SD on 10/5/2007 at 00:23
After more than 10 years at the helm, our Glorious Leader Tony Blair is this morning announcing that he is (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6639945.stm) stepping down as Prime Minister and handing power to Gorgeous Gordon Broon.
I'm kinda curious as to what the consensus on his premiership will be. Supine toad whose complicity with the United States' War of Terror harmed the UK's standing on the international stage? Inspirational and charismatic leader who made Britain a better place? Or maybe a bit of both!
Your opinions, as ever, are welcome.
Scots Taffer on 10/5/2007 at 00:31
Rather than waiting on Tony leaving, I decided to. ;)
I can't see what difference Brown is going to make though, unless he radically different ideas about the Labour Party ethos, which I strongly doubt.
N'Al on 10/5/2007 at 07:44
Cameron Diaz
steo on 10/5/2007 at 11:12
I'd rather Brown was PM, though he's never going to be very popular, not that it really matters much, since the young and hip Davey Cameron is going to be in power soon.
icemann on 10/5/2007 at 11:16
I`ve always liked Tony Blair. A nice guy who stands up for what he believes in, and is not fake at all.
Hell of alot better than George Bush, or my countries PM John Howard.
Fingernail on 10/5/2007 at 11:33
Hell, even after all our disagreements, I like him better than Cameron. (David, not Diaz)
Scots Taffer on 10/5/2007 at 11:33
Quote Posted by icemann
I`ve always liked Tony Blair. A nice guy who stands up for what he believes in, and is not fake at all.
You're absolutely right, except what he believes in is nothing resembling what the British people believes in - which is sort of what you expect from your Prime Minister, so in that respect he's a gigantic flaming cock of failure.
And to frame that point better, Howard may make bumbling or inept decisions from time to time but he seems to do it with heart in the right place and by that I mean, what's probably best for Australia in the long run.
steo on 10/5/2007 at 11:47
People are quick to criticise Blair and labour for things like the Iraq war and the NHS blunderings and for this reason a lot of people seem to be switching to the tories. The thing is though, that the conservatives backed the Iraq war more than labour did and I shudder to think what would have happened to the NHS had conservatives been in power.
Sure, labour have cocked a good few things up a treat but would the tories have done a better job? I don't think so.
Scots Taffer on 10/5/2007 at 11:48
Yeah, we live in a wonderful two-party system where ineptitude was inevitable in either case... wonder why I left the country?!!?
steo on 10/5/2007 at 12:02
But surely "The British are special - the world knows it, in our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth."
