Very sensible, measured views on the economy and the iraq war. Handled himself very well, with a slight dig at Gordon Brown.

Actually I didn't like him at all Robbie; he's looking more and more like The Devil and I thought he was slimy (especially about "his" charity). That line about "I've given a lot of my time - and my own money actually" made me shudder. Where's Mandelson when you need him?

JK2006 wrote:
Where's Mandelson when you need him?

That must be the most redundant question you can ask.

Guy's a cunt...sorry for the language,but it just seems to fit perfectly!

robbiex wrote:
Very sensible, measured views on the economy and the iraq war. Handled himself very well, with a slight dig at Gordon Brown.

smooth talking war criminal

To many of my generation, Tony Blair is the ultimate evil.

Pumpkinhead wrote:
To many of my generation, Tony Blair is the ultimate evil.

So Blair sent us to war, but this was based on false information that was given to him. Any of the other party leaders would have done exactly the same. If it wasn't for Blair, we would have 31 years of continuous tory government, and don't forget we had 10 years of solid growth under Blair,

robbiex wrote:
Pumpkinhead wrote:
To many of my generation, Tony Blair is the ultimate evil.

So Blair sent us to war, but this was based on false information that was given to him. Any of the other party leaders would have done exactly the same. If it wasn't for Blair, we would have 31 years of continuous tory government, and don't forget we had 10 years of solid growth under Blair,

He was lucky not to go to jail.Oh and growth,got out just in time to leave his mess for Brown!
Still say he's a cunt!And how many hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis would agree?

robbiex wrote:
Pumpkinhead wrote:
To many of my generation, Tony Blair is the ultimate evil.

So Blair sent us to war, but this was based on false information that was given to him. Any of the other party leaders would have done exactly the same. If it wasn't for Blair, we would have 31 years of continuous tory government, and don't forget we had 10 years of solid growth under Blair,

Wasn't it a fact that Blair had been told that the information was at least dodgy and that some of his cabinet resigned in protest.

10 solid growth? That was when Brown sold the countries gold reserves and our "growth" was just an image to mask the real truth that Britain was getting deeper and deeper into debt .. landing us into the crisis we are in today?

robbiex wrote:
Pumpkinhead wrote:
To many of my generation, Tony Blair is the ultimate evil.

So Blair sent us to war, but this was based on false information that was given to him. Any of the other party leaders would have done exactly the same. If it wasn't for Blair, we would have 31 years of continuous tory government, and don't forget we had 10 years of solid growth under Blair,

true..as did most of the allied governments but I believe they wanted to believe that false information and couldn't wait to blast thousands of Iraqis..not one who had ever harmed Britain..to death. (and these were acts which we hanged Nazis for)

Was there really much benefit in removing the Tories and replacing them with a Thatcher on steroids ?

We could debate endlessly about "growth" but how much of it was artificial that ended in the 2008 meltdown ?.

ie : selling off the farm can look highly profitable on paper..for a while.

Blair was quality, ran the country nice and smoothly, wish he was still running the show unlike the twits currently sitting in cabinet.