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In 'The Other Minister'
By: Salbob Date: September 12, 2011, 4:17 pm
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I always imigined the PM as Tony Blair, and considering JK is a
Labour supporter, and bearing in mind when the books are
supposed to be set, leads me to think that even more.
Anyone else? Or was it just a fictional PM?
EDIT: Just noticed how much I've raped the comma in this post
but gonna leave it like that because that's how cool I am
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Re: In 'The Other Minister'
By: Hermes_The_Exile Date: September 12, 2011, 4:18 pm
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I wish the book was in front of me, because it seems like she
kind of threw in some clues.
By the timeline, though, it'd be John Major.
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Re: In 'The Other Minister'
By: Salbob Date: September 12, 2011, 5:38 pm
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Oh yeah sorry I got my timelines muddled I was thinking late 90s
Also totally just realised this is HBP not DH. I suck.
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Re: In 'The Other Minister'
By: Hermes_The_Exile Date: September 12, 2011, 5:47 pm
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It's cool.
They mention though that the PM before this one was a man, and
the PM before Major was Thatcher, a woman. So it could be that
she just used a generic "every PM."
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Re: In 'The Other Minister'
By: Salbob Date: September 12, 2011, 8:23 pm
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Yeah good point, he just seemed so Blair-y first time I read it,
but I'm guessing she could have drawn inspiration from many PMs
and combined different elements of them.
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Re: In 'The Other Minister'
By: Fawkes Date: September 22, 2011, 2:12 pm
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Not sure, but I do remember people thinking that the president
mentioned of a distant country (the one the PM apparently didn't
have a high opinion of) was supposed to be a reference to George
W. Bush.
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