Thursday: The beginning of the end for Blair.....

He'll be resigning as head of the Labour Party tomorrow and be gone as Prime Minister in a few short weeks. I'm not a fan of Gordon but I am so ready for Blair to get the heck out. Now can someone do something about the idjut in the WH?

"Go Now" - as played by the House of Commons, to Thatcher - with the Queen on bass, and backing vocals by, err, the entire British nation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrAfEqSMTDE

:)

Then he sold his soul to BushCo. :cry:

He got elected because people were sick of the Tories, and because he was very good at presentation, and was a charming, attractive, fairly young man. However, it soon became clear that his presentational skills concealed a lack of substance; and that he was on many domestic issues 'Thatcher's illegitimate son'. I turned against him early in his first term when he cut benefits for disabled people in work. He went from bad to worse, and instituted a super-managerial system of 'targets' and constant new 'initiatives' which affected many aspects of British life quite badly - as I said in another post, imagine NCLB for most areas, not only education. He wanted constant changes just for their own sake, and generally created more problems than he solved.

He will be remembered for a few good things, of which the most outstanding is probably the Northern Ireland peace process. But he was a big disappointment, even before the Iraq disaster. John Smith's untimely death in 1994 had profounder consequences than we quite realized at the time.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, IMO. I just hope Gordon Brown turns things round a bit. My gut feeling is that he will be much better on foreign policy, but not on domestic policy.

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You were down at the pub earlier celebrating weren't you?;-) :toast:

but it seems as though my server had done a bit of premature celebrating!