just american trying stay current with things that may or may not affect both countries
2006-09-07 11:44:17 · 35 answers · asked by deno112 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
He has become intractable, and dictatorial. He is not focussing on this country, but playing the world stage, as Boosh'es poodle. Does anyone think the USA needed our help? Isn't their military machine big enough?
P.S. I don't type your pressie's name, as there are US government filters monitoring e-mails...
Free speech? Where?
2006-09-07 11:48:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Critiques call PM Blair POTUS Lapdog. A growing number of people on both sides of the pond are getting fed up with the war in Iraq. They see Blair as Bush's yes man. After nine years, PM Blair will leave office by October. Americans can only pray to be so lucky!
2006-09-07 11:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He became unpopular after the illegal war in Iraq, things never really picked up after it and subsequent things he's done like staying on holiday when we had bombs in London just made his popularity decrease further.
Then we had local elections (don't affect the government) and most councils elected were conservative - labours main opposition. Labour lost loads of seats. They only have majority in the cities now but even staunch labour supporters have defected to liberal/conservative because they're not happy with Labour's performance.
Now most labour supporters think their problems would be solved if Blair let someone else step in so that somebody with a clean slate might be able to turn the party around & win the next election. All polls done recently suggest they won't even come close to winning so their situation is bad.
2006-09-07 11:55:32 · answer #3 · answered by alicepears 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
We have had him now for 10 years and although he has done good, society always looks at what he has done bad more!!!
This joint venture he has with bush has really pushed us to our limits. The ILLEGAL war in iraq has turned a lot of young muslims into scapegoats and become hate figures in this country. What we want is the same direction we are going economically, but a leader who is more in tune with the people he leads, not someone away with the fairies like blair is. One thing different from you guys is that you have a lot of land over there. HUGE AMOUNTS!! We are just a small island and we have a major problem with immigration , legal and more predominantly illegal. London is a mad house. Blair is not addressing our problems directly but is more focused on his HIDDEN AGENDA WITH BUSH.
2006-09-11 09:09:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has been in office too long. Happens to all of them that go for three terms in office. It's like children that want to be the leader. The US have it right with only the two term for the president. We have a left wing party in office playing right wing games, Blair has done well to hold out this long, and i think Brown is selfish doing it now when there is a war on. It's suicide for the party, But the next party is ready to take over after being three terms out of office. Have no fear, us Brits are with the rest of the world, just having a sort out. Email me if you need to know more
2006-09-07 12:16:54 · answer #5 · answered by thecharleslloyd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tony Blair was selected as Labour leader in 1994 by a demoralised party wearied by four consecutive defeats by the Tory party. The general election of 1992 - won by a Tory party led by a donkey called John Major - was probably the most humiliating. Labour swallowed hard and chose a Tory called Tony Blair as its leader. This made Labour electable in middle England. But Labour never loved or even liked TB; they merely tolerated him as a necessary evil.
Things are different now. The public have fallen out of love with Blair because of his disastrous foreign policy initiatives. He has become an electoral liability and Labour want to be rid of him. Never mind the US led messes - and they are many - Britain always prided itself on having an independent voice on the world stage (witness George Bush's extreme discomfort when meeting the Queen in London a couple of years ago - this was awe: "I am not worthy").
Tony Blair's fawning obeisance to a man perceived on these shores as a village idiot has infuriated a proud nation. Britain strode the world like a colossus not very long ago. Now our Prime Minister is treated like a poodle by some Texan idiot who can't even speak our language properly. this is simply not excusable. Never.
Nobody likes to be humiliated. That is what Tony Blair has done to the Labour party and they won't stand for it any longer.
2006-09-07 22:29:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they're a bunch of cowards who have no loyalty and they are running scared that they won't get voted in at the next election.
They have no integrity and listen to bad advise and assume gordon brown will appease a wide audience and keep Labour in control.
But nobody in their right minds wants a mandy pandy pm and government.
Thatcher got stabbed in the back too. Which is why the conservatives are keeping their heads way below the parakeet. They know it was their downfall.
2006-09-07 11:59:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't honestly say he has suceeded in any one area.
The NHS is massively in debt and having to close wards and job loses, because he has spent miilions on managers and employing people to tell the NHS how to run it self and upgrading with computers which don't work.
He has over stretched the UK armed forces to the limit, and when they get back to the UK the lads have lawyers wanting to sue them for anything.
He introduced the European Court of Human rights - which some people me included feel gives more rights to the offenders rather than the victims.
He has added more taxes.
He has allowed upto 3 million illegal and legal asylum seekers into this country placing more burden on housing, eductaion and health.
He has alienated the British people by jumping to the needs of the muslim community and illegal immigrants.
The standard of education has been lowered and universities now charge for crap mickey mouse degrees leaving thousands in debt.
He has broken up the family unit by giving more rights to single mothers and non married couples.
For me the worst is respect. Crime is sky rocketing now and gun crime has gone out of control because kids don't respect anybody since Blair has washed away family values. So they go around stabbing teachers and each other.
Re offenders are let out of Prison earlier and then re offend.
He has sold Britain down the river to Europe and we now have no say in alot of our soverign matters.
The Iraq war.
I could go on and on.
Althiough my daughter now has a new school which is nice.
Very nice in fact.
2006-09-07 21:51:14 · answer #8 · answered by jimmy two times 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simple Our Tony has been guilty of the same crass incompetence as your friend bush, sending our troops to countries that are no threat to us. America and Israel are the main threat to world peace. He is the most inept PM we have ever had, what with the schools, health service,local authorities and his government being completely inept at anything they have touched, crime is rampant and all they can do is manipulate figures,corruption is rife in all walks of private and public life as there is no such thing as standards nowadays, only some climbing on others to get to the top of the midden first , the stench is overpowering. we see them on TV spewing their ideology and they are every bit as bad as any real or imagined terrorist. so ask me again why we want shot of the bad smell in downing street.
2006-09-07 12:16:37 · answer #9 · answered by dodderish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has already advised us that he will be leaving within twelve months. His collegues think that, as a result, he has become a lame duck prime Minister, and are calling on him for a definite date of departure. He is also very unpopular because of the Iraqi war and his Governments failure to carry through his many electoral promises. He seems to be a populist headline grabber with no substance.
2006-09-11 09:09:14 · answer #10 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of the Labour Party are opposed to his much more right wing views than previous Labour Leaders had. Also they feel the War in Iraq was a bad thing.
2006-09-07 12:02:36 · answer #11 · answered by Mat P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋