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Titolo: il lacchè inglese di Bush non vuole piu' dimettersi?

forse non vede l'ora di guidare UK in un altro pantano (Iran? Siria?
entrambi?) dopo l'Iraq e l'Afghanistan. 
Tanto la' mica ci creperanno i suoi figli.
E Bush (ma anche il criminale Olmert) continuerà ad avere un lacchè a
disposizione per fare la guerra
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Two quit government in Blair protest 
Matthew Tempest and agencies
Wednesday September 6, 2006
Guardian Unlimited 
 
Tony Blair gives a keynote speech on social exclusion at the Folk Hall,
New Earswick in York. Photograph: John Giles/AFP/Getty
 
Two members of Tony Blair's government this morning resigned in protest at
his refusal to publicly name a date for his departure.
Tom Watson resigned as a junior defence minister and Khalid Mahmood quit
as a parliamentary private secretary. Both had signed yesterday's round
robin letter demanding a timetable for the handover of power from the PM.
News of the resignations came as Downing Street described reports that Mr
Blair would step down next May as "speculation" but said it would not give
a "running commentary" on the issue
The Sun today reported that Mr Blair would resign as Labour leader on May
31, sparking an eight-week leadership contest that would see him leave
Downing Street at the end of July.
As news of the resignations spread, the prime minister retaliated, issuing
a statement in which he called Mr Watson "disloyal, discourteous and
wrong" for having signed the document.
Mr Watson - a former chief whip and Blair loyalist - said it was "not in
the interest of either the party or the country" for Mr Blair to remain in
office.
In his resignation letter to the prime minister, released to the press, he
wrote: "It is with the greatest sadness that I have to say that I no
longer believe that your remaining in office is in the interest of either
the party or the country.
"How and why this situation has arisen no longer matters. I share the view
of the overwhelming majority of the party and the country that the only
way the party and the government can renew itself in office is urgently to
renew its leadership."
The prime minister took the unusual step of issuing a statement to the
Press Association, saying he "had heard from the media that Tom Watson has
resigned".
"I had been intending to dismiss him, but wanted to extend to him the
courtesy of speaking to him first," the statement read. "Had he come to me
privately and expressed his view about the leadership, that would have
been one thing.
"But to sign a round robin letter which was then leaked to the press was
disloyal, discourteous and wrong. It would therefore have been impossible
for him to remain in government.
In a Times interview last week, Mr Blair urged MPs to stop "obsessing"
about when he would quit, saying he would not be giving a timetable for
his departure.
The Conservative party leader, David Cameron, speaking in Delhi today, had
described the Labour party as being "in meltdown".
The Liberal Democrat leader, Menzies Campbell, called on Mr Blair to
either name a date for his resignation or go immediately. "What is at
issue is the national interest, which is not being served by the
continuing uncertainty over Mr Blair," he said. 
Reacting to the resignations, Downing Street announced that Derek Twigg
would move from the Department of Transport to replace Mr Watson as junior
defence minister. Tom Harris joins the government to replace Mr Twigg as
transport minister.
After two conflicting round robin letters from Labour MPs yesterday - one
calling for Mr Blair to announce a departure date and the other saying
that leaving before the 2007 conference was enough - a succession of
cabinet ministers have gone public to say indications of a departure
within a year were sufficient.
The environment secretary, David Miliband - often tipped as a future
Labour leader - yesterday said it was "reasonable" to assume Mr Blair
would be gone within 12 months. 
Cabinet ministers appear to have coalesced around this choice of words
after yesterday's Mirror revealed details of a "farewell tour" to be made
by the PM next summer.
John Burton, Mr Blair's agent in his Sedgefield constituency and one of
his oldest friends in politics, today called for an "open contest" when
the prime minister goes.
John McDonnell, a left-wing Labour MP, has already pledged to stand
against Gordon Brown on an unashamedly socialist platform.
Mr McDonnell has likened the intrigues of the past few days to the
television programme the Sopranos, urging the party to concentrate on
policy issues.
Although Mr Brown has maintained a public silence on the issue, some
Scottish MPs have expressed outrage at the dates reported in the Sun,
believing such a timescale would leave them in a tricky position during
the difficult Scottish and Welsh elections on May 3.
Jim Devine, the Labour MP who won Robin Cook's old Livingstone seat last
year, said May 31 would be "totally unacceptable" to the Scottish party.
"The thought that we are going to be running an election campaign for the
Scottish parliament between April and May with this type of speculation
running, accompanied by a Frank Sinatra-type farewell tour, just will not
wash," he said.
However, John Hutton, the work and pensions secretary, today told BBC
Breakfast his view "and I think the view of the majority of people, is
that the prime minister has made his intentions reasonably clear".
In addition to Mr Miliband and Hilary Armstrong, the social exclusion
minister, other Blair allies - Hilary Benn, the international development
secretary, and Sir Jeremy Beecham, the chairman of Labour's national
executive committee - yesterday said they expected a new leader to be in
place within 12 months.
If Mr Blair resigned on May 31, it would mean he had been the prime
minister for ten years and 30 days - still short of Mrs Thatcher's 11
years at the helm.
He yesterday received a confidential letter, believed to have been signed
by 17 formerly loyal MPs from Labour's younger generation, urging him to
name a date for his departure or go immediately.
There is speculation that that as many as 100 MPs could join them in
demanding public confirmation of a departure date from the prime minister
at Labour's conference in Manchester this month.
A second letter, signed by 49 Labour MPs, welcomed indications that Mr
Blair intends to leave within a year. The document urged him to resist
pressure to name a specific date for fear of paralysing his remaining time
in office.
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ti sei mai dimesso dal ruolo di porgi carta igienica?

 ti sei mai dimesso dal ruolo di porgi carta igienica?
tontolone la domanda devi rivolgerla al tuo pari blair, non a me.

ritardato quanto a leccate non sei secondo a nessuno....

 ritardato 
una parola che ti descrive perfettamente. Lo dimostri ogni giorno del
resto.
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continui con la fase asilo? beh non hai altre possibilità...

 continui con la fase asilo? 
con il cervellino di cui sei dotato è ancora prematuro andare oltre
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in ogni caso non sapresti andare oltre, ritardato...