what did you think of Tony Blair's speech today? And do you think he's been a good PM?

Answer 1

There is absolutely nobody who can say that he has been a bad prime minister. Have you ever heard the phrase "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" In my opinion (and I know a lot about politics) he has been one of the best prime ministers this country has had. From dealing with Islamic terrorism to the London Bombings to independence of the bank of England, the New Deal, northern Ireland peace process, Working families tax credits, free TV license for 70 and over, winter fuel payments for pensioners, winning the 2012 olympic games, and much more.

I reckon he's off to America for a while when he steps down.

Answer 2

Yes it was a good speech, remarkable in fact but all it did was to remind me hasn't he always been this good, persuasive and totally believable.
For me was a sad reminder not to be carried away once again.
With regard to his ability to be a good P.M. it has to be yes again, but who for?
Thatcher's stint reduced my savings to half their original value and my fixed pension the same. Blair repeated the same halving plus over 100% rise in local tax.
My real concern, as if that lot wasn't enough, was to try and fathom out who runs this country of ours?
Murdock was immediately thanked and this was Thatcher's reward for using public resources to get him there.
Two gullible Prime Ministers?

Now we have terrorism but who are the terrorists?
Are we to believe a bunch of radicals are attempting to rule the world when the great offices of State do not know how to stop them? Is this what the real motivators are expecting in order to achieve some body's higher aims?
I really can't see Blair, and certainly not Bush, is capable of this tremendously detailed attack on civilisation.
I can see they have been ordered to do so and I believe they know who is ordering them, or at least have some idea.
The only PM we ever had that made a reasonable number of decisions was Churchill.
He was stopped in his tracks by others.

P.M.s are the ring masters. The circus is run by others.
Goodbye Mr Blair. It was a great show.

Answer 3

Heard a little of it before falling asleep. Tony Blair WAS a good Prime Minister, he WAS what the Country needed and he (and his Party) initially made a difference.

Unfortunately he didn't know when enough was enough, he didn't know when to step aside. People here in UK would have remembered him far more fondly if he had gone well before now.

Tony Blair and the so called 'New Labour', basically re-invented themselves as the old Tory party, therefore ensuring power for themselves. It is a shame that they are in danger of wasting their time in power and ensuring that the Country may NEVER have another Labour Government and may NOT survive globalisation.

Answer 4

Guess, Tony Blair's farewell is a good riddance. Sadly, there may not be anyone who's ABOVE his calibre, but then again the General Election is yet a long way to so, so I'd have thought we should see rather positive side of Tory in this coming time.

I wouldn't have mind him being whatsoever bad with British domestic policies, but what brassed me off the most is the fact that he INSULTED the entire intelligent species of BRITS, by "following" Bush's idiotic policies. Guess his brain must've taken a leave out of his skull when he decided to be Bush's poodle.

How dare him DEGRADING us Brits by being a follower of someone as pathetic as Bush !!!

I've NOT even a pittance of respect whatsoever for Tony B-LIAR, as I hold him entirely responsible for TARNISHING the image of Brits.

In addition, what interests him & his party most is finding faults with the PAST government & finger-pointing others, rather than using their brain in identifying their own achivement (if there's any).

I often wonder, what's so "labour" about the "Labour" government, since the real "labour" like myself struggles to keep the roof over our head (provided they can afford one in first place), while the "able-bodied" Chavs & Johny Foreigners quite comfortably milks the system while the pensioners, a group of people I highly respect & deeply feel sympathetic towards, regardless of surviving from TWO Wars & paying their taxes lifelong, are dying, either out of starvation or purely cos of the lack of "resources".

Why should THESE people be neglected while someone fresh off the plane could easily expect a life on the lap of luxury ???

However, bad he gets treated by his own party, I'm sure he TRUELY DESERVES it & even worst would left me rather ecstatic.

I'm often uncomfortable with criticising others, but in case of Tony Blair & Labour, I'll make an exception.

Answer 5

Blair has done the job he intended, to prevent Britain getting a real Labour PM, and helping make the Conservatives electable again. All this without the Labour Party noticing a Tory infiltrator was leading them!

Answer 6

What a wonderful PM he has been:
Our soldiiers are bogged down in Iraq fighting a war that Blair's lies got us involved in.
Our soldiers are bogged down in Afghanistan fighting another war that he got us involved in.
Our National Health Service is creaking under the weight of the illegal immigrants and other freeloaders that Blair has allowed to come here.
Immigration is out of control,nobody knows how many people are in the country.
Crime is out of control,with record numbers of people being killed ,or seriously injured by firearms and knives.
Taxes are at a record high.
Our private pension schemes have been ransacked by his chancellor to give money to pay for African education etc.
And they gave him a standing ovation. Probably because he has kept them in their well paid jobs for nearly ten years.

Answer 7

His speech was typical grandstanding, emphasising that he'd been a winner. the reality is that after the corruption (sleaze) of the tory governments, any Labour leader would've won the following 2 elections. it was only because Michael Howard was so inept and creepy that he won a third.

i agree with some here that he did some good things when first in power (making the Bank of England independent, devolution) but some other policies (child care funding) came from the treasury.

unfortunately for Blair, and especially for the country as a whole, his legacy will be the immoral war in Iraq and the humiliation of his relationship with Bush.

Answer 8

Exactly as expected. No I do not think he has been good at all. He has driven home what Thatcher started and should never have went to war without a referendum. His foreign policy has been a disaster and friendship with Bush catastrophic. I didn't vote for him in any elections and won't be voting his replacement who ever he/she may be. The Labour party has failed the poorer citizens of Britain badly.......

Answer 9

Tony Blair makes me so cross....How can one man do such a bad job?

I'm a nurse and live in North London and because of lack of funds wards are being closed every month and nursing staff are being asked to go home, in 2006 it's a disgrace, A&E departments are full to bursting with not enough nurses or doctors and Mothers are given birth with no one to care for them or thier babies.

Blair needs to go and Brown you better to a better job or the NHS will suffer and so will us all.

Answer 10

His speech was a farewell. It was saying goodbye. And because of that I loved to hear it.
At least he didn't punctuate each clause with a 5 second pause and reiterate himself several times like normal.

He's been a terrible PM. The only reason he won the last election is because the constituency boundaries are unfair; the Tories got more votes than Labour y'know.

He's surrendering much of our sovereignty to the EU anyway, so in a few years who we elect will make no difference at all.

As for the US/UK alliance, it's all give and no take.
We gave the US fast track extraditions, they refuse to give us the same privilege because they're worried we might try to extradite IRA terrorists. Which is very ironic coming from the people who gave us Guantanamo Bay.
We've helped them out in wars we had no reason to be in. I'm not a pacifist, not at all, but I like a decent reason to go to war, and to my mind 'the US needs cheap oil' doesn't constitute a good reason.
In fact, remember the Hutton report? He lied to us then, probably knowingly, to get us into a war we had no business in. Liar. Warmonger. Poodle.
He made political decisions that affected only Britain based on what the White House thought best. Leaked documents revealed he demoted Jack Straw because Bush was worried about someone with a large proportion of Muslims in his constituency having that amount of power over foreign policy. Truly, Blair has a much balls as he does belief in democracy.

And then, when he dragged us into wars, he kept the Army on a peace time budget; deprived them of vital equipment; sent them into heavy fighting with too few soldiers, and refused to sent reinforcements.

Oh, and he's despite the crippling overstreching of our forces, and lack of enough military strength to properly control the wars we are in, he's still cutting down the numbers in the Armed forces to save money.

Utter ****.

He's a liar and a poodle, he's all spin and no substance. He came to power when the Tories has done very badly in public services, education, etc, promising to make it better, but has subsequently only made things far, far worse.
The NHS is in debt. The Police are bogged down by sheer bureaucracy and PC. British industry's going down the pan. Our country is now in debt (it was way in the black when major was around, for all his faults). We ave crippling over immigration and overpopulation in the south, which is the only reason there was any risk of a drought. He's cracked down on freedoms, having protests against him outside official places banned, but he refuses to take action against Muslims who threaten people with death outside Parliament. He has no balls at all.

He's one of the worst prime ministers we've ever had, if you ignore the spin and take facts into account.