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[shinytoaster]

By what strange process did Channel 4 News wind up with Boris Johnson going on to talk about Tony Blair's resignation??

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Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

You SO rock.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

I admit I was running the odds of you killing me through my head when I hit post.

I quite like the idea of old ex-leaders living out their useful years answering the phones and doing the photocopying at party HQ. I can just see John Major in a peaked cap doing the evening security shift. Chirac, of course, will work in the cafeteria :D

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Are you mad? Funniest thing I've read in quite a bit. This should be in Private Eye.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Chirac in the cafeteria would eat all the supplies in a week. Bottomless stomach, has our Jacques. When I followed him during the 1995 campaign, I remember seeing him eat lunch three times when visiting various local farms. That same evening, he ate everything that was on his plate, then grabbed the pâté left on the plates of the three journalists closest to him.

[macloudt.livejournal.com]

Yep, I can't see it having happened any other way. :D HIGNFY is the only show I can watch with Boris on because he's slaughtered every time.

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Fabulous :D