d\u00e9mentir<\/a> ces rumeurs de d\u00e9part de Tony Blair. Qu’importe, nous poursuivons. Au moins, cela marque la consid\u00e9ration de principe que nous avons d\u00e9sormais pour les informations officielles.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tVoici quelques mots de la chose, du Daily Telegraph<\/em> du jour m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abTony Blair is considering announcing his resignation as Labour leader before next Thursday’s local elections in an attempt to limit the expected electoral damage. Mr Blair’s unpopularity is so deep that his resignation could improve the party’s showing at the May 3 poll.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Daily Telegraph has established that senior advisers close to the Prime Minister have urged him to make a statement just before the May 3 poll, which will be the biggest test of political opinion since the general election.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMost observers have predicted that Mr Blair would announce his resignation after seeing Northern Ireland’s new power-sharing executive sworn in at Stormont on May 8.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHowever, if he agrees to the earlier option, the announcement could could come next Tuesday, May 1, the 10th anniversary of his election as Prime Minister, or the next day, which is the eve of the local elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe news would dominate the media for the following 48 hours and overshadow the elections in more than 300 English councils and the contest for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWith opinion polls suggesting Labour’s worst performance since 1983, the triggering of a leadership contest would also overshadow any inquest into the defeat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbEven Mr Blair’s most loyal supporters concede his unpopularity is so deep that his resignation could actually improve the party’s showing, particularly in Scotland which Labour may lose control to the nationalists.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 27 avril 2007 \u00e0 17H12<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Plac\u00e9 d\u00e9sormais devant ce qui para\u00eet la perspective in\u00e9luctable d’une ignominieuse d\u00e9faite dans les prochaines \u00e9lections locales, le parti travailliste pourrait sortir sa botte secr\u00e8te : l’annonce de la d\u00e9mission de Tony Blair. Le mirobolant PM britannique, le cr\u00e9ateur du blairisme-qui-n’existe-pas, a trouv\u00e9 quelque chose qui va au-del\u00e0 de tout : une impopularit\u00e9 presque sans… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,5355,4141,5370,5806],"class_list":["post-68747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-demission","tag-elections","tag-impopularite","tag-travaillistes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}