From: "me@privacy.net" 
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: Greenspin to tell Brown : "You've screwed up the UK economy" ?
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:40:46 +0000

In message , hummingbird 
 writes
>There you are then ...and Blair's dislike of Brown-Stuff is quite well
>known despite their occasional public 'kiss-and-make-up' episodes.
>
>My guess is that Blair's in a tizzy over who would better succeed him
>and with Cameron positioning himself as Blair Mk II, this might tip
>the balance. Blair's got no loyalty to Labour and little in common.

The last episode of The Final Cut was on last week (the followup from 
the House of Cards), (I missed it when it was on ten years ago) but I 
think it gives a good clue as to when Bliar intends to stand down, as 
the Prime Minister was determined to outlast Thatcher.

Apparently the same thought is expressed here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1688097.stm

-- 
Timothy