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Blair is to resign on the 27th of June , whats everyone's reaction to this ?
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LJT 02-05-2007 02:36 AM - said:Blair really isn't in control of the country anymore, all the diplomatic meetings etc are being carried out by Gordon Brown, there is only one reason I can think why Blair is still remaining on.....he wants to sort out the Northern Ireland assembly, it is the only thing he can salvage that will be a good mark in history for him.
LJT said:Honestly, I think people are being a bit unfair to Blair if they make a direct comparison between him and Bush...for a start I believe Blair to be no where near as incompetent as Bush. Apart from the war in Iraq, idelogically they are very different people.
Honestly in the past 10 years I think we would have been far worse of if the Conservatives had continued in power......and if you want to see Blair's lasting impact, look no further that David Cameron the leader of the Conservatives, to make themselves electable they have had to create Blair lite....Blair has forced politics to the certain ground, which I find better than the extremes.
LJT said:I think London has overtaken New York recently as the finance capital of the world.
LJT said:The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
U2democrat said:I wonder what we would be saying about him if he hadn't been so gung-ho about Iraq.
U2democrat said:...I disagree with him whole heartedly on Iraq, but from an American perspective looking at how things are going in Britain I still really respect him.
U2democrat said:embracing multiculturalism
Actually I've been very lucky and very blessed and this country is a blessed nation. The British are special. The world knows it...
Obviously we know it Tone......In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth
So you support a liberal internationalist position in the Balkans but that stops under Saddam; Saddam was responsible for state violence, genocide, annexation of neighbouring states and apparent refusal to disarm WMD - at least some of which don't fall under sovereignty.Muldfeld said:I have to say Tony Blair was one of the main reasons I had doubt about whether going into Iraq was a mistake. He really helped the Bush administration's faulty position. I had had so much respect for him due to his international work, especially helping Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. He was willing to go much farther than Clinton, who didn't want to send in ground forces in order to keep US casualities low. Blair just seemed to care more and he really won me over when arguing that the legal status of state sovereignty shouldn't permit abuse of peoples within that state's borders -- that there was such a thing as universal rights we had to protect.
After 9/11, Blair really let the free world down. I really don't understand why he did it. Was it stubbornness or unwillingness to make mistakes? Does he still believe in his simplistic division of the world into good and evil, rather than regular people facing hardship or negative cultural influences becoming more easily seduced by violence and cruelty? I expected more from him. I hope he lives the rest of his life in shame and misery because he has really hurt our future, and has shown no willingness to stop Bush and his administration's hierarchcal approach to the world. Same for Colin Powell.
U2democrat said:A heck of a lot better than the way things are going here. A thriving economy (the pound is almost twice the dollar), embracing multiculturalism, better healthcare, and less crime.
TheQuiet1 said:
But we're all forgetting the true loss to British politics:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VRQDnGTcc4A&mode=related&search=
Goodbye Prezza and your chipolata. You'll never get back into the Cabinet if Gordo's running it and British politics will never be as entertaining ever again
U2democrat said:A heck of a lot better than the way things are going here. A thriving economy (the pound is almost twice the dollar)
embracing multiculturalism,
better healthcare,