End of an era

It seems strange to be so far away as such momentus change is happening 12,000 miles away. The end of the Blair era seems hard to believe. Having arrived into Downing Street in such a flurry of excitement his exit seems to be much lower key.

Good riddens was the view of lots of people around the team table today. Cheeky monkeys I kept thinking. He's not even your Prime Minister, then again, he's not mine any more!

Whilst Blair the global leaders slinks off to further international relations minefields closer to home in NZ the Government are legislating against the media taking unflattering pictures of them and doorstepping them in unseemly ways. Oh how the Blairs would have wished for such protection I'm sure from the pap's in the UK. Here's the picture that in future won't be able to be published in the media.

Leader of the Maori Party powernapping!

Hope the media behave tomorrow, big briefing in our shop to remind the media that the thing launched about 18 months ago, launched again 12 months ago, then was launched for a further time 6 months ago. Just incase people didn't miss it the first three times. Oh yes, even NZ politicians have learned something about spin doctoring.

The down side is that it takes about 10 years for trends to really hit home in kiwi land from across the homeland so I think we can be sure that the spin doctoring is only going to escalate until the spin doctors become the news.... and they say the rest is the Blair history.