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Wednesday 13 April 2005, by Anonymous : Oh jeez, no. ASH being Tony Blair is quite possibly the only role he could take that I’d refuse to see. ASH can do a lot, lot better.Wednesday 13 April 2005, by Anonymous : It sounded to me like ASH was only the hypothetical choice if there was going to be a movie, not that he’s actually doing it.Thursday 14 April 2005, by Captain Peroxide : Sebastian’s a character from English comedy series ’Little Britain’ in which Anthony Stewart Head plays the Prime Minister in one of the recuring sketches. The main joke in each sketch is that the Prime Minister’s aide (Sebastian) is madly in love with him (continue ad infinitum). I think it’s a little harsh to say you would refuse to watch ASH if he ever decided to take the roll of Tony in a film (even though you’re blatantly a tory)... if anyone ever dicided to make one (chances are zero anyway so it doesn’t really matter). Let’s not forget that many actors take the rolls of unpopular characters from history. I hardly think you could qualify refusing to see a world war 2 epic because it had hitler in it and a film’s success depends on the story, actors, writers and directors more than the characters it’s based on. Not that Blair’s anything like Hitler of course, that was taking things to the extreme, but it’s not as if we’ve done badly under Blair’s government. We’ve certainly had a much better time than we had under years of Tory reign with Thatcher and Major. Sorry for turning this into politics (even though it was sort of there already) but Howard is blatantly lying his way into office, his maniphesto is full of John Prescott sized holes which he seems to think money will magically appear in. Let’s not forget that this man introduced the Poll Tax under Thatcher and that our economy, health service, taxation and practically everything else went to pot under the Tory’s last stint in power. Not that I’m rooting for Labour either, although the health service isn’t perfect its getting better, taxes are down, the economy is stronger than it has been in decades, but immigration is getting out of hand and years of spin and the Iraq war have left most people feeling that Blair can no longer be trusted. All this is regardless of the fact that the tories and the lib dems would have both done the same thing if they’d been in office. Basically there’s no good choice for us poor brits at the moment, we re-elect labour and risk being lied to again, we elect the tories, who are already lying to us, or we vote for the lib dems and effectlivy waste our time stepping into the polling booth. Sorry for going on but I’m getting sick of hearing so much rubbish from the supporters of the various parties most of whom know nothing about who they are supporting other than what the media publishes about them. So I’ll sign off by saying simply that anyone here who’s thinking about voting for the tories simply because you want a change from labour, prepare to be very disapointed this time next year when we’re in recession, MRSA is rampant and we’re at war with Iran or Syria. Tuesday 19 April 2005, by Captain Peroxide : I think lapdog is a little too harsh a word, Maid would be better since the Brittish troops in Iraq seem to have only been used to clean up your mess. We were left at Basra while you guys ran gung-ho into Baghdad and messed everything up. Then you spent the next two years trying to sort everything in the capital out while our guys down in Basra had done that in less than a quarter. I realise of course that you’re obviously not pro Bush and so this is not meant as a jibe at you, but regardless of the reasons for the war, whether it’s WMDs, human rights (ha!), getting rid of Saddam or (most probably) oil, the world is still a better place (if only slightly) since Saddam was deposed. I realise that our respective governments lied to us and that’s not the reason we elected them (we should have learnt by now), but I think they did the right thing for the wrong reasons and went the wrong way about it... but in fifty years all people will remember is that Saddam was a bad ruler (I realise ’bad’ was too mild a word, but the only thing higher I could think of was ’evil’ and that’s too Bishist) and that it was a good think he was removed from control of the country. There, I think I’ve ranted for long enough now... These comments are an anwser to this article : Anthony Stewart Head is Tony Blair’s Choice
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