I know that this is ancient history, but I've always been curious. After all, when Tony Blair was so gung ho in his support of Bush and the war in Iraq, it made him very unpopular with a lot of the British people. In fact, I remember that shortly after the beginning of the war, I saw some Brits on TV who said that they definitely weren't voting Labour in the next election.
By the way, I am from the US and I am NOT a Bush supporter!:)
2007-06-19 02:42:29 · 16 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Good question, Tony himself wasn't reelected, Labour were losing ground rapidly to the Conservatives *with Michael Howard as their leader for crying out loud!!! =)* so noise started being made that Tony would be going soon and a then liked Gordon Brown became the public face of the campaign. It was a smoke and mirrors campaign by Labour and very frightening to Tony and his supporters as there was distinct danger of them losing.
As you know, Labour won by a small margin, we don't have Proportional Representation *which I yearn for* so Tony has a majority of seats in the Commons that give him a powerful position that wasn't given to him by the Electorate. We have a Parliamentary Democracy which isn't really worthy of the name, the Swiss probably have the closest system to true democracy, well worth looking at their model.
2007-06-19 03:19:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The voting system is different over here, we do not vote for a prime minister directly, but for a candidate in a party and then then basically the winning party chooses their own representative. The question should be why did the USA vote Bush again, because they actually do have direct influence on that!
2007-06-19 14:23:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
in actuality purely 24,421 people voted for Tony Blair on the final known Election. That grew to become into the style of votes he gained in his Sedgefield constituency. under the British electoral gadget we don't at as quickly as choose our Head of government. We vote for a individual who represents the party whose regulations we help. The chief of the party who wins the main seats interior the domicile of Commons then is invited via Her Majesty the Queen to alter into best Minister. in actuality the only people to have ever voted for Tony Blair are the folk of Beaconsfield (the place he lost to a Conservative in 1983), Sedgefield which he has represented considering that 1987, and those Labour party individuals who voted for him interior the Labour party management election following the death of John Smith.
2016-09-28 02:19:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the reasons Blair was re-elected as was Bush, he started an illegal war and it is only right no one else should be expected to clear up the mess made by another!
2007-06-19 04:01:03 · answer #4 · answered by inquisitor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the simplest answer is 'complacency'
As an Englishman who has travelled abroad a lot I view my fellow citizens as a nation of drunken ignorant narrow minded morons, still infatuated with world war 2 and who have little idea of the real issues in the world today.
They would probobly call me arrogant - if the word was in their vocabulary.
2007-06-19 07:47:10 · answer #5 · answered by George 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First of all he was only elected by his sedgfield constituency. Not by the country. It would be similar to Bush being elected by crawford, texas or texas. So those people like to put one of their own in top job innit
SO I REPEAT THE BRITISH PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE FOR BLAIR DIRECTLY ONLY SEDGFIELD
2007-06-19 03:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because people have no conviction in the rubbish they spout, lots said they will never vote for a labour goverment, but believed the propaganda spouted by the labour party and voted for them. We are all paying for their mistakes
2007-06-19 03:32:44 · answer #7 · answered by cahscout 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because he had such a massive majority it was impossible to break his stranglehold on power in just one election. Coupled with the fact the last Tory government were seen as corrupt there was no effective opposition.
What a sad state of affairs..but true.
2007-06-19 02:48:43 · answer #8 · answered by Tallboy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the alternative at the time was worse possibly but more likely the Tories did not try very hard
2007-06-19 03:27:36 · answer #9 · answered by Scouse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think the tories are so similar to labour they agree with all they say not really what you could call oposition and i think people are to scared to vote liberals because they think they would be to soft on imigration.I think we need a new party the common sense party i think that would get more votes
2007-06-19 03:56:15 · answer #10 · answered by Peter A 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋