You lot make me laugh. How the fook is Tony Blair to blame for the eastern euro's coming here ?
Because unlike other countries we didn't even request a derogation limiting numbers for a few years. That's also part of being in the EU
No doubt you are much happier now that the corrupt Dave 'hug a hoody' Cameron is in power.
And Bliar and his cronies weren't corrupt? They hijacked the Labour party and then turned their back on the working man. Having been presented with a golden opportunity to sort out some of the problems in this country, both social and economic they didn't. Remaining in power became their sole objective.
Cut the pensions for NHS workers at a stroke.
Oh, so it's alright for public sector workers to be able to retire earlier (60, or 55 if you are a copper) and get an inflation-proof pension that the poor private sector worker has to pay for (many of whom are also low-paid workers, BTW). In the interests of fairness it should be the same rule for all, comrade!
But lets have a go at Tony Blair. Lets fall hook line and sinker for every single piece of tory press led rubbish thats ever been written about him.
Really? Some of us are old enough to have seen the scheming little barstewards rise to the top through the Labour Party
from the inside. Yes the Tory press don't like Bliar, but neither do a lot of people to the left of the press, either.
The tories just about beat them and had to team up with opportunist, promise breaking Clegg to seize the power they craved.
So a bit like Labour in the 1970s then? I'm also old enough to remember the
Calahan's Lib-Lab pact of 1977 which Jim had to enter into to keep himself in office..... And which eventually led to a vote of no confidence in the labour government being called by the Scottish Nationalist Party (yes, Alex Salmonds party, remember that when voting for him)
That the Tories manage to get normal working people that haven't a hope of sharing in this countries riches/spoils to vote for them is staggering.
So no different to the pipe dreams being sold by an elitist Labour Front Bench, like Milliband and Ball, who's background was doing politics at Oxbridge before entering politics. OK, so I know that Balls lectured at universtity in the USA for a year and had a short stint as a journalist, but those two, and many others in Westminister have never held any sort of productive position in industry or finance and so are out of touch with how this country works. Even a stint as a local counciller might have improved my view if them, but nope, nothing like that surfaces in their respective CVs (not that the Tories are much better)
I honestly believe that for quite a while Tony Blair was the best Prime Minister this country has ever had.
In 1997 I had high hopes for him. After the first 100 days (remember
those 100 day promises that were made, but never kept?) I gradually changed my mind
If you want the lasting and shameful legacy of Blair's Labour, comrade, just remember that they came to power with a promise to eradicate child poverty in this country, a perfectly feasible policy in 1997 given the economic forecast. They never made any real difference and when they left office the situation in the UK had actually worsened
