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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997-2007. Perhaps unusually, Mr. Blair wasn't from the South but in fact started out in [[Bonnie Scotland]] and was educated in the English [[Oop North|North]] and Scotland. He became MP for Sedgefield (also [[Oop North]]) and fought off Tory John Major as Labour leader to become PM.
Despite criticism (most notably for shifting the Labour party massively to the right and for invading Iraq), he captained Labour through three consecutive victories and left by own choice in 2007 after seeing off four opposition leaders before handing over to [[Gordon Brown|the Chancellor]]. It goes without saying the switch from Captain Charisma to No-Flash Gordon has fuelled several jokes. Blair currently acts as a UN envoy to the Middle East.
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* He acted in a sketch for [[Comic Relief]] with [[Catherine Tate]].
* He had a brief appearance in ''[[Spooks]]'', where footage of him and [[George W. Bush]] was used in the context of the Prime Minister meeting the US President.
* The unnamed Prime Minister whose dessicated corpse is found in a cupboard in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Aliens of London" is clearly meant to be Tony Blair.
* Tony Blair is also made fun of as the predecessor of the fictional Prime Minister in ''[[Love Actually]]''.
* Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher come in for some ribbing in ''[[Coupling]]''.
{{quote|'''Patrick:''' You know what? We need Maggie back! }}
* There's Tony Blair in the ending of the ''Albion'' graphic novel. Heh heh.
* The Prime Minister in the 2008 ''Dan Dare'' miniseries is clearly based on him (confirmed by [[Word of God]]). He's also a snivelling opportunist who sells Earth out to the [[Big Bad|Mekon]]. Hmmmm...
** If intentional, this may be [[Fridge Brilliance]] - ''[[Private Eye]]'' ran a Dan Dare parody in [[The Eighties]] where the Mekon represented [[Margaret Thatcher]] ("The Maggon") and Tony Blair was often accused of selling out Labour's principles to Thatcherism.
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** They also wrote "I get along" about his second firing of [[Peter Mandelson]] (according to [[Word of God]])
*** They also made the extremely creepy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kx05kU5gZg "Integral"] about New Labour's increasing tendency to introduce a surveillance society; the fandom sometimes count these three together as the [[Pet Shop Boys]]' "Blair Trilogy".
* Former Prime Minster Adam Lang in ''[[The Ghost Writer (film)|The Ghost Writer]]'' is clearly [[Captain Ersatz|a slightly fictionalized version of Blair]]
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