When will Blair fuck off???

[xcitecash]

When do you ever see him in the UK actually doing things that has THIS country's need at heart

Thatcher used to be all over the place doing things (right or wrong thats not the arguement) for her own country...she got involved and got the job done

Can we have another like her please

[Webby]

Originally Posted by xcitecash

When do you ever see him in the UK actually doing things that has THIS country's need at heart

Thatcher used to be all over the place doing things (right or wrong thats not the arguement) for her own country...she got involved and got the job done

Can we have another like her please

Not long - He "died" starting with the Iraq WMD and war bullshit and been downhill ever since. The last nail in the coffin may take another year yet - but who knows, anything can happen - "a week in politics is a long time"

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Trying to quell politically damaging turmoil snowballing within the ranks of his own Labor Party, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce Thursday that he will leave office within a year.

Blair's official spokesman said the PM's announcement was "highly likely" to be made while visiting to a school in London later on Thursday afternoon, according to the Press Association.

Blair would try to address public concern about the mounting political turmoil that has seen eight members of his government quit in protest at Blair's staying in office.

Blair's spokesman told PA: "I think the prime minister is very well aware of what the public must be thinking about events this week and I think if he does say something it will reflect on that as well."

"In terms of precise dates, I said yesterday we won't be giving a running commentary on this and that remains the position, and I don't think people will be able to talk any more confidently about dates this evening than they were yesterday morning.

"Some of the speculation I have seen in the last few hours is just plain wrong. I have seen speculation about precise dates. I wouldn't go down that road."

The prime minister's office on Wednesday neither confirmed nor denied a report in the The Sun newspaper that Blair had decided to step down as Labor leader on May 31, 2007, after a full decade in power.

In May 2005, when Blair led Labor to an unprecedented third consecutive election win, the prime minister said he would not seek the premiership again. But he had strongly resisted setting a timetable for handing over power to his presumptive political heir, Gordon Brown, who serves as chancellor of the exchequer, the British equivalent of finance minister.

However, with Blair's popularity slumping and Labor now trailing the opposition Conservative Party in opinion polls, some nervous Labor lawmakers had been pressing the prime minister to announce an exit sooner rather than later, in order to give Brown time to forge his own identity ahead of the next general election, expected in 2009 or 2010.

Tom Watson, a junior defense minister, and seven other Labor lawmakers who serve as aides to Cabinet ministers resigned their posts on Wednesday.

"It is with the greatest sadness that I have to say that I no longer believe that your remaining in office is in the interest of either the party or the country," Watson said in a letter to the prime minister.

"I share the view of the overwhelming majority of the party and the country that the only way the party and the government can renew itself in office is urgently to renew its leadership."

Blair fired back in a letter to Watson, in which he called the resignations "a totally unnecessary attempt to unseat the party leader, less than 15 months after our historic third-term victory."

"To put all this at risk in this way is simply not a sensible, mature or intelligent way of conducting ourselves if we want to remain a governing party," Blair wrote.

The turmoil comes less than three weeks before members of the Labor Party are scheduled to meet for their annual conference, raising the specter of infighting overshadowing the proceedings.

Blair's popularity has been sapped by disagreements within his party over domestic reforms, and, most recently, what some Labor lawmakers criticized as a hands-off approach during the war between Lebanon and Hezbollah. But the overriding issue has been his steadfast support for the war in Iraq and his close association with President Bush, both of which are unpopular among the British public in general and his own party in particular.

"The biggest single thing that has undermined Tony Blair's credibility with the general public has been Iraq," said pollster Peter Kellner. "(His) close relationship with George Bush is undoubtedly costing him support in Britain."

Blair came to power in a landslide in May 1997, after pushing his once-moribund party away from its socialist roots and toward the center of the political spectrum. Labor's victory ended 18 years in the political wilderness during the premierships of Conservatives Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

Blair and Labor won another strong victory in 2001, but in 2005, with the Iraq war sapping their popularity, they lost 47 seats from their parliamentary majority and cleared an anemic 35 percent of the vote, triggering a chorus of calls within the party for a change at the top.

Another report from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5322094.stm

[xcitecash]

great piece..

My point is he really has done little work on running THIS country

He is more often than not in someone famous's villa and as for his freeloading wife.....

[Klen]

ARe you crazy?You wanna someone like Thatcher again?
At her time UK has biggest unemplyoed ratio and people barely survive then.

[scottybuzz]

a bit hostile. seeing as the economy has risen and not once fallen. i think thats alright, even though thats browns job

[Webby]

Originally Posted by xcitecash

great piece..

My point is he really has done little work on running THIS country

He is more often than not in someone famous's villa and as for his freeloading wife.....

Was it just after the last election members of the cabinet told Blair exactly how it will be? Sounds like he already lost credibility then and probably crippled as a leader.

If you think Blair has not done much for the UK - ya need to see what Bush has not done for the US

One plus, is that there is still an economy which is reasonably well balanced and strong, but as scottybuzz said - that's prob more thanks to Gordon Brown than Blair.

Prob best place of Blair is in some celebs villa and let others sort the shit out - it's kinda like the "vacation President" in the shack in Crawford, Texas. There are many similarities - tho smell Blair has at least two braincells as opposed to Bush's one, - that nobody can find

[xcitecash]

Originally Posted by KlenTelaris

ARe you crazy?You wanna someone like Thatcher again?
At her time UK has biggest unemplyoed ratio and people barely survive then.

I did say right or wrong...

But yeah why not.....lets have a leader the country either loved or hated..not one that nobody gives a fuck about because he does very little...

Iraq/Afgan war exepted

at least Thatcher took us into a winnable war......

[karlm]

Hopefully he will be out soon

[Project-Shadow]

As much as I hate Blair I prefer him over Brown -_-''

[TB_Sean]

The biggest problem with the English Government is the Scottish Mafia. They have their own parliament so why dont they fuck off up there. Brown is so out of touch, he doesnt realise that the English are fed up with all these Scots.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Does the country really need him being pushed out by Brown though? His time is coming to an end but, as liberal as I am, this way of doing it is making me want somebody to really come out and challenge Brown. I would never vote Torry ever in my life but just allowing Brown to bully his way into the PM slot is the Labour party committing suicide. Somebody with balls needs to run against him for the party leadership.

On top of anything else, I think there needs to be a real debate over why Scottish MPs can vote on English only issues but English MPs can't vote on Scotish issues before we have a Scottish PM.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Watching his satement: "The time table has to be left up to me." ..translation "fuck off Gordon".

In my fantasty politics world he will come out and support another canidate for leadership of the party other than Brown.