Blair says he's in the Labour Party and not the Conservative Party because the former will allow more people..

Question

....in society to have a chance at success.

Success is widely-defined, but the PM is talking along the lines of
succeeding at education, careers, starting your own business, social participation, the arts...

Going by rough figures since the Second World War, can you indicate whether this is true?

I can give one indicator which suggests it is not. The proportion of places at top universities going to middle/upper-class students is increasing. You can think of reasons why: in the 1960s, grammar schools ensured intelligent, poor children got into university. Their numbers have been cut back, hence fewer intelligent, poor children going into higher education.

Answer 1

Statistics is strictly what you want it to be. I wouldn't bother with all the bull. What is important here is that TB only joined the Labour party because it offered him a better chance of being PM.

Answer 2

Blair says a lot of things, but they're all spin and designed to distract the public.

Remember 48 hours to save the NHS? Well, he's closing all the hospitals.

Remember tough on crime & tough on the causes of crime? Well, prisons are full & street crime is up.

Remember Education, Education, Education? Well kids are more illiterate, classes are fuller, truancy is up and there’s a total shortage of teachers.

Remember Saddam's 45 minutes to launch WMD? Remember the war that would make Britain safer? Well we're not really safer or protected from terrorism, are we?

Remember his plans to be tough on immigration? Well hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are AWOL. Many were released from prison and simply vanished, therefore allowing them to commit further crime.

I could go on.

Blair is more conservative than the Conservatives. He's totally in the pocket of big business and has sold off the publicly financed British utility firms to profit foreign corporations. He's illegally sold Lords peerages, complete with the democratic voting powers that come with a seat in the House of Lords.

So Blair thinks he’s helping small businesses? Labour have introduced hundreds of new business regulations and dozens of new stealth taxes, all resulting in a much harder environment for start-up businesses.

Blair has also handed over an unprecedented amount of political control to an unelected bunch of Eurocrats in Brussels.

He's talking complete cr*p when he says his party and his leadership will allow more people in society to have a chance of success.

Blair's delivered nothing of benefit to Britain.

He's a failure and the worst PM ever.

Answer 3

Tony Blair is in the Labour party because the Conservatives wouldn`t want him. It is good that we do know that he is The Prime Minister otherwise we could easily mistake him for a Conservative. The reason why there are fewer intelligent children from poorer families getting to university now, is because (unlike Tony, who had a free university education, thanks to the tax-payers ) to-days students` parents have to pay for them to go to university. Therefore both the students and the parents involve themselves in debt to do this. The ones who cannot afford to do this,don`t go to university. Some of them get jobs and save money and later enroll themselves at the " Open University"
applications there have increased extensively in the past few years. Yet these are the very people that Labour claims to be, and should be helping through higher education.

Answer 4

The labour party has been hijacked by the middle class and most of it's actions concerning education in particular either by accident or design have had the effect of keeping the working class down.
In comprehensive schools where the lowest common denominator rules, smart kids don't have a chance.

Answer 5

Blair is in the party but is not celebrating his defeat at the hands of a tyrant across the sea.

Answer 6

BLAIR is in the LABOUR PARTY to destroy all chances of GORDON BROWN becoming prime minister. and to kill LABOURS chances of winning the next ELECTION. and by GOD he is succeeding the man just can't accept he ha been an unmitigated failure. and IRAQ was the final nail in his coffin. good riddance BLAIR you won't be missed when you finally get the backbone to leave. or are kicked out by the PARTY you DESTROYED.