Do you believe Tony Blair was a successful Prime Minister of the United Kindom? Why or Why Not?

Question

Do you believe Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair who served as Prime Minister form 1997 to 2007 was Successful? Why or Why Not?

Answer 1

Yes. When he took office unemployment was rampant under the Tories. Now it is not even an issue. The IRA are no longer bombing anywhere in Northern Ireland or the mainland (though Major does deserve credit for opening dialogue before Blair, even though Blair saw it to a conclusion)

The minimum wage means jobs for £1.50 an hour which were commonplace 10 years ago are now quite righty illegal. The economy has been at its strongest ever, for the longest period ever.

Crumbling Victorian schools all over this town have been demolished and replaced with modern ones. Modernised general hospital and new walk in centres too. It is not "spin" I can see them everyday all around me.

Sadly, people remember the one major error of judgement, Iraq, rather than all his amazing achievements at home.

Answer 2

Tony Blair became into no longer a super top Minister, and he won't be remembered for being a super top Minister. Tony Blair became into an actor who took his lead from bill Clinton. He took the management of the labour celebration after it have been reformed by using probably super adult men. His political association became into of much less importance that his upward push to skill. Tony Blair sought greatness in itself, yet no longer the greatness of his place as top Minister.

Answer 3

Tony Blair (with Gordon Brown) presided over a period of economic growth and stability. This allowed them to throw lots of money at the National Health Service which has improved only marginally and the disgraceful and pernicious
incidence of fatal viruses in our dirty hospitals seems to remain unchecked; there have been huge increases in the numbers of Police without any real down turn in crime, because the appalling structure and working practices of most police forces have not been tackled. So Blair threw money at things which made for positive headlines in the media withour affecting any real change. The Blair government made a very positive move to improve the Railways by abolishing the appalling rail infrastructure company 'Railtrack' and replacing it with 'Network Rail' and there have been
radical improvements in punctuality as a result, but they have tightened control on the rail franchises to such an extent they have to argue and beg for permission from government civil servants, even to introduce a few new carriages or slightly modify their timetables; the premium payments these companies must make to the government as well as paying the usual taxes on their profits, has led to large fare rises. This surely goes against Blair's avowed aim to work for a cleaner environment; more headlines once again; little action.
Another Blair trend that has been bad for Britain too and it is something that previous Conservative governments also revelled in, is the unconditional worship of American culture
and foreign policy. Thus Britain whose domestic infrastructure is literally falling to pieces has spent billions
involving itself in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and thus has the blood of the mass murder of the innocent on its hands. After screaming the mantra of 'Education, Education,
Education' when he first came to power, British schools continue to produce an often over weight generaton of quaffers of American junk food, obsessed with shopping, cell phones and binge drinking, whose reading habits are largely
confined to reading the occasional thriller while lieing drunk on a Spanish beach eating English chips. During Blair's time
Britain has become harsher,greedier and more violent and I doubt that a different political party in power would care to reverse those trends.

Answer 4

Blair was a profound disaster for this country. As with other leaders in history he tended to rely on ideology rather than balanced thought, remember that early New Labour slogan "whats good for business is good for Britain"?, they frequently put it in to practice! how many times did we see an organisation that appeared to be in trouble privatised as if it was a miracle cure eg; Royal Mail.

........oh and lets not forget the whole Iraq invasion fiasco!!!

Answer 5

No.
In my opinion he was an opportunist who was unable to give an honest answer if he thought it could distract from his conceited opinion of his own worth and position as a world leader !
He was responsible for the loss of freedom of speech and freedom of choice.
I suspect that he will eventually go down in history as one of the worst prime ministers of Britain.

Answer 6

Yes he was a success for the Labour party, the EU, the Yanks, and anyone else except the British tax payer and voter whom he ignored and treated with contempt.

Answer 7

Have to ask himself.
By going through all the TV news reels .
Luke 9.55-56
Tick and find out the score.
How many were right or wrong.
Luke 8.10, 17
What do you think?

Answer 8

I believe he was. He definitely had balls. The last British leader who actually had a pair was a woman.

Answer 9

He helped Sinn Fein, so yea, he was, for our purposes.

Answer 10

He was up until he became Bush's mouthpiece and fall guy