Overall Tony Blair did a good job?

Question

ON US ALL!

Agree?

Sorry Carla... if you lived here you would not be stating that... thank you for your compliments, but quite a lot take the stance of him being a bit of an idiot, and has put us in danger following flawed political retoric! I'm sorry i did like Mr Bush... i agree in principle with iraq and afganistan... i do not like the way we are constantly being lied to... things could have been done so different, if we hadn't got paranoid and jumped the gun!

Peace!

Answer 1

Well, he's lied, ignored the wishes of the electorate, lied some more, sold off huge chunks of the NHS, taken us into an illegal war, sided with a fascist regime to make us the target of international terrorism, let his wife behave in the most unethical fashion whilst lecturing us on how to behave, did I mention lies?, allowed his own ministers to ruin government departments, went on holiday leaving Prescott in charge of the country, dragged a socialist party into the centre ground effectively killing off party politics in this country, turned the office of prime minister into a presidential role. Anything else? Oh, he lies.
So yeah, I agree, he's done a proper job on all of us...

Answer 2

Am curious as to why Carla should be thanking Blair's involvement in Iraq on behalf of the US, and not on behalf of the Iraqi population..

Is this a subconcious recognition of the fact that ultimately the purpose of US intervention was self serving?

Hmm thought not..

As for did Blair do a good job, then domestically speaking, he probably did a fair to middling, but failed to live up to his own pre-election hype. Internationally speaking he's recreated a persona for Britain as the lapdog of the USA, not something which I'll be thanking him for personally.

Answer 3

I personally think Tony Blair has done a good job he got drawn into this war by lies but knowing the United Kingdom and its people they would be with the United States in most things same as we would be there for them and we have. My stepdaughter lives in England my husband was an American and this was his child so I have been to England and met a lot of great people there they don't all agree with the war because the way it was started I think they now feel like it is useless to continue when the people in Iraq are fighting there own people so I guess they think we should all get out and leave them to there own devices I don't feel quite like that because I am sure there are some Iraq people would like a democracy type government but there problem is a lot because they have to many difference between the Sum mi and shites and who ever else is there
I just wish the English people would stand behind Tony Blair until this is over. which I hope Will be over soon

Answer 4

Don’t get me wrong, I think old Maggie was a very bad Prime Minister, but that isn’t the question so we won’t go into the disasters that were the Poll tax and the wholesale selling off of public sector housing without any attempt to replace stock ( come to think of it I still haven’t worked out where the money went to from the council house sales, the way I heard it less than 45% was reinvested in housing so maybe someone would like to pose the question…where did the rest go?)

Blair, hmm, I think he’ll be remembered as the most law obsessed Prime minister. Since he came to power Labour has created 3,000 new criminal offences.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400939&in_page_id=1770

One of which is failing to nominate a neighbour to turn off a noisy burglar alarm. If you or I travel on public transport with an invalid ticket we are fined, however if Mr Blair’s Home Secretary gives a £179 public funded travel ticket reserved for spouses to his mistress, a woman who is in fact married to someone else…. Therefore in my opinion an invalid ticket, he just calls it an ‘honest mistake’ and offers to pay the money back. Good to know that Tony and his boys are well on top of what is right and what is wrong, and so Tony should be, he is after all married to a lawyer.

Which is good because it means he knows about the truth and deception, for example claiming in a manifesto that you will not introduce top-up fees, then fighting tooth and nail to introduce them would be a deception. Claiming that Saddam could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes and therefore war must be waged against his country, would be a lie/deception. Yes, those same weapons of mass destruction that have not actually been found yet. (Though you didn’t hear that from me after all, Dr David Kelly, a weapons inspector merely claimed the government exaggerated, and has since wound up dead! I don't want to tempt fate). However, just because something can’t be found, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, Osama Bin Laden still hasn’t been found, but I presume he exists. It would be nice if someone put a bit more effort into finding him as he has been instrumental in causing mass destruction is a criminal and should therefore be brought to justice.

I’m not sure but I would also imagine that Tony Blair will also probably be remembered for having the largest number of resigned ministers. This trend started by him reappointing ministers that had previously been forced to resign like Blunkett and Mandelson and a few ‘conscientious objectors’ that resigned over his decision to go to war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1374477,00.html

But recently this trend has changed to ministers resigning over his refusal to name his OWN resignation date….poetic justice! And you can guess that unlike ministers involved in scandal, the ministers that resigned on principle will not be given a second third or fourth chance. I don’t know much about politics, but I would say that Blair and Thatcher are two peas in a pod, one red on blue, but essentially still both two peas and both in a pod.

Going back to the law, could the 3,000 extra laws have anything to do with the present prison overcrowding crisis do you think? If Mrs Blair can’t even manage to get her hair done for under £6,000 a month in the election season I’d like to know how unemployed people are expected to buy food and pay utility bills on £56 pounds a week (particularly in London) possibly this contributes to crime. If Aneurin Bevan were alive today I would imagine that he would be shocked by what the 'New Labour' has become and I would guess that he would be very dissapointed with Blair.

Now bring in lots of cheap labour from Poland that will presumably not be paying tax. Add that to dubious employment schemes like the ‘new deal’, whereby training companies are paid over a hundred pound a week to fix up unemployed people with ‘work experience’ which doesn’t actually provide ‘wage experience’, but the unemployed person does receive an extra £15 a week and is removed from the unemployment figures. Don’t get me started on transport or the health system! You can see that whoever gets voted in next is going to have one hell of a job on their hands. Once The Falklands and Iraq are forgotten like Vietnam is becoming, I think that in the annals of time Thatcher will be remembered for encouraging begging and homelessness on the Streets of the UK and Blair will be remembered for making begging and homelessness unlawful.

Answer 5

Things are far too broad and complex to judge Blair on one issue, indeed any number of them, so in this answer I'm going to refer to the Labour Government.

I feel they have gone a long way to improve the lives of people in Britain- they introduced the minimum wage, Sure Start which helps parents of young children, Tax Credits(however badly managed) are a great idea in principle to help with living expenses of working people and parents, and millions has been invested in regeneration of deprived communities and health and education.

However, I do feel that the extent the private sector has been used to make those improvements to health and education is something that is questionable and possibly more costly in the long run. Also backing the US too much (especially as the Labour Party is supposed to be a centre-left party, not neo-con) in the War on Terror has cost the support of voters.

Answer 6

If you ask Tony Blair, I am sure he would tell you that he has done a wonderful job for the UK over the years he has been in office! I mean, surely HE would KNOW.

Answer 7

He has made a royal mess of Britain with the help of his inept and incompetent party. Brown's as bad. He is just better at lying with statistics rather then words.

Answer 8

Tony Blair, and more so Gordon Brown have done a very good job, of stabilising the economy, and delivering us from the boom and bust policies of the tories ( remember 'Black wednesday').
At the same time raising the standard of living for low wage earners.

Answer 9

Tony Blair and Gordon brown are full of shite. all spin and no substance. Between them they have wrecked this country and the truth about them will soon come out. Their legacy to this country will be remembered for the shambles we are in.

Answer 10

Overall, Yes. He has stopped the troubles in Northern Ireland, stabilised the economy and got unemployment down. He is not liked for all the duplicious spin surrounding him, for all the contentious legislation he has bought in just because he can and for his slavish and craven involvement in Iraq.