26-11-2004, 01:41 AM
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...375493,00.html
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MOBILE phone texts are a convenient way for people to arrange a drink down the pub. They are not, as Downing Street discovered yesterday, such a great medium for the Prime Minister to deliver a revealing interview.
Wide-ranging answers on his marriage, his private passion for Lynyrd Skynyrd, and which Cabinet member he does the best impression of, were received on the public’s mobile phones as garbled texts from “pm” such as “the security services r doing a great job”.
The first, seemingly insurmountable, problem for the organisers of the “first WAP and text conversation with Britain’s leader” was that Tony Blair does not know how to text. Shortly after he confessed that even intensive, last-minute coaching from 16-year-old daughter Kathryn had failed. “Let’s say my texting talents are underdeveloped,” said Mr Blair, 51. Instead the famously technophobe Prime Minister was furnished with a team of five young people who would translate his answers INTO phpbb_textspeak, much like interpreters at the United Nations.
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