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Tony Blair
Am I the only one to think that Tony Blair is a good PM ? Is the only reason he is being ousted , Iraq ?
Well I'd like to ask, when he took us into Iraq/Afghanistan, which incidentally was AFTER 9/11 !!!! If Gordon Brown had been PM or even if Ian Ducan Smith had been PM or whoever......would things have been different ?
Well I'd like to ask, when he took us into Iraq/Afghanistan, which incidentally was AFTER 9/11 !!!! If Gordon Brown had been PM or even if Ian Ducan Smith had been PM or whoever......would things have been different ?
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Our Tone has been the best Labour PM since...since...I don't know when.
I'm a salad-eating, sandal-wearing, world music-listening, Merlot-drinking, Islington-living leftie loony, but in all honesty, he did an amazing job finishing off the work that John Smith started in making the Labour Party electable.
I don't know what the Conservatives would've done over the past five years with regards to Iraq and Afghanistan, but that's a moot point...we'll never know.
I salute Tony for being the only leader in the Western world to wear Dolce & Gabanna swimming trunks...and for marrying a member of the Addams Family.
Gawd bless yer.
By the way - the next leader of the Labour Party will NOT be Gordon.
...it will be John Reid.
You heard it here first.
I'm a salad-eating, sandal-wearing, world music-listening, Merlot-drinking, Islington-living leftie loony, but in all honesty, he did an amazing job finishing off the work that John Smith started in making the Labour Party electable.
I don't know what the Conservatives would've done over the past five years with regards to Iraq and Afghanistan, but that's a moot point...we'll never know.
I salute Tony for being the only leader in the Western world to wear Dolce & Gabanna swimming trunks...and for marrying a member of the Addams Family.
Gawd bless yer.
By the way - the next leader of the Labour Party will NOT be Gordon.
...it will be John Reid.
You heard it here first.
This man is the worst PM we've ever had, (my opinion), he's presided over the breakup of the UK, the virtual demise of the NHS, the introduction of Political Correctness. and too many detrimental things to write here.
The only reason he won the last General Election, is because thanks to him, the Scots can vote in England, but not the other way around,
The only reason he won the last General Election, is because thanks to him, the Scots can vote in England, but not the other way around,
He started off well and as a long term Tory I actually voted for him..........the problem is, I think, that we have becopme another state in America and Tony Blair does, says and acts as Bush tells him to do, say and act,,,,,,,,I think Blair started off with all the best intentions in the world but has changed importance to please the Americans first and put Britain second and it seems that he does what America wants (like dragging us into an American war) His first few years in office he certainly was a good PM and he did a lot of good. ButEngland is a Country in it's own right and I think the problem with Tony is that he was too quick to do the American bidding and ignoring what his fellow countrymen actually wanted. Would any other party be better or any other be a better PM? Right now there's no choice, but if only Blair would cut some ties with America and not do Bush's bidding every minute of the day and cow tow to Bush then Blair wouldf have every chance of remaining in power - or at least the labour party would. I don't like what he has become but if I knew he was putting Britain first and foremost all the time and being a mouthpiece to the electorate then I would vote for that man tomorrow.
The man is a war criminal. he has presided over the deaths of 100,000 Iraqis. he has lied to the nation over and over again. He has blindly followed where the USA have led him. He did not even have the courage to call an immediate halt to the destruction of Lebanon. He refuses to see that his actions have alienated the muslims in the UK and increased the threat of trrorism in this land. He has presided over the breakdown of our borders. He is the worst PM in the history of this land. He should be tried for war crimes against humanity. His legacy should be a spell in the Hague (their prisons)
I suppose, dummkopf, we have people like you to thank ever so much, for voting for Blair and keeping him there all this time. Well done.
As entertaining as it has been watching Blair transform into a mad tyrant over his very long and overdue term, I don't think there is anything else he could turn upside down during his remaining year/months (?) that isn't already so. Most of his policies have been failures (re Crime, Pension etc etc), and as for Iraq, a huge one.
Gordon Brown is like Blair's shadow, only much more dull, so I can't say if things would have been any different under him, if not worse.
As entertaining as it has been watching Blair transform into a mad tyrant over his very long and overdue term, I don't think there is anything else he could turn upside down during his remaining year/months (?) that isn't already so. Most of his policies have been failures (re Crime, Pension etc etc), and as for Iraq, a huge one.
Gordon Brown is like Blair's shadow, only much more dull, so I can't say if things would have been any different under him, if not worse.
The decline of the NHS also predates Blair. But Iraq has done for him. Partly because it was a pointless war - UK resources would have been much better spent in Afghanistan; instead both countries are now going down the tubes - and partly because it was based on bogus reports of WMDs and a desire to be Bush's poodle. Nobody voted to go to war; the whole affair was Blair's idea, and it demonstrated appalling lack of judgment and a complete disconnect from the views of his country.
Doesn't mean the Tories would have done any better, though. They would certainly have gone to war in Iraq, and did nothing whatever in opposition to oppose it. The best that Cameron can offer is that... he's like Blair! What on earth can you say about a man who bicycles to work to show how green he is - but has a car following him carrying his clothes? Good grief.
Doesn't mean the Tories would have done any better, though. They would certainly have gone to war in Iraq, and did nothing whatever in opposition to oppose it. The best that Cameron can offer is that... he's like Blair! What on earth can you say about a man who bicycles to work to show how green he is - but has a car following him carrying his clothes? Good grief.
Eventually, all politicians run out of steam...look at Thatcher at the end? She was seen as an electoral liability...same with Major.
They all want to carry on, and on, and on...but eventually, it seems they forget why they were put there in the first place.
Someone posted a list of the top fifty successes of the Labour government here a few months back, and even I was shocked at how many good things they've implemented.
If anyone knows where that list is, it would be excellent if you could reprint it here...there needs to be balance. Tony Blair certainly ain't no saint, but by the same token, calling him a war criminal, in any sense is simply wrong.
They all want to carry on, and on, and on...but eventually, it seems they forget why they were put there in the first place.
Someone posted a list of the top fifty successes of the Labour government here a few months back, and even I was shocked at how many good things they've implemented.
If anyone knows where that list is, it would be excellent if you could reprint it here...there needs to be balance. Tony Blair certainly ain't no saint, but by the same token, calling him a war criminal, in any sense is simply wrong.
9/11 is a justification for Afghanistan NOT for Iraq!
But that's not why Blair's going - He fought and won a general election since then.
I think the reason he's going is simply that the job takes it out of anybody and I think he just wants out now.
He made the massive mistake of telling the world too far in advance .
I can't imagine Gordon will be looking forward to the publication of Tony's memoirs!.
I'd have liked to see a contest between Gordon Brown and Robin Cook but the best people in the Labour party have an irritating habit of dying before their time
But that's not why Blair's going - He fought and won a general election since then.
I think the reason he's going is simply that the job takes it out of anybody and I think he just wants out now.
He made the massive mistake of telling the world too far in advance .
I can't imagine Gordon will be looking forward to the publication of Tony's memoirs!.
I'd have liked to see a contest between Gordon Brown and Robin Cook but the best people in the Labour party have an irritating habit of dying before their time
I agree with dom tuk. Labour probably got re elected because there are millions of the type of people you see on programmes like Supernanny, Trishia, Wife Swap, Jeremy (can't remeber surname) and so on, keeping it alive! They are the type of people who don't look or contribute to the answerbank because they are illiterate and pond life! I know plenty of them in my line of work, before anyone accuses me of being unfair! Some of these people can't even talk English properly and they are locals! They just know that they should vote labour because' that's what they do. '
He should be branded as an awful PM purely because of his "Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" speech.
They have not been tough on crime, we probably have the most lawless country we have had for many years.
Drug dealers shoot people at the drop of a hat, uninsured drivers who kill while being high on drink and drugs get 2 years in prison.
Old people are taunted and attacked in their homes.
Dangerous criminals are released early to go out and kill again.
Thousands of criminals have come to this country under our lax and uncontrolled borders.
Blair has done untold long-term damage to this country.
They have not been tough on crime, we probably have the most lawless country we have had for many years.
Drug dealers shoot people at the drop of a hat, uninsured drivers who kill while being high on drink and drugs get 2 years in prison.
Old people are taunted and attacked in their homes.
Dangerous criminals are released early to go out and kill again.
Thousands of criminals have come to this country under our lax and uncontrolled borders.
Blair has done untold long-term damage to this country.
