John Major/Blair UK's 'sleaziest' government

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BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is ruling the country's sleaziest ever government, his predecessor John Major said in a television interview to be broadcast today. Former Conservative Party leader Major, who lost the 1997 general election to Blair's Labour Party, made his comments after work and pensions secretary David Blunkett resigned last week amid a row over his private business dealings.

In an interview with the independent British television channel ITV, Major claimed that Blair's Labour had shown "hypocrisy" after having "dishonestly" accused his own government of sleaze. "This government has not only had more of what loosely one might call 'sleaze' than the previous government, or any previous government, it actually has been much closer to the prime minister," Major said.

He added: "I'm not smugly grinning to myself saying 'Good, they're
in trouble'. "But I think it does point out the hypocrisy of what they
said at the time: 'purer than pure', 'whiter than white', 'tough on sleaze; tough on the causes of sleaze'." Major said that such sound-bites from Labour before the 1997 election were "used with great effect, but actually unscrupulously and dishonestly against the Conservative party... (and) have come back to hit them pretty savagely."

Blunkett, a key political ally of Blair, abruptly resigned last Wednesday. It was the second time in less than a year that the 58-year-old had quit Blair's cabinet, after being forced to resign last December as Home Secretary after he facilitated a visa for the nanny of his mistress. Blunkett's latest departure came amid a furore over his links to a technology firm in a position to bid for government contracts overseen by his department. Major's seven-year tenure at Downing Street was considered to have been severely weakened by a number of high-profile resignations, including over sex scandals and allegations of personal impropriety.


http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17156352%255E1702,00.html

[Taxloss]

1. Ha!

Blair's troubles, though serious, are nothing compared to Major's corrupt, perverted cabinet.

[Dutch]

2. *Cough* Hamilton Aitken Mellor Smith *Cough*

Blair's government is bad in many ways, but it's got a hell fo a long way to go to match the corruption and general shittiness of Major's regime. In fact 1997 is the one year I'm still 100% proud to have voted for Blair, to get rid of that bunch of scumbags.

[0007]

3. John Major can be found not too far from the White House these

days on Pennsylvania Ave with the Carlyle Group.

[Kagemusha]

4. This is what they call an "own goal".

This isn't helping. Heh.

[daleo]

5. Did Blair pay him to say this?

There is nothing like trotting out an previous disaster to make the current one look slightly better. Mulroney serves the same function in Canada.

[JoFerret]

6. Stay in Weybourne John

...keep apologizing to the wife and family.

[fshrink]

7. Just like here, it's not

the affiliation. It's simply the amazing power rulers have managed to acquire over the people. This goes far beyond mere, standard, I could say, abuse of power, which has been a perk for any ruler in history. This now reaches the "public sphere" and the everyday-life of every single one of us. Things are accelerating fast. And autonomous response becomes more intense (e.g. Paris).

[JoFerret]

8. News of the Screws: Major hot in bed

HE MAY HAVE BEEN GREY TO THE WORLD BUT HE WAS A VERY EXCITING LOVER
Edwina's astonishing
verdict on John Major

TORY John Major, derided as Britain's most dull and boring politician, turned into an astonishing superstud when he took lover Edwina Curry to bed.

For four years he treated her to marathon sex sessions at their lovenest—her flat in London.

And she breathlessly scribbled in her diary: "He may have been grey to the world, but he was a very exciting lover."

The shock truth about the former Prime Minister's sexual prowess is detailed in the latest extract from that diary, published in full in tomorrow's edition of The Times.
http://www.critpsynet.freeuk.com/NewsoftheWorld.htm