Blair's revealing gaffe
Mon, 2005-05-02 16:51
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Blair's revealing gaffe
Ask Tony Blair about NHS waiting lists, unemployment stats, economic growth, or interest rates and he can give you precise figures, in some cases with a decimal or two thrown in.
But yesterday someone asked him on a radio phone-in how many British soldiers had died in Iraq and he didn't know. "70 or 80" he floundered. The correct number was 87. Today sadly 88.
You'd think this would be the one statistic burned deeply into his brain. But apparently Blair has other priorities.
Remember this was the person who found time to record a guest appearance on the Simpsons in April 2003, when war was still raging in Iraq and our forces were under maximum threat.
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