Is Tony Blair turning into original posh boy, Brian Sewell?

[Gary Compton]

I watched an interview with Tony Blair. Remember him, a northerner, a Labour man -through and through.

He has slowly morphed into upper class art critic Brian Sewell His accent is getting very upper-class. Not that that's a problem but is he betraying his roots?

I can't stand him, even though he was one of the best Tory Prime Ministers ever

[HareBrain]

The only way for Tony Blair to rehabilitate his image is to appear on Watercolour Challenge like Brian Sewell did.

[Ursa major]

Wouldn't a programme involving extreme whitewash be more appropriate, HB?


Our Tone is not alone. A few months back (or it may even have been in 2011), I saw an interview with David Miliband. There was a word - an everyday word, though I can't recall which - that he kept pronouncing as if it were Professor Higgins's word of the day. Most strange - his pronunciation and why he would do it - because one would have thought talking in a fake-posh** accent wasn't going to make it easier for him to supplant his brother.



** - Fake-posh, not real posh, which is why the word sounded so odd. Perhaps he was briefly channelling Mrs Slocombe from Are you Being Served?

[The Judge]

Er... Tony Blair went to private schools and his father was a lawyer (and his brother is a High Court judge). He may have been born in Scotland, he may have represented a northern constituency, he may have led the Labour party, but he was never working class. The accents, the love of football, the "man of the people" was all part of his act. Because, y'know, he's a pretty straight kind of multi-millionaire.

[Gary Compton]

Originally Posted by The Judge

Er... Tony Blair went to private schools and his father was a lawyer (and his brother is a High Court judge). He may have been born in Scotland, he may have represented a northern constituency, he may have led the Labour party, but he was never working class. The accents, the love of football, the "man of the people" was all part of his act. Because, y'know, he's a pretty straight kind of multi-millionaire.

Okay ya, ma'm

His wife has a brother that was on, "Till death us do part." Does that not make him common as muck?

Anyway, I still think he's got ideas above his station

Ursa "channeling Mrs Slocombe." I fell over laughing at this

[The Judge]

That was her father. And no, it doesn't make him common. Just very, very unfastidious.

Not so much ideas above his station, as lies about his station.

[Gary Compton]

Haha!

Politicians make you laugh. The right honorable member for Blyth said 20 odd years ago when he got elected words like, "I will live on a miners wage while I'm in parliament."

He now has 3 or 4 houses and in his expenses published online. He paid £264 for a pen which, naturally, he claimed back.

Ho many ex-miners do you know with a million quids worth of property.

Tony Blair is worse

[Hex]

Like TJ said, he's always been posh. Bits of Scotland are, I've heard.

Blair went to Fettes and their fees are currently £27,000 a year.