An Orderly Transition

Reporter 1: Mr. Blair, how do you see the situation in Afghanistan at present?

Tony: No comment.

Reporter 2: Iraq?

Tony: Next question?

Reporter 3: Lebanon?

Tony: Look, chaps, I ...uh... I wish you press people would stop obsessing with minor details of foreign policy. You don't seem to realize, and I'm sure the British people need to know, that we are at the present time experiencing a major attempted coup here at home. In Britain. Yes. Perhaps you should ask your readers, the Great British Public, if they really want to return to the pre-Blair years. Because, quite frankly, post-Blair means pre-Blair. Yes? You follow?

Repoerter 1: What about the terrible situation in Gaza, Prime....

Reporter 2: He's gone.

Reporter 3: Er, Mr. Brown... could you comment on...

Reporters 1&2: He's gone.