Should Blair go? Should Labour go? Or neither...?

Question

Are we going in a direction we should be or not?

Answer 1

Yes I would like to get rid of Blair and Labour. I can't see either has done anything good for this country.

They should never have followed the Americans into war for one thing. Its just left this country in a mess with lunatics using it as an excuse to justify killing our civillians.

As for supporting "Labour", the Labour party is not what it was. It was once a party that was supposed to support the interests of the common working man (back in the days of Nye Bevan and the like) but its just turned into another version of the Conservatives. The benefit system which Bevan and his colleagues brought in to help the poor working man who was down on his luck has become the perfect way for drug dealers, lazy scroungers, petty criminals, crooked asylum seekrs and other assorted dross to earn a little extra on the side of their criminal activities.

Our enemies are not, as in the days of "old" labour - poverty, big business, poor wages, fat cat capitalism and unfair treatment of workers. We are now more at risk from crooks, terrorists, uncontrolled immigration, unemployment, ridiculously high living costs, materialism and political correctness gone mad!

Noone in today's "Labour" partygives a **** for the honest working man down on his luck anymore. Working families get thrown out of their houses for not being able to pay their stupidly high mortgages after dad lost his job, whilst asylum seekers and teenage mums who do not ever intend to work are accomodated in free council houses. Our local Labour councillor (in a small Welsh ex-mining village) lives in a ******* huge house, takes three holidays a year and drives around in an expensive sports car. So much for representing the poor common man! Bevan would turn in his grave. The system has gone mad.

Blair only cares about those who have as much money as him. He is middle class to the bone. They are all totally out of touch with the man in the street - look at that fat **** Prescott - driving around in his two jags. What would he know about or care for the pensioners freezing to death in their flats or the homeless families?!

They seem more interested in protecting the rights of a bunch of foreigners who are trying to kill us because they disagree with what our government is doing.

I come from a Welsh working class family who have been labour supoporters for generations but I can guarantee none of us will be voting labour next time. If things don't get better I'll be tempted to turn BNP (and my grandparents WOULD be spinning in their graves then!)

Answer 2

In a word? YES! (to both going)

My God, how did this sorry excuse for a government - with a sorry excuse for a leader - get elected in the first place? What WERE we all thinking? (Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy!)

Labour have gerry-mandered the electoral system by importing as many imigrants as they can find, employed more and more civil servants (and we know how well that's working - CSA, Tax Credits, The Home Office - need I go on?).

They have denied the English a say in their own affairs, leaving Scotish and Welsh MPs to force through legislation for the areas of the Country who DIDN'T vote labour, whilst fleecing them in taxes to fund Council tax cuts in Labour wards in the North - Nothing like looking after your own, is there?

The aim is not to run the country well, for the benefit of the people of this country. It is to keep Labour and it's supporters on the gravytrain by any means necessary, short of cancelling elections...

Charming - democracy in action...

Internationally the UK is becoming a laughing stock, seemingly incapable of doing anything other than toe the US line and our ruling party comming across as the the bunch of corrupt, self-serving, incompetent individuals that they so plainly ARE.

I could go on all day (but have to get SOME work done so I can pay my taxes)

Blair and Labour are a complete bunch of [INSERT YOUR FAVOURITE EXPLETIVE HERE]. Sooner they are gone, the better. Hard to see how the Tories could do any worse - but we won't find out until the next election, so we have to suffer even more pain.

Answer 3

What possible alternative is there? Nobody with any sense could want to put the country through the misery of another Tory government.
There are many things which the Labour party has delivered, such as reduced child poverty, minimum wage, reduced waiting times for NHS. Unfortunately since most of the press is right wing they will bias the news in such a way that that it disadvantages Labour. Many people allow themselves to be persuaded by these lies. Don't be one!

Answer 4

I support Labour but not Blair, i have done for years. Personally i don't think it is the party but the leader who is responsible. Elections everyone always says what they want the public to hear, We do this for you, reduce cost in this but when they have won all that goes to pot and we end up paying more on fuel, Taxes the lot.

A leader should be someone who wants to help the country not someone who wants all the money. Someone from the general public should be leader for a year, At least we know that they care for there country.

Answer 5

Blair should go but when he has gone, who knows what the "Even Newer" Labour will look like. I would like to see them go too but I am not convinced that any other party can win an election just yet.

Answer 6

David Cameron seems to embody most of Blair's most controversial policies. Supports Iraq war, pro-America etc.
There are few ideological differences between the two, EU issues aside.
However I think Blair has shown remarkable incompetence and deserves to be punished.
Whether this is best accomplished by supporting Brown or Cameron, I don't know.

Answer 7

tony Blair should go but it doesn't matter about labour cause if a other party came along and control the country they would messed it up as well

Answer 8

the German economy is on the up and they export, the French too slightly better, and china is also 10% year on year, the Americans are using Ireland for finance now, before it was London. what do we export.?

tony needs to wake up and smell the coffee before we pay for his neglect of the economy in favour of other countries needs , i am not saying its wrong but come on , we are close to getting into a recession

should Blair go ? no!

should labour go ? not yet!!

Answer 9

Yes, we're going into a direction we shouldn't be - constant anxiety, constant military preparation, destruction of civil liberties, children being treated like criminals - all the young people being screwed over...Tony Blair should be stripped of his office and humiliated in public - the death of the Iraqi babies and women is on our conscience for ever, and so is the feeling that we are lackeys of America.

Answer 10

I Am from Tbilisi, Georgia but I think u are going in a right direction, anf I am sure that i will be bad for Great Britain if Blair will go.