St Tony Turns 70......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/iraq-war-catastrophe-still-looms-large-over-tony-blairs-achievements-as-former-prime-minister-turns-70-12873112
...what is his legacy?

[William51]

When he was elected he was a breath of fresh air, but over time he was making bad decisions, and the biggest was to be Bushes puppet.

[Mozz71]

They say only the good die young. Here's the proof.

[DTCwordfan]

well, apparently he stopped the Shrub from pushing the red button on 9-11 - about the only thing the Shrub could think of doing....it would have been Dubai - Goodbye.

[andy-hughes]

A fine example of high hopes not realised.

A charismatic leader with plans for good, evolved into a warmonger with a God complex, now an ego on legs.

[retrocop]

No Charm. All Smarm

[gulliver1]

..................."Happy Birthday Tony" .........................
It's all gone downhill in the UK since you were in charge .Especially with the present muppets in the Con Party, who wouldn't know how to run one in a Brewery.

[MissTerious2]

Same as Andy and I was a fool to vote for him. I don't wish him happy anything.

[Ellipsis]

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Enoch Powell, with one of his better quotes ...

[ToraToraTora]

11:10, so you are a fan of TGL's protegee then?

[ladybirder]

I can't stand him or his ghastly wife.

[MissTerious2]

Ha ha ladybirder. Snap

[jno]

politicians can be defined by one big mistake - who remembers anything Eden did apart from Suez? But I suspect he's cursed not for going into the war but for losing it.

I was against the Iraq war myself, but following your closest ally into battle isn't automatically a bad move.

Bizarrely, he thinks his biggest mistake wasn't the war, it was banning fox hunting.

As for hating his wife - gimme a break. At least he's made do with one wife, unlike some PMs.

[ToraToraTora]

jno: "Bizarrely, he thinks his biggest mistake wasn't the war, it was banning fox hunting. " - that was genius, he found a way to ban fox hunting without actually banning fox hunting!

[MissTerious2]

Who cares how many wives or children a PM has. What has it got to do with any of us.

[ichkeria]

Belfast Good Friday agreement

[ichkeria]

“Enoch Powell, with one of his better quotes ...”

But still not that great :-)
Hardly applies to Blair in any case, who retired undefeated after 10 years in power

[Ellipsis]

The short version, "All political lives end in failure", is a useful aphorism. Blair failed because a) he stupidly passed the reins over to Brown, who then lost in short order, which is hardly "success"; and b) as per the headline, "Iraq War catastrophe still looms large over Tony Blair's achievements", which I think is a fair assessment even given the Good Friday Agreement and its recent anniversary.

[jno]

Miss T, you agreed with Ladybirder about Blair's "ghastly wife". I agree that PMs' wives are none of my business; I've never said a word against Carrie, Mrs Sunak, Sam Cam - or Cherie Blair.

[Untitled]

i do think that new labour as a ‘project’ achieved some positive things… i have said before that i do not agree with the common assertion that new labour were simply a different shade of tory… the tories at the time did not feel that way about them and they did good things that the tories would not have done.

unfortunately i do think that tony blair’s legacy is defined by the iraq war… surely the most evil and destructive thing that a british government has been involved with since the start of this century! i recently listened to a BBC podcast on it called “shock and war”… truly reprehensible behaviour on the part of TB in my opinion and deeply wrong for the UK to have been involved