Thanks, "Dubai calling" does rather make my point, in two short words, doesn't it ?

A country so short of honest leadership-talent, that many voters see the risk of going straight to a President-for-Life, as being progress !

For those interested in T,Blair and co there is an illumunating report in the Telegraph today (www.telegraph.cp.uk) Last year Tony made 61 visits abroad to more than 23 countries, it is estimated that he spent less than 2 months in the UK which is interesting beacuse INSURANCE companies usually ask you if you have been resident in the UK for more than 3 months (prior to taking out insurance). How does her get his travel insurance? Obviously not the same way Joe Public does. It estimates his fortune to be between £30 and £40 million not bad for an ex quasi socialist PM and I prseume he has made of this since he gave up being PM which was what about 2008?

What a splendid chap he is.

For those interested in T,Blair and co there is an illumunating report in the Telegraph today (www.telegraph.cp.uk) Last year Tony made 61 visits abroad to more than 23 countries, it is estimated that he spent less than 2 months in the UK which is interesting beacuse INSURANCE companies usually ask you if you have been resident in the UK for more than 3 months (prior to taking out insurance). How does her get his travel insurance? Obviously not the same way Joe Public does. It estimates his fortune to be between £30 and £40 million not bad for an ex quasi socialist PM and I prseume he has made of this since he gave up being PM which was what about 2008?

What a splendid chap he is.

Why would he need travel insurance when he is earning millions on his travels? As I should have said previously the man is not representative of any British political ideology, never mind socialism but a natural successor to the greed-fuelled Thatcher times. It is also completely ironic that a man who took his country into a war on fabricated evidence in the Middle East could be a peace envoy there.

For those interested in T,Blair and co there is an illumunating report in the Telegraph today (www.telegraph.cp.uk) Last year Tony made 61 visits abroad to more than 23 countries, it is estimated that he spent less than 2 months in the UK which is interesting beacuse INSURANCE companies usually ask you if you have been resident in the UK for more than 3 months (prior to taking out insurance). How does her get his travel insurance? Obviously not the same way Joe Public does. It estimates his fortune to be between £30 and £40 million not bad for an ex quasi socialist PM and I prseume he has made of this since he gave up being PM which was what about 2008?

What a splendid chap he is.

Why would he need travel insurance when he is earning millions on his travels? As I should have said previously the man is not representative of any British political ideology, never mind socialism but a natural successor to the greed-fuelled Thatcher times. It is also completely ironic that a man who took his country into a war on fabricated evidence in the Middle East could be a peace envoy there.

Since socialism is the pure continuation of envy and theft from others to enrich oneself, I think his behavior is just in line with how every socialist that ever gets into a position of power behaves.

For those interested in T,Blair and co there is an illumunating report in the Telegraph today (www.telegraph.cp.uk) Last year Tony made 61 visits abroad to more than 23 countries, it is estimated that he spent less than 2 months in the UK which is interesting beacuse INSURANCE companies usually ask you if you have been resident in the UK for more than 3 months (prior to taking out insurance). How does her get his travel insurance? Obviously not the same way Joe Public does. It estimates his fortune to be between £30 and £40 million not bad for an ex quasi socialist PM and I prseume he has made of this since he gave up being PM which was what about 2008?

What a splendid chap he is.

Why would he need travel insurance when he is earning millions on his travels? As I should have said previously the man is not representative of any British political ideology, never mind socialism but a natural successor to the greed-fuelled Thatcher times. It is also completely ironic that a man who took his country into a war on fabricated evidence in the Middle East could be a peace envoy there.

So as man of the people, a socialist how may do you give him out of 10? He is not technically a resident of the UK with only being there for 2 months of the year>

For those interested in T,Blair and co there is an illumunating report in the Telegraph today (www.telegraph.cp.uk) Last year Tony made 61 visits abroad to more than 23 countries, it is estimated that he spent less than 2 months in the UK which is interesting beacuse INSURANCE companies usually ask you if you have been resident in the UK for more than 3 months (prior to taking out insurance). How does her get his travel insurance? Obviously not the same way Joe Public does. It estimates his fortune to be between £30 and £40 million not bad for an ex quasi socialist PM and I prseume he has made of this since he gave up being PM which was what about 2008?

What a splendid chap he is.

Why would he need travel insurance when he is earning millions on his travels? As I should have said previously the man is not representative of any British political ideology, never mind socialism but a natural successor to the greed-fuelled Thatcher times. It is also completely ironic that a man who took his country into a war on fabricated evidence in the Middle East could be a peace envoy there.

So as man of the people, a socialist how may do you give him out of 10? He is not technically a resident of the UK with only being there for 2 months of the year>

Read what I said - he was never a socialist and would have fitted well into the conservative party as it evolved under the predecessor governments; he was nothing but another opportunist political animal who bet on the opposition eventually gaining power by making the party he espoused less vulnerable to right-wing media criticism by showing himself to be no different.

As "a man of the people, a socialist " - are you joking?

For those interested in T,Blair and co there is an illumunating report in the Telegraph today (www.telegraph.cp.uk) Last year Tony made 61 visits abroad to more than 23 countries, it is estimated that he spent less than 2 months in the UK which is interesting beacuse INSURANCE companies usually ask you if you have been resident in the UK for more than 3 months (prior to taking out insurance). How does her get his travel insurance? Obviously not the same way Joe Public does. It estimates his fortune to be between £30 and £40 million not bad for an ex quasi socialist PM and I prseume he has made of this since he gave up being PM which was what about 2008?

What a splendid chap he is.

Why would he need travel insurance when he is earning millions on his travels? As I should have said previously the man is not representative of any British political ideology, never mind socialism but a natural successor to the greed-fuelled Thatcher times. It is also completely ironic that a man who took his country into a war on fabricated evidence in the Middle East could be a peace envoy there.

So as man of the people, a socialist how may do you give him out of 10? He is not technically a resident of the UK with only being there for 2 months of the year>

Read what I said - he was never a socialist and would have fitted well into the conservative party as it evolved under the predecessor governments; he was nothing but another opportunist political animal who bet on the opposition eventually gaining power by making the party he espoused less vulnerable to right-wing media criticism by showing himself to be no different.

As "a man of the people, a socialist " - are you joking?

He was the leader of New Labour, the socialist opposition to the right wing Conservative party, as far as the electorate was concerned he was a socialist, you are right he was an opportunist politician and not a true socialist and he hood winked the electorate on 3 occassions, his prime objective was to be the longest serving prime minister. As a man of the people as a socialist would you now like to rate him out of 10?

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New Labour was a creation of the Blair-Mandelson-Brown axis who realised that the party could not be elected without espousing the electorate that had been seduced by Thatcherism. They betrayed or ditched the principles that their party stood for. That can be regarded as pragmatism or as opportunism depending on where your sympathies lie.

I do not believe that he ever was a socialist (did he or any of his associates ever use that word?) nor was he ever a "man of the people". He was a common product of our political system in the UK now, a charlatan with no convictions

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New Labour was a creation of the Blair-Mandelson-Brown axis who realised that the party could not be elected without espousing the electorate that had been seduced by Thatcherism. They betrayed or ditched the principles that their party stood for. That can be regarded as pragmatism or as opportunism depending on where your sympathies lie.

I do not believe that he ever was a socialist (did he or any of his associates ever use that word?) nor was he ever a "man of the people". He was a common product of our political system in the UK now, a charlatan with no convictions

Your words seem to say that you dont like T Blair and yet you cant seem to give a score out of 10! He certainly thought he was a man of the people, especially at the begining. Your sympathies seem to be rather to the left as your words are anti-Maggie and give me the impression that you are socialist let down by Tony. So I asume you would probably give me 0 out of 10 and so would I.

I guess he makes your blood boil, well I dont think history will be kind to him.

Blair needs locking up.

If anybody wants to make a name for themselves and a few grand thrown in then see details on arrestblair.org. Basically you just need to touch him and announce you are making a citizen's arrest.

Expect more of the same from David Cameron,after all he was a advisor to Margaret Thatcher.

Good Oh, after all Maggie squared away the financial dung heap Labour left her, and quelle surprise, Cameron has now to do the same with the disaster that Bliar and his incontinent one eyed sidekick left him.

Gordon Brown lost the sight in one eye playing rugby; that's a tough sport. Why do think it appropriate to mention it as an implied shortcoming, given that he has probably achieved a great deal more than you.

Should mock the afflicted, how did he get where he was, perhaps he was just a bully

Blair is here to help

"Thailand hunting Hezbollah operatives planning terror attacks"

or maybe he was the target of the hez zombies

politics, sure makes people verbose

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And my point being in my deleted post which showed that the Falklands war gave Thatcher a landslide in the following election, is that Blair had similar motivations with his own 'easy' war in Iraq.