Alastair Campbell to resign [was:Breaking: Alistair Campbell resigned]

[Kellanved]

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OK, here is the story:
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Alastair Campbell is to resign as the government's director of communications and strategy.
Mr Campbell's decision was announced by Downing Street shortly after 1430 BST on Friday.

He said: "It has been an enormous privilege to work so closely in opposition and in government for someone I believe history will judge as a great transforming prime minister."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3191937.stm

[MaineDem]

1. Here we go

THis is getting interesting.

[Spazito]

3. Now if only Blair would do the honourable thing and...

join him!

[Flying_Pig]

4. It'll get really interesting,....

when this jumps the pond, and we start seeing resignations, and/or, impeachments here. Nice to see shit happening in Merry Ol' England, but am wondering if it can be exported with our Repuglian controlled media hampering things?

[rooboy]

2. CNN International showing it...

so it's happened all right. Campbell was tipped to resign sometime this year anyway regardless of the Kelly stuff.

[bahrbearian]

5. They seem to always be able to spin It !

[Oggy]

6. He needed to resign soon

to maximise his income from his diaries. They are worth 2 - 3 million pounds now, in two or three years they'd be worth only 1000's!

[Rollins]

7. Cambells bad behavior is linked to Kelly

It will likely be spun as an isolated insodent and stay on that side of the ocean. However if their press is able to tie him to the 'sexxing up' of the dossieur(sp) Cambell's condition may become catching and we may even see it spread across to our country.

Well I can dream can't I?

[legin]

8. No departure day yet according to BBC

(little artcle)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3191937.stm

Edit: Dupe link

[LoneStarLiberal]

9. This Is Like So Last Month

No one over here resigned because the slight majority of our country doesn't give a crap that they were lied to. "It was still the right thing to do." So that makes any lying and embellishment in the run-up to invasion O.K., I suppose. So after everyone within the administration tripped over themselves to take responsibility they were all collectively forgiven.

Campbell falls on his sword, Blair walks away to fight another day.

No scandal, no more resignations. Things wrapped up nice and neat.

Move on along. Next scandal please; this one is like so last month.

[Dover]

10. I'm so sad and disappointed in Blair. He had a lot to offer.......

...but Kelly's death was the last straw and gave this an even more sinister turn. It's just hard to put Blair in the same dark underworld context that Bush and his thugs exist in....

[MoonAndSun]

11. I also thought Tony Blair was much better then this, Dover...

I once truly respected him, but something happened after Blair visited bush* in 2001. He turned to the "Dark Side" and has never looked back. Maybe one day we will know what really turned this person into an evil man, but for now I can only shake my head.

I hope the Labour Party in England will turn him out and start to rebuild the trust of the English people.

[Kellanved]

16. Amen to that

I still can't understand what Blair was hoping to achieve. The labour-voters were against the war from the beginning and no way Blair can win conservative voters.

[Jester_11218]

12. There have been many resignations - they were not big news!!!

http://tvnewslies.org/html/resignations.html
I have kept track of the Iraq related resignations. Take a look.
Peace,
Jesse

[TacticalPeek]

17. Informative link, thanks. n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. This is like Karl Rove resigning

It is big news! This is truly the beginning of the end for BCF. Tony & Co. blew it and they killed the wrong man. They freaked and started acting stupid. These guys aren't as slick as Bu$hCo, when it comes to this sort of thing. Blair still has the semblence of a conscience, that's why he looks so scared lately. But considering Blair's statement yesterday, about how he planned this with W, I wonder if he will bring W down with him? He certainly has got the goods on what really happened and who told who, what to do.

[NNN0LHI]

13. Regime change has begun. He may be the first to resign...

...but I bet he won't be the last.

Don

[dArKeR]

14. 1 down 2 to go; Blair and Bush

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[emad]

15. and their link man Farish 3

he's the one who's been up Bandar's ass on behalf of shrubland and whose political family background agenda makes arnie's seem like the peace corps.
slimy, oligeanous, swathed in diplomatic priviledge and hell-bent on protecting house of windsor atrocity archives from public exposure, farish and his lady macbeth spouse are shrubtarts paid to muzzle, distract and gladhand on dumbo's behalf.
time to kick his fetid ass out of Regent's Park? I wish! now he's planning a 'state presidential visit' for dumbo and laura sometime in October, paid for by the US taxpayer, of course. with official comemorative stamps too, I guess, and global tv coverage. give us a break, time to dump farish and ask him for a little explanation about his portfolio management skills..........

[Marlie]

18. What ever happened to Tony

He will probably follow his predeccessor, John Major, and be
intalled into the Carlyle group with the guarantee of absolute
wealth for the rest of his life - greed does terrible things to
people.

[sonias]

20. Glad to see that in the UK

Politicians and Government officials still get caught and suffer consequences for lying unlike in this country where the media and the people just let the criminals off. Hoon will be the next in line and then Blair will stumble along for the remainder of his term an ineffective PM.

Sonia

[Gman]

21. The walls are crumbling down around Blair

while the FI chops cedar in 100 degree heat and couldn't care less.

"Who cares what you think?"

[susu369]

22. Here we go: canned message

"We have three wonderful children and we look forward to spending a lot more time with them," he added.

Whee....

[T_i_B]

23. Don't let the door hit yer arse on the way out.

Blair's lying machine is gone. LET'S PARTY!!!!!

:party: :toast: :bounce: :beer: :bounce: :toast: :party:

Now it is time for his master to go too. It is the only way to stop the rot in the Labour party.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-08-30&id=3448

Tony Blair should relinquish his premiership. It is not simply that he has lost the trust of the voters, his own party activists and increasingly large sections of the parliamentary Labour party, and is regarded with luminous contempt by such dispossessed ministers as Robin Cook, Clare Short, Peter Kilfoyle and Glenda Jackson. It is that he can no longer do his job properly, and that the protective cabal around him has shrunk with such rapidity that he has nowhere to turn for succour and support.

And the things which have brought about this situation — culminating the Hutton inquiry — were not rare examples of a lapse in judgment, which we might be inclined to forgive, if not forget, but are instead emblematic of the long-term traits of this regime: lying, dissembling, and the orchestrated smearing and vilifying of people who have objected to the lying and dissembling.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that Labour wouldn’t win the next election with Alastair Campbell still prowling the halls of power. That, I’m sure, is true, and, what’s more, Campbell knows it. But as these events unfold it becomes clearer every day that Tony Blair is equally culpable and that there is no longer a meaningful difference between the offices of Prime Minister and Director of Communications.

Mr Blair memorably announced, on the eve of the Good Friday Agreement, that he could feel the hand of history upon his shoulder. Yeah, well, the hand’s come back again, Tone. And this time it’s pointing out of the door.

[dArKeR]

24. THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN BRITAIN QUITS - Mirror

TONY BLAIR was last night preparing to relaunch New Labour as a "spin free zone" after Alastair Campbell announced he was quitting.

The PM's right-hand man and most powerful adviser will leave No10 before the party conference next month.

His departure looks set to make way for another astonishing comeback by Peter Mandelson. The twice sacked minister is poised to fill the power vacuum at No10 - unofficially at least - and mastermind the introduction of the new "no spin" era.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13350131_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-THE%2DMOST%2DPOWERFUL%2DMAN%2DIN%2DBRITAIN%2DQUITS-name_page.html

Why did Blair let this happen in the first place? Where's his accountability?