Tony Blair: "I quit ur job."

[Elfer]

Blair Says He Will Step Down Within 12 Months

LONDON, Sept. 7 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has led Britain for nearly a decade through economic prosperity and the pain of war, announced Thursday that he would resign within 12 months.

Battered by diving public approval ratings and an increasingly acrimonious feud with his presumed successor, Chancellor Gordon Brown, Blair appeared stunned at the fevered demands in recent days that he make clear when he would step down. On Wednesday, eight junior members of his administration quit, the latest members of his party to say publicly that Blair has become a liability for them at the polls.

"The first thing I'd like to do is to apologize, actually," Blair said during a visit to a London school, adding that the Labor Party's public spat in the past week "has not been our finest hour."

"What is important now is that we understand that it's the interests of the country that come first and we move on," he said. Then, addressing what he called "my timing and date of departure," he said he would not be Labor's leader when it held its 2007 annual conference. That means he will leave at some point before this time next year.

"I think the precise timetable should be left up to me," he said. With an uncharacteristically weary look for a man famous for his ear-to-ear smile, Blair added, "I would have preferred to do this in my own way."

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Well, there you have it.

Say what you will about Tony Blair, but what nobody can deny is that we was a Scottish politician who has been prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 2, 1997 - present.

[Mr-Pope]

Erm, a tad out of date this, no?

He's just announced he'll step down on the 27th of June.

[Shauna]

10 years of hard work go down the drain. How lovely.

[Korriken]

bah, good ole PC ruins another fine politician.
"Saddam is a threat!" "We politicians agree... what? no WMD?This is your fault Blair!" "you guys agreed with me!" "No we didn't!" "Yes, you did" "Step down!"
"zomgz tell Israel not to defend itself!" "no!" "step down!"

while this article is old, it is not outdated. the resignation will still happen.

[emmytee]

At 5/10/07 08:09 AM, MissAllanPoe wrote: 10 years of hard work go down the drain. How lovely.

Ok.... how are they 'going down the drian', because he's quitting? Of course he is, he's required to go in a few years by law anyway, and changing the candidate at the last second is no way to win an election.

[emmytee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/471750 4.stm

This graphs pretty interesting. Looks like Blairs most popular moments were: 9/11, Iraq invasion and the London Bombings...... Nice legacy

[Memorize]

As the world's populations are breeding a generation of stupidity not seen since the counter culture movement of the late 60's, i'm very afraid of this world's future.

[IllustriousPotentate]

At 5/10/07 07:16 AM, Elfer wrote: Say what you will about Tony Blair, but what nobody can deny is that we was a Scottish politician who has been prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 2, 1997 - present.

I strongly disagree.

[Hashshashin]

At 5/10/07 09:38 AM, emmytee wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/471750 4.stm

This graphs pretty interesting. Looks like Blairs most popular moments were: 9/11, Iraq invasion and the London Bombings...... Nice legacy

That's pretty narrow-minded, you overlook all his good moments by highlighting his bad moments, namely the war in Iraq, which I thought was justified. You seem to forget about the National Minimum Wage, more jobs, less unemployment, better schools and the longest period of economic growth in 200 years.

[Britkid]

It's a shame actually.

Iraq will overshadow for quite a long time all the good things of his legacy, such as improved economy, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Sierra Leone. It's a very difficult job because so much rests on your decisions and I think he probably did have doubts about Iraq but he valued his relationship with Bush too well.

[Paradigms]

Yep, he's stepping down on 27th June 2007.
:D

[emmytee]

At 5/10/07 12:01 PM, Hashshashin wrote:
That's pretty narrow-minded, you overlook all his good moments by highlighting his bad moments, namely the war in Iraq, which I thought was justified. You seem to forget about the National Minimum Wage, more jobs, less unemployment, better schools and the longest period of economic growth in 200 years.

Yeah, I mean the guy did much better things than any tory has for the country since the dawn of time. If he'd just kept a healthy distance from the republican party he'd have been remembered as one of the best. I actually agree with most of his policies, hell even 3 out of 4 of his mllitary interventions were fine. But then no-one ever talks about them, and I guess its kinda easy to forget he has done plenty of good things.

[LegendaryLukus]

Although it has been overshadowed, Labour under Blair has in fact done a lot of good for the country....unless you believe the shameful front page of today's Daily Mail of course, milking it for all its worth.

Things are a lot better under the labour government, of that there is no doubt, but the one thing they have taught us is that there are almost no trustworthy politicians at the leadership level. Blair and New Labour was supposed to be the new dawn of an honest and uncorrupt government. However, the spin and sleeze that have attached itself to this government has proven otherwise.

The Tories would probably have been just as worse, don't get me wrong, but it is truly saddening to realise that democracy and corruption go hand in hand together, and the exceptions are few.

It will be interesting to see how the party progresses under Brown, who has on occassion proven himself to be of a slightly higher morale standard.

[HighlyIllogical]

Being an American, Blair seemed OK to me, except for his pro-Iraq War stance. Otherwise, I've no beef with him.

[Earfetish]

Anyone can have a good economy, what we're thankful for is that there weren't any tragic fuck-ups like in the Tory years. The economy isn't that ideal anyway - I have no hope of being able to afford even a shitty house in the next ten years, petrol is expensive, bread is expensive, everything is far more expensive. Northern Ireland isn't thanks to Blair entirely or even mainly, the NHS is a state, schools are a state, the youth is disillusioned and particularly violent and impoverished, university is very expensive rather than free like it was, and his reign is blighted by unpopular decision after unpopular decision. We're less safe in the world, a far more ridiculous-looking world power, the ethnic unity we were reaching a few years back is a distant dream and far right parties are getting votes, Iraq, the Dome, Trident, Foot in Mouth, David Kelly, all that shit, our democracy is now full of spin and covert dealings and things we want to know being official secrets, absolutely no transparency at all in the government any more, and we've got fucking Tories led by sleazeball Blair-mach-2 to look forwards to now with no hope of a decent leftwing opposition.

In short, I don't like Tony Blair.

[Earfetish]

The Poles were probably just as good for our economy as Labour.

And Iraq is not the only reason people dislike Blair; I hate that the media pretends that's the only bad thing he's done and Blair fans only try and excuse that; the whole party can lick my greasy balls.

Every second of today something else has come to my mind that pissed me off about the Blair years. I know the tories are horrible, but Labour were supposed to be better.

[Memorize]

At 5/10/07 05:48 PM, Earfetish wrote:

And Iraq is not the only reason people dislike Blair; I hate that the media pretends that's the only bad thing he's done

It's not even a bad thing. It's just that the majority of the industrialized world are weaklings.

[WolvenBear]

At 5/10/07 07:10 PM, MickTheChampion wrote: Except for the Islamists of course, who are giving the poorly trained American soldiers [who would otherwise be in gaol] a bloody good hiding.

Man, they're so much better at hiding like pussies than we are.

That must mean they're better trained and superior. (Eyes roll)

Idiot.

[Earfetish]

At 5/10/07 07:02 PM, MickTheChampion wrote: If you actually look at it point for point Kev lad, Labour have been alot better for the yous and mes.

Gah, I've got to pay £3000 tuition fees. I don't really want to compare Labour to the Tories, since I don't even remember the Tory government really and the Tories are always bad in my mind, but I think Labour were far worse than they could've been.

[MortifiedPenguins]

At 5/10/07 07:16 PM, Earfetish wrote:

At 5/10/07 07:02 PM, MickTheChampion wrote:

Gah, I've got to pay £3000 tuition fees. I don't really want to compare Labour to the Tories, since I don't even remember the Tory government really and the Tories are always bad in my mind, but I think Labour were far worse than they could've been.

Thats it.

I mean, 3000 pounds, even when adjusted to American dollars is still far far far below American education costs.

[Memorize]

At 5/10/07 07:10 PM, MickTheChampion wrote:

Except for the Islamists of course, who are giving the poorly trained American soldiers [who would otherwise be in gaol] a bloody good hiding.

At leat they're not weak.

[Memorize]

At 5/10/07 07:46 PM, MickTheChampion wrote:

It's called Guerilla Warfare actually, you can call it hiding because you're losing.

Statistically. We're not losing.
Militarily: We're not losing.

Iraq is only as much of a loss as you want it to be.

Want to try another champ?

[Earfetish]

At 5/10/07 07:59 PM, Memorize wrote: Statistically. We're not losing.
Militarily: We're not losing.

Iraq is only as much of a loss as you want it to be.

Want to try another champ?

For every insurgent we kill, we create another thousand.

[Earfetish]

And we have no chance against Guerilla Warfare, which is definitely what they're doing, hiding is a very obvious military tactic.

If we were statistically winning, Iraq wouldn't be closer to civil war than it was when Saddam fell. It's been escalating.

[stafffighter]

At 5/10/07 09:38 AM, emmytee wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/471750 4.stm

This graphs pretty interesting. Looks like Blairs most popular moments were: 9/11, Iraq invasion and the London Bombings...... Nice legacy

Leaders always have high numbers after disasters. It's because they represent hope and stability or some such shit. That in itself is no reflection on the individual.

[troubles1]

At 5/10/07 07:10 PM, MickTheChampion wrote:

At 5/10/07 07:06 PM, Memorize wrote:

At 5/10/07 05:48 PM, Earfetish wrote:

And Iraq is not the only reason people dislike Blair; I hate that the media pretends that's the only bad thing he's done

It's not even a bad thing. It's just that the majority of the industrialized world are weaklings.

Except for the Islamists of course, who are giving the poorly trained American soldiers [who would otherwise be in gaol] a bloody good hiding.

WHAT??? Are you seriously calling the most powerful army in the world poorly trained? the only way the Towel head fighters do anything is by killing women and children with bombs to scare people. they are the true pussies let them stand together and have a all out Battle. you are a DIPSHIT.

[Memorize]

At 5/11/07 08:31 AM, MickTheChampion wrote:

I love it when you say things like this, Memorize. It actually gives me a massive juicy hard-on.

I love it when people try to come up with, but fail at attempting to sa something witty.

Iraq is a Civil War in all but name; and when you cunts are finally forced to cut and run - realistically in about 2009 or 2010 - it's going to be made all the more enjoyable by idiotic pricks like yourself thinking it's a situation where America can "win".

Haha, you know absolutely nothing. You might be right, but the only reason America would lose is because of people like you who have no backbone.

[emmytee]

At 5/10/07 07:32 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:

Thats it.

I mean, 3000 pounds, even when adjusted to American dollars is still far far far below American education costs.

How much is it in America? Cause for the poor old english it comes to like 3000P/A fees, + 2500 P/A housing then food and stuff. Thats like $13000 a year.

[Dre-Man]

At 5/10/07 07:59 PM, Memorize wrote:

At 5/10/07 07:46 PM, MickTheChampion wrote:

It's called Guerilla Warfare actually, you can call it hiding because you're losing.

Statistically. We're not losing.

lol

Militarily: We're not losing.

LOL!

Iraq is only as much of a loss as you want it to be.

Iraq is the biggest military failure in the history of the Unites States.

Vietnam being the second.

Want to try another champ?

Sure.

[LegendaryLukus]

At 5/11/07 09:35 AM, Memorize wrote: Haha, you know absolutely nothing. You might be right, but the only reason America would lose is because of people like you who have no backbone.

Surely you can't really believe that? Iraq is pretty much unwinnable, as the US government knows all too well.

Back to the topic at hand, did anyone see Gordon Brown's speech in which he stated, in reference to Blair: "He always tried to do what he thought was best"

Lol, the sly git