The most obvious image and the way the theme is used is Blair as Bush's poodle,

Blair chose to take his stand ... from the highest moral ground, ... It is the definitive riposte to 'Blair the Poodle', seduced though he and his team always appeared to be by the proximity and glamour of American power.

A theme that has always interested me is the difference between how thing appear and how they are. Image versus reality, etc.

They're not poodles, they're art.

Somebody's little poodle isn't going to do too terribly well,

Tony Blair must continue to implement the agenda on which we were elected. It's only six months, you know, since there was a general election.