bush* Heading to Blair's Tranquil Home

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush

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By taking Blair up on the rare invitation to visit Sedgefield, Bush was looking to decompress a bit after two intense days in London. Tea at Blair's house, lunch at a pub and a school visit were on the schedule.

While Bush was in London, he gave a foreign policy speech defending the Iraq (news - web sites) war; was jeered by tens of thousands of protesters; was the star of a state dinner at Buckingham Palace; met with relatives of British victims of Sept. 11 and of British soldiers killed in Iraq; and faced sharp questioning at a news conference with Blair just after terrorist bombs in Istanbul exploded at a London-based bank and the British consulate.

Bush and his wife, Laura, left Buckingham Palace, where they had stayed three nights, just before 10 a.m. Friday on a drizzly London morning. They were escorted to the Lawn by Queen Elizabeth II (news - web sites) and Prince Philip to an awaiting helicopter.

I'm sure the village of 3,000 is really looking forward to having 1,200 police in the neighborhood plus whatever tourists Dimbo brings.

no busses, shops shut, old peoples home not recieving their meals-on-wheels.

I never found Sedgefield tranquil. Miserable maybe but there ya go.

Not that Bush & Blair will notice with all the security.

This site was such a great idea- kudos to them - and the reporters in the field!

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More from our roving reporter Jim via our text message number:

bush at dun cow in sedg. We're making noise. He's gone in back door. Can't see us

George'll be climbing into places through the windows next.

Cat Burglar Bush they'll call him.

Apparently the police have segregated most of the protestors away from a group of specially selected people. Those people are allowed near whereas the rest of the protestors are only allowed to protest in a special 'Free Speech Zone'

Eh? We need zones for free speech now?
http://www.interwebnet.org/

What a fudging ASSHOLE. It's so funny it's unbelievable. Sky News has covered it quite well. An "inpromptu" photo op with "civilians" is FAKED (the reporter no-one knows who the hell they are) and the reporter said he saw bush wave and when he turned around to look who he waving at their was no-one there!!!

Bush, YOU ARE A FAKE IN SO MANY WAYS!!

the murkins will think he is waving to thousands of adoring Btitish subjects.... :puke:

but feel sorry for both of them.

Such hatred by so many is not a good thing...even though he has brought it on himself.

e.g. yesterday when the reporter asked him why he is so hated.


This visit is getting slated even by Fox's sister network. It's a totally pointless photo op and it's just not going down at all well in the UK.

... they'll be inserted into the final cut for general release.
("Do you mean there *weren't* thousands of orcs at the filming of
Helms Deep? Wow!")

I feel sad that they represent this country because he was not duly elected and he has destroyed in three years much of what he has stolen from us.

Feel sorry for them? Dear heavens-he has been groomed for this for at least ten years and has been given everything he ever wanted or needed and did not have to work for it--he has developed a phoney personna in order to fool us conintually, and she is a lazy wench who latched on to him and the family name--imagine how thrilled she must have been to go to Kennebunkport and mix with the rich elite society--attend thoses social functions where she got a lot of attention--she found that she liked that and probably thinks we should also adore her as she stands before us in all her frumpiness--don't feel sorry for her one bit. I can feel sorry for her mother a little.

-for me outright anger and hate at George Bush, -- I can deal with that better than I can deal with "feeling sorry" for priveledged people

... oh, really? ... is that "news" or an exaggerated opinion? just how did he "star"?

the Queen should inventory her linens and silverware

:spank:

- the British "freeper" contingent

Blair's tranquil home in Sedgefield ... and, Tony is "Labour" ... actually, his 'home' is just outside Sedgefield, in Trimdon Colliery -- a four-bedroom red brick Victorian house, named Myrobella, sits behind a high fence and across a narrow street from a dilapidated shed and a field full of goats and sheep. Nearby are rows of narrow houses, their paint peeling.


Sedgefield battens down as the Bush machine rolls into town
By Paul Kelbie
20 November 2003


Parking around the village green in Sedgefield is not normally an issue. It could be more difficult this week. On almost every lamp-post yesterday, notices warned that no cars would be tolerated between 8pm today and 5pm tomorrow. The message was reinforced by officers knocking on doors up and down the main street: remove your vehicle or pay the price.

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Drains have been sealed off with tar, manholes inspected and ventilation shafts blocked with rubber seals and wedged shut. All police leave in the area has been cancelled and officers drafted in from the Northumbria and Cleveland forces to make up the 1,300 needed here for "special duty".

Yesterday, Special Branch officers and members of the US Secret Service made a sweep of the town in a £1m security operation for a visit likely to last only a couple of hours. "All this disruption for nothing," said Bill Sanderson, a builder caught up in the security sweep in his car outside the 14th-century church of St Edmund's, which dominates the village green. "I don't know why he's coming here, and if it means all this fuss and bother for the rest of us he should stay away."

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=465439

... and, stories left in the dust ..

Behind the scenes: dogs eating toast, royals swearing and staff standing around for hours

By Ian Burrell
20 November 2003

None of the satirical portrayals of the Royal Family has quite managed to paint the picture that emerged yesterday of the bizarre rituals that go on every day inside Buckingham Palace.

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The disclosures included mundane slices of life, such as corgis underneath the royal breakfast table gorging on toast, spread with "light" marmalade and fed to them by the Queen.

The Duke of Edinburgh would sit opposite, with his transistor radio arranged at precisely the right angle next to his Tupperware box of dried porridge oats and a pile of newspapers, with the Racing Post on the top.

The Duke of York had a toy replica of Monkey, the mascot of the former company ITV Digital, in his room.

There were disturbing stories, such as the Princess Royal allegedly berating a clumsy member of the household as a "f*cking incompetent tw*t" and Prince Andrew greeting staff in the morning with expletives when in a grumpy mood.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=465448