Why is John Major being wheeled out?

[Gromit]

He wasn't really a very good Prime Minister or very good Conservative leader. Yet he is all over the news today. Has the cricket been rained off or something?

[emmie]

really, what about all the gentlemen on here then x

[askyourgran]

I quite liked John Major, quiet and unassuming not to be compared with todays blustering career politicians. Admittedly, he didn't do much during his tenure at No 10, he just held the party together. At least he didn't sell the family silver/gold just flashed the jewels to Edwina now and again. Horrible woman.

[Kerosene]

DT,

My 'loose trouser snake' is usually asleep these days!

[mike11111]

John Major was thrust into high office, much against his will. When the more sensible bit of the Tory Party looked round and saw what they had done in brutally assassinating the Great Lady, they belatedly came to their senses.

[Kerosene]

Quite right, Mike, old John's been succeeded by superstars such as Hague, Duncan-Smith, Howard, and Cameron.

There again, the other mob's been 'blessed' with such luminaries like Kinnock, Blair, Brown, and Millipede.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, eh?

[mike11111]

Don't knock Hague. He was before his time. I can still see him being PM in the not too distant future.

[ladybirder]

Wasn't he made guardian or something of William and Harry when Diana died? I don't understand why as their father was alive?

[Kerosene]

Mike,

Yeah, right! I can still remember that doughball at that Tory conference when he was about twelve years old - like something straight out of 'Just William'?

Oops.....was that an unintentional pun? (cough!)

[Kerosene]

ladybirder,

Nah, wasn't that Di's brother, the boy Spencer?

[ladybirder]

He may well Mike - Hague I mean. Don't know if he'd want to though.

[mike11111]

I find it difficult to describe a man with a first class degree from Oxford, also the biographer of one of the greatest Prime Ministers of the 18C, as a "doughball".

[Kerosene]

Awww, Mikey...Mikey...Mikey....Didn't take you for an 'econoimical with the truth' merchant?

There you go, 'bumming him up' (No pun), but you miss out the bit about him allegedly kipping in the same hotel rooms, whilst away from the missus and on important ministerial business in some foreign climes, with his....erm....what did they call that guy...........aaaah, yes...........................his............
'advisor'
(cough!) ???

[mike11111]

As far as I am concerned, anyone who occupies one of the four great offices of state is entitled to snuggle up to his bum chum, if he so desire. It behoves us lesser mortals not to mock, for we do not understand the pressures of the job.

[Kerosene]

Is that a wee admission, then, Mikey? Gawn, you can tell me, there's nobody else listening.

[askyourgran]

You really need something for that cough of yours kerosene.

[pdq1]

Its not only Major we should worry about. Tony Blair was on the radio today saying how we could sort out the problems in Syria. We all know he has enormous world prescence and maybe his voice should be listened to,

[BillyBB]

John Major took over a country in recession and major deficit and by the end all economic indicators improved substantially.
He did not showboat or grandstand and delegated many decisions to ministers instead of dictating like so many others.
Just because he was not a strong figurehead does not make him a bad prime minister, he had some steel in him.
I was not a fan at the time cos I hated the tories and all I picked up on was spitting image and constant negative propaganda from our media.