Blair’s Last Hurrah

What goes around, Comes around.

Elect Rafiq Tarar as the new candidate.

Re: # 6

Rozaiba -- that was a victory for Labor not for Blair. After Labor`s embarrassment hopefully is gone by the end of the year -- Labor will recoup its losses in the next election.

The fact that Labor won despite Blair`s 90% disapproval rate -- says much about the Labor than about Blair....

Disagree with many of Blair`s policies. But I must say, he was a leader. When you are willing to go against 90% of the population on an issue and still manage to comfortably win an election, that`s a political exclamation mark!

``After almost three terms in office, the popularity of both Blair and his party has diminished.(author)

what a misplaced misunderstatememnt.....!

bibi.....the popularity of that blathering buffoon Blair -- with a mouth permanently stretched in a Cheshire cat evil smile -- has `diminished` -- not because of `three terms in office` -- but because -- what used to be a proverbial British Bulldog of yester years -- has now turned into a quivering, craven yelping chihuahua -- trying to mate incessantly with the bloody legs of a Texas Cowboy...

.... Labour`s popularity is down not because of Labor as a party but because the poor Labor is unable to get rid of this shameless pathetic cling-on.....who know very well that his welcome has worn out with th brits long ago..... .......yet he keeps sticking around the Labor`s neck as an albatross.....to keep licking Bush`s boots...for another 6 months...what a drag!

Notwithstandng the recent turn of events, Blair had earned tremendous respect of anti-Islamist forces world wide. His tremendous grasp of the challenges and sophisticated `sell` of the struggle to lay public has been invaluable in this continued fight against Islamic Terror..

He might get lampooned in his last stages as PM, but future generations will remember him fondly for saving us from this scourge,

Rgds,
Avkrishna

a ver good analysis
i think it`s a little unfair for man who re-invented labour party into ``new labour party`` to be forced out of office by his own party, i think the reason is some thought that he was too close to bush for their comfort.

it`s hard to believe now that some labour ministers were comrades of tariq ali once.

In two party system (no counting the Liberal Democrats) governments generally die under their own inertia. It keeps going back and forth. In Britain’s case, it generally follows the political landscape of the US. We elect Reagan, you elect Thatcher, we bring Clinton, you bring Tony. We have Bush you couldn’t find an equal dumbass so you keep Tony. You will make up for it in the next election.

Good writeup.

An excellent and timely article...

I think Labour will survive under Brown... it is said about Gordon Brown that from 1983-1992 he spent his time building up Blair... and from 1992-till now he spent his time regretting it... All said and done... Gordon Brown- a history major, a first rate scholar, instinctively socialist but from the Labour ideology that is now paradoxically known as ``Thatcherite...-... if elected... promises to be one of those great Prime Ministers .... like Disraeli or Gladstone or Macdonald or Lloyd George... or even Churchill.... As an avid follower of British politics... I look forward to Brown`s accession to the Labour Crown... it has been long overdue...

As for Blair... I was struck by his forthrightness at that school... and even more amazing was his speech to the TUC yesterday.... this is how politics ought to be...