UK: Chatten per SMS met Tony Blair

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Tony Blair's Big Conversation with the great british public moved to a mobile chat room to answer questions yesterday. While many of the answers were predictable and bland: Was war in Iraq necessary? - "Yes I believe it was" we did find out that, as would befit a marriage between two lawyers, that terms and conditions applied to his marriage!

O2 and its partner Freever held the first ever interactive chat room on mobiles with a UK Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Tony Blair MP. In a 45 minute event transmitted live from 10 Downing Street on O2’s mobile phone portal O2 Active, Mr Blair answered questions that had been submitted in advance by text message and on-line at O2 Active. He also answered questions, which were asked live in the chat room.

Questions And Answers
In total Mr Blair answered 28 questions on subjects ranging from the war in Iraq to smoking and tax through to the national lottery.
Asked what changes would he like to see in US foreign policy seems happy with the approach so far.

On smoking Blair revealed that he had "quit as part of the marriage deal" making one wonder what else was in the 'deal'!

There were questions about music that showed that the George Harrison track "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" contained his favourite guitar solo and that he likes the new Band Aid song so much he will be popping out to buy himself a copy.

In the week running up to today’s event over 2,500 SMS messages were received and over 4,300 questions registered through WAP from the public. In addition to the 30 he answered live in the chat room Mr Blair also hopes to respond more questions in the next couple of days.