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Leave Tony alone
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Right i don't want to be a bit out my depth here in the politics forum; im sure most of you are politics students or whatever, but here goes.
I just feel lately that all this squabbling in Blair's party is ridiculous, I know there are reasons for why people want to know when he's going to stand down, but can't the man get on with more important jobs like ACTUALLY running the country instead of talking about when he's going to stop?
Say he did give a set date, in the weeks running up to it the papers would be full of 'Blair won't make deadline' etc., slating that whatever he's trying to acheive at the time won't happen before he's had to step down.
Now, to try and shut up members of his own party he's said he 'will have stood down by this time next year' which is apparently cause enough for scandal in the press..
Speculation at his successor is now what is making headlines, and I just think that maybe the government should concentrate on sorting out the country like it's supposed to.
I mean people like Jamie Oliver are doing more for Great Britain at the moment than any of the stupid politicians.
I just feel lately that all this squabbling in Blair's party is ridiculous, I know there are reasons for why people want to know when he's going to stand down, but can't the man get on with more important jobs like ACTUALLY running the country instead of talking about when he's going to stop?
Say he did give a set date, in the weeks running up to it the papers would be full of 'Blair won't make deadline' etc., slating that whatever he's trying to acheive at the time won't happen before he's had to step down.
Now, to try and shut up members of his own party he's said he 'will have stood down by this time next year' which is apparently cause enough for scandal in the press..
Speculation at his successor is now what is making headlines, and I just think that maybe the government should concentrate on sorting out the country like it's supposed to.
I mean people like Jamie Oliver are doing more for Great Britain at the moment than any of the stupid politicians.
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However Blair did actually trigger all this himself by revealing that he wouldn't seek a fourth term. If he'd refused to answer that question then, perhaps this situation wouldn't have arisen.
If you read our posts, you'd know that wasn't the case...
he erroded his own power base when he said that he would go before the end of his elected term. At that point the Labour party started looking inwards for new power, a new leader, and some members are trying to toady up to the new man instead of the current boss. It's personal interest first, sadly.
If he is going then he should go now, not put it off.
Instead he wants to put his personal ambition (to be PM for 10 years) ahead of what the country needs - effective and strong leadership.
Exactly, i'm expecting Stuart Hall to pop up with an It's A Knockout joker and double his term to 20 years !
Yes, I studied politics. I don't know WHY, we never did ANY work - the teacher just kept giving us BBC news printouts, so me and a mate spent lessons talking or playing noughts and crosses. He's lost his job now... I am not even exaggerating btw.
Anyway. People would leave Tony alone if he did a good job. He hasn't. He deserves all the stick he gets.
Bullshit! What option did we have? Michael Howard?
He was the better of two BAD choices (apologies to the Lib Dem supporters). There is no doubt he lied about Iraq (which drove a man to suicide for telling the truth), made himself the second most hated Western leader after George Bush, has led the country down a path of fear and suspicion after the July bombings, allowed Israel to stomp over an independant country (Lebanon) without even a pause in slapping the suntan oil over himself, etc etc etc etc etc etc
And that state of the economy? His achievements are overrated. Apart from the very rich, how many ordinary people are ACTUALLY better off financially after 10 years? Even a loaf of bread has almost doubled in 10 years ...
He's a cunt.
He must go.
NOW!!!
The good news is that Blair will go...the bad news is that Brown will replace him.
It's a shame Clarke had principles- if he had sunk the economy we wouldn't still have His Tonyness and his Scottish cunt of a friend in charge.
New Labour was a joint enterprise, designed and created by both of them. Brown likes to use Old Labour words to hide what he really is, but politically he's just His Tonyness without the charm.
Yup.
And the rest of the part are against the two now. Ah, hopefully some ideology might be injected back int othe British political spectrum? Once Cameron fucks off, we might even have a Tory party back to rival them.
The website was promptly posted on U75 by an eagle-eyed member and within minutes it was inundated with hundreds of, er, 'unusual' supporters, from Hitler to bin Laden to Jesus. They had to end up taking the site down to remove the offending names. Our antics even made it to three newspapers
The list of signatories showing how it quickly went pear-shaped
And a compilation of newspapers and websites' articles on it
Not sure I would have done if I was Idi Amin though, muscular liberalism, isn't neccessarily a thing third world dictators will be supporting. Jesus is almost certainly a Tory anyway
- He didn't like the rich
- He believed in paying taxes
- He believed in equality
- He wore sandals and a beard
Yeah, but fed the people and healed the sick, which is more than the communists ever managed to do