Posted on 08/18/2005 3:19:23 PM PDT by northmoor
Where's Tony?
Prime Minister Tony Blair has left London and gone on vacation, that much the British public knows.
But just exactly where is Blair, one of the highest-profile public figures in the world, the leader of Britain's 60 million people, the steady hand behind this government's massive response to last month's deadly subway bombings?
"We usually don't talk about this, I mean, it's his holiday," said a spokesman for the prime minister's office.
President Bush cannot leave Washington without a forwarding address, nor can he ditch the press corps and ask the American people to mind their own business for a couple of weeks, but Blair has managed something like that.
There are no reporters with Blair, who hasn't been heard from publicly since he gave a news conference Aug. 5 and left Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to mind the store.
Pressed for details of Blair's location, his spokesman offered that the prime minister left London, perhaps two weeks or so ago. "I can't remember the date," he said, insisting that his name not be used, as is customary here. "When he comes back, he will have a press conference and people can ask him where he's been."
"Where is our prime minister?" Stephen Glover, a columnist for the Daily Mail, wrote in Tuesday's paper. "All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere."
As a result the public is left guessing.
"He could be anywhere: maybe Australia, maybe the United States," said telephone repairman Steve More.
"I bet he is in the Caribbean," said engineer John Costello.
But More, the telephone technician said, his absence wasn't felt a bit: "This shows we don't really need him, doesn't it?" And, he said, it shows that everyone should be taking a few weeks off in August.
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He's at the Skull & Bones-Illuminati-Bilderbergers secret meetings dontcha know.
"I DEMAND THAT TONY BLAIR MEET WITH ME!!!!!"
Yes. There must be an English equivalent to Mother Sheehan.
"This is odd...a leader of a country....just goes off without so much as "I'll call" and leaves an underling in charge....is this a normal thing in England?"
Perhaps no different then the few who keeped their mouth shut, when GWB paid a Thanksgiving Day visit to our troops in Baghdad.
"How do you huck a rock?"
You pick it up and then you huck it at the reporters and other miserable slime at that camp.
"He's at the Skull & Bones-Illuminati-Bilderbergers secret meetings dontcha know."
Hey. Don't the Bretton Woods gang get any spotlights.
"Yes. There must be an English equivalent to Mother Sheehan."
Wait till we hear she will be presented with sainthood soon.
Ivan? Where's your PM? Enquiring minds want to know!
Tony, Phone home...
"Wait till we hear she will be presented with sainthood soon."
What? I thought Mother Sheehan already had been sainted!
Seriously, if you are as old as me, you have known someone who has lost a loved one in a war. I have known several. Never have I witnessed something like this.
I always figured Tony for a Tele man, not a Strat guy.
Who are you guys?
Must be another word for chuck. I used to chuck a baseball. That's what my coach said since he said I damn sure couldn't pitch! ;^)
"Must be another word for chuck. I used to chuck a baseball."
Oh. As in up chuck./sarc Yea. I am sure your being modest, but if not your talents lay elsewhere. We all got some little gift given freely to us.
LOL! You're right. My little gift re: baseball was a smoking fastball with a natural curve (I'm left handed). My coach's frustration was my sometimes inability to put it where I wanted it. That had a salutary effect on the opposition though. They were pretty wary when they stepped to the plate!
The good Lord has a way of making sure we all can relish in the particular talents He assigned us. Enjoy those fine memories.
We always called that chuckin' rocks.
Maybe he's with the Vice President at an undisclosed location. Does anybody know where the Vice President is? Haven't heard a word from him lately either.
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