Tony Blair's autobiography. Options

[Iommi]

That is pretty bloody obvious because whatever i said I would have gone again.

...'there you go again'; simplistic rhetoric.

Why the change of heart? See below; you changed what you wrote.

Neither are flattering! Albeit meant as a joke!

Anyway...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM

[HeatherW]

I see you two old dears are going to continue your loving feud so I will say good night and look in tomorrow (if I can). No doubt you will both be at it again. At least you are both entertaining.

[Iommi]

I see you two old dears are going to continue your loving feud so I will say good night and look in tomorrow (if I can). No doubt you will both be at it again. At least you are both entertaining.

Nah, I've done...QT is on and we both agreed I won.

[GMR]

Simplistic rhetoric.


Neither are flattering! Albeit meant as a joke!

Anyway...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM

Don't worry, I take everything with a pinch of salt. I believe in the philosophy that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones if they are worried about cracked windows.


That is one of my favourite sketches. That and Bill & Ben.

[GMR]

Nah, I've done...QT is on and we both agreed I won.

No, you agreed with your self. I agreed i was right and that seems the consensus.

To quote Monty Python: "We are no longer the knights who say ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!"

[GMR]

I see you two old dears are going to continue your loving feud so I will say good night and look in tomorrow (if I can). No doubt you will both be at it again. At least you are both entertaining.

Thank you - I think

[GMR]

...'there you go again'; simplistic rhetoric.

Of course, I knew who i was replying to.

[Guest_Newbury Expat_*]

Sorry to change the subject, but I had a question for anyone (GMR et al) who has read the book.

I understand that one of the key chapters in the book centres around a meeting with Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. The re-telling of the book coinciding almost exactly with a scene in the 2006 film "The Queen". The same scene that the screenwriter has gone on record as saying he pulled it from his imagination (ie it is a complete fabrication).

If this scene is made up, how is it possible that Blair includes an almost word for word retelling of it in the book which is purported to be factual? It would give me pause when treating any other content at face value.

But before I reach this conclusion can someone who has seen both film and read the book confirm or deny? Should this book, in fact, reside in the fiction section of the library?

[Iommi]

No, you agreed with your self. I agreed i was right and that seems the consensus.

Someone agreeing isn't consensus! Anyway, I won, no return!

As for the book: I'd treat it with a more than a pitch of salt; as I would a book from any other modern politician. In fact I'd struggle to read a book from Blair, such is the distrust I feel for the man.

[GMR]

Sorry to change the subject, but I had a question for anyone (GMR et al) who has read the book.

I understand that one of the key chapters in the book centres around a meeting with Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. The re-telling of the book coinciding almost exactly with a scene in the 2006 film "The Queen". The same scene that the screenwriter has gone on record as saying he pulled it from his imagination (ie it is a complete fabrication).

If this scene is made up, how is it possible that Blair includes an almost word for word retelling of it in the book which is purported to be factual? It would give me pause when treating any other content at face value.

But before I reach this conclusion can someone who has seen both film and read the book confirm or deny? Should this book, in fact, reside in the fiction section of the library?

I haven't see the film, but your query has been mentioned before. Maybe Blair liked it so much that he thought he would use it.... or somebody leaked it to the screen writer. After all they do have their spies in Buckingham Palace.

[GMR]

Someone agreeing isn't consensus! Anyway, I won, no return!

It is a consensus of one

As for the book: I'd treat it with a more than a pitch of salt; as I would a book from any other modern politician. In fact I'd struggle to read a book from Blair, such is the distrust I feel for the man.

I totally agree with you; that is why I like to read a cross reference of his time in Downing Street and before. I never go by one book.

[Iommi]

I understand that one of the key chapters in the book centres around a meeting with Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. The re-telling of the book coinciding almost exactly with a scene in the 2006 film "The Queen". The same scene that the screenwriter has gone on record as saying he pulled it from his imagination (ie it is a complete fabrication).

Perhaps the screenwriter was just being discrete to throw people off the scent?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...iscretions.html

[GMR]

Perhaps the screenwriter was just being discrete to throw people off the scent?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...iscretions.html

And what was the 'scent'? The truth?

[Iommi]

And what was the 'scent'? The truth?

Possibly.