Blair's son to work as intern for Repub politicians

[mr blur]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4623333.stm

I find this fucking weird - has Bliar lost his mind?

[Cha]

1. Have fun learning shite from

the US repukes, Euan.

[Briar]

2. No, he hasn't lost his mind

Why should he care that he's exposed his true political loyalties? He won't be fighting another election again, and most of his income in future will come from US connections.

He's letting us see the wolf under the fleece.

[Vladimir]

3. Like father, like son n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I blame the parents, myself

If they don't provide appropriate moral guidance, the children end up in a bad crowd - doing jobs for the powerful gang leaders, trying to impress them, and hoping they'll be able to rise through the hierarchy, to a position where they start to make the real money.

[Taxloss]

5. ASBO time!

Oh no, hang on, they're for the poor.

[Apollo11]

6. I almost choked ...

... on my breakfast this morning when this was announced on BBC News 24.

But then I remembered that Tony Blair's own father was a lifelong Conservative voter - so right-wing leanings would seem to run in the family.

Cherie started out with leftish credentials, coming from a Labour family, but 25 years of being married to Tony (sleeping with the enemy) have obviously taken a toll.

I'm sure Tony doesn't see any problem with this, because he lives in a parallel universe where:
(a) Tony Blair remains extremely popular and well-loved by the British people, and has won massive victories in 3 successive elections (ignoring the fact that only 22% of the electorate voted Labour in the 2005 election - and a lot of them voted for candidates who don't support Blair's policy on Iraq).
(b) W won the Presidency fair and square, was re-elected with a strong mandate in 2004, and enjoys the support of most Americans (ignoring all the evidence that the results of the 2000 and 2004 elections were distorted by widespread abuse and possible fraud, as well as W's latest approval ratings).
(c) partisanship is "so yesterday" and there aren't any major differences between Republicans and Democrats anyway. So if you sacrifice your first born son to work for one side, then the other side won't hold that against you (ignoring the acrimony around issues like the Bolton nomination and judicial appointments).
(d) most people believe that it was necessary to invade Iraq and remove Saddam from power, because he posed a significant threat, and Blair and Bush would not have taken military action unless it was absolutely necessary, and certainly never lied or tried to mislead anyone about their true motives and intentions.

To be fair - Tony already warned us that he sees no differences between his political values and those of the Republican Party.

On July 17, 2003, Tony Blair told the US Congress (with a Republican majority in both houses): "Don't ever apologize for your values."

Maybe this topic shouldn't be limited to the UK Forum. I would be interested to know what our American friends make of this.

[T_i_B]

7. It already is in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1581604

[non sociopath skin]

8. Yes, I've had my six-penn'orth there.

The Skin

[mr blur]

9. Doubtless Blair would say

that it will be valuable experience for the lad - but experience in what? Greed? deception? Moral values (hah!)?