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Blair expresses interest as Dr Who replacement
Faced with plummeting poll results as he finally calls an election, Prime Minister Tony Blair has already begun casting about for alternative employment should he become Britain's newest ex-PM on May 5th, DeadBrain has learned.
A new NOP poll for the independent newspaper The Independent suggests that New, Improved Labour's lead over the Tories has dropped two percentage points to just three, its lowest since last October, and from a substantial 12 point lead in February.
But not for Tony the usual diet of company directorships and senior positions with prestigious law firms. Instead, he has let it be known that he would be very interested in taking over the role of Dr Who when Christopher Ecclestone, the present doctor, leaves at the end of the current series. As DeadBrain exclusively reported, Mr Ecclestone announced his departure after he learned that Prince Charles cannot bear his portrayal of the Time Lord from Gallifrey.
It appears that, still flushed with his part in ousting failed dictator Saddam Hussein™, Mr Blair sees himself as exactly the kind of person - intelligent, erudite, and blessed with rugged good looks and a smile that could ignite wood at fifty paces - to represent the time-travelling fighter of tyranny and evil.
A BBC spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the PM certainly has many of the right qualities for Dr Who. He cited, for example, Mr Blair's uncanny ability to shift his position and recollection of events in both time and space without appearing to move, as was evidenced in the aftermath of his decision to go to war against Iraq with his good friend US President "Boy" George W. Bush. He also cited the dossier Mr Blair used to "prove" that Iraq posed a threat to the world. "Like the TARDIS, its internal dimensions were considerably larger than the external ones," he said.
However, Mr Ramsbottom also noted that Mr Blair might find it difficult to convince the BBC to hire him given his use last year of the Hutton Inquiry to discredit the corporation.
Asked for a comment, New, Improved Labour spokesperson Brenda Shuttleworth said that any speculation regarding Mr Blair's future outside of Number Ten was premature and ill-founded. She said that he fully expects another decisive victory. "I would hardly consider a small drop of two percentage points 'plummeting' - it would barely register on Peter Snow's swingometer," she said.
"On the other hand," she added, "everybody occasionally needs to hedge their bets."
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