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Offline Furball

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Bye bye Blair
« on: May 10, 2007, 07:23:44 AM »
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England - Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday that he will step down as prime minister on June 27, after a decade in office in which he brokered peace in Northern Ireland and followed the United States to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_re_eu/britain_blair;_ylt=Atv8np5bggRXcYddxi6iFCOs0NUE
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« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2007, 07:58:29 AM »
He was allright. And thats all i have to say about that.
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« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2007, 11:08:41 AM »
I understand that he is unpopular because of the iraq situation. Are there other issues that are causing his problems. We don't really get much news at all as far as Brit politics go.
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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2007, 11:26:41 AM »
He was doing good for the English people....Then he followed errrrr ummmmm errrrrrrrrr a certian person into War. History has yet to be written on this One.
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Offline Hawco

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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2007, 11:48:56 AM »
Good riddance I say
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« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2007, 11:59:49 AM »
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I understand that he is unpopular because of the iraq situation. Are there other issues that are causing his problems.


People's views of Blair

Edit: this one sums it up:

A man eager to please and be liked but with no firm principles.

An illegal war
Uncontrolled immigration
Rising crime and falling behaviour throughout society
A lopsided devolution that will ultimately break up the UK
Giving away our EU rebate for nothing in return
A lowering of educational standards to massage university entry figures
High tax, little if any improvement
Sleaze and spin
Bypassing of his cabinet
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« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2007, 12:10:51 PM »
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Originally posted by Nashwan
People's views of Blair

Edit: this one sums it up:

A man eager to please and be liked but with no firm principles.

An illegal war
Uncontrolled immigration
Rising crime and falling behaviour throughout society
A lopsided devolution that will ultimately break up the UK
Giving away our EU rebate for nothing in return
A lowering of educational standards to massage university entry figures
High tax, little if any improvement
Sleaze and spin
Bypassing of his cabinet


WOW you could change the name to Bush and its a mirror image
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« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2007, 12:25:52 PM »
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Originally posted by Nashwan
People's views of Blair

Edit: this one sums it up:

A man eager to please and be liked but with no firm principles.

An illegal war
Uncontrolled immigration
Rising crime and falling behaviour throughout society
A lopsided devolution that will ultimately break up the UK
Giving away our EU rebate for nothing in return
A lowering of educational standards to massage university entry figures
High tax, little if any improvement
Sleaze and spin
Bypassing of his cabinet

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WOW you could change the name to Bush and its a mirror image


Interestingly enough Blair's Labour party has still managed to stay in control of the House of Commons and we re-elected Bush.
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Offline Gh0stFT

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« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2007, 03:21:46 PM »
i watch brit politics sometimes, i allways thought he is a young and clever
man, doing a good job until the iraq war...
there he showed he have no balls to say what he should say, there he lost everythink,
he transformed into a cheap puppet and the result is nobody trust him
or are interested in his real opinions today....

...game over...
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Offline Sandman

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« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2007, 03:48:33 PM »
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Originally posted by 68ZooM
He was doing good for the English people....Then he followed errrrr ummmmm errrrrrrrrr a certian person into War. History has yet to be written on this One.


Not much of a surprise. I seem to recall Blair used to follow Willy Jeff quite a bit as well.

Maybe his next replacement will have some stones of his own.
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« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2007, 04:09:49 PM »
England is the Greatest nation on earth.  All that the world is today, is in large part because of England.
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« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2007, 04:17:57 PM »
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Rising crime and falling behaviour throughout society


But they outlawed guns. How can this be!! :p



Beat ya to it Laz:D
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« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2007, 04:53:36 PM »
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Originally posted by Yeager
England is the Greatest nation on earth.  All that the world is today, is in large part because of England.


England was the greatest nation on earth.  This however is another debate for another time.  But you are right, most of the world today owes, in large part, England and its empire for everything.  The includes the good and the bad.
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« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2007, 11:20:53 AM »
Good riddance.  Nashwan about summed up why British people don't like him.

He was popular for a year or two when he first came into power but that was mostly because people were really fed up with the previous Conservative government and welcomed change.  The problem many people still have is that there are no really strong political parties that are really worthy of being the next government; they're all as bad as each other.

I hope history remembers him as an idiot and a liar...
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« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2007, 11:26:09 AM »
He single handedly did all those things huh. Where is, or was, the rest of Parlament? Don't they have a say in making policy and governmental changes or do they just elect a single monarch like PM then follow like lemmings wherever he / she leads? :huh
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