Tony Blair`s autobiography

[Harleyrider]

`I had regularly started jogging out of Downing Street. On each run I happened to jog past a hooker standing on the same street corner, day after day.
With some apprehension I would brace myself as I approached her for what was most certainly to follow.
"Fifty quid!" she would shout from the kerb.
"No way, 50p!" I fired back.
This ritual between myself and the hooker continued for days.
I'd run by and she'd yell, "Fifty quid!"
And I'd yell back "50p!"
One day however Cherie decided that she wanted to accompany me on my jog.
As we jogged nearer the problematic street corner, I realised the "pro" would bark her £50 offer and Cherie would wonder what I'd really been doing on all my past outings.

I realised I'd need to have a damn good explanation for my illustrious lawyer wife.
As we jogged into the turn that would take us past the corner, I became even more apprehensive than usual.
Sure enough, there was the hooker.
I tried to avoid the prostitute's eyes as she watched the pair of us jog past.

Then, from the pavement, the hooker yelled,

"See what you get for 50p?"
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[Damian Murphy]

:lol: :lol:

 

[Fido]

I read the book. It's an extraordinary piece of writing. I found myself in disagreement with so many things, I didn't like his openness about matters best left private. He displays some brilliant qualities yet at times seems so naive. His reasons for failing to sack Gordon Brown and John Prescott summed him up. Political expediency was always his prime concern. His claim to have formed an alliance with the public rather than with his party was just how he saw things. He repeatedly said that religion interested him more than politics but gives no explanation or context.

For all that, an interesting read. I like to read the autobiographies of Prime Ministers. I feel I'm giving them the chance to explain things to me directly. But it can be tedious. Blair's was never dull.

 

[Jeltz]

I feel I'm giving them the chance to explain things to me directly.

And there is soooo much to explain :x
JMHO :ugeek:

 

[Fido]

And of course, relentless self justification. But what else could we expect? Stll very interesting.

 

[antdad]

I thought his conversion to Catholicism was most revealing.

 

[Fido]

Apart from repeatedly commenting on religion being more important to him than politics, Tony Blair says nothing about his beliefs or how they guided his thinking.

 

[Rev-O]

Apart from repeatedly commenting on religion being more important to him than politics, Tony Blair says nothing about his beliefs or how they guided his missiles.

 

[moodymick]

There's cheaper toilet paper out there. :|

 

[RB73]

I'll skip that and wait till i can read his EPITAPH :evil:

 

[Pig Cat]

Apart from repeatedly commenting on religion being more important to him than politics, Tony Blair says nothing about his beliefs or how they guided his missiles.

:lol:

 

[Fido]

I'm plodding through Andrew Rawnsley's version of the new labour years.

How about this bit of confiding by Tony:

"I have taken from the party everything they thought they believed in, I have stripped them of their core beliefs. What keeps it together is success and power"