| Tony Blair's Legacy
Posted: 5/9/2006 5:11:23 PM | Thanks for taking the time to search and post, Jin. I'm in the process of compiling a thread showing how Tony has ruined this country (starting with the second thing Labour did after coming to power - the selling off of our gold reseves in a car-boot sale), and I thought it fair to see what good he has done. I'll be responding in full very soon - when the PLP finally boot him out (rah!!)
Yeah, we then get that master thief, miserable bas tard, Brown! Wonderful! | |
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Posted: 5/9/2006 5:14:40 PM | Well i agree with Jin.
In a similar thread i said much the same things esp about the min wage.
If they get rid of Blair I fear things will only get worse.... | |
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Posted: 5/9/2006 5:20:37 PM | The point on education marks improving is mute.
Exams HAVE got easier over the last decade.
A system whereby only the top 20% getting
As for example is MUCH better. Better for
employers and Universities as they get a much
better picture of who are the top students.
Blair is also a complete coward when it comes
to foreign policy...but that another story. | |
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Posted: 5/9/2006 5:25:36 PM | So, Fate, can you think of three things that Tony has done to improve your life? Don't worry about the negative things, I'll cover those when he's gone. I thought it was best to let those who feel he is Mr. Wonderful to have their say, then I'd tell them exactly why he is the worse Pm in recent history... whilst he's been robbing us all blind.
So, Jin rather helpfully pointed out that Tony has rendered exam results meaningless.
Actually, Jin, the guy doesn't get enough flak, as I will demonstrate in another thread. When Was the last time a PM was questioned by the police in connection with a criminal enquiry? | |
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Posted: 5/9/2006 5:26:36 PM | Fate, I didn't mean exam results, I meant the overall performance of the school as a teaching establishment.
I agree that the grading system for exams has room for improvement...
Night all 
(edit) p.s. Garyzac, I am not a fan of Blair, I just think that he gets more grief than he merits...
(edit edit) p.p.s. Gary I liked you reply to my thread :roll: | |
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Posted: 5/9/2006 5:49:02 PM | How Tony improved my life, three times
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
1) He's given me a superioty complex over him cause he sounds weak and a tiny bit ifeminate. I certainly now believe that I'd make a better Prime Minister, spoken like a true cabi (not actually one but I certainly now have the confidence to be  ).
2) 
5) <-------See what this government has done for my numeracy.
Well, I tried... | |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 4:06:00 PM | Well, seeing as the twaqt is about to leave office next week, it seems a good time to resurrect this thread.
There has been a lot of talk about Tony Blair's legacy these past few months. People generally enter political life to improve the lot of their fellow man (I accept that some use it to feather their own nest).
So, in view of this, I invite you to tell me three things that Tony has done which improved your life directly. Please don't include things like the foxhunting ban, because the law doesn't work and he didn't vote for it. Same goes for the smoking in pubs thing. I expect to hear from those with non-jobs in local government.
To get the ball rolling, here are mine;
1) ....can't think, give me a minute.
2).....still thinking
3) ....can I get back to you on this?
I'm in full agreement with this OP, as he seems to be quite an intelligent chap - I cannot think of a single act Blair has done to improve my life. | |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 4:09:45 PM | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Vin .........
Didn't he do something with the drinking hours that meant that you could come to Birmingham to meet us all and party til 2am????????
Just a wild guess..... clutching at straws......... probably totally wrong ..........
eeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmm
Ohhhhh yeah there was .......... nope
Nah, can't think of anything he's done to make my life better! | |
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Posted: 6/20/2007 3:44:57 PM | It used to be said that speaking English was like speaking American English but with a lot more truth about it.
Tony's legacy is that this can no longer be believed. | |
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Posted: 6/20/2007 4:01:59 PM | 1, other than tax me to death,
2, filled this nation full of aslyum seeking /immigrant benefit cheats an scoungers,
3, given us a pay cut,
I think they after 10 years of misery need to be locked up, oh sorry I forgot they couldnt be bothered to build any prisons when they got elected, | |
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Posted: 6/21/2007 8:59:39 AM | When he got elected he helped me win £75 as I bet that the lab majority would be over 150.
Not usre what else though??
His main legacy will be 1 word IRAQ!!!!
h after looking through this thread notice other than madchick no other woman has posted anything WHY!!! | |
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Posted: 6/22/2007 5:53:46 AM | Tony Blair's Legacy
1: 1997.. Ousts the Tories
2: 2001.. Keeps the Tories out
3:2001..Kicks out the Taliban in Afghanistan
4:2003..Kicks out Saddam Hussein in Iraq
3: 2005.. Keeps the Tories out again
5: Fails on Immigration
6: Fails on crime.
7: Fails on the NHS.
8:Fails on housing. LOL | |
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Posted: 8/24/2007 1:58:48 PM | | dont forget 2006 together with jack straw- signs away our right for independent law to the EU human rights act - having an effect right now where we cannot deport undesirables from our shores. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2007 11:10:38 AM | I've had a lot of fun reading this thread and seeing how difficult it has been for site members to come up with the three requested items.
I can only think of one thing, and that was the smoking ban,; ironically, it came in two days after he left office.
What is interesting is firstly all those items which people THINK he introduced, and secondly all the items which clearly are a detriment to our well-being.
For the record, NVQs were created by the Tories, and was also they who instigated the selling off of council properties.
The 24-hour drinking laws have certainly been a doubled-edged sword, given the pleasure and misery they have brought. The foxhunting ban shouldn't really affect anyone living in the towns, and it hasn't affected the number of foxes being killed after being pursued by foxhunters. Basically, the ban was just an attempt to 'get at' the 'toffs'.
I could easily provide a list of Blair's laws which were of direct detriment to me, but that's for another thread, when I can find it. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2007 12:49:25 PM | He presided over the raiding of our pensions
He took us into a pointless war on a false premise which has resulted in the death of thousands and which has made this country a much more dangerous place
His government stopped smoking in pubs (sorry but I do count that one) Yeah...
He mastered the art of the insincere smile
Oops that's four. | |
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| Tony Blair's Legacy
Posted: 11/14/2007 2:08:36 PM | 1. He brought about one of the most stable economies in europe and is now the 2nd largest economy in europe after germany and fifth in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_Kingdom
2. Reduced unemployment to their lowest levels for decades such that we now have the highest number of people in employment since comparable records began in 1971
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=12
3. Brought in the minimum wage to protect the most vulnerable in this society.
I could go on ... | |
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Posted: 11/14/2007 2:19:08 PM | His legacy... we now are busom buddies with America, good/bad.. well it got us into war.. bad.. good.. errrrr
We have no immigration control what so ever!
Unemployment is at an all time high!
Taxes are set to go higher!
Pensions have not got higher and are definately not inline with inflation!
In short he has done feck all for this country, other than leave it in a mess, to Gordon Brownm who we didn't ask for, and will probably leave us in an even bigger mess! | |
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Posted: 11/14/2007 2:48:43 PM | It all depends what you mean by 'stable economy'.
Is it the one which is funded by excessive borrowing, the increasing of the tax burden, the creation of a client population, the spurious creation of green taxes which aren't green, plus the flooding of the jobs market by foreign workers?
In 1997, there were 600,000 economically inactive Britons - we still have the same number! That's not a reduction in unemployment. We have the highest number of people in employment because of the thousands of non-jobs which have been created to accommodate the influx of foreign workers. If the population increases, and only 10% of it is working, it means that there will be more people in employment, but that unemployment will have risen by 90 percentage points. Hardly an 'achievement'!
The minimum wage has penalised those at the lower end of the social scale. It means that they are not able to pitch for jobs which pay slightly above the minimum wage, as an employer will simply give the job to someone who will work for the national standard, ie the minimum wage. Because the jobs market at that level has been flooded (mainly as a result of poor education standards and the influx of foreign workers who will work for buttons) this has ensured that there are plenty of workers who will work for the minimum wage.
Please, do go on.....I could destroy the Blair years all night. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2009 11:29:27 AM | I can't believe how much 'tumbleweed' has blown across this thread!
1. He brought about one of the most stable economies in europe and is now the 2nd largest economy in europe after germany and fifth in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_Kingdom
Really?
You probably missed the bit where Brown claimed credit for the economy during the good years, and the bit where Brown admitted that not only did he fail to see the impending recession, but that it was caused by factors beyond his control.
So, when the economy does well, it's because of his control, and when it does badly, it's because it's beyond his control?
Wow!
Reduced unemployment to their lowest levels for decades such that we now have the highest number of people in employment since comparable records began in 1971
There aren't any 'comparable' figures, given the fact that successive governments have used different criteria.
However, I take it you're impressed with the current figure?
Brought in the minimum wage to protect the most vulnerable in this society.
Eh?
The minimum wage has lowered the earning power of the most vulnerable in this country. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2009 2:28:58 PM | Blair's legacy
More spin than Richie Benaud and Shane Warne put together. | |
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Posted: 7/27/2009 12:37:51 PM | I wonder if Blair has been reading this thread?
http://keeptonyblairforpm.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/blair-the-baptist-or-the-eunuch-pulls-them-in-at-htb/
"But while his religious faith sounded secure enough his faith in his own legacy seemed a bit more shaky. "When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time,” he says. “By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.” "
Was he merely being humble, or did he realise just how disastrous his decade in power had been? | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 5:02:18 PM | | Is the legacy over? I hope so.... he of the insincere grin is now up for President of Europe. Has he done anything very pro-European in the UK? Nope. Much of Europe sees his faults - so lets hope he fails. And Ken Clark is right - we need a nobody for EU President as it should be a nothing job. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 6:29:24 PM |
Has he done anything very pro-European in the UK? Nope.
Actually, the answer is Yep.
He signed both the Amsterdam and Nice Treaties, and denied the British people a referendum on Lisbon, despite stating that we would have one in the 2005 manifesto. | |
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