Can Tony Blair survive next week?

[New Direction]

Tony Blair faces a huge week in his political career this coming week. First he faces a potential revolt over his controversial education policy. He has a majority in parliament of well over a hundred, yet faces defeat by 35 at the last count.

Then less than 24 hours later, he will find out if he is mentioned directly in connection with Dr Kelly's death when the Hutton report is published.

All this is on the back of a huge drop in support in the polls, both for Labour and Blair personally and a claim from another weapons expert that their is no weapons of mass destruction to be found in Iraq.

The defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, is likely to be made a scapegoat and be fired next week or the week after. The question is, will Tony Blair soon be following him out of front-line politics? Or is that just wishful thinking?

[The Children of the Revolution]

Blair is a liar and a cheat. Which makes him a great politician. Not, it has to be said, a great leader. Or a great representative. Or anything, in fact. I hate Tony, the git. He betrayed the Left, he invaded Iraq, he... GRRRR, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!!! HE, MORE THAN ANY OTHER POLITICIAN IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE, IS DESTROYING MY FAITH (heh, what faith?) IN DEMOCRACY!!!

<continues rant against Blair for further 10 minutes; ends up lecturing a bewildered dirty sock on the more obvious and dispicable mistakes of the reign of "Holy Tony I"... lecture still in progress... yup, still waiting... eventually returns to real world out of breath and slightly dazed>

Gah. I&#39;m not sure about surviving next week... hopefully his time is up. Failing that, I&#39;d settle for just his Political career ending. But what does it matter? Who&#39;s next? Howard? Or Gordon Brown? We&#39;re all doomed...

[Intifada]

did anybody watch that programme yesterday on channel four wbout "what hutton wont tell you"? it was awesome. bLIAR and bu&#036;h are the biggest fucking liars on earth, its unbelievable.

he should resign, and then be shot for war crimes&#33;

[monkeydust]

As much as I do hate Blair, remember who gets in when he gets sacked. (if only temporarily). Oh yes, John Prescott himself, can you imagine him running our country, I say kill Prescott before Blair.

I personally think Blair will survive next week, he always does. Besides he has such a large mandate his party don&#39;t have a great right to kick him out, and then there&#39;s Prescott.

[Intifada]

i reckon brown would get the job instead of fatty

[monkeydust]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2004, 06:15 PM
i reckon brown would get the job instead of fatty
It&#39;s almost ertain he would, but until the official candidate is decided Prescott will get the job, thats why I put in brackets (if only temporarily).

In any case, is Brown really much more desirable than Blair?

[New Direction]

I don&#39;t think that any leading British politician is palatable to lead the country at the moment.

However, I would just like to see Blair get what&#39;s coming to him. He has been taking this country for a ride for seven years now. I still can&#39;t believe that people cannot see through him, or are they just not interested?

Even if the Tories got back in (which I sincerely hope they don&#39;t), will it be any worse than what "New Labour" are at the moment?

[monkeydust]

The Tories are unlikely to get back into power, but like you say their policy is now very similar to labors with differences only cropping up in areas such as Europe.

One of the main differences between the Tories and labour is that the tories tend to be more competent but thats another issue.

Like you say, people are rapidly losing interest, the media has created so much cynicism of politicians that everything they do is portrayed as something we &#39;have to put up with&#39;


Interestingly, a recent poll I read (I can&#39;t guaratntee it&#39;s reliability) indicated that almost 75% of people won&#39;t vote in the next General election. Has anyone got any further thoughts on this?