deserves some sympathy!!!

Nope G, not a smidgeon. You'd have thought he realised the mistake when he woke up to her looking as she did THAT day after his election victory!

 

[Jam_Man]

Actually I wasn't.
I honestly believe that the greatest tragedy that has befallen the Labour party in (relatively)recent times was the death of John Smith.He would have made a wonderful (Old Labour) Prime Minister.:clap:

People didnt want an old labour prime minister, they had rejected old labour for over a decade, it was the fresh new looking party under Blair that turned the table, and John Major having the charisma of a sausage.

Whether people like Blair now or think he did a good job the fact remains he and new labour swept away the Tories in the biggest landslide in history. I doubt John Smith would have had the celeb factor that Blair did and wouldnt have had the same impact.

 

[Beefy]

Smith would have got Labour in though. He'd taken the Party on hugely from 92 and would have had to have fared very poorly to not get in past Major's Tories. But they'd have had nothing like the majority that Labour enjoyed under Tony Blair.

 

[Napster]

Smith would have got Labour in though. He'd taken the Party on hugely from 92 and would have had to have fared very poorly to not get in past Major's Tories. But they'd have had nothing like the majority that Labour enjoyed under Tony Blair.

Mandelson won it really.