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depurple
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: Blair Era Gone! Was he good? Was he bad? |
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Boys Blair days Prime Minister are over!
What will history say about him?
What do you think of his time in office and his achievements?
What was ironic to me is that the Conservative party congratulated him more that his own Party:
they said he was the best Labor Leader of all time!
It is like our Australian Labor Party with Kevin Rudd congratulating Howard as a Liberal! BUT hey that is politics I guess!!
cheers |
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thebrix
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: Blair Era Gone! Was he good? Was he bad? |
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depurple wrote: Boys Blair days Prime Minister are over!
What will history say about him?
What do you think of his time in office and his achievements?
What was ironic to me is that the Conservative party congratulated him more that his own Party:
they said he was the best Labor Leader of all time!
It is like our Australian Labor Party with Kevin Rudd congratulating Howard as a Liberal! BUT hey that is politics I guess!!
cheers
Whatever the good or bad, he was a huge figure and, in 6 or 12 months, I think the song will be "you don't know you've missed him until you've gone".
I remember the very common talk before 1997 that, if the Labour Party got in, nobody in Government would have any experience and it would flounder. That turned out to be a spectacularly wrong opinion!
Especially compared with his predecessor, John Major, who, although decent and honest, staggered from fiasco to catastrophe and gave the impression that getting to each Friday evening in more or less one piece was a great achievement ...
I simply don't know how Gordon Brown will turn out, but I think Tony Blair had just the right mix of superficiality and seriousness as opposed to Gordon Brown (too serious) or David Cameron (too flimsy).
The point about David Cameron is a good one; Tony Blair's most remarkable achievement of all is that the Conservative Party is now wearing most of the Labour Party's clothes! The turnaround, in that aspect, in just a few years is staggering, although it took two drubbings for the Conservative Party to realise that being against things, rather than for things, would no longer work. |
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cypezokyli
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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tony blair is the
"pro-european" that bushed britain further away from europe
the "labour" who made the life for the lower classes more difficult and expensive
the "humanist" that entered a number of new wars.
i dont know if the average british voter is confused, but for sure i am :? |
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depurple
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Well he was certainly congratulated the most from the Conservatory Party than his own party!
It reminded me of Paul Keating ex PW of Australia who was labor BUT had all conservatory Liberal policies!
amazing!
cheers |
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Dream_Merchant
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He was neither bad, nor was he good.
He was just plain ugly. |
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brother
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Dream_Merchant wrote: He was neither bad, nor was he good.
He was just plain ugly.
Same from me. :wink: |
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depurple
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And he is going to the middle east to solve the Palestinians issue with the JEWS?
What a joke!
cheers
Maybe they should send him to Iraq to solve there issues as well!
Blair just get yourself a hobby man and call it a day!
OR better still get rid of your wife and get a horny young chick and have some real fun!
cheers once again! |
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repulsewarrior
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cypezokyli wrote: tony blair is the
"pro-european" that bushed britain further away from europe
the "labour" who made the life for the lower classes more difficult and expensive
the "humanist" that entered a number of new wars.
i dont know if the average british voter is confused, but for sure i am :?
...so true; me too. |
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thebrix
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repulsewarrior wrote: cypezokyli wrote: tony blair is the
"pro-european" that bushed britain further away from europe
the "labour" who made the life for the lower classes more difficult and expensive
the "humanist" that entered a number of new wars.
i dont know if the average british voter is confused, but for sure i am :?
...so true; me too.
The surprising thing (especially given my previous comments made at the time of the resignation) is that he has just dissipated like a wisp of smoke; when he was Prime Minister already seems like a different era.
(Probably because the style of the new government is completely different; no bluster, barely even a raised voice). |
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