Has his latest little law and order initiative made the press outside of the UK? Cutting off child benefit to parents with unruly kids? Okay, this is as much Blunkett as Blair (or at least Blunkett gets to carry the can for it, and so deserves to have his furniture rearranged every day for the rest of his life) but it's happening under Blair's authority, so he can't palm all of the responsibility off onto someone else.
I'm surprised to hear he has a decent international rep, though. I'd always thought that he was perceived as Washington's fawning little ****toy. Of course, he does like to spend a lot of time out of the country, which would account for that: as soon as a domestic problem flares up, he's on the next plane to support the rest of the ****ing G8 club in some stupid bull**** or other. Death's too good for him."
