Do u think Tony Blair should end so called special relationship today?

Answer 1

What special relationship. It's all give and no take with Great Briton doing the giving. Get rid of America and we will have world peace. It's them who start all the bloody conflicts in 1 form or another. Selling weapons to both sides then standing back and watching

Answer 2

It seems to me that the "special relationship" has been a one way relationship almost from its inception. Yes, the Americans came to the UK's aid in WW2 but we paid for it one way or another. Lend/lease we paid for with bases in Nova Scotia and Bermuda and giving the Americans radar technology. We paid off our financial debts for loans in WW2 only in the last year or so. The Bretton Woods Agreements on trade and tariffs and free trade benefited the US more than us. Read up on the background to those talks. A lot people in the State Department were more interested in taking over then UK markets than free trade.

While we should be grateful for American aid in WW2 that is now history and history moves on. Its time for us to move on too and rethink our position on the world stage. Its we, UK citizens, who should decide whether or not to end the relationship, not just Blair or any other party leader. And before anyone jumps to any conclusions I am not a Little Englander wrapping myself in a Union Jack, nor a would be Fuhrer waving the flag of St George, or a wannabe Commissar. We're in the C21st, let's live in it and try to make it a better one than the last.

Answer 3

Blair has HIS interests at heart. He is obsessed with being a "World Player", and leaving a legacy. What better way to be a player than to be the yes-man to the nastiest kid in the playground, no matter what he says. He just wants to be deluded that he has some kind of power over Bush, when in reality if Blair ever disagreed on anything Bush said (which is laughable - he'd even say yes to becoming the 51st state) then Bush would completely ignore him - and expose Blair and Britain as being completely toothless.

Once Blair goes into retirement he'll probably do lecture tours in the US, like his wife does. Her sole point of popularity is that she's Blair's wife, so the poodle himself should drag in the customers. What better way to increase his popularity than to constantly fawn over Bush, no matter how bitter a taste it leaves in his people's (well I say his people, we're not really, as he spends more time abroad than at home now) mouths.

Answer 4

The problem IS Tony's "special relationship" with Dubbaya

Answer 5

Yes I do, as he has been in power for too long now, and all the broken promises he has made to our country, so why don't he like step down, and give someone else a chance to proove to our once great nation that they will listen to the people, and promise to stick to watever new laws they introduce to the country, as we have heard all the lies once too mnay from Tony Blair, we are too soft now this country, we have no justice for criminals, in the U.S, they come down hard on those who break the law, we just slap them on the wrist, it is time for a change!

Answer 6

Isn't Tony on holiday? I thought John Prescott was acting PM.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

yes because we are told we have democracy. so having a 'special relationship' with someone 90% of the people of your country loathe, doesn't seem very representitive of your people.

Answer 9

Yes because one of the partners (US) is f***ing another on the side(Israel) and that one on the side really f***ed the other (UK) over before. What a sick love triangle.

Answer 10

No. The Brits will always be America's whipping boy.