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    Quote Originally Posted by Lencoboy View Post
    I don't mean to sound cynical, but does Blair still have any authority over all of this, especially considering he ceased to be PM in June 2007, and (New) Labour as a whole given the heave-ho three years later?
    Be sticks his nose into everything. He has his institution now so is free to justify meddling. But he tends to put people off and taints any cause he touches.

    So he's just one of many commentators they media turn to for opinion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lencoboy View Post
    I don't mean to sound cynical, but does Blair still have any authority over all of this, especially considering he ceased to be PM in June 2007, and (New) Labour as a whole given the heave-ho three years later?
    Does he still have great hair and do weird things with his hands?

    I prefer Sir Keir Starmer myself. Labour leader by day - Foxman by night.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
    Does he still have great hair and do weird things with his hands?

    I prefer Sir Keir Starmer myself. Labour leader by day - Foxman by night.
    Well (dare I say it), Blair certainly looks like he's ageing a bit now.

    I agree with you about Keir, but sadly many are already putting the boot into him, and for the wrong reasons IMO.

    And if I know Boris, he'll probably bounce back again once this pandemic starts to ease, and the media start harping on about further 'scandals' within the Labour party, real or fictitious!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MyNameIsTerry View Post
    Be sticks his nose into everything. He has his institution now so is free to justify meddling. But he tends to put people off and taints any cause he touches.

    So he's just one of many commentators they media turn to for opinion.
    Obviously a 'has been', who was a product of his time!

    But what about Brown, Cameron and May, all of whom are also 'has beens'?

    Ditto all the PMs who came before Blair (Major, Thatcher, etc).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lencoboy View Post
    Well (dare I say it), Blair certainly looks like he's ageing a bit now.

    I agree with you about Keir, but sadly many are already putting the boot into him, and for the wrong reasons IMO.
    That's politics for ya.

    And if I know Boris, he'll probably bounce back again once this pandemic starts to ease
    With a name like Alexander Boris de Pfeffel I reckon he'll be OK lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lencoboy View Post
    Well (dare I say it), Blair certainly looks like he's ageing a bit now.
    Blair was beginning to look old by the time he came to the end of his tenure in 2008.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
    With a name like Alexander Boris de Pfeffel I reckon he'll be OK lol.
    I absolutely refuse to dignify that privileged git with his preferred moniker. Like I refused to dignify Corbyn with the gushing "Jeremy" his acolytes used.

    If you want to see the real Johnson, he's exposed here.


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    Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
    That's politics for ya.



    With a name like Alexander Boris de Pfeffel I reckon he'll be OK lol.
    What really gets me is that Labour have been shunned and booted out of power for far lesser things over the years, and still continue to get it in the neck over things like Iraq and the Global Financial Crisis today, but those on the right have also been involved in scandal after scandal and then bounced back again more or less straight away.

    Ironically, the Tories under the watch of Major partly presided over the first Iraq war in early 1991 and at the same time also presided over the 1990-93 recession, but still managed to bounce back in the 1992 GE despite us being at the height of said recession at that time, and unlike the second Iraq war under the watch of Blair and Co, which in its run-up saw protests almost bordering on the 1990 Poll Tax riots, there were hardly any significant anti-war protests (IIRC) during the run up to the 1991 conflict.

    Really baffling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pamplemousse View Post
    I absolutely refuse to dignify that privileged git with his preferred moniker. Like I refused to dignify Corbyn with the gushing "Jeremy" his acolytes used.

    If you want to see the real Johnson, he's exposed here.

    Just out of interest (if you don't mind me asking, of course), what's your opinion of Keir compared to both Boris and Corbyn?

    Especially as you also admitted to disliking Blair a while back.

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    Re: Future of testing

    Testing has a low reliability rate compared to some of the proposed vaccines. Expect to see testing to start to scale back once the vaccine programmes are in full flow. Once that happens a COVID test will not be acceptable for travel permission.
    Some of the Asian, African & South and Central American destinations are already drawing up additions to their existing medical requirements (yellow fever for example), that will require COVID vaccine on the list. Some of these countries have had a relatively low problem with COVID, and they are trying to keep it that way, considering some tests are as low as 50% accuracy, they won't accept that level of risk.
    I wouldn't be surprised if the EU eventually requires the same along with US.

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