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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-15-07 10:22 AM
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Tony Blair should do well on the lecture circuit - Yea, watch the tomatoes fly
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Tony Blair should do well on the lecture circuit

Dyer, Gwynne
Editorial - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 @ 07:00

It has been the longest good bye in modern politics, and there are still another six weeks to go before Tony Blair finally hands the prime ministership over to Gordon Brown on June 27.

After he finally quits, most people in Britain assume, Blair will go off and make a living on the lecture circuit in the United States (where he is far more popular than he is at home).

It is strange that a prime minister who has presided over an unprecedented surge of prosperity in Britain should be so deeply unpopular, but the answer lies in a single word: Iraq. Support for that war in Britain is even lower than it is in the United States, and the popular conviction that the public was misled into invading Iraq by a leader who ruthlessly manipulated the "evidence" to get his way is even stronger. The argument is only about why he did it - and the consensus answer is that it was religion.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-15-07 10:24 AM
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1. Just when does Blair step down from being UK PM? He is hanging around
...like a foul stench in the air.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-15-07 10:35 AM
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2. Tony Blair goes to work for The Carlyle Group when he steps aside...
These boys really do stick together
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-15-07 10:37 AM
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3. Is this for sure?
Is the revolving door so blatant with him?

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