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World leaders have been meeting in Indonesia to discuss the world response to the tragic events in the region, who do we send? Jack-man of-Straw. truly a pygmy masquerading as a giant , he's not known as a statesman in this country let alone the world.

Unlike Bliar Blah Blair to miss an opportunity to be seen mixing with the great & good on the world stage, perhaps he is still recovering from his holiday.
Geoff

From the latest issue of Private Eye:

Time it took Tony Blair to publicly comment on deaths of--

John Peel--1 hr 45 min

Jill Dando--2 hrs

Princess Diana--3 hr 20 min

Frank Sinatra--7 hrs

George Harrison--12 hrs

Tsunami victims--4 days.


I think his can-do-no-wrongship miscalculated more than somewhat here. Yes, he might have been accused of jumping on a bandwagon if he'd spoken on Boxing Day, but it's unlikely. Betty Windsor did, and no one accused her.

Blur and his advisers have been quite adept at sensing the public mood and reacting to it, these last 7 and a half years. Someone was asleep in the aftermath of the tsunami, though.

I find it pathetic that anyone in the media can make cheap shots at anyone or gain political points, what a pathetic world we live in, we see Men and Women carrying thier dead children in thier arms and we have magazines like private eye making cheap shit comments, I am no Tony Blair fan but I have learned that most of the news political parties and media are wankers, the British public have shown thier true colours and truly come through big time, we should all be proud of our efforts.

Any one wanting to gain anything political or wank magazines like pivate eye moaning and making stupid worthless points are truly pathetic, One side the Great British public really shining, the other wanker oppotunists comming out the wood work because they sense some gain, pathetic.

Cate.

I agree with your point about the reaction of the British public, and your assessment of politicians and the media.

Cheap shots and efforts at political gain are what it's all about to those in power, and sometimes that view stops them seeing what the rest of us are looking at.

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick cate. Sounds like PE is having a pop at Tony Blur not taking the piss re. the disaster.

Mart

Given the amount of subscription cancellation threats they receive (Diana's death, for one, and the latest being a nativity scene on the front page and the suggestion that Blunkett was the father), quite a lot of people miss the point with Private Eye.

Yes, it can be snide and smug and superior (perfectly personified by Ian Hislop), but it's also there to burst the balloon of pomposity. It still reminds us of all the tabloids who promised never to use paparazzi photos again, in the week of what happened to Diana, while pointing out the latest telephoto lens shots of celebs with their bits out on holiday and being happily printed in the Mail, Express and all those others who shed crocodile tears when she died in that crash.

Exasperating and annoying though it can be at times, it is still essential reading.

Good point but which of all the other bunch of twats Labour or Cons would we send ? I can't think of one who has any kind of credibilty for anything like that.