Of course the big news this week is that Tony Blair has announced that he will be stepping down as Prime Minister. This has caused a flurry of retrospectives of ‘The Blair Years’ and prominent in every one of them ‘The Chimp’ looms large.
Here is a retrospective of the Blair Years courtesy of Steve Bell of The Guardian. Steve has had an easy job of it over the last 6 years. Low hanging fruit indeed. Sometimes Steve depicts Tony as a lap dog, at other times a boy scout; but always, with his left eye larger than his right. You’ll note The Chimp and The Lap Dog in all of the following ...
Regrets, I’ve had a few
Seeing Eye to Eye
Laurel and Hardy Press Conference
Soliciting International Support
I’m With ...
Tony goes for ‘Chimp’ speak
It’s a road trip to Oz
This is considered by many to be one of Steve Bell’s most brutal Bush/Blair works
After Thatcher, discussions would go on for some time before Ray-gun entered the discussion. But with Blair things are very different; in the UK, you are likely to hear a discussion where each name comes up at equal intervals interspersed with ‘Son of a bitch’.
Even though some are trying to wax poetic about our little lap dog, for most it's somewhere between 'Good riddens' and 'So long sucker'.