What does the name Tony Blair mean to you, and which God does he actually believe in?

Question

Feel free to speak about George Bush!!!

Since you ask: Seems like I'm on a planet run by evil, lying morons and unlike you (it would appear) I don't have my head buried in the sand or shoved in that place where the sun doesn't shine.

knownowt: Same old spin that stretches the imagination and ignores the reality.

question of time: Though I can't stand the traitor Blair, I freely admit he is a highly gifted speaker....hence he (with his spin machine) was able to hoodwink so many.

mick the gooner: Wasting money (PFI) whilst buying off managers doesn't prove very much. Waste, stupid targets, lowering of educational standards, ever increasing problems in violence, immigration, hospital infections, inexcusable wars, shortage of housing....oh how Maggie is proud of prodigal son Tony Thatcher. When the problems become truly manifest, i certainly won't be gloating. But in the mean time I watch on in horror.

As to the question about God: One that believes in the universality of all creation, one that doesn't promote war, immorality or lies...etc etc.

Voive of reason: One thing I'll say for you is that you deserve some sort of Honours from your mate Tony when he goes (having been kicked out). Your loyalty and defence for his absurd failings has truly been remarkable.

Answer 1

Tony Blair means to me:
1.Council Tax - don't even bring up the Poll Tax - I amongst many others would be paying far less with the Poll tax, and now the council want to walk around my house and see if I have a conservatory and loft conversion to see if I am eligible to pay for more. Apart from that.
2. Tax by Stealth - Gordon Brown has introduced over 50 taxes (very quietly).
3. War monger Blair - he has sent troops to Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afganistan and Iraq, spent Billions on War which nobody felt would benefit this country, yet let Mugabe get away with Murder. Yet while he sends the Troops away, he does not equip them properly.
4. Millions marched against the war, and even more marched against the hunting act - he ignores his voters and refuses to compromise.
5.The NHS - despite the fact that billions have been invested in the NHS, we now face redundancies and ward closures, which to be fair we did under the tories. So if we are facing redundacies and closures where has this money gone? Squandered the lot of it, on worthless image consultants, computers and yet more managers. What a waste of money - your money, my money! The NHS spent over £250 000 on their Christmas do at the. Thats money well spent in my book, especially when they are closing wards and making staff redundant.
6.Education - Instead of raising the standards they have instead lowered them and then claimed that the state of the Education system is better because more people are passing. What a load of crap. he also makes students pay for their education (which they never did under the Tories) now leaving students thousands in debt when they leave Uni. Well done Labour. Milk snatcher Thatcher. Alot of you people have selective memories. MIlk from kids or leaving millions of students thousands in debt. I would choose milk form kids any day.
7.Scandels - Cash for Peerages, Cash for Passports, Questions for Cash, Mandelson, Two Jags, Livingstone, Ministers looking for gay sex on Clapham common, Tessa Jowell, it goes on and on. Again the Tories do it and then Labour take it off the scale.
8. Business. More Red Tape, more minimum wages. More people are going out of business since the global recession of the 80's.
9. Asylum and Immigration - I konw lets let in anyone, regardless of who they are, whether they have criminal records or not, whether they are NHS tourists and have diseases such as Hepititas, Aids etc..., jobs, housing. Lets not worry whether we have enough housing for them, or infrastructure and how much it is going to pay Mr and Mrs Taxpayer. Forget the 'lets travel to the nearsest country to claim asylum', lets get some organised crime syndicate to exploit us and get us to the U.K.
10. More stabbings, gun crime, re offenders released early to reoffend, lets not even put burglers and drug dealers inside, because they have had an oppressed child hood and deserve a hug. While we are at it, the drug addicts who are in prison - lets give them £2 or £3k because they have had a hard time doing cold turkey.
11.Multi Cultralism- I am not even going there.
12. British born terroists. Speaks for itself.
13.Human rights, lets give those who commit crimes as much rights as those who have been victims of crime.
14. The police. Spend millions on more officers, who get more and more paper work. ASBO's - don't work - these are now a status symbol. What a waste of resouces and money setting them up.
15.George Bush, well done Tony, keeping following him.
16.Big Brother.
17.Broken the family unit up, leaving kids with no respect for elders and each other. Education starts at home.
18. Sold Britian down the river to Europe.
19.Welfare no work. Work harder those on benefits depend on you!!!
20. Civil Servents earning thousands in pensions which are paid for by the public and now the public cannot afford private
pensions because they are paying for the civil servants.
21. Political Correctness.
22. Spent billions on image consultants and quango's to help British services run better and gets zero results. Can you imagine if The rail and gas and electric services were still run by the Government, we would be paying twice as much now.
23.ID cards.
24.Dr David Kelly.
25.EU Constituition.
I have answered a question like this before.

Answer 2

Very difficult to ever know for sure what god, if any, a politician believes in. I read an interesting article a few months ago relating to past poiticians public declarations of faith when in reality they were privately atheists. This is particularly true in America where to confess to being a non believer would be political suicide. Whatever we think, most politicians are of high intellect and the proportion of atheists among clever people is very high (they are not as easily fooled as the plebs who swallow any old twaddle the church throws at them). On the other hand politicians lie very easily and so have no problems in appearing to be a god botherer to keep the electorate sweet.

Answer 3

Tony Blair means Democratic politician, we have had these people around since parliament began and every generation up to the present time has swapped and changed democratic parties in elections, in other words no one democratic party could keep the confidence of the electorate for a sustained period of time.
This tells me the system of government needs to be completely changed, as to what, I cant tell you, let it to the politicians eh!!

Answer 4

I think Blair's basic problem is that he has attitudes but no beliefs. He has attitudes - he favours fairness, democracy, human rights and a whole range of other things, yes I think he genuinely does - but he has no deep, systematic beliefs about how these are to be achieved. A vague communitarianism, perhaps, nothing more than that. If I'm wrong, where's the proof of his systematic social and political thought ? At least one Answerer thinks I'm wrong about this. Okay, so point the way to where this systematic thought is to be found or evidenced.

On this point he's very different from Thatcher - and I suspect from Brown. Because he has attitudes but no beliefs, he's easily persuaded (or can easily persuade himself) that whatever policy looks plausible or convenient at the time is right. The Iraqis aren't the only ones paying the price of that mentality.

God comes in through Blair's espoused Christianity. I don't myself think you can deduce a single, positive politics from Christianity - Christians can quite consistently be socialists, anarchists, and I don't know what. But you can derive a negative politics; no Christian could support the politics of Nazi Germany for instance. I think Christianity informs Blair's attitudes. If he has a deep-set foundation of social and political beliefs which he has built up out of his Christianity, all I can say is that I can't see it. This is to suggest a certain shallowness, not to accuse him of hypocrisy; and the same accusation of shallowness could be pointed elsewhere.

Answer 5

To me, Tony Blair means one thing- total fantasist. A few weeks ago he was quoted as saying that he would be remembered as a great leader. WHAT??? If anything he will be remembered as a liar and a war mongerer. In 1997, he was elected when he said that the new labour party would be purer than purer, as the Tories before them were sleaze kings and queens. New labour are far worse than the Tories ever were. And no, I am not a Tory.

Above all, Tony Blair is a hypocrite, and that is truly a loathsome personality trait to possess.

As for George Bush, he is supposedly a Yale graduate. Doesn't say much about the American education system does it?

Answer 6

The most wisy washy, indecisive and dependent minded prime-minster that British ever had in her long history. Actually he was a running dog for George Bush. When ever George Bush asked him to jump he will never ask even how high. As for his religion, I really don't know. I know for sure, he doesn't have any moral at all. He was once a good friend of Africa's dictators like Meles Zenawe & Misoveni of Uganda. So, don't expect him to believe in God when he was afriend with those child killers and murderers. Specially to be a friend of Meles Zenawe of Ethiopia, uhh..what a weird man !

Answer 7

I think he must worship the Indian Hindu goddess ' Kali ' because she has 8 arms and Blair likes a finger in every pie. :)

Answer 8

The man who saved Britain from the policies of greed and self interest introduced by Thatcher and continued by Major.

The man who has given us economic stability and stopped politicians meddling with interest rates.

The man who saved the NHS from privatisation.

The man who has begun the rebuilding of our railways after the Major privatisation disaster.

The man who gave us peace in Ireland

The man who gave Scotland and Wales devolution.

....who cares what God he chooses to believe in. At least it isn't Thatchers god - Greed.

Answer 9

I think he`s changing religion to Islam although he`s saying RC. He might as well be a Bloody muslim and worship allah as he kow tows to them all the time.
As for what I`d call him?? well thats Unprintable

Answer 10

Tony Blair = Lapdog poodle
Bush = Bumchum warmonger