UK politics....?

Question

If you are british do you feel that tony blair is doing a good job both in the UK and over seas. Also, if you voted for labour did you vote for blair or did you vote in the hope he would step down? I'm a lib dem and can't understand how labour got back into power in the general election when he seems hated by most people.

Answer 1

No, I do however think he's doing a good job of RUINING our country!!! No, I did NOT vote Labour,never have never will!! But then, I did not vote Conservative either! I often wonder how they got back in as well.One can only assume what people say is one thing,what they do on voting day is another. Not only that,most people thought,at the time,there was no viable opposition.Here's hoping it will be very different next time!!!

Answer 2

He got back in through default. The lib dems and the conservatives did not have a credible offer to attract the supporters back. They both made gains, but that is usual
for a third term election.

When it came to the election, the war was a central theme and theother two parties could not offer a clear solution to the issues, so the labours carried the result.

He has been a great statesman for Great Britain, I will give him that. As a PM he has been more of an ambassador recently, Gordon Brown has been running things really over the last 9 months...Tony has travelled 1.7million miles in that time, that is a lot of time in the air and shaking hands with foreign dignatries, and not so much politiking...

Answer 3

I'm not British, but could it be that the choices the voters had to select from weren't that great? Could it be your OTHER parties fell down on the job and presented candidates that the voters didn't feel were viable?

I think people DO vote more conservatively than their speech would indicate. I think people will vote for an incumbent even if they don't particularly like him/her if the alternatives aren't particularly appealing. A, 'Better the devil we know, than the devil we don't' sort of thing.

I wonder if you haven't phrased the question backwards. Maybe the question should be, 'why didn't the other candidates appeal more to the voters?'