QUOTE(thekohser @ Sun 11th December 2011, 6:05am)
QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Sat 10th December 2011, 12:27pm)
He's showing his contempt for government again.
I didn't see Jimbo show much contempt for government when he was asked to
sit in the spotlight in front of Joe Lieberman's committee hearing; nor did I see any contempt for government at all when Jimbo was
taking out the catamarans with Tony Blair down in the British Virgin Islands with Branson.
Not sure if they show the opposite (the Blair one at least).
Blair was out of British government and an international playboy by then (hence the company) and had contempt for government himself anyway (he ignored it - or attempted to - all the way through his career). One of my favourite Blair stories is that when he became PM people were astounded how little he actually new about the job. A lawyer by trade, he'd barely bothered to brush up on the basics, despite a lifetime coveting the job with his one-time flatmate Gordon Brown.
I never said Jimbo deoesn't covet power, or wouldn't kiss any politician's arse if it got him his way. He'd also kick it when he's got what he wanted, and generally seems to see himself as above and beyond such inherently-censorious mortals.
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