UK Labour MP: Blair would vote for Kerry!

[displacedtexan]

Too little too late, Mr. Blair.

PAYBACK TIME OVER IRAQ, BLAIR TELLS BUSH

Apr 16 2004

By Bob Roberts, Political Correspondent


TONY Blair will today tell George Bush in crisis talks on Iraq: "It's payback time."

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A Downing Street official denied tensions were growing between the US and UK. He said: "This is not a negotiation. This is a chance to talk through the serious issues we are both facing."

Earlier Mr Blair held talks with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. They hope to produce a draft resolution which can be put to Mr Bush.

LABOUR MP Sir Clive Soley said yesterday Mr Blair would vote for Democrat John Kerry to be President if he was a US citizen.

He denied a reported ban on the PM's aides helping Democrats meant he wanted a Bush win.

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1. LOL Kick

:kick: priceless

[orwell]

2. Shock and Ahhhh

Another European leader who wants to see * gone?

It just can't be true... /sarcasm

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[DinahMoeHum]

3. Maybe Blair relishes REAL intellectual conversations. . .

which is what he had with Clinton. . .
which is what he'd get from Kerry. . .
which he knows, in his heart, he'll NEVER ever get from *

:kick:

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4. It only makes sense

"New Labour" in the UK is little different from the DLC "New Democrats" in the US. Instead of focusing on their core constituencies (workers, minorities, disadvantaged), they both remade themselves in the 1990s to become more like the Tories/Republicans: appealling to big business (and big money), suburban middle-class voters with upper-class pretensions, and abandoning all pretexts of being for "the little guy".

At least Blair is hopefully starting to see the light-- especially after Labour has had its arse handed to it in several by-elections, where long-time Labour districts have gone to the (3rd Party) Liberal Democrats.

Good for Tony. Maybe he and the rest of "New Labour" will see the light and start worrying about their natural constituency.

[T_i_B]

5. Bullshit

Bullshit designed to placate those in "new" labour who are worried that Blair is a neo-con in disguise. This is pure speculation by Soley.

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6. The guy practically campaigned for Gore. Of course he's going to like...

...Kerry.

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7. By the way, what kind of sentence is this:

"He denied a reported ban on the PM's aides helping Democrats meant he wanted a Bush win."

I believe the idea that there's a ban is bullshit, and this statement doesn't clear that up. What's a "reported ban" and why didn't they simply quote what this guy said rather than characterize it?

Could it be that he said there is no ban? Is the Mirror extending the life-expectancy of that lie by calling it a "reported ban" after Sorley denied there was ban, and do they not give the quote because that would have shown that the ban doesn't exist?