Ape, Gordon and dear PaulD — I go away for a few days and all this nuclear stuff happens on our lovely site!

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from She Who Must Be Obeyed

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I doubt he has worked 12 hour shifts in a hotel late bar chatting the night away and picking up monster tips off drunk businessmen, or in a call centre full of hot blonde women laughing the day away at the idiotic people that phone you.

He’s married mortgaged up and probably never will either.

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Yeah, I guess Boris would call him a socialist, but that’s like Marx calling me a capitalist; everything’s relative. Sometimes I think the political continuum is a Mobius strip.

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He said something recently about socialism abondoning its desire to own big chunks of industry and now prefers to implement strict, authoritarian legislation.

But I agree, Blair is not a socialist, possibly not even a human. (Lizard?)

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But god, who’d call Tony Blair a socialist??? Where I grew up, we called ‘em Tories.

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(I know it has been mentioned here before, but the results are always interesting).

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Northern, Had left, high RIGHT spinner.

Could have given the wrong impression there!!

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Northern, hard left, high left spinner.

And I didn’t think he liked cricket.

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Perhaps we need some new dimensions and redefinitions. So, how about:

Left – right dimension (x axis) – describes commitment to law and order/enforcement. Far left = anarchy, far right = police state.

Up – down dimension (y axis) – describes commitment to public ownership. Deep down (bottom) = complete state ownership, high up (top) = everything privately owned.

I also think there is a need to describe the military standpoint of the government, perhaps call this North & South.
North/South – militaristic tendency. North pole = very militaristic, government and military deeply entwined, South pole = virtually no military, defense budget approaching zero.

And further, the tendency of the regime to ‘spin’ facts.
Left spin = Free & unfettered media, tells the truth, Right spin, lies about everything, media tightly controlled.

It’s a ‘quark’ of nature.

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Actually, that’s everyone’s policy when it comes to Boris. Lucky Labrador.

Certainly if I were in the party (which I certainly am not) I would regard someone who spoke his mind a couple of times a week, on the record and in public, as a huge liability. But then, he’s been very useful for them, helping frame the debates the way the Tories prefer, backing off stories that might not help the party or his own re-election chances, etc. That’s the only thing that can explain the fact that he hasn’t said a word about the war in Lebanon; what good can it possibly do him or them?

And yet, an award-winning political journalist would naturally want to be all over that story, particularly with Blair looking more than a little vulnerable at the moment.

Oh, and speaking of Blair,did you hear that the Goubernator himself, Arnold, has offered him a job in Terminator 4 if nothing else turns up?

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressed a group of journalists yesterday in Long Beach to tout their anti-global warming initiative, the Funny-Accented Coalition for the Environment. When Blair, who will not be seeking re-election, was asked by a reporter about his future career aspirations, Schwarzenegger quickly stepped in to do what he does best: Obliquely reference one of his own movies.

If he needs a job and wants a job in Hollywood, I’ll get him to play ‘Terminator 4′. Anything’s available,” he said, laughing.
“Now that is definitely the best offer I’ve had. Actually, the sad thing is, it’s the only offer I’ve had,” joked Blair, who is on a five-day visit to the United States.

The Governor wasn’t kidding: A fourth Terminator installment has gotten a greenlight, and although its plot is under tight wraps, the role set aside for Blair–as a T8000 legislative cyborg who grows to be reviled by his own robot community after choosing to have them participate in a highly unpopular machine-uprising on the other side of the universe–should offer him plenty of life experience from which to draw.

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