campbell resigns

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(i know n. just mentioned this on another thread, but it sorta deserves its own, doesn't it?)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(i was rung and told by the same person who rang me at 4 in the morning to tell me abt lady di's crash: my friend knew bcz a weird woman who was at that time stalking her — my friend not lady di — always slept with the TV on, and immediately rang her stalkee — ie my friend — to let her know)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

was your friend stalking you?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

wow! when was this announced?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yay. blair next plz

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Gord Campbell? Mike Campbell (of Mike & the Mechanics)?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

He's been murmuring of moving on to other things for a while, hasn't he?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Both the Campbell brothers from UB40!! :`(

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

back to being statistical reminders of a world that doesn't care for them then...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I think behind the scenes Blair and Campbell have clashed over the way in which Campbell handled the aftermath of the Gilligan story (he pretty much said so yesterday).

Also, I reckon that assuming both are convinced that what they did was 100% right, both would agree that you cannot successfully be a spin doctor if you have become the news to the extent Campbell has, and fucking bad news at that.

How long till his book comes out, I wonder? He must know EVERYTHING.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

But yeah, he has been talking about quitting for ages, since before Gilligan/Kelly and jumped before he was pushed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

He was always going to leave at around the same time that Fiona Millar left Shreee... this is no surprise, though the timing of the announcement is.

Is it just me who finds Alastair Campbell incredibly, incredibly sexy? As far as I'm concerned, this is excellent news, because he will start a 'media career' which will mean MORE PICTURES. :)

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Check Precott's face half a second after he says it's a sad thing that Cambell is about to resign.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Lex is quite right although, I would have thought it was going to come after Hutton had reported back, at least preliminarily.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Campbell resigns!!!!!

Old news surely

― ken c, Friday, 29 August 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe he will go back to writing dirty stories. Has anyone got any links to examples of his old stuff for Forum?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe he will go back to writing dirty stories. Has anyone got any links to examples of his old stuff for Forum?

I scoured the internet for them a while back and had no joy... I really want to read them though. Out of sheer curiosity, obviously.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

He could write some awesome cabinet fan fic.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Very subtly asked, Nick. Have you ever tried writing your own wank material? I think you'd be (possibly too much of) a natural.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Is he going back to the soup business now?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought he was going to leave soon anyway. Surely he is just going w/a bit of a fanfare to let blair off the hook? judging by the tories' crowing about it on the news to-day, they fell for it anyway. god, people are so bloody stupid (grutter, mumble)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 August 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Alastair Campbell.

Last night I saw a repeated documentary, THE NEWS FROM #10, which made me think:

1) yes, I do like Alastair Campbell.

2) I cannot believe that Tony Blair is as lame and feeble as this

3) I can't believe he lets himself be filmed being so lame and feeble

[note: was this all a cunning Blairite plan? No - he was not TRYING to look lame and feeble)

4) 3 years ago people were saying similar things to now: plus ca change, historical perspective etc

5) but 3 years ago I still supported the government, as I no longer feel able to do: 'nostalgia'

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

eurgh, 5 minute jizz over meeting Diana

― blueski, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

age is catching up to ali c :(

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

the diana thing was helltime lol-y. party in hackney, in 1995? now it's *really* posh, of course.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

is AC an recovering alcoholic?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

How long till his book comes out, I wonder? He must know EVERYTHING.

-- Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, August 29, 2003 3:06 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

well indeed.

though this was evasive, i thought the archive footage was better handled than in any of the '10 years of blair' progs we had in may and june. i don't recall any of them being so detailed about how blair took on the party.

there was that amazing bit when the tgwu invited blair oop north to address their meeting, then sandbagged him -- and he went and delivered a speech saying 'get bent'. what was amazing was his accent -- authentically his. he started trying estuary english after he won? or when?

also a conference speech where he said "fuck the haters. new labour isn't just presentation, isn't just spin. it's what i believe". and that's absolutely true: wtf was new labour? it's what tony blair believed. totally unprincipled.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

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