In article , Bear 
 writes
>In article ,  says...
>> On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:47:48 GMT in uk.rec.motorcycles, platypus says:
>>
>> >boots@despammed.com wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:18:33 GMT in uk.rec.motorcycles, platypus says:
>> >>
>> >>> ...except Blair didn't top himself in the bunker.
>> >>
>> >> There's still time
>> >
>> >He's lined up Broon as the patsy, and I imagine he's also got a few
>> >bolt-holes prepared in case it starts to look like our fondest wish might
>> >have a chance of coming true.
>>
>> He's definitely set Brown up in the Macbeth role contemplating the
>> poisoned chalice, whilst swanning off into the sunset himself.
>
>I keep seeing that assertion stated as fact, and I don't buy it.  Left
>to his own devices, Tony would have stayed til hell froze over - it was
>only the deals he had to do with Brown (over Brown becoming PM) that
>capped Blair's time in power.
>
>Lucky, certainly.  Devious genius?  Hardly, at least not on *that*
>topic.


While on holiday last month and having read all the books I had taken 
with me I picked up a copy in the hotels swop box of 'Spilling the 
Beans' by Clarissa Dickson-Wright.

Surprisingly, I found it a good read.

Interesting comments about Miranda[1] as he was known at Uni and in 
chambers.

The MP she had highest regard for, Jack Straw.

And her answer to the pompous hypocrisy spouted in the House of Commons? 
She once got shagged behind the Speakers chair by an MP.

[1]Yup dear old Tony
-- 
Mick Whittingham
'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.'
William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.