Earthman, Come Home

• 2010-09-09

  Is Blair confusing fiction with reality?

  Peter Morgan, scriptwriter of the film The Queen, has pointed out that an account of Blair’s first meeting with Queen Elizabeth after becoming prime minister in 1997 in his memoir, A Journey, bears more than a passing resemblance to a scene in the 2006 film.

  In A Journey, Blair says that Queen Elizabeth told him:

  You are my 10th prime minister. The first was Winston. That was before you were born.

  In The Queen, the monarch (played by Helen Mirren) says:

  You are my tenth prime minister, Mr Blair. My first was Winston Churchill.

  A spokesman for Random House claimed that it was impossible that Blair could have been inspired by his on-screen self: “As Tony Blair says whenever he is asked about it, he hasn’t actually ever seen the film ‘The Queen’.”

  So what’s the explanation, then? Telepathy? Insight? Bugging?

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  2. umalik said: more I read about and worse from Blair himself, more I wonder what sort of a PM he was! He even sound more like a maniac sometimes and Crusades start looking like a reality to me. He and Bush were just a match made in heavens!
  3. vruz said: if he can lie about a gratuitous war, he can lie about a one-liner by the queen.
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