Finally Tony Blair has reached a decision which the majority of the electorate will agree with. Yip folks he has announced that he will quit within the year, only one more year of the increasingly embarrasing Blair (yipee!).
This announcement started me thinking about how he might be remembered. I then found a nice paragraph in the book I'm currently reading (As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela by Mark Thomas) which summed things up better than I could. According to the book Thomas lists some of the failures of Blair's government as such
"Blair would invade Iraq with the USA, ignoring the calls and pleadings of its citizens. By 2003 New Labour had not only waged an illegal war, it had pimped arms to dictators, bankrupts, thugs and frauds. Leaving a trail of mayhem, deceit, debt, death and handouts. They pumped money into BAE Systems, lobbied for BAE Systems and broke the rules for BAE Systems. New Labour nurtured this malignant cuckoo nesting at the heart of democracy and left room for change at the margins"
You know...reading that almost made me nostalgic for the days of the Conservative Party.
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I got three points on my licence and a 60 quid fine trying to make it home to vote before the polls closed for the last election. It was worth i just to vote for anyone other than Tony and New bloody Labour.
Do you think we could convince Maggie to give it another go?
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