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axxxr
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will be answering questions from the public via a mobile phone chatroom session hosted by O2.
The 45-minute session will be transmitted live from No.10 Downing Street on Thursday 25th November, at 1pm.
From today, the UK public will be able to text Blair to ask questions about life in the UK and world today. These questions, which can be on any subject from the Iraq war to the potential smoking ban, will be personally answered by the PM.
O2 said this is the first time that a UK politician has used SMS and a mobile chat room to communicate with the public.
Blair said: "Every week I take questions from MPs. This is the chance for everyone else to use their mobile phones to ask me the questions they want answered."
The opportunity is available to any mobile user, who can text the letters PM and then their question to 80202.
Alternatively, they can join the chat by going to O2 Active on the day. Questions can be submitted in advance by SMS, photo messaging or WAP.
On the day, independent interviewer Margherita Taylor will select 20 to 30 questions from those text message that have been submitted and then will put them direct to the PM in a live Chatroom on O2 Active.
The live chat with the PM is being hosted on O2 Active but customers from all networks will be able to submit questions in advance by text message.
A full transcript of the interview will be available on the internet when the session is over.
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PeterKay
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If i sent him a txt message, it would have 2 words only...........
Can you guess what?
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axxxr
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I would use exactly the same 2 words peter.  ..Thats all blair deserves!...I'm sick of his BS!
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joebmc
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I can think of a few extra words i would like to say (cant say them now kiddie's could be reading  )
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PeterKay
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Do you know whether he will be able to receive picture messages? |
axxxr
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On 2004-11-18 16:05:45, PeterKay wrote:
Do you know whether he will be able to receive picture messages?
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I don't know to be honest...But you could always txt him your 2 choice words along with the MMS and see what happens!
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k700nut
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And what would be the point in wasting credit while anticipating an honest and frank answer,because nobody will get one.he's a compulsive bullshitter..,better just throw money down the swanny river instead!what a tosspot
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SCORPIONKING1982
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its not even properly live, that woman will select questions to answer and theres no way she'd ask anything difficult or interesting
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PeterKay
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99% of the txt messages will be deleted.
They'll make the qustions up themselves and he'll bullshit all the way through. Nothing new here then |
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Tony Blair stepped into the mobile phone era when he took part in a live text chat with thousands of callers. After admitting his texting skills were underdeveloped, Mr Blair relied on a team of helpers during the 35-minute forum set up by phone giants O2.
The prime minister revealed he had learnt how to text for the first time just a few days earlier.
But he was only able to answer a fraction of the 6,000 questions on issues such as Iraq and immigration.
"My texting talents are poor, let's say underdeveloped," he told Capital FM.
"My children are texters. My daughter took me through it the other night.
The predictive one I wasn't too bad on, but the other way - let's just say it would have taken me a very long time to send a short message."
Answering the wide range of questions, Mr Blair said he believed Iraq would become democratic and that he hoped George Bush would "intensify" efforts on the Middle East peace process.
He also suggested concerns over the impact of immigration on the UK were "exaggerated" and that some people had got the issue out of perspective.
He praised Gordon Brown, again, as a "brilliant chancellor", saying: "I've always said he would make an excellent prime minister."
'More just'
But when asked if he thought his wife, Cherie, would make a good job of running the country, he countered: "Fortunately, that's not a question that arises."
Nelson Mandela was the person he would most like to meet, he said - a day before holding talks with the former South African president.
And he hoped his legacy as prime minister would be a "more just society".
Mr Blair tipped the Band Aid 20 single recorded recently by today's stars as the Christmas number one.
When asked to reveal how much he earned, he said it was public knowledge that his annual salary was £180,000.
"It's not bad. Beats working for a living doesn't it?"
Downing Street said it was the first time Mr Blair had tried technology of this type and that he saw it as a way of communicating with 18 to 24-year-olds
O2 later said the average age of people sending in questions to the prime minister was 25.
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