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[Eggs]

Yes , electable to carry out pseudo Tory policies.
He's worse than Blair.

….that will make him a terrific PM.

i worked in the public sector for over 40 years and never was the service offering better than during the Blair years. The country is an absolute mess, a return to Blair would be very welcome as far as I’m concerned.

 

[spectateur]

….that will make him a terrific PM.

i worked in the public sector for over 40 years and never was the service offering better than during the Blair years. The country is an absolute mess, a return to Blair would be very welcome as far as I’m concerned.

I was disappointed with blair.l was out of the country when he was elected and returned to UK in 2001.
He had not repealed any of the Thatcher anti union and labour laws.
He made mistakes with Iraq and in
making all HE institutions into universities. Imo.

 

[Eggs]

I was disappointed with blair.l was out of the country when he was elected and returned to UK in 2001.
He had not repealed any of the Thatcher anti union and labour laws.
He made mistakes with Iraq and in
making all HE institutions into universities. Imo.

….all governments run their course and his was no different, Iraq was certainly his legacy but there was so much good during his time.

 

[Charro]

….that will make him a terrific PM.

i worked in the public sector for over 40 years and never was the service offering better than during the Blair years. The country is an absolute mess, a return to Blair would be very welcome as far as I’m concerned.

The country doesn't need another Blair.

It's a completely different time than when he was in power.

Blair politics will get Labour in power, but won't keep them in power.

 

[Eggs]

The country doesn't need another Blair.

It's a completely different time than when he was in power.

Blair politics will get Labour in power, but won't keep them in power.

….i disagree.

 

[davek]

Yes , electable to carry out pseudo Tory policies.
He's worse than Blair.

Exactly.

In fact, if this WAS Blairism Mk.II I'd hold my nose and vote for them. At least Blair had a 'Third Way' philosophy that didn't completely capitulate to the private sector...unlike Starmer's gang has.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I was disappointed with blair.l was out of the country when he was elected and returned to UK in 2001.
He had not repealed any of the Thatcher anti union and labour laws.
He made mistakes with Iraq and in
making all HE institutions into universities. Imo.

I presume you mean polytechnics attaining university status? If so that happened in 1992. You can't pin that on one Blair. Tuition fees and the 50% of young people going to university, yes.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

A decent and honourable politician was Darling.

When you compare all the current government to Brown/Darling, it's shocking how far and how fast the country has fallen.

Alistair Darling: Former Labour chancellor dies aged 70

The family of the party stalwart confirmed his death on Thursday at the age of 70 after a short stay in hospital.

news.sky.com

 

[roydo]

A decent and honourable politician was Darling.

When you compare all the current government to Brown/Darling, it's shocking how far and how fast the country has fallen.

Alistair Darling: Former Labour chancellor dies aged 70

The family of the party stalwart confirmed his death on Thursday at the age of 70 after a short stay in hospital.

news.sky.com

Maybe it is a symptom of aging, coppers all look like kids etc. But you can easily apply that metric to ex politicians of most party's. That said, Darling was a class act imo.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Maybe it is a symptom of aging, coppers all look like kids etc. But you can easily apply that metric to ex politicians of most party's. That said, Darling was a class act imo.

Some years ago, there was a documentary "The Bank That Almost Broke Britain", about Darling and the bank bailout. It was quite an eye opener, he was so calm and measured in the way he dealt with the banks, and in the end, he told them all that he'd set out what he was prepared to do and was going to go home and go to bed while they decided among themselves whether to accept it or not.

He had balls of steel and I don't think we could have had anyone better in the job at that time especially when compared to recent minsters of high state and their PMs.

 

[spectateur]

I presume you mean polytechnics attaining university status? If so that happened in 1992. You can't pin that on one Blair. Tuition fees and the 50% of young people going to university, yes.

OK
It happened when I was out of the country.

 

[roydo]

Some years ago, there was a documentary "The Bank That Almost Broke Britain", about Darling and the bank bailout. It was quite an eye opener, he was so calm and measured in the way he dealt with the banks, and in the end, he told them all that he'd set out what he was prepared to do and was going to go home and go to bed while they decided among themselves whether to accept it or not.

He had balls of steel and I don't think we could have had anyone better in the job at that time especially when compared to recent minsters of high state and their PMs.

Quite. To paraphrase, he told them he didnt care about their shareholders, he cared about the country. He will be remembered in history for good stuff.

 

[davek]

This is the cut of Starmer's lot...

 

[mahermi1]

….i disagree.

After the absolute mess we've had, don't know how anyone could say that and believe it. It can not be any worse.

 

[Goat]

This is the cut of Starmer's lot...

Oh that settles it then, im voting Green.















I didnt even watch it.