Friday, May 17, 2002

One of the most entertaining things on televison this week was the Jeremy Paxman interview of Tony Blair for BBC's Newsnight. Here's a great exchange:-
TONY BLAIR:
These funding stories, they come, they go! These are people who own the Express Newspapers.

JEREMY PAXMAN:
Yes.

TONY BLAIR:
Well, in my view, it is perfectly acceptable for us to take a donation from them.

JEREMY PAXMAN:
They also own Horny Housewives, Mega Boobs, Posh Wives, Skinny & Wriggly. Do you know what these magazines are like?

TONY BLAIR:
No, I don't, but I do know that if someone is fit and proper to own one of the major newspaper groups in the country, there's no reason why we shouldn't accept donations from them. The only difference between us as a political party and what went before is that all the donations are made openly, so that every single thing about party funding is, for the first time, out in the open.

Read the complete transcripts here.



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