Partly Facetious: whose poodle you want to be?

"Some people would go to any lengths..."
"I agree. From being the pet of one group to becoming the pet of another, and all in the twinkling of an eye."
"It's a power game I tell you nothing more, nothing else. I mean who would have thought Blair would sink so low..."
"Blair? I thought you were talking of Mushahid?"
"Mushahid, why would I be talking of Mushahid?"
"He was made the Secretary General of PML (Lota). The post Jamali wanted and didn't get."
"Does this mean Mushahid will be our next PM?"
"Don't think so. I mean he is minister material not PM material."
"What does that mean?"
"He can convince a few people in power of his usefulness but not the entire nation."
"What does that mean?"
"He can't win votes. He can convince the top leadership that he is useful."
"Ah, I see. But anyway I was talking of Blair."
"Has he sunk even lower?"
"Yes, a new book, written by Kampfner, political editor of the New Statesman, is being serialised in The Guardian. It states that Blair got his senior foreign affairs advisor, Sir Nigel Sheinwald to call Condoleeza Rice and ask her what was going on when President Bush first mentioned the possibility of a bipartisan inquiry into the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction."
"You mean uncle Bush never bothered to tell his Poodle?"
"Nope. And when Sir Nigel tried to discourage Rice from holding the inquiry she said, 'You have your politics, we have ours'."
"The book also refers to Poodle's battle with the BBC?"
"Apparently Gavyn Davies, the sacked BBC chairman, was married to Sue Nye who is a top Brown aide. So effectively Blair thought that the BBC was attacking him because Brown wanted Poodle to keep his promise and let him become the Prime Minister."
"So he attacked the BBC and got rid of Davies?"
"Yep, sounds far fetched but according to the author this was revealed by a Poodle loyalist - Peter Mandelson."
"Man, sounds like Mian Sahib and BB, and at least they were from different parties..."