{"id":1476,"date":"2007-01-28T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/28\/blair-has-lost-it-official\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T15:16:29","slug":"blair-has-lost-it-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/blair-has-lost-it-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair has lost it &#8211; official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/politics_show\/6293591.stm\">Check out this interview<\/a>. Watch the video. The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/politics_show\/6293605.stm\">transcript<\/a> doesn&#8217;t do it justice &#8211; you miss the long silences, the ums, the ers, the panicked look in his eyes whenever he&#8217;s asked a question, be it about Iraq, the honours inquiry, the Saudi arms deal, his legacy, the infighting within the Labour party, anything. A representative response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yeah but you know, I think most people would accept that at least you know, there&#8217;s got to be some process of transition, if you&#8217;re saying, cos the whole context in which I was saying that was&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a man so totally out of his depth, so confused, and so mired in a swirl of half-truths and little distortions that he has no possibility of maintaining any kind of control over his own inconsistencies and self-contradictions any more. His only resort when challenged is prevarication, meaningless half-sentences and, ultimately, the unjustified, not remotely backed up with argument or evidence to support it as viaible, statement: &#8220;Well I don&#8217;t accept that for a moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Like watching a particularly slow and meaningless train wreck. Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this interview. Watch the video. The transcript doesn&#8217;t do it justice &#8211; you miss the long silences, the ums, the ers, the panicked look in his eyes whenever he&#8217;s asked a question, be it about Iraq, the honours &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/blair-has-lost-it-official\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blair","tag-blair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}