Well…..
I have just watched the fascinating speech given by Tony Blair on television. His speech is always powerful.
“Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.”
“I came into office with high hopes for Britain’s future, and I leave it with even higher hopes for Britain’s future.”
“I give my thanks to you, the British people, for the times that I have succeeded - and my apologies for the times I have fallen short.”
“And for many it simply isn’t and can’t be worth it. For me, I think we must see it through. They, the terrorists who threaten us here and around the world, will never give up if we give up. It is a test of will and of belief and we can’t fail.”
Tony Blair has announced he will stand down as prime minister on 27 June. I do feel a bit sorry for his resignation. He did a good job and reformed many aspects of society in the UK though is not perfect. He has contributed the positive development of the Irish peace process. His policy did recover the backward of UK economy in the past ten years. If he didn’t deal with anything about the war in Iraq, he would stay until the next election at least. However, he still insists on his policy towards the war in Iraq during the parliament debate yesterday. It was a bad decision in terms of stimulating terrorism rather than reducing it. It’s really a worst effect overall to lead to a great distrust of him.
Anyway, Tony Blair is the most successful Labour prime minister ever in the past history. I think the person who will replace his position; must have hard time to recover the confidence of British towards Labour Party.
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I certainly agree that Tony Blair was a good Prime Minister for the British. My opinion is that he ranks about one-half percentage point behind Sir Winston “Bulldog” Churchill. With so many people attacking him politically, it would be nearly impossible for him to continue as Prime Minister.
The reason why people attack him is because he’s strong, he’s tough, he’s skillful, he’s a good politician and prime minister. But those would be reasons for admiring him, wouldn’t they? What the British haven’t forgotten is that this was the man who began his premiership by saying, “Ours is the first generation able to contemplate that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war,” and then took them into more wars than any prime minister in living memory, ending with an intractable and unforgivable disaster.
And that explains why in opinion polls so many of the British say—bafflingly on the face of it—that they are worse off, or worse served by the National Health Service, than they were 10 years ago. The statistical evidence shows that this cannot be so, but then polls are often used as displacement activity, with people saying they are angry about one thing and really meaning they are angry about another.