Also I think his mentality is more focused at being a world statesman. I think being just a British Prime Minister and matters at home don't interest him. Whenever he's on the world stage he has always got a spring in his step though
2007-01-18 12:09:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
hir retirement
2007-01-18 12:10:57 · answer #1 · answered by crunchymonkey 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
When Tony Blair was the shadow home secretary he was an excellent politician. He was like every other Shadow minister.....he could speak his mind more, actually talk common sense and understand what things needed to be done.....because he wasn't in power!!!!!. Once you are in power for a short while its great and you actually have good intentions and want to change the world for the better.....have a government that's "whiter than white" as he once said. But as you get used to power it corrupts you, and you start doing things to safeguard YOUR power and YOUR career/position, not whats right for your voters. The power went to Tony's head, that is until George took it off him and his majority got slashed. Now Gordon is hungry to take the power Tony is a quivering wreck and messing things up royally. Its about time Blair moved to Camp David permanently, Spike, Rover and Tyke are dying to play fetch the stick with him.
2007-01-18 12:24:16 · answer #2 · answered by heavenlyprinceoffrogs 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I utterly and completely agree with you ! My sentiments exactly!
All power hungry Blair has acheived is to feed himself with his own self importance. He has ruined our country by being too welcoming to foreigners in order to supposedly boost our economy;and he has expected us to be oh so tolerant. The majority of people who have come to this country have abused our hospitality. This has resulted in us losing out on a hell of a lot. They do not conform to our way of life. This political correctness is a crock of sh*t! We have no rights in our own country, and we have lost our identity! Diversity does not work. Blair has bred hate mongers. And made the british hate mongers respond to the unfair way in which we have ended up being the second class citizens.
Everyone else but the british are allowed to preach and practise their religion without hinderance. We have lost our british identity it is so wrong! Many of us do not want to be categorised as racist, however, is it any wonder that we have grown resentful over the years?
Check out the following:
Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.
And the most British thing of all? - Suspicion of anything foreign.
Enoch Powell was right!!!!
Well said Muppet and Gerbil.
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2007-01-18 14:17:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Was I the only person in Britain who saw through Blair as long ago as 1994, not to mention 1997? The man is a deviant in every conceivable way. He has done absolute sweet F.A. for this country. All he cares about is his place in history, and fulfilling his dream of becoming the first president of the United States of Europe.
As for his wife? Don't even get me started...
2007-01-18 12:24:00 · answer #4 · answered by Gerbil 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Like ALL politicians the PHOTOCALL is EVERYTHING !!
Check out - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_un a film about Tony Blair being tried for war crimes...
Check out http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5414974.stm a radio broadcast which was later televised where is PROMISES that whatever UK troops WANT... not NEED you note... they will have....
As I understand it, UK troops are still waiting for extra troops on the ground in AFGHANISTAN - the REAL SOURCE of the "war on terrorism" - and the REAL reason Tony Bliar (sic) was asked by his mate George W Bush for UK Military HELP in AFGHANISTAN.
Shortly after Tony Bliar (sic) authorised UK troops to be deployed to AFGHANISTAN to HELP US troops there, George W Bush withdrew the majority of US troops in AFGHANISTAN leaving UK troops grossly under-manned and under-resourced to cope under such conditions... the results can be seen as far back as last week when 2 Marines returned home in body bags !! - 2 out of a total of 46 to date - not a great number under the circumstances, and one accepts that in war, fatalities happen but, 46 too many nevertheless... when you consider that a decent flak jacket that could repel a small arms bullet could have saved at least 1 soldier...
As I understand it, Tony Bliar (sic) still has to make good his PROMISE, made on 6th October 2006 (it's January 19th 2007 today !)
I know you asked about "what good thing has Tony Blair done for Britain" and I have scrambled my greycell to think of something - anything.. but having watched that drama film tonight, I think even HE would have trouble coming up with anything good that he'd done" for Britain" - sorry.
I'm so disallusioned and disappointed in him once the cheers of his first election win had died down.
2007-01-18 12:26:14 · answer #5 · answered by Hello 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since he got into No 10 he has doubled his personal staff and trebled the costs of running the office of PM.
More room for his cronies on the gravy train! Choo choo - oh apart from the top aide Ruth Turner who was arrested today on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. Well, you've got to throw the odd one to the dogs!
2007-01-19 03:38:40 · answer #6 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is absolutely no value of the minimum wage.
It merely increases the cost of living.
£5 after the minimum wage rule simply buys what £3 bought before.Meaningless panderring to the great unwashed of the electorate.
Tony Blair has added nothing of value to this country.
His legacy will be, oppression,tyranny,taxes. immigration. destruction of the economy,political correctness,dumbing of exams,squanderred billions on NHS,murder of british culture,rewriting history for schoolchildren,panderring to focus groups,manipulating bounderies and election methods to suit labour,hiring half the population in public sector to ensure obedient votes,selling out of his own socialist principles in shady business dealings and allowing his witch of a wife to cash in on speeches whilst not contributing to security costs.Surrenderring to the IRA,surrenderring Gibraltar.Surrenderring the EU rebate to the french.Yes he does strut the world stage in the vain hope he will reach mrs thatchers recognition.Unfortunatley for him ,he isnt taken seriously by any foreign nation.
Then we have to look forward to incompetent Brown,who uses smoke , mirrors and stealth taxes to hide his massive economic miscalculations.
Sorry Blair but you will dissolve into obscurity.
2007-01-18 23:54:58 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Blair cannot do anything.UK is a country living on past glories.It has nothing to offer to the world.It has become a racist nation now.Blair can make UK another state/part of USA.Present UK has no future.
2007-01-18 16:34:38 · answer #8 · answered by leowin1948 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
blair's done lots for britain... arms dealers at the moment must be rubbing their hands with glee... the nhs, could it ever be any better?
the book deal, lecture tours of the states and a nice job at a world institution seem to be very close at the moment...
just what will gordon do?
2007-01-18 12:23:32 · answer #9 · answered by muppet 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Late licensing.
Ban on smoking in public places (though he favoured a partial ban).
Independent Bank of England.
Devolution for Scotland and Wales.
Fox hunting ban (hmm... that's being stuck to).
Tuition fees (lucky old students).
The ability for anyone to become a peer, given enough money.
A hopeless quagmire of a war.
The Millennium Dome.
2007-01-18 12:31:20 · answer #10 · answered by Fences and windows 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, frankly... I liked Blair when he was elected. Then he became Bush's lap dog and everything went to hell... since then, he, like Bush, started ignoring domestic policy and started strutting around like new colonial kings...
At least Blair did something positive with raising minimum wage - Bush didn't even manage something useful like that. He's done nothing for Americans, except send them to die in a pointless and unjustifiable war.
-dh
2007-01-18 12:15:33 · answer #11 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋