Goodbye!!

Originally Posted by Vfr400

Northern Ireland.

Actually inherited from John Major he only closed the deal. The bloke was a Thatcherite though and though she even said she'd prefer him to most of the grey suits in her party. Stole the majority of the Tory idea's and revamped them as new labour, then put a scot in charge of the public purse who has taxed us to the bone for the last 10 years. Nah not sad to see him go most insincere jobs for the boys worth we've ever had in politics

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Originally Posted by northwind

TBH though, David Cameron is more of the same without even Blair's shred of integrity... He's got no idea what he wants to do other than that he wants to be PM.

You've just described Gordon Brown, not Cameron.

Originally Posted by Vfr400

Best Prime Minister we've had, Blair only made one mistake, Iraq. Maggies one was being born!!
If Cameron gets in then battern down the hatches its going to be a rough ride, although travel will be cheap, just jump on any passing bandwagon.

cant agree there, maggie dragged us kicking and screaming out of the dark ages and into the light, making us an economic "force" again.....

Originally Posted by Razor

I think history will show that he was PM in the longest period of prosperity we've had in the UK. Not sure if we'll see the likes again.

Economics not your strong point then?
Public debt is a massive 1.3 Trillion pounds - Much higher than Britains Gross Domestic Product.
This means that the Nations wealth would be outstripped by its debt.

In other words, don't believe the hype.

Originally Posted by keithd

ahem...its an unwritten rule that all polls must carry an "i dont care" option...

HTH

Does that count as written now?

Originally Posted by stewie

Thing is, 35% of the people on this forum voted for him.

Unless you live in his constituency or are a party member, then most of us didn't have a say in the matter.

We vote for the local candidate, usually a backbencher that does have an interest in local mattters.

[timwilky]

Blair going is a start. I can't wait for the next two years to pass and we can get rid of the rest of them. New labour rose on the accusation of tory cronyism, brown envelopes etc. All I can say is pots and kettles sooty ****.

The sooner we get rid of a goverment who want to run a nanny state and get one that will encourage innovation, personal responsibility etc the better.
Just think what the 5.5 billion earmarked for identity cards that will achieve nothing to stop a terror bomber could do for the nhs or transport etc.

Not so fast, everyone...

http://newsbiscuit.com/article/blair-changes-mind-092

BBC is reporting friend Brown as saying:

"In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people."

How about a general election to test the water? I am really annoyed that we are having a new government foisted on us without being asked.

I think Blair is evil, but not as evil as Brown - he's an utter criminal - selling the nation's gold at the bottom of the market and raiding private pensions being the major crimes.

I hate this government, and have voted against them in all three elections. Unfortunately, they've created such a mass of non - key public sector workers (anybody seen the jobs section of the Guardian? WTF!) with nice final salary pensions etc that they've got a nice core of voters for next time.

I can't wait to see the back of them. Luckily, by lining up Brown as the next PM, they've committed political suicide.